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The Great Twitter Unfollow Experiment of 2011

by Chris Brogan on September 2nd, 2011

This week, I unfollowed everyone on Twitter. That was over 131,000 people. I didn’t do it manually, but rather, with some help (ask @jesse, if you need custom help like that). My reason was that I’d started receiving over 200 direct message spams a day. (These messages said things like “lol, look at this funny [...]

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It’s Not Who You Circle; It’s Who Circles You

by Chris Brogan on July 29th, 2011

In Google+, one of the main activities we perform is finding people of interest to follow. In this graphic to the left, I started following journalists and news professionals based on a great list that I found at Muck Rack (hat tip +Steve Garfield). This will prove to be great, because I’ll get to learn [...]

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Be the Brand

by Chris Brogan on July 22nd, 2011

People have become a little testy because Google finally clamped down hard on the “unofficial brand” pages popping up all over Google+. My response, originally posted there, was this: Lament Not, Brands It’s funny how many people are lamenting the temporary shutdown of brands on Google+. Meanwhile, I’m seeing lots of smart business people connecting [...]

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Google Plus is a VERY Different Sharing Environment

by Chris Brogan on July 16th, 2011

I’ve been writing a lot about Google+ , but that’s partly because it’s a very interesting social network environment, and it gives me a lot of opportunity to study a social network at its birth. Once you’ve been on Twitter or Facebook or wherever for a while, you take for granted what it was like [...]

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An Interview with Rex Hammock

by Chris Brogan on July 14th, 2011

Rex Hammock is the CEO of Hammock, a publishing and media company (and much more). I’ve been a fan of his for years, and follow him on Twitter as well as Google+ and anywhere else I can find Rex messing around. In this 20+ minute video, we talk about Google+ (no shocker there), but also [...]

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Google Plus is Not Your Blog

by Chris Brogan on July 13th, 2011

When I visit New York City, I stay at the Roger Smith Hotel. They make me feel like it’s my home. They’re very inviting. They smile a lot. They treat me like I matter. I love it there. But it’s not my home. Google+ Is NOT Your Blog There’s been some stink (again) about whether [...]

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