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Be careful with your Twitter RSS feeds. Yes, second time in 1 year my 2009 4.4K Twitter account is suspend! Isn’t there some sort of filter which places early adopters’ accounts in the safe zone?? More to come as the experience continues.

Check out this post from earlier this year:

Fix Your Twitter Suspended Account

Daren Froeschle from Warehouse 1 was kind enough to give me an awesome recommendation on Linkedin this month. I was an early adopter to Linkedin, so it took me a long time to acquire my connections and specifically my recommendations. When I first created my account on Linkedin, I rushed to connect with colleagues I’ve worked with within my career, but my goal was to have at least one person from each place I had worked, give me a recommendation. A good portion of my career was in the dot.com era, validation of a company’s existence was a big deal for me. As I built my legitimate recommendations I noticed along the way people joining Linkedin and receiving 500+ connections almost overnight with very little attention to recommendations. Let’s face it, it’s easy to use a rolodex, but how easy is it to receive a recommendation? In my experience I haven’t had a hard time with recommendations because I’m passionate about any position I hold; if I’m a food server, I will be the best food server, if I’m a custom framer I will be the best framer, if I’m an internet marketer I will best internet marketer.

As I continue my journey with Linkedin, I pay more attention to the connections to recommendations ratio. It’s not about having 500+ connections; it’s about making a difference and doing your very best!

Following is the recommendation from Daren Froeschle:
Principal Consultant
Integrated Web Technologies Group
“Anne knows her search engine marketing. Her years of experience in SEO and paid search marketing and her commitment to continuous learning in an ever-changing industry are evident throughout her work with my team. It’s refreshing that Anne’s primary focus is on improving our ROI; page rankings and site traffic are means to that end, not ends in themselves. If you want to improve your website and internet marketing ROI, hire Anne.” August 15, 2011
Top qualities: Great Results, Expert, Good Value
Daren Froeschle,
hired Anne as a Business Consultant in 2010

Learn more about Warehouse 1 and how this company saves you money, preserves the environment through refurbishing pallet racks (special) and materials handling equipment.

I’m missing Google+, I’ve been busy with life. I logged into Google+ tonight to see a post by The Tom Anderson from MySpace. Here is deal, while the technologist drive technology, the people drive the market share. I’ve logged into MySpace once in 2011 and yet when you Google my name, MySpace is in position #2 in the search results. Tom is making his place with regards to rankings and in my opinion he’s doing an outstanding job! Thanks Tom!!!

I’m a music lady and I love tunes, so it looks like I need to spend a little more time in MySpace! Now to fix my profile…sorry for the broken image.

I pushed my way into my first hangout using Google+ with Chris Voss, Benjamin Hale and Matt Meeker. It was cool at first, but then I kept receiving server timed out errors.

It will be interesting to investigate the hangout feature more, but for now it looks awesome only in this video:

Let’s hope the hangout feature will continue to allow for people to share and collaborate. Otherwise, this hangout feature could isolate people and keep Facebook as the preferred platform.
Read about Revision3 & CU-SeeMe other video sharing platforms.

Sponsored Tweets, do you do them? Are Sponsored Tweets OK? In my opinion, sponsored tweets are good if you take time to review the advertisers landing page before you submit your authorization to tweet.

IZEA announced the completion of their initial public offering today (IPO) and I say, get on it! I’m saying this because I’ve danced in affiliate marketing for years and finally I’m actually making some money. I’ve been using IZEA Sponsored Tweets for a couple of months and I’m slowly growing advertisers to pay for my tweets. Following is my account statement:

As a publisher on Sponsored Tweets you have discretion to say yes or no to advertisers and this makes the sponsored tweet more acceptable in my opinion.

But know there are advertisers with landing pages using Lorem ipsum (could be a test not sure yet)

I’m making money tweeting and it feels good because I decide which advertiser to share with my followers. If I keep my average up, I will have $750 by the holidays

I remember when Groups first came out with Facebook and this was “The Feature”. I’ve been on G+ for a week now and I like the Hangout concept; similar to a group, but better, it’s REAL TIME!! It reminds me of 1995 when I would hangout on a CU-SeeMe reflector (server IP Address) named “The Biker Bar”. All my friends would be there and we would broadcasting black and white video using a 14.4 modems. It’s crazy the technology has always been available, but the infrastructure has lacked. I think I see a light and history will repeat itself, but this time with speed.

by: Anne Haynes

We are seeing strong Linkedin and Facebook integration daily. Here is the deal. If you receive a request for BranchOut on Facebook and you think, why should I ever duplicate my data from Linkedin to Facebook? You are correct and don’t copy and paste from Linkedin to Facebook. Soon enough you will see a Linkedin integration button on Facebook and I clicked that button tonight.

What’s not so great is the recommendation import feature on Linkedin. It doesn’t exist. In my opinion it seems like a milestone missed, but for other’s it may be a feature worth never seeing. Follow me here; some people are very different in work lives in comparison to personal lives. And for this type of Facebook users I would not want to add the BranchOut application to my portfolio of apps. But for professionals who are transparent and have nothing to hide, BranchOut is a blessing. So which one are you?

Social Media is a filter for integrity, truth and moral character. If you decide to behave in your life or your career in an inappropriate way, you can’t run from it. So, do the right thing and know the internet is our digital police.

As for Linkedin being fully integrated with Facebook BranchOut, I give it another quarter for a full integration.

How big are the millions? It’s interesting to see the dynamics of the recent issues with schools. People learn in different ways and it’s clear that learning with video, audio, and virtual workbooks works. It’s not about where you live or how much money you make, you can give your children an education online. But you need to be online!

I’m a lifelong student with a technical degree from SJSU and it’s amazing the resources students have now at their fingertips. I really don’t understand why there is an issue with our schools. I went through grade school and college sifting through microfilm. Now, the students have information a click away with the internet.

If we are fighting to make the unions more accountable I agree. But how bad is it really?

Check it out the KhanAcademy.com, you can become the Genius if you put in the time!