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The Shorty Awards - Honoring the best of Twitter and social media

The Shorty Awards - Honoring the best of Twitter and social media

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30 Helpful Twitter tools to find and manage your twitter followers advertisement Managing people following you and ones that you are following is becoming more combustion and tedious but there are loads of tools which will help to give you a helping hand. These 30 twitter tools will definitely solve your problem. Some of the features of these tools includes schedule future post, unfollow those who are not following you, search people within your niche, use more than one twitter account at the same time and many more. If you want to keep yourself update with more twitter or web design related articles do not forget to follow use on twitter (@webanddesigners). 1. Colour-Blind option in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Petition We, the undersigned, do hereby create this petition to try and get Infinity Ward to add a patch to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 to enable colour-blind people to play the online modes without being at a disadvantage. Statistics say that approximately 8\% of males are colour-blind, and 0.5\% of females, yet there is no option in the new Call of Duty: Modern Warfare to cater for this. At present, people that are red / green colour blind cannot tell friend from foe in the online matches, as their names appear in these colours, and the radar uses the colours too. This is causing frustration and putting them at a distinct disadvantage unless playing in Free-For-All matches.

Announcing Blogger’s Choice Open Web Awards Winners! While voting continues until midnight Sunday to decide who is crowned the Open Web Awards "People's Choice", today we announce the winners of our Blogger's Choice voting, as selected by our Blog Partners. Over 100 Blog Partners have helped make this the biggest Open Web Awards to date with over 100,000 confirmed nominations and votes so far. Our blog partners come from 25 countries and are written in 10 different languages. This year's winners will be receiving the Open Web Award, thanks to Zazzle, just in time to celebrate the holiday season. Remember: voting for the People's Choice Open Web Awards ends this Sunday night at 11:59 pm PST, with a winners announcement on Tuesday. Mainstream & Large Scale Social Networks

Grief Virus « Jessica Kristie I pause in silence. Honoring the fallen that still forge this ground with mystery and memory. Your vacancy leaves stains permanent and pressing. jeffbullas Social media was all hype when I registered on Twitter in 2008 and Facebook was still just a platform for connecting friends and family. Now major brands are embracing it with a speed that makes the PC revolution in the 80′s look slow and ponderous. Social Media Command Center To provide some context to the social business trend Dell recently opened a Social Media Command Center which follows Gatorade’s earlier launch of a very similar looking facility. Dell will be using the Radian6 as its platform to power its data collection and The center will track on average more than 22,000 daily topic posts related to Dell, as well as mentions of Dell on Twitter. The information can be sliced and diced based on topics and subjects of conversation, sentiment, share of voice, geography and trends.

Fingers-On Impressions Of R.U.S.E., A Real-Time Strategy Game Pl The beta rocks. More: 2 things. I'm in the beta and I'm a huge RTS fan. I played World in Conflict, Endwar, Company of Heroes, and every other RTS mentioned thus far. A photography, a poem by Diana Matisz and a Chris Isaak song ~ Juan-Carlos Hernandez - Life Photographer I'm honoured to collaborate with another US poet, Diana Matisz, who put her mature and sensitive words on one of my photos I hope you will enjoy this poem named by Diana, "The Spaces Between". Regards Juan Carlos The Spaces Between we wait for life to find us 10 Tips for Twitter in a Hyperlocal way As Twitter develops and the numbers using it increases, businesses and individuals are finding new opportunities exist within those 140 characters. It is not just about telling people what you have had for breakfast, or for promoting your business through endless tweets. The social network can have benefits as a way to start conversations, and those conversations can develop and move from the Internet into face-to-face daily life. This can be seen with the networks that are being established particularly those involving local police officers. These neighbourhood officers in many locations across the UK are using Twitter to make links to their local community.

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