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Twitter Surgery. Doctors Using Twitter While Removing Tumors

I can’t get a hospital to let me use my cell phone, but surgeons are now using Twitter in the Operating Room Here’s the story from CNN. Embedded video from CNN Video

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“How Did You Get So Many Followers on Twitter”

I got an email this morning from a networking contact I met on LinkedIn. He asked: I have a question. Currently I have about 15k twitter followers adding about 250 per day, how the heck did you get to 50k+?  Have you been able to monetize your followers in anyway?  Connect in multiple ways? That’s [...]

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Should You Repeat a Tweet?

One common stage 2 idea is that you can reach different people in different time zones by setting up a repeated tweet every few hours. Fact is, you will reach more people with that specific tweet, and if you are tweeting just the one tweet it’s likely that almost no one will notice. Unfortunately, most [...]

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Twitter is a Must for Trade Shows

@joycemckee was looking for success stories for a report on Trade Show Use of Twitter. Here’s my submission… By searching for the hashtags (unique ID words related to the event, usually starting with # sign) on the event the week before it starts, I am able to see who the real leaders are. I follow [...]

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My Crazy Gift Giveaway Idea for 2009

December 31st, 2008 2009 is only hours away. Time to tweet so love to my followers. I’m giving away some gifts tomorrow, January 1st 2009 via Twitter. Like most of our Twitter projects, there are no rules when we started this. About a week ago, someone offered me a piece of artwork to give to [...]

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Tim Ferris Interview: “No Rules” on Twitter

Tim Ferriss, best selling author of The Four Hour Work Week has his own system for using Twitter. Some people think he isn’t really using Twitter, Tim explains how valuable Twitter is to him, and the limits he sets for himself to get the results he’s looking for. Interview from Las Vegas Social Media Marketing [...]

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The Biggest Douchebag in Social Media?

Listen to my interview with @MattBacak, who was recently subjected to a Twitter Storm of negative tweets over a press release he issued about his social media activities. Matt has been promoting online, teaching others how to marketing their books and businesses on the Internet and building several multi-million dollar businesses. While the press release [...]

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Missing Woman Found Thanks to Twitter

Guest Post by Chris Wilson @aithene, a Multimedia Design Specialist at Freelancers I had been on twitter for several months by by late 2007, and was enjoying a small, but cozy network of just under 200 friends, many of whom I really enjoyed chatting with on a regular basis. As the co-host of the Answers [...]

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A One Word Twitter Message May Save Your Life

CNN report of a student using Twitter to get out of an Egyptian Jail Highlights of the Story on Frontline Student James Karl Buck sent one-word text from detention about his arrest Twitter message allowed college to get word, hire a lawyer for him Now Buck’s quest is to find translator Mohammed Maree, who was [...]

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