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REACH OUT TO YOUR PROFESSIONAL NETWORK..THEY ARE WAITING

In my last wisdom series, I demystified the power of Twitter and how it is transforming the global conversations for business. This has sparked some good interests in the online communities and I am glad people are absorbing the key practical insights for their businesses. It is now time, I demystify the world’s biggest professional network. I am not here to tell you what is LinkedIn. The global online talkers

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Puzzled with the URL structure of your WordPress Blog?

If your wordpress hosted blog has URLs like http://www.example.com/?c=2254, don’t you find it confusing and hard to memorize? Don’t you want to change it to something better like http://www.example.com/2010/03/sample-post/  or http://www.example.com/cat-name/samplepost/ Permalinks denotes how the URL  structure of a WordPress powered post appears.  From the technical point of view, your webserver should be running Apache with mod rewrite module in it.  It’s always advisable to check with your web-hosting service

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Many Twitter How To’s Answered

Q1) How can I change my Twitter Username? Ans: When you signup for a new Twitter account, you are entitled to provide a real name and a username. The username you enter is what appears in your Twitter profile URL (Ex: http://www.twitter.com/iridiuminter) and at the top left of your Twitter profile page next to your photo. Your username is also displayed in @(username) when someone replies back. This will be the

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Using Twitter to Direct Traffic to your Blog- 5 Diamond Steps for Small Businesses

With over a decade of my energy directed towards nurturing online communities, I have seen that small businesses are often hesitant to make blogs and social networking forums as they feel it will take them ages to create a huge community. In this Social Media age, patience and the choice to stay connected is needed for SMEs. Twitter is a complicated puzzle to many small business owners and particularly fatal

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Twitter Success Stories

Having shared my Tweetsense with you on What can Twitter do for your business? in my last wisdom series, the easy and super fast method to get conversations rolling, let me get you thinking with some real Twitter success stories. Smart businesses are taking the first mover advantage in social media and have now started conversing with their consumers to get their real time feedback and to start engaging with

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Is your twitter account hacked?

According to the Quantcast Audience Profile, Twitter ranks among the top 50 site that reaches over 27 million people on a monthly basis in US itself. But what is twitter? For all those who are not following @sbharatam‘s iiwisdomseries on Twitter, it is a micro-blogging tool which acts like your personal radio station where you can broadcast live by sending short messages or (tweets) whenever you like on whatever you

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Do’s and Dont’s of Twitter

After sharing my learnings on Twitter with you, I will now proceed to the most important part, the Do’s and Dont’s of twitter. This is like a cheat sheet for any person who is yet to explore the vast seas of twitter.  We at iridium Interactive have also struggled to understand and implement twitter in our corporate strategy but with some brainstorming sessions, working late nights inorder to break the

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Do you know about Echofon?

Are you still using the web interface of browsing through Twitter.com to post a new tweet into your profile? It is a time taking process to log into your twitter id every time you want to tweet. After a few discussions with a few people who have twitter accounts I came to understand one common problem all of them faced that ultimately discourages them to tweet, they arent interested in

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What can Twitter do for your business?

I continue sharing my learning’s from Twitter and what it can do for your business. Sitting at the iridium office after a long day of Social Media workshop, it alarms me to visualize the potential that this medium holds to transform the way people talk and respond. In my talks with people across different business lines be it HR, Executive level or Mid-layer management, I see a shift happening (even

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How to use RSS?

Get an RSS Reader – The first thing you’ll want to do if you’re getting into reading sites via RSS is to hook yourself up with an RSS Feed Reader. There are many feed readers going around with a variety of approaches and features – however a good place to start is with a couple of free and easy to use web based ones like Google Reader and Bloglines. Either

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