The heart of social media is building relationships. You can have just 100 followers and never blog, and if you develop real relationships with people you can get work, business, information, referrals, free stuff...

I just went through who is following me on Twitter to follow back. I wanted to share what makes me decide to follow someone back or not. Hopefully this information will be useful in...

Over this past year I’ve leveraged lists in Twitter to filter down the thousands I follow to the people I want to follow closely and interact with regularly. One of the people who have...

Twitter is a great way to get to know people, learn a lot and get known as a subject matter expert and resource. That doesn’t come from tweeting quotes, the weather and pictures of...

  You have the words ninja, guru or sometimes expert in your name or description. Unless you’re actually a ninja or guru. Then rock on. Calling yourself a world traveler, adventurer or something comparable....

  set a time. Don’t conflict with a popular chat of the same topic. Most chats are an hour long and start at the top of the hour. Try to stick to that. have...