Here We Go Again Kids – Change Your PASSWORDS On TWITTER
Honestly we almost need that to be a weekly ritual with all these social networking applications. maybe we should consider their deepest connections into our online profiles and weigh out the real need. this could be the right time to do that – considering that this is becoming a weekly issue; with large players in the social networking game, like twitter and youtube.
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People love to see you work a crowd. that’s what draws a crowd.
the element of showmanship. everyone wants to be entertained,
or amazed. some even want to be shocked or awed.
it’s the element of emotion that links the crowd and it’s commitment to your presentation. the true face of the crowd is shown when you look
at why they are watching.
is it amazement at the new ?
is it shock at the strangeness of the act ?
is it fright of the possibilities ?
all of these are crowd manipulators. many of us write to bring a chuckle; some write to enlighten you to new trends, or make you aware of upcoming situations. all of these are reasons that we want to read.
but how do we keep you reading ?
ahhhhh now that’s the true thought. that’s the real pondering place.
social network scientists have discovered that certain elements draw you into the crowd, and hold you there.
In The Video, Crowd Master Alexis Bauer tells us that we have to do a few things to really enjoy Social Networking :
1. Sow seeds of conversation -
we need to talk about a common interest. for us mostly on this blog it’s about Entrecard; because most of our comments come from Entrecarders. so that makes it simple
2. insert yourself appropriately in a niche, with others.
you want to do this, because people are waiting to discuss and you can help them to discover what you want to discuss by taking it to them. Yeah,, like the way we bring you our Podcasts.
3. after you’ve made your comments, you smile – and then move on; yes you move on, so that people have a chance to discuss amongst themselves the points you have made – without your directing them. you want them to discuss, which means they found you interesting.
(is this a light bulb moment ?)
4. the discussions amongst the different parties are usually friend to friend; this makes it much easier on those who are talking to relate to each other. friends like talking to each-other much more than someone they don’t know; even if it’s about the stuff that unknown person has said. get it ?
5. Be The Leader, go around the room and introduce yourself into the small groups, and be a conversation starter. but remember to let the group have the conversation, amongst themselves – you are the subject if things work TO YOUR Advantage.
6. The fact is everybody enjoys talking about themselves – be the leader and open up the floor. listen and enjoy the conversation, as much as they enjoyed your talking about yourself. this is where you derive “cool factor”. Because quite simply, it’s Cool to Listen. this makes you a part of the group. a participant, instead of a leader.
7. Your job now is to keep them talking about something you find interesting; because people like to be thought of as interesting; and if they feel you find them interesting, then they will also find you to be interesting. That’s The Ticket – Mutual Interest Builds Relationships.
8. Sharing – that’s the key, you want to Share.
sharing is the way to link your ideas and thoughts to that of the group. we share if we find something interesting. this sharing builds relationships and trust. it also evolves into interest beyond the present. people will naturally want to know more about you; if you give them something to want to know about.
9. Keep it Real – people can always tell when you are faking. that’s the quickest way to build a bonfire – being real. everyone will come and bring their marshmallows to roast along with yours; If you keep it real.
10. you need to keep up on what’s interesting to others, so that you can keep it real, confidently. everyone knows one interesting fact that they can share, so why not find something that’s new and a little off the beaten path to share. we all want to hear that weird but true thing that no body’s heard yet. that’s what makes it fun to relate.
11. Learn to use your embarrassment as a Bonding Tool - yes you know that everyone flubs to get ready to parlay it into a “Whooo Meee” moment. we can all enjoy a laugh at our own expense, because it helps to humanize us and make us one of the crowd. empathy is a strong emotion and a real crowd builder.
12. after you’ve found yourself in the groove, meld into a spot and just enjoy being a part of the crowd. crowds are like jello, they rock and sway and grow and shrink. you are apart of that living phenomena that changes by the moment. enjoy being a part of that energy that courses through your social network. it’s what makes you a part of any vibrant network.
13. Be “The Butterfly” – move that nectar. keep the flow going from person to person. open the flow up to new people, invite them into the conversation, and let them enhance it by sharing their experience. this is what makes the nectar of conversation so sweet.
the relationships that you build this way are much more enjoyable; because they are stress free. everyone feels free to join in, instead of being an outsider.
In 5 Minutes, you open it up and enjoy the rush of the crowd
if you use these techniques you’ll see a bounce in your social popularity quickly. what do you have to loose ? give it a try and leave us a comment telling us which techniques worked best for you.
Thanks For Commenting and don’t forget to Tell Me What Works For You,
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Here’s a bit of Advice – The next time anybody wants to test us, Just Remember Baby, we solve mysteries for fun.
Our Motto is “Why Lie”.. Get It ?
Also Acadia, smart crooks clean up the leadback evidence before committing the crime.
only a person with inside access COULD leave the cards of those who are deleted from entrecard months ago in a photo to draw interest. that means you have inside backside screenshots from the vault.
Not Nice..
This should be a clear warning to Graham Langdon that he needs to look for his problems in His Own House; instead of those who will slap the truth up with no reticence On A Blog … Or FEAR of Retribution.
Anyone who participates in the cash out program, now has a reason to consider the security ramifications
that this lil stunt proves exist. do you want a joker having access to your personal identification – including your social security number, and or your pay pal account ?
I’m an esoteric thinker, like my friend Angelika says; and as such my concept goes beyond the obvious to the real intention. I think that’s the real point of this exercise – to show us just HOW Wide The Door Is Open on Entrecard’s servers. So If You want to give away your money, and personal identification; just throw it up in the air, because that’s what this shows you are doing if you enroll in the cash out program and give entrecard all that personal indentification.
So Superficial Gallery,
Why DID YOU SEND US THIS BLOG IN OUR ENTRECARD DROPBOX ?
You Should be Reported Mainly BECAUSE YOU ABUSED YOUR POWER AS A MODERATOR AND CREATED THIS ACCOUNT AND PLANTED THIS SHIT IN MY BOX, TO TRY TO FRAME ME AND GET RID OF ME ?
AWWWWWWWWWW NAWWWW,,,, Don’t You know Ugly is exactly That.
So Cause You Did It – I’m Sharing Your Stank ish With The Whole Entrecard Community. Next Playa, Time – Leave Me OUT of Your Schemes and Games.
Fellow Entrecarders Tell Me What you REALLY Think about this real stank. there is obviously now a need for a serious discussion on how safe is using entrecard. we all know the frontside dangers – so maybe it’s time to do a lil backside check-up and post the verdict ?
The Superficial Gallery has the funniest columns, the best videos, a great forum, free gum* games with great prizes and thousands of celebrity pics thrown in for good measure. *We are out of gum. Deal with it.
I Have no idea who sent this to me, since their account was removed from Entrecard By the time I got it.
probably as soon as they started to drop cards today..
check this out – there are clues. some of the blog cards shown in the favs column no longer exist on entrecard; most notibly The Turnip of Power. Hmmmmm ????
This is from 05/05/09 at 01:00 am
Other blogs by this author
Interesting Read To Say the Least, and the other three posts are also worth a short peek
I posted this on my Main Blog BadGalsRadio and it got a few comments, so I thought more Entrecarders might be interested in trying to help solve the mystery of the Secret Carder – and the Mystery Drop.
I don’t think I feel tempted enough to try to find out who wrote this, as It looks like a trap.
The Entrecard founder, Graham “Adale” Langdon, claims to know what bloggers want and claims to be acting for bloggers. However, how can one make these claims when one is not a blogger himself?
Notice at the bottom how there are three “blogs” in his name. The only blog in his name that is active is the one to the far left which is the Entrecard blog. “How to NOT get Cancer” and “grahamlangdon.com” have both since been removed.
The Entrecard blog is hardly a blog at all. It is more a lesson in how to not communicate with your base.
Happy Earth Day – we’re participating in our own way. we want to share a few tools with you that allow you more freedom to control your world – Your online world that is . LOL
Firefox: Reload Plus is a small Firefox extension which combines keyboard shortcuts with mouse button combinations to make a huge number of reload options quickly accessible.
The author of the extension designed Reload Plus to replace the functionality he missed from a variety of older extensions and consolidate them into one extension. Reload Plus adds to the reload capabilities of Reload, Show Image, and Show Picture. Here are the following shortcuts it uses:
Left-Click (or F5) = Standard Reload
Ctrl+Left-Click (or Ctrl+F5) = Full Reload
Alt+Left-Click (or Alt+F5) = Load Missing Images
Shift+Left-Click (or Shift+F5) = Google Cache
Middle-Click = Standard Reload (new tab)
Ctrl+Middle-Click = Full Reload (new tab)
Alt+Middle-Click = Reload All Tabs
Shift+Middle-Click = Google Cache (new tab)
For an overview of other handy ways to super charge your refresh-fu in Firefox, check out the some of our previously reviewed solutions like how to reload tabs by double clicking and Reload Every for mass tab reloads. Reload Plus is free and works wherever Firefox does.
Want to add a film to your Netflix queue, book a restaurant reservation, or track a package from a plain old phone? The txtful service connects you to 40 different services without cluttering your contacts.
Txtful doesn’t create new text-message-powered applications for the services it works with, but it does prevent you having to remember, or add to your contacts, all their SMS shortcodes and the context of the text message you have to send out. After signing up with txtful, you drop your web login credentials for tools like Evernote, Netflix, Tumblr, or other sites you use, and create a shortcut name for them. Add txtful’s address to your phone (898385), and send it a message with your shortcut at the front—so, something like “Amazon Herman Miller Aeron” to get pricing on that ever-present success symbol.
Here’s the list of web services txtful supports as of now:
Txtful also allows for shortcut access over email or IM, but if you’re on the web, you’re probably as apt to just pop open a new tab and add a Netflix flick or drop into Evernote. The cell services are where txtful looks to be a unique winner.
Txtful is free to use (while in beta, at least), requires a sign-up.
We’ve always preached about the importance of having a say in what Google says about you, but today Google’s making it easier by integrating your Google profile directly in search results.
Last week we pointed out that the new Google Profile page comes complete with a custom URLs designed to make it easy for people to find your profile. Apparently that was a first step in bringing more prominence to your Google profile; as of today, those profile pages will start appearing on the first page of Google search results.
The explanation we got when we talked to the folks at Google: Google has always been about information. In this case, searching for a person in Google has always been a bit of a black hole—particularly when you have a common name or share a name with someone famous enough to dominate page after page of results. The new profile integration will fix these problems and make it easier to find someone via Google—or at least that’s the idea.
When we asked the obvious question—whether this was Google’s first serious step toward competing with Facebook—we were told that it is not (not that they would have laid out their plans either way). As is, though, Google profile pages certainly don’t tread too much into the social networking realm. What they do is create a personal homepage from which you can link to all of your important information—like your blog, your nameplate site, your Flickr account, or anything else online that represents you.
If you want to search Google profiles specifically, just point your browser to Google Profiles Search and plug in the name of the person you’re looking for. One additional feature for Google profiles: If you were to simply Google “me”, you’ll get instructions on how to create and build out your own profile. (It’s sort of like how “me” always denotes your email in Gmail.)
Twitter has become a nationwide phenomenon, and like any phenom, all the Twitter talk grows quickly tiresome. But despite what you may think, Twitter isn’t just for narcissists; it’s actually insanely useful.
So let’s assume that you already know about the navel-gazing uses of Twitter—the aspects of Twitter that most people criticize when they complain about the site. Discounting Twitter altogether because you think it’s ridiculous that people tweet about what they had for breakfast is like claiming that email is useless because of forward chains. It’s a mistake, and you’d be missing out on a great tool if you let that put you off Twitter completely.
Twitter is as useful as you make it. In fact, Twitter does several very worthwhile things better than any other tool.
1. Instant, Real-Time Search Results
Search is hands down the most useful feature of Twitter—whether or not you actually participate by posting anything to the site. Consider, for example, a very trivial example: I live on the West coast, so when the American Idol results show ends every Wednesday on the East coast, it’s only 7pm here. I could wait two hours, then suffer through another hour of the Wednesday night, up-with-people variety show, but I really just want to know who was voted off. News sites move too slowly, and at one point blogs had aimed to fill this instant-answers void, but guess what: When you want to find out who was voted off Idol as soon as the results are available, Twitter is the quickest and easiest way to get this answer. Try it sometime. Within seconds of the announcement on Idol, Twitter fills with hundreds of posts answering this question for me.
The real-time search applies to so much more. If the signal on my cell phone goes out, I check Twitter to see if there’s some sort of AT&T outage in my area. If I want to know what people are saying about something important to me, I hit up Twitter. What you get is like a centralized, searchable, real-time comment-thread for everything. Yes, like all comment threads, you’ll find a good amount of crap. But that doesn’t render the entire thread worthless. Bookmark Twitter Search now and use it next time Google or your favorite blog search engine fails you.
2. Monitoring Something You Care About
Virtually every company has a Twitter account these days, which means if there’s a product you really care about, following them on Twitter is often the easiest way to stay up to date with the latest developments. But more often than not (in the context of Twitter, at least), the thing we care about most is ourselves. We’ve already shown you how to create an ego search to monitor what’s being said about you on the web, but now Twitter is another must-use tool for getting your ego fix.
Still, even if you’re not an ego-maniac, surely there’s something that you care about that you could monitor on Twitter. Do yourself a favor and download one of the free desktop Twitter clients to help you create persistent Twitter searches so you can keep track of whatever your want without always hitting up the main Twitter search page. We’d recommend checking out TweetDeck or Seesmic Desktop.
3. News Updates
We’ve been using newsreaders to subscribe to RSS feeds for years now, but newsreaders still haven’t completely caught on with the world at large. It seems less manageable to us, but many people are perfectly happy using Twitter as a tool to keep up with the latest news—which is partly why CNN has over 1 million followers. Likewise, re-tweeting (the process of copying and re-posting someone else’s tweet) spreads news like wildfire—so breaking news can reach you on Twitter a million times faster than through any of the old methods. (For what it’s worth, here at Lifehacker we have our own Twitter feed that pushes out all of our top stories.)
4. Instant Communication with Friends
This is closer to what people think about when they think Twitter. But, as I said above, Twitter communication doesn’t have to be a cesspool of “what I ate this morning” and “just flushed the toilet.” You can choose whose updates you want to be notified of and how you get those updates. Upshot: If you and your pals use Twitter well, it can be a fantastic communication tool. If not, of course it’s useless—but that’s not really Twitter’s fault. Also, if privacy is a concern, you can always protect your updates.
5. Twitter as a Productivity Command Line
Whether you want to add a new event to Google Calendar, a new to-do to Remember the Milk, or a new note to Evernote, you can do it all via Twitter. It took us a while to warm up to Twitter from a productivity angle, but this kind of integration made us admit that Twitter may yet boost your productivity, too.
6. Ask Questions, Get Answers
Provided you have enough followers (with enough knowledge), Twitter is also a powerful place to ask questions and get answers. Before I started writing this post, for example, I asked my followers what they think Twitter’s best uses are—the answers to which helped inform this entire post.
We certainly haven’t exhausted all the options, but hopefully this gives you a more balanced look at how Twitter can be useful to you. Of all of these options, Twitter search is far and away the most powerful feature, and one we’d recommend you start using. If you’ve got something worthwhile you use Twitter for that we didn’t cover, let’s hear about it in the comments.
Simple web application TwoGoals keeps you focused on only the most important tasks—by creating a page where you can record your two main objectives.
Using the web application, which requires no account, is as simple as typing your most important goals into the two boxes—they will automatically be saved in a cookie for later viewing the next time you need to regain your focus and clarity, or just set as your browser home page to see the reminder every day.
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