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Ten ways to really connect with people via social media

Posted on July 22, 2010 by Jane van Velsen - The Right Writer

Focus, focus, focus. It is so easy to get sucked into the social media vortex, flitting from shiny object to tweet to update to post with a panicky feeling that if you don’t see everything, you might miss something important. Sound familiar?

Stop the madness, set strict parameters designating time to review your social media channels, and stick to them. You may miss something, but you will find just what you need to find, especially if you heed the next point. Read more…

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Putting your foot down in social media cyberspace

Posted on July 21, 2010 by Jane van Velsen - The Right Writer

Imagine you spent quite a large sum on your website in 2008 and your webmaster wants to charge you a packet for upgrading it and providing a CMS package so you can alter content. Wouldn’t it be easier just to develop a FREE blog? Also, when you consider the whole cyberspace thing, don’t you think that your ‘footprint’ out there in cyberspace would appear just that much bigger if you had both?

Leaders in consumerism are fast realising that global cyberspace…(read more)

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Ten tips on how to use LinkedIn

Posted on July 12, 2010 by Jane van Velsen - The Right Writer

Are you using LinkedIn? If not, you’re missing a trick or two on developing social networks online.

While we all network well face to face, using online networking sites like LinkedIn can help enormously in a few different ways. Here are a few of them.

1. You get to showcase your background and working history which will lend credibility to your online profile.

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50 Great Twitter Tips

Posted on June 28, 2010 by Jane van Velsen - The Right Writer

50 superb Twitter tips courtesy of Chris Brogan

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Tweeting from live events with BlastFollow

Posted on June 26, 2010 by Jane van Velsen - The Right Writer

BlastFollow is a tool that allows you to follow those twitterers who share your interests – but en masse.

So if you want to search for users who have tweeted with me recently you’d search for #therightwriter. Then you click the “Get Users” button and this will bring up the users who have tweeted “#therightwriter” most recently

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Common Social Media Mistakes to avoid

Posted on June 15, 2010 by Jane van Velsen - The Right Writer

In the conversations I have with fellow social media users I hear people talk about the mis-use of social media tools like Twitter and Facebook. I’ve been jotting them down to address here on my blog and today feels like as good a day as any to do just that. Here are a few pointers on avoiding common social media mistakes:

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