Should a Real Name be Required when Participating in Social Media?This question has been floating out there for a while, but I just wanted to get it in circulation again. Frankly, I believe that if you are not willing to reveal who you really are when...
Topics: Social Media

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I’ll admit that I’ve become accustomed to using Twitter (and other social media) throughout my day to share interesting information, links, articles, etc. I’ve been doing it for some time now, but I came to an epiphany yesterday that...
Topics: blog, Blogging, community, Online Communities, Social Media, Social network, Twitter

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Image via CrunchBaseBy now, you need to live in North Korea to not have heard of Twitter. I’ll admit, at first I didn’t really get it, but after a while, I’ve managed to figure out how to use the site to engage others and make new...
Topics: Social Networking, spam, Twitter

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I was just going through one of my forums and noticed something I hadn’t seen in a few years. A 3 year old forum post was brought back from the dead by a brand-new member of the site, whose comment had NOTHING to do with the discussion at hand. ...
Topics: forum, forum marketing, Forums, Marketing, spam

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A few months ago I decided BiggerPockets.com would be a sponsor for a Real Estate Event that was slated to occur in mid-October. This was to be a one day real estate technology-themed event, and in return for the $250 sponsorship, we’d get our...
Topics: agreements, business ethics, contracts, Entrepreneurship, principles, promises, sponsor

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