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Focusing On Value: How I’m Changing How I Use Twitter

by Steffan Antonas on October 16, 2009

[tweetmeme]This weekend I made the decision to switch things up and reboot my Twitter following list. On Sunday night, with a little help from Jesse over at SocialToo, I ran a script that unfollowed almost 12,000 people. This week, for the first time since the summer of 2007, I’m back to following just over 200.
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Interactive World Map Of Social Network Dominance

by Steffan Antonas on August 4, 2009

[tweetmeme]Vincenzo Cosenza has mapped the most popular social networks by country, according to traffic data gathered on Alexa & Google Trends (June 2009). While Facebook’s growing dominance over MySpace in the US and other countries comes as no surprise, it is interesting to see the few smaller networks that most of us have probably never [...]

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5 Unmissable TED Talks On The Future Of Technology And The Web

by Steffan Antonas on July 30, 2009

#1 Tim Berners-Lee On The Next Web of Open, Linked Data
[tweetmeme]20 years ago, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. For his next project, he’s building a web for open, linked data that could do for numbers what the Web did for words, pictures, video: Unlock our data and reframe the way we use it [...]

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How To Say Thank You On The Social Web

by Steffan Antonas on July 14, 2009

Whether or not you chose to acknowledge it, your ability to sink or swim on the social web depends on how you participate, engage others and embrace the customs of the virtual gift economy – this is as true for individuals as it is for big brands who have a web presence.
The concepts of “FREE [...]

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The Cookie Jar Principle

by Steffan Antonas on July 6, 2009

Give more than you take. It’s as simple as that. If we embrace this one powerful principal in our lives, individually we will enjoy meaningful, vibrant relationships and collectively create a culture of abundance. If we can’t, we end up with an empty jar.
We can all point to a friend or colleague who breaks the [...]

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Essential Techniques For Effective Signaling On Twitter

by Steffan Antonas on June 16, 2009

At the beginning of September last year Clive Thompson published an influential article on NYTimes called “A Brave New World Of Digital Intimacy“. In the article, Clive discusses an interview he had with Facebook’s Founder Mark Zuckerberg on how Facebook’s newsfeed (dominated by short status updates) has been central to the sites success. He asks…
“In [...]

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Built It, Then Make Them Experts

by Steffan Antonas on May 20, 2009

There’s a lot we can learn about best practices for creating and releasing software or web services to the masses from watching the video gaming industry. Successful video game companies know how important it is that they engage and immerse users quickly because they know they aren’t just in the software business, they’re in the [...]

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Status Culture – Public vs Private and Why It Matters

by Steffan Antonas on March 24, 2009

I recently made the decision to stop feeding my Twitter posts into Facebook. The reason is simple – I continually get negative feedback from my non-Twittering Facebook friends on how I update my status. Some hated how often I updated, some didn’t get what “@” and “RT” was, some didn’t like that they couldn’t join [...]

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The Best Techniques For Building Your Tribe On Twitter The Right Way

by Steffan Antonas on February 9, 2009

Twitter is one of the most powerful community building tools available today for two reasons – simplicity and transparency. With the right tools and techniques, you can use Twitter to find people who are like you and share your passions, and build strong networks quickly, effectively and cheaply. The ability to form tight networks in [...]

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Emergence: What Developers and Entrepreneurs Can Learn From The Evolution Of The Retweet

by Steffan Antonas on January 28, 2009

All you systems theory buffs out there are probably familiar with the concept of “emergence”. For the rest of you, here’s a quick and dirty definition: Emergence describes the way that complex systems and patterns arise out of a multiplicity of relatively simple interactions. The idea of emergence, although it might sound complicated, is important [...]

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100+ Killer Wordpress Resources

by Steffan Antonas on August 28, 2008

100+ Killer Resources for Wordpress Hackers, Designers and Powerbloggers. Special thanks goes out to the contributors of Hackwordpress, Chris Pearson of DIY Themes, Adii (and the South African Wordpress Crew), ProBlogDesign, BloggingPro and others who are linked to liberally for their contributions to advancing the knowledge of the rest of us.

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