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Pictures to print. Braunston - Northamptonshire - Heart of the Waterways. How to Use Twitter Shorthand Codes. 10 websites to find free images for your blog. 10 Reasons Why I Don't Retweet You & Your Content. Do you spend your day begging for retweets?

10 Reasons Why I Don't Retweet You & Your Content

Are you “that guy” or “that girl” that everyone avoids on Twitter and Facebook? I never thought I would be one to write a post on this topic. However, I am being asked numerous times a day by people I don’t know to share their content. I also often get asked why I don’t retweet tweets or share blog posts if I so choose not to. So, I figured it was a good time to provide a quick summary of my philosophy of retweeting and sharing content.

The purpose of this post is not to explain or provide details of how I tweet in general. Key criteria for selecting the content I share. RelevantOffers benefit to audienceUnique perspectiveNot already written or said by a million others in the same way.TimelyAccurateFrom a trusted sourceData sources are backed up and cited. 10 Reasons Why I Don’t Retweet You & Your Content 1. 2. 3. 4. Been there, done that! 5. 6. Too many characters.Poor title.Too many hashtags.URL has issues. 7 Tips for Writing Blog Posts Faster. Writing consistently will help you to create blog posts faster.

7 Tips for Writing Blog Posts Faster

How to use Pinterest for business - 14 great tips. By now you have no doubt heard about Pinterest, the virtual "pin" board and online scrapbook that is the current social media darling.

How to use Pinterest for business - 14 great tips

Pinterest is the fastest growing social network and has been driving more traffic to online publishers than Twitter or LinkedIn or Google+ the past few months - and Pinterest has become the go-to site for women aged 25-34. Pinterest wasn't designed to be a business tool (with Pinterest stating the site should not be used for self-promotion), but that hasn't stopped retailers and businesses with a visual bent from setting up shop there. Pinterest: Just what exactly is on it?

2 March 2012Last updated at 10:48 By Lauren Everitt BBC News Magazine Hype is growing about the social media website Pinterest, with much fanfare after it passed 10 million users in record time.

Pinterest: Just what exactly is on it?

But what is actually on this online pinboard? There's still a healthily high percentage of people who have heard nothing about Pinterest, but its meteoric rise is exciting social media experts and marketing analysts. Birds on the Blog - Business Women of Opinion! Michelle Shaeffer: Simplifying Business Chaos. Video Fears - Episode One - The How2 Girl TV. Pinpuff - Your Influence Score on Pinterest and Your Pin Worth - Pin Clout - Advertise on Pinterest. Getting over your PinPhobia! Speaking to several clients lately has revealed there is a new social media fear emerging … The fear of pinning pictures on Pinterest!

Getting over your PinPhobia!

Now this isn’t altogether surprising, a few months ago there was a slew of articles about Pinterest’s terms and conditions and the possibility that pinning a picture from someone else’s website could end up with you in court getting a whole lot of legal costs pinned on you! However since then Pinterest have tweaked their terms and conditions, showing that they are a site prepared to listen to their users!

And if you still feel wary look to see whether the we site has a ‘pin it’ button, like the one you see on the picture above. If they do it seems unlikely that they will be unhappy about you pinning it! If you are a professional photographer or an artist you may well be concerned that people could steal your images. It’s true also that the inspiration from any pin could lead to out and out plagiarism. My personal Pinphobia… The 10 Commandments of Using Pinterest for Business.

Peter Bregman: What’s On Your To-Don’t List? - At Work. PechaKucha 20x20. Who Googled You? This Website Knows. After a date, a pitch or a job interview, there's a good chance you're going to get Googled.

Who Googled You? This Website Knows

Online reputation manager BrandYourself now helps you figure out who is searching for your name. The startup, which helps individuals control Google results for names through SEO, launched a new feature on Tuesday that shows users where visitors to their BrandYourself profiles work and where they're located. BrandYourself built a database of organizations' publicly-available IP addresses in order to create the feature.

They use it to match IP addressees of profile visitors with the companies that own those addressses. Visitors most frequently reach BrandYourself profiles through Google, but the feature works the same way if visitors reach a user's profile from another search engine or website. The system isn't foolproof. "They are being Googled," BrandYourself co-founder Patrick Ambron tells Mashable. Twitter Profile Designer by COLOURlovers. Social Diva School. Should you link Twitter to LinkedIn©? 10 Little Known Social Media Tools You Should Be Using.

Editor's note: A version of this article previously appeared at KISSmetrics.com.

10 Little Known Social Media Tools You Should Be Using

Social media is everywhere. It's in our homes, places of worship, schools and, of course, our businesses. Everywhere you look, people are using social media and are talking about it. And it seems that every week a new type of social site pops up. And as the number of social networking sites grows, so does the number of services that are created to measure, track and monitor those services. 10 Tips for Creating a Social Media Policy for Your Business. Policy.

10 Tips for Creating a Social Media Policy for Your Business

It can be a dirty word, especially in social media communities. Why? Poorly written social media policies restrict, deter and deaden social media engagement–the exact opposite of what businesses want. However, great social media policies support, protect and empower high-quality engagement. It is about empowerment and trust. As Beth Kanter writes, “Trust is cheaper than control.” 4 Ways to Increase Your Facebook Page Visibility. Have you noticed less interaction on your Facebook page in the last few months?

4 Ways to Increase Your Facebook Page Visibility

Getting your updates to appear in the coveted news feed is more challenging than ever. I don’t have answers as to how the elusive Facebook algorithm works. Ragan.com. PowerPoint. Yammer. BBC iPlayer. Facebook. Twitter. LinkedIn.