Category: Social Sustainability
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The secret to following lots of people on Twitter
Twitter is a fantastic tool for disseminating information, and the obvious corollary of that is that Twitter is a superb app for consuming information as well – depending on how you use it. What is the best way to make sure you get the most information out of Twitter? Follow lots of relevant, interesting people!…
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15 Twitter tips for beginners – updated
I wrote a post a couple of years back called 15 Twitter tips for beginners which, though two years old, still has useful information for Twitter users – especially if you make sure to read all the comments as well. Needless to say, things have moved on considerably in the intervening period – bear in…
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Video production basics for social sustainability
Of course, blogging should be only one of the weapons in your Social Sustainability arsenal. Other tools you should be using include, FaceBook, Twitter (obviously), LinkedIn (their Groups feature particularly), Flickr and YouTube. I will be dealing with all of these tools in future posts – for now I’m going to have a quick talk…
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Blogging for social sustainability – the why’s and how’s
In my first post on Social Sustainability, where I talked about the importance of sharing, I mentioned that I had been thinking of writing a post about blogging – well, here it is! I know this will be the proverbial “teaching granny to suck eggs” posting but seeing as blogs are such a fundamental tool…
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Social Sustainability and the importance of sharing
I wondered for a while what to post on first here after the re-branding of the site and the new focus on Social Sustainability. First I thought about doing a post about blogging seeing as it is one of the most basic building blocks of social media but then I took a step further back…
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Tom Raftery’s Social Sustainability – site re-brand
I started this blog back in July 2004 – back then a lot of my posts were centered around Open Source and web technologies in general. Back then the blog was branded Tom Raftery’s IT views. Then in April 2007 I (belatedly) re-branded the blog Tom Raftery’s Social Media because I had been blogging almost…