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Forget Myspace, Facebook and all the other wastes of time that make money for the big corporations. Learn to network effectively on your own terms and build your own revenue stream.

Social Networking

Aug 06  10
BloggingSocial Networking8 Comments

I have found that I have a limitation when it comes to promoting my blog…TIME. Not only am I having to balance the amount of time I spend promoting my blog on Facebook and Twitter, connecting with other bloggers on group sites, and providing guest blogger content (ahem…) with my blog writing itself…I’m also trying [...]

Getting the most reader “bang” for the blogger “buck”

Aug 04  10
Social NetworkingNo Comments

We have a new Twitter account for all you Twitter fans out there. And we have just deleted it because, frankly, we don’t use it. Anything that we write that is interesting, especially anything regarding design, typography, minimalism (all the stuff we are really interested in) gets Tweeted by other people, usually people using automated [...]

Follow Upstart Blogger on Twitter

Aug 02  10
BloggingSocial NetworkingTraffic1 Comment

When I began Modern Super Momma, I knew exactly who my audience was…no one. Tempting as it was to send a blanket invite to all readers (friends and family) of my personal, limited-access baby blog, I needed (a) moms (b) who would read a blog (c) that could handle my trucker’s vocabulary. This is a [...]

Blogging – Obtaining (and Keeping) an Audience

Feb 15  10
Ashley MorganSocial Networking11 Comments

Twitter is an evolving social media platform. And like any evolving social media platform there are many who seek to take advantage of it and generally make it an unpleasant experience for genuine users. The following is a list of people, people defined by specific character traits, that I suggest you avoid on Twitter in [...]

101 people to avoid on Twitter

Feb 03  10
BloggingSocial Networking2 Comments

In line with my recent announcement I have decided to purge my social networks and start again. And today I’m going to tell you why I did it, how I did it, and why you should do it too. My relationship with Twitter has historically been very bumpy. Using my own home brew of methods [...]

Why I unfollowed everyone on Twitter how I did it and why you should unfollow everyone on Twitter too