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Tips for Your About Page and for SEO

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[In this great Web Teacher guest post by Jessy Troy, you can learn some tips for crafting an interesting and effective about page. And as a bonus, Jessy shares her favorite tool for bloggers to improve search engine optimization. -Virginia]  Read more

A Guide to Twitter for non-Tweeters

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I was out for coffee the other day with a non-tweeting friend. “So what’s Twitter actually like?” she asked.I ummed and ahhed, and explained it all very badly, mumbling some fairly dry stuff about retweets and hashtags and follows. She didn’t look convinced. So I’ve been thinking about it ever since, and here’s what I’ve come up with. Twitter Network by Sue Waters via Flickr  Read more >

Lessons Learned: Even the Pros Can Get Scammed

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Aliza Sherman is a pro on the web and knows how to spot a scam when she sees one. Except she fell for one. Here's her cautionary tale. She writes,  Read more

Has Facebook Become an American Icon?

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Think about cultural icons. You know, things like The Statue of Liberty or movie lines like "Of all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world, she walks into mine." Think about Apple products. Think about Facebook.  Read more >

Tips for Making the Internet Easier to Use

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[Editor's Note: Shannon from Shannanigans has some great tips for you. She can tell you where to find great free image editors, beautiful free fonts, and which tools can help you convert files from one format to another. And she includes helpful screenshots of everything! -Virginia]  Read more

A Facebook Page in New Zealand Got Shut Down. So?

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Melanie Nelson from Blogging Basics 101 has some important information for anyone who is using a Facebook Page as a promotional site or for a giveaway. The story begins in far off India and New Zealand. She explains,  Read more

4 Tips to Make Your Twitter Timeline More Manageable

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Twitter is overwhelming sometimes, but Corvida Raven from She Geeks has some great tips that will help you manage what you see in your timeline. She explains,  Read more

Facebook Goes Public to the Tune of $104 Billion

Facebook IPO (Credit Image: © Shen Hong/Xinhua/ZUMAPRESS.com)

The social sharing network that Mark Zuckerberg launched in a dorm room graduated big-time today, to the tune of a $104 billion public offering on Wall Street, making it the third largest IPO in history, and biggest ever for a tech company.  Read more >

If Emily Posted: On TOS and Reading the Fine Print

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A little over a week ago, an Instagram scare went viral. People were talking about new Terms of Service (TOS). People were outraged, others confused, some felt their trust violated.But here's the thing, the TOS hadn't changed.I knew because I had a copy of it from a piece I wrote in the beginning of March and was able to offer comparisons. What had changed? For the first time, people were reading what they'd agreed to all along.  Read more >

Is Kickstarter an Option for Your Idea?

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You have a killer idea for a product or project, but you have no money to make it a reality. Could Kickstarter be an option for you?  Read more >