What Some Mistake For Influence, Don’t Drink That Cool Aid

So, I got tweeted — an offer to buy followers! Some people do this. It’s lame! The thing about buying “followers” — not even legit people or accounts — is that it’s not true influence.

How I’ve Managed To Blog For A Long Time

See other posts about blogging here. I thought it would be helpful, for me and others, to explore how I’ve blogged for a long time. “Long time” is relative. It’s been several years since I started to do so without quitting. In the process I’ve started some blogs and shut them down as I explored …

Overrating The Hashtag

In our social media age, it’s easy to forget that a movement does not rise and fall on the basis of a hashtag alone – @saiidat (in Nigeria Won’t Bring Back The Missing Girls) I couldn’t agree more. The hashtag is overrated. The success of your / a hashtag doesn’t necessarily mean success of your …

One Of The Ways To Brand Yourself On The Internet And Why | Part 2

In an earlier post, I covered one of the best ways to bran yourself and some reasons why. This is a follow-up to that post. Blogging, regardless of the media or platform you use for it is one of the best ways to manage your brand on the Internet. Your blog should be one of …

Stop Complaining About Ads & Privacy Changes On Social Networks

Google+ is now introducing ads. Also, unless you tell them not to they are going to use your face to endorse some stuff. That sound familiar? And, in the other corner, all content on Facebook is now searchable. Oh, did I mention Instagram serving ads. Awesome. Yes, awesome, for them that is. Once I was …