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Patrice-Anne Rutledge is a business technology author and consultant who specializes in social media, online collaboration, and presentation technologies.
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Nov

24

Show Off Your Social Media Expertise with Blog-Off II

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I was recently invited to be one of the evaluators for the Blog-Off II social media blogging contest, to take place on the Community Marketing blog between December 1st and 12th. Blog-Off II is now offering more than $45,000 worth of prizes, including extensive international media coverage for the winners.

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If you’re interested in demonstrating your expertise in social media and blogging, and are interested in competing for some of these cool prizes, check out the details about Blog-Off II.

Nov

22

Save a Tree with an Eco-Save Badge

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Want your readers to retain copies of their favorite posts on your blog without wasteful printing? Place an Eco-Safe badge on your blog to give readers three eco-friendly alternative to printing: emailing HTML, emailing a PDF, or downloading a PDF. If you use WordPress, you can install a plug-in designed specifically for WordPress.

Best of all, the badge takes only a few minutes to install.

Nov

21

Safari Books Online Free Trial

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Safari Books Online is offering a free 10-day trial. Safari includes more than 8,500 books and videos on technology and business topics, including many of my recent titles!

Nov

12

Link Your LinkedIn and Twitter Accounts

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LinkedIn and Twitter just announced a new partnership that will integrate the two social sites. Essentially, the new integration enables you to share your LinkedIn status updates on Twitter and to send your tweets to your LinkedIn connections. Fortunately, you do have some control over what you share and with whom you share it.

To get started, go to the Edit My Profile page on LinkedIn and click the Add Twitter Account link (you can also access this from the Account & Settings page). Indicate whether you want to display your Twitter account on your profile and whether you want to send all your tweets to LinkedIn or only those you specify with the #in hashtag (#li also works).

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Now when you post a tweet on Twitter, it appears as a status update on LinkedIn. If you choose to share only selected tweets, you’ll see the hashtag at the end of your update.