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LinkedIn Finally Gets an App Worth Talking About

December 30, 2009
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LinkedIn, if you’re not familiar with it, is like Facebook for professionals. In other words, minus the games and silliness (which is fine if you like that stuff, but I’m not a fan).
LinkedIn is a great site if you want to make business connections. With over 50 million users as of October of this year, [...]

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Top 3 Strategies for Managing Large Twitter Networks

December 4, 2009
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Opinions differ on whether having a small network on social sites (some “experts” say it’s impossible to follow more than 149 people) is the only way to properly utilize the tools, or whether you should be completely open and follow everybody (or follow back everybody).
I believe that large networks open you up to meeting and [...]

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Socialization 101 for Real Estate Investors

October 12, 2009
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I‘m going to write plenty about specific tactics for using social media in the future, but today I wanted to take it up to the 10,000 ft level and talk about how to communicate in social media. Or, as I read recently, How Not to Be “That Guy” – a problem that seems to have [...]

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Social Media for Real Estate Investors

March 1, 2009
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What is Social Media?
If you try to find a clear definition of what exactly Social Media is, you’ll find it’s difficult. The definitions that many of the experts use will leave you even more confused.

Here’s the basic idea:
Social Media are any tools which allow you to use the internet to facilitate conversation. They allow you [...]

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