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Bot Face

by Michael Benidt on March 7, 2012

You’ve joined a LinkedIn Group. Unfortunately, Peter Peddler has joined the same group. Since legitimate email services have already heaved his ho-ho-ho out the door, he’s joined LinkedIn because LinkedIn allows him to spam you with impunity.

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Sports Nuts

by Michael Benidt on March 5, 2012

It’s Spring Training time and baseball nuts are out in force. The real nuts, however, may just be the companies like MLB.com who seem to be selling their customer service soul to social media clowns.

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LinkedIn Promotes “Group-On”

by Michael Benidt on February 8, 2012

It arrives over and over and over again. It’s that oh so personal message, “I’d like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn.” No explanation and no referral. Just click here, please. It’s making LinkedIn ecstatic. But, it should be making you nervous.

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The Trouble with Twitter

by Michael Benidt on January 27, 2012

Here’s a screen shot that pretty much tells the story of why a once fairly intriguing form of communication has gone down the tubes so quickly. Spammers are now piling onto Twitter in swarms and very few people seem to care, and even fewer are willing to point them out for you.

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Twitter Cynicism Runs Rampant

December 14, 2011

No one seems to care anymore that tons of folks are following slimeballs on Twitter. I’ll bet you’re doing it, too. But, you couldn’t be broadcasting your disdain for others, and for Twitter, any louder than by doing this.

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Silence: Now a Twitter Killer

November 2, 2011

We’ve often written about how rude it is when people don’t respond on Twitter. Now, it’s more than rude; it can even be downright dangerous.

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Ed Abbey and Me

October 13, 2011

It’s time to admit something. It’s time for therapy. It’s time to let you all know just how disappointed I am in you. Don’t take it personally. It’s my problem. I’m getting help for it. Promise.

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Armed and Not Dangerous

June 27, 2011

Someone asked me recently, “What exactly do you do, Michael?” I thought for a minute and then said, “Well, Joe, I help you stay away from Natsume Mikamoto Untayao.” It’s not as easy a job as you may think.

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Experts? Yes, at Selling You

June 3, 2011

When is a “social media expert” a true social media expert, and when are they just frauds? It’s all in their claims, those overblown pitches they’re sure you’ll never check.

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LinkedIn Bubble? Or, Bobble-Heads?

May 19, 2011

Before you go rushing off to buy some of that hot new LinkedIn stock from their recent IPO, think twice about who’s joining LinkedIn these days. David (pictured below) can’t even spell his own last name. Why should that scare you?

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