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Google’s new privacy policy: A compact how-to for everyday users.

Thursday, March 1st, 2012

Full credit to the wrtier of this compact how-to guide to Google’s new privacy policy which kicks in today. Iain Marlow is the technology reporter for the Globe & Mail newspaper. Today he provides a very compact but helpful guide Google’s new policy as well as an explanation why they changed it.

In a nutshell, he says:

What’s changing:

  • Google will now share your user information across its various services.
  • Doing that will allow Google to more accurately target users with its ads, based on a person’s location, e-mail conversations, search history and preferences.

What’s not changing:

  • Ordinary users can still use Google services that don’t require a Google account, such as Google Search and YouTube.
  • Google will not start selling your personal information to advertisers.

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That’s some kind of Twitter List!

Wednesday, May 11th, 2011

Short but sweet: I came across this awesome blog about Twitter that is appropriately called:

The Ultimate Guide to Twitter Marketing.

It truly is ULTIMATE. There are at least 100 links to blogs and web pages under the following section titles:

  • What is Twitter?
  • Your Twitter account.
  • New twitter users start here.
  • What’s up with the whole #hashtag thing?
  • Twitter vocabulary.
  • Why you need to be on Twitter.
  • Big companies are doing it …
  • The government is doing it too …
  • What you need to know.
  • What the heck is a retweet and how do I do it?
  • The Twitter mindset.
  • How to get Twitter followers.
  • Brand management on Twitter.
  • Lean, mean Twitter marketing strategies.
  • Prospecting on Twitter.
  • Craft eye-catching Twitter headlines.
  • Managing Twitter.
  • Twitter security.
  • Twitter social proof.
  • Avoid being an annoying twit.
  • Don’t stop there.

I’ve barely scratched the surface reading all the rich info but wanted to pass it along asap. This is an incredible resource from beginners to veterans. Enjoy!

Thanks for reading my blog and please visit again.

Vincent out.

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Find people on Twitter but connect on LinkedIn

Tuesday, December 14th, 2010

This is a short blog on a certain dynamic of LinkedIn and Twitter that I have observed and I think confuse some people. Or, quite frankly, some people may just have a different experience and view point. So to each his own.

In a nutshell, my experience/opinion is that the best site to CREATE new business connections, is Twitter. But best site to NURTURE new business connections is LinkedIn.

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