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Three Simple Rules to Avoid Screaming After You Hit Send

I was sitting at an airline gate when my iPhone beeped. It was a Direct Twitter Message from one of my team. I quickly texted a follow up message and hit send. I had just sent this personal message……. “Are you out of your mind! That may be the dumbest idea I have ever heard!” to the entire world. At …

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How to keep Twitter Worms from Sucking Up and Spitting out your Followers,

Every day I see at least one and sometimes dozens of  Twitter DM hacking worms that drift annoyingly and temptingly across my computer screen.  The worm appears delicious but if I look closely, I can always see the telltale glint of a hook embedded in it’s pathetic little body. Sometimes the worm has the name of a friend tattooed along …

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“Cyber Friends?”

It is rare that I base a blog on a single question. But the outpouring of response to my blog “Finding friends in a world of fans” got me thinking more deeply about the subject and I am sincerely curious about your response to the question at the end of this blog. Bill Gothard, isolated four “Levels of Friendship”. 1. …