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Another social media flowchart

Here’s a graphic I did for my company Spork Media explaining how an ideal social media setup for a restaurant. Click through for a detailed explanation. Who doesn’t love flowcharts?

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My social media setup

After a few years of honing and balancing my various social media profiles and blogs, here’s how I have the information flowing. This doesn’t represent every last thing I put on the web, but it does cover the tools I use regularly.

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Everything I know about social media best practices, I learned from social media

What better place to learn about social media best practices than from social media? Most of what I know about the subject I learned from my Delicious network and Twitter feed. I collect the most noteworthy items under my Socialmedia tag on Delicious.

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How to get web traffic from Google

If you want to get your web page noticed but don’t want to spend a lot of money on advertising, your best bet is search engine optimization, or SEO. As of this writing, that mostly means understanding how Google ranks search hits, and adapting your web presence accordingly. Historically, search engine results were ranked based [...]

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You need a blog, not just a web site

Whenever somebody comes to me and wants a web site, I suggest that I set them up with a blog instead. Even better, I suggest they start using a variety of blogs and blog-like platforms. If you have a web presence of any kind for any reason, you need to be able to update it [...]

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Blogging is a real-time strategy game

Anna watched me Twitter over my shoulder for a while, and then announced: “I get it. It’s a video game where you compete for attention from strangers on the internet.” She’s completely correct. Having a web presence is a real-world immersive internet game where the scoreboard is your stats page or follower list. Like any [...]

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The web browser as a musical instrument

Over the weekend we stayed with Anna’s sister Joanna, her husband Chris and their adorable new baby Lucas. Chris and I spent some of the time talking about electronic music and the internet. He’s a social media professional and a music fan but not a musician, and it was cool to hear his perspective on [...]

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Auto-tune on the iPhone

It was only a matter of time before the Autotune The News people got T-Pain on board. The newest version of this software lets you sing with Auto-tune over anything in your iTunes library. Pretty amazing hip-hop and electronica scratchpad, except that it crashes two minutes into each recording. Still. Auto-tune the Pro Tools plug-in [...]

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Lil Wayne’s productivity secrets

See a followup post about female remixes of “A Milli” Lil Wayne and I have some differences of style and taste: about facial tattoos, about drinking cough syrup recreationally, about jewelry on one’s teeth. But we agree about music. He brags constantly that he’s the best rapper alive. I think he makes a pretty good [...]

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The Michael Jackson sample map goes viral

As part of the research for my book, I’ve been making sample maps, diagrams showing what songs include samples of what other songs. I’m a big sample geek. I like knowing where my music comes from the same way I like knowing where my food comes from. This map shows many, probably not nearly all, [...]

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