This guest post is by Shari Lopatin of www.sharilopatin.com. I had a writer friend tell me the other day I have the best social network she’s ever seen. “What?” I asked, shocked. After all, I only have about 380 Twitter followers (I follow 200-something). “You should check out these people instead,” I offered, with three [...]

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Google has launched its Person Finder service in Turkey following yesterday's 7.2 magnitude earthquake which has killed at least 217 people and injured a further 350. First launched to assist...

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Microsoft stuck its neck out when it released a very early build of Windows 8 to the world, likely knowing beforehand the level of complaint that it was going to...

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If White House town hall meetings via Twitter and Facebook weren't proof enough that we're moving well into the Gov 2.0 era here in the US, then this might help sway your opinion. The Department of Homeland Security, seeing massively clogged telephone connections on the East cosat following a Virginia earthquake, is encouraging the use of social media to contact friends and family.It's also interesting to note that the DHS didn't wait to put a release out on typical news channels, but instead ch [...]

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Now, if you are reading this post. you are probably hoping that I’m about to divulge the “secret sauce” to standing out in the crowded blogging space. Unfortunately, I don’t have that secret sauce or magic formula for getting millions of blog readers with the click of a mouse. If I did, I’d probably be [...]

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