Category Archives: Social Media

Connectsmith Uncovers The Original Top 10 List

By Kurt Smith | Published: August 21, 2009
Although it seems that the top list is a relatively new phenomenon, the first top ten showed up long before blogging or the Internet existed, like around 1450-1500 B.C. That’s the best guess as to the date when Moses descended Mt. Sinai with the stone tablets containing the original top 10 list, the Ten Commandments. [...]
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To Tweet Or Not To Tweet … ESPNs Answer

By Kurt Smith | Published: August 5, 2009
A new front has opened in the ongoing war between Good and Evil. Yesterday, the web was a buzz with the news that ESPN had released guidelines for social media participation by their employees. Not surprisingly, all of the pro Twitter/Facebook marketing crowd were quite upset by this and went on and on about [...]
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Is This A Comment Or A Conversation?

By Kurt Smith | Published: July 10, 2009
According to Technorati there are about 1 million blog posts daily and that number greatly increases every year. One of the tips that is often mentioned by the social media gurus is to comment on the blogs that you visit. The reason they recommend this is that it is a first step in getting you [...]
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