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Written by Christine Bode (  Profile )
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 Tim Collins' The Little Book of Twitter leapt out at me from the sale table at Indigo Books on Sunday and with a sticker price of only $2.00, I just had to buy it! I decided that it's high time I learn how to use Twitter as effectively as possible and as the book advertises, Get Tweetwise!
After using Twitter for over a year, sporadically at best, I had figured out much of what The Little Book of Twitter has to offer but it did present me with a few great tips that I wasn't aware of. It's also chock full of humour (that Tim Collins should be a stand-up comedian!) and I caught myself laughing out loud a few times. In fact, it is just as entertaining as it is useful.
You can learn how to tweet yourself clever, discover whether or not you're a twitterholic, ten types of Twitter twat, the strangest twittersonas, and learn about some celebrity twits (I mean tweeters, no, twitterati!) and their scandals: who's been twitterjacked and who has a ghost-tweeter:
"While it's understandable that celebrities might turn to ghost-writers for help with full-length autobiographies, it's pretty sad if they can't even manage a sentence all on their own [Fiddy Cent]. What next? Paying someone to speak and move for you so you can sit still all day in a massive bathtub full of money?"
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Written by Christine Bode ( Profile )
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Damn you Jane Porter. You're incredibly talented, as beautiful on the inside as you are on the outside, and your contemporary fiction always makes me cry! You are brilliant in every way and I love you. I just finished reading Easy On The Eyes by Jane Porter and I'm sitting here sniffing and wiping the tears off my face. Her books never cease to touch my heart and to make me cheer for their complex, strong and intelligent female characters. Most importantly of all, they remind me of what is truly important in life, because Jane knows…Love. Not just romantic love, with the dashing, handsome and perfect leading man (although he's ever present), but love of family, friends, and especially of self. This is the theme of her 2009 novel, as experienced by America Tonight's beautiful, talented but aging on-air host, Tiana Tomlinson, who on the outside would seem to have it all, and she discovers in her darkest hour that she really does. She also realizes that she doesn't need a man to complete her, can take responsibility for her own destiny, play by her rules, and follow her true path.
Jane Porter first introduced readers to Tiana Tomlinson in Odd Mom Out and one of the things I love about her books is that she takes secondary characters from each of her preceding novels and tells their story in future books. She will do the same this August when her latest novel She's Gone Country about Tiana's best friend Shey Darby hits bookstores everywhere in North America. Reading Porter's novels are like taking a road trip with your best friend. You have a fantastic time and you never want them to end! In Easy On The Eyes, 38-year-old entertainment television reporter Tiana is faced with the realization that she's going to be fazed out of her hit show by a younger protégé if she doesn't succumb to plastic surgery. In Hollywood this is a very real issue that women have to deal with all the time. It's explored here from every angle but ultimately Tiana is the kind of woman who wants to live in her own face and appreciate every line she's earned.
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Written by Christine Bode ( Profile )
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I consider myself an advanced user of Facebook. I have been using it for almost 4 years, both for personal use and to implement it as part of my internet promotion/social media marketing business for authors & musicians, Scully Love Promo. Despite this fact, I found that Leah Pearlman and Carolyn Abram’s Facebook For Dummies was well worth the read and the money I paid for the book.
I learned several good tips that I didn’t know about before and can definitely recommend it to all novice Facebook users. It will really help you to completely understand how this worldwide social networking phenomenon works.
Facebook connects you with the people you know and care about. It enables you to communicate, stay up-to-date, and keep in touch with friends and family anywhere. It facilitates your relationships online to help enhance them in person. Specifically, Facebook connects you with the people you know around content that is important to you. Whether you’re the type to take photos or look at them, or write about your life, or read about your friends’ lives, Facebook is designed to enable you to succeed. Maybe you like to share Web sites and news, play games, plan events, organize groups of people, or promote your business. Whatever you prefer, Facebook has you covered.
Facebook has rapidly evolved from an elite social networking site for Ivy League college students only – founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates/fellow computer science students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes in 2004 – to the most popular social networking site on the Internet with a membership of over 200 million people in 2010. Facebook is ever-changing and although this edition of Facebook for Dummies was published in 2010, by the time I read it, Facebook’s developers had changed some things including issuing updated iron clad privacy settings as well as altering where some of the features are located, so not everything will be crystal clear in terms of comparing what is written in the book to what you now see on your home page or profile page. But I swear, it’s not hard to figure out.
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