Seven Steps To A Better Twitter Daily

September 8th, 2010 | Shonali Burke | 2 Comments

I first heard about Paper.li via Gautam Ghosh on Facebook a few weeks (or was it a month?) ago.

It looked cool, but I didn’t really start playing with it until last week, and when I Amplify’d Neville Hobson’s excellent assessment of it.

If you’re not already using it, I think you should check it out. IMHO.

What is Paper.li?

Much has already been written about what Paper.li is, so I won’t bore you with too many details.

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Playing With Paper.li

September 3rd, 2010 | Shonali Burke | 0 Comments

I’ve been playing with paper.li recently myself and love it for all the reasons Neville Hobson listed below. I figured, why try to reinvent the wheel?

For anyone who’s asking, “Why?” here’s your answer.

DC, #GrowSmartBiz Is Here

September 29th, 2009 | Shonali Burke | 10 Comments

Update: This is a recap of my live-tweeting from the GrowSmartBusiness conference held today in DC. I did try to give everyone a heads up that I would be doing this, but if you didn’t get that (because I know you have better things to do than hang on every word I say), I apologize in advance for clogging your Twitterstream.

As far as the conference goes: in one word – WOW, what a day. But more on that later. I used the Twitter LiveBlog plugin for WordPress to populate this blog, which essentially means that all my tweets (which were duly hashtagged with #growsmartbiz) during the conference automatically provided content for this post. Hattip to Neville Hobson, from whom I learned about this.

8:42:09 AM: Roy Dunbar (Network Solutions) is welcoming everyone at #growsmartbiz. He’s got a cool accent.

8:45:04 AM: Roy’s presenting very interesting findings from SBSI (Small Business Success Index) at #growsmartbiz, find ‘em at http://www.growsmartbusiness.com

8:47:53 AM: Financial mistakes small biz are making: cutting prices, valuable employees & hurting company morale #growsmartbiz

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