Knowing how to use a hashtag, means just as much as actually using a ‘hashtag’. Here is a quick top 5 list of how to use hashtags effectively.
1. Never use more hashtags then you need to. How many is this, well a good rule of thumb is zero to one per tweet.
2. Only [...]

UPDATE: Due to popularity of this article, I have decided to do an extended version and add more numbers, who says it has to stop at ten…
2nd UPDATE: Because of confusion surrounding the use of hashtags for social media posts I have deemed it necessary to write a disclaimer. Knowing how to [...]

1. Don’t just sign up for a Twitter or Facebook account
Creating a community doesn’t happen overnight, so certainly it wouldn’t happen within the fifteen minutes it takes to set up a Twitter or Facebook account. Follow, be followed, earn respect, and become friends with each and every person in your community.

If you are a Twitter fan, you might have noticed something different about the Olympics this year. According to the International Olympic Committee, athletes will be allowed to tweet to their hearts content throughout the games. That is, as long as they are talking only about their individual/personal experience at the Olympics. [...]

If you haven’t heard of the notion of Crowdsourcing, basically it involves using a massive community to develop ideas and projects for any entity, (something along the lines of open-source technology). There is usually a large base population submitting their ideas to an online pool. Users are then allowed to vote on the [...]