Category Archives: Social Media

Web Wonders and Horrors: e-Mail

I love the web best when it isn't just linking pages together but when it is linking people. Email and the Internet have evolved into powerful tools that allowed us to relate with others in new and powerful ways. I have been very blessed by the relationships that I initiated and cultivated over the Internet. ...

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Why Awareness Messages Aren’t Enough for Social Media

I found this great quote today about social media messages: But hear this trick: it won’t be because you gave the message to me in your words. It will be because the experience gave *me* the inspiration to create messaging of my own. It might be what you intended, but it might ...

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How Social Media gets bloggers out of their pajamas

Tweetups, Meetups, conferences and twittered invites are opening up the doors to pajama bloggers. Blogging in one's pajamas is a stereotype, but like most stereotypes it is grounded in at least some element of truth.  I like my pajamas and I ...

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Don’t click on that link: Stalk Daily Twitter worm

UPDATE: Twitter has confirmed that they have blocked the hole that allowed the StalkDaily worm to invade Twitter. For a comprehensive explanation of this worm and remedy, please read the explanation at Mashable. Have you seen all of the links today for the new, improved and oh so much better Twitter? Don't ...

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Yoono: Love Affair or Just a Fling?

It was love at first sight. The first time  that I saw the slick design and features of Yoono social integrator for browsers, I fell in love. Yoono is a collapsible side bar extension for

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Twittering Guinness

Last night, Liz Strauss was discussing Guinness with friends and tweeting about it on Twitter.  Being an Irish woman who believes there is no such thing as a beer too dark, I was moral bound to join the discussion. When the discussion turned to the nutritional value, I took the innocent step of ...

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Bloggers Unite for World AIDS Day – General

The articles and art presented here do not necessarily represent my own views and experiences of HIV/AIDS. Part of promoting HIV/AIDS awareness is facilitating a discussion. You will find posts here with opposing points of view. Respectful expression of differing opinions is welcome;  hateful, profane or blatantly inaccurate comments will not be tolerated. M.A. Cumba presents ...

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