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		<title>5 tips for (better) social media writing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:11:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melanie</dc:creator>
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If you want people to share and bookmark your content you have to write with their needs in mind. Hard news style and web usability writing are key.
[tags: socialmedia writing webwriting usability headlines socialbookmarks ]
Let&#8217;s start with what you&#8217;ve just read.My keyword specific headline tells you what this post is about in plain language. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Optimize your self, not your site</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 20:25:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melanie</dc:creator>
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&#8220;A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can&#8217;t expect an apostle to look out&#8221; &#8211; G.C Lichtenberg
Had GC Lichtenberg been alive today, he might well have been talking about the internet. We&#8217;re the ones teaching the internet what to be with our every use. Utopia or dystopia, what it is, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social media: Essential user controls</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2008 22:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melanie</dc:creator>
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		<title>Attention rabble-rousing with Wayne Macphail</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:31:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melanie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of months ago I started experimenting with the use of Twitter and other social media in my wired college classrooms. Meanwhile, out in California, Howard Rheingold was exploring the question of wired attention spans with his UC Berkeley social media class. Rheingold turned these explorations into a series of compelling vlog posts called [...]]]></description>
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