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How do I use the new Retweeting format on Twitter?
You’re correct that Twitter has made a small tweak to its interface that some people say is a long time coming: embedding the original tweet when you retweet someone’s message. The benefit, of course,...
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How can I let anyone direct message (DM) me on Twitter?
You are a braver person than I am, I have to say. Yes, Twitter now has a setting that lets you accept direct messages from anyone in the Twitterverse, whether you’re following them — or they’re...
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How popular is my LinkedIn Profile?
Easy does it. I’m pretty sure that the analytics on LinkedIn aren’t designed so you and your beer-drinking buddy give each other the smackdown! But then again, perhaps the very essence of social media...
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Add a LinkedIn “View My Profile” Badge on my Blog?
I blame Facebook. Just about every social media site seems to make the assumption that it’s the only site you want to use and that anything else you have online is uninteresting. In the Facebook world...
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Stop LinkedIn Emailing me Group Updates?
Like most social networks, LinkedIn wants to be a lot more than a site you visit occasionally, so by default they send you a lot of email notifications of various actions, events and updates. All well...
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How do I recommend someone on LinkedIn?
LinkedIn has two different processes for recommending someone, the easy way — “endorsements” — and the slightly harder way “recommendations”. The former you see all the time and there’s much discussion...
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Can I export my LinkedIn Connections?
You can definitely export your entire LinkedIn contact database in a variety of different formats, but I want to start by pointing out that the social pact between you and someone else on LinkedIn is...
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How do I Retweet a Tweet from the Twitter Web page?
What you’re seeing is a major improvement to the “retweet” (really, it’s the Twitter version of the ‘share’ feature) that Twitter rolled out early in 2015 or so, where instead of your tweet being...
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How do I change my Twitter profile picture?
Like many Web-based systems, Twitter has a really good user interface for the basic interaction but gets a bit more confusing when you want to tweak settings and preferences. And by “a bit more...
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How do I report LinkedIn connection spam?
It happens with every social network, people wanting to subvert the system and exploit our gullibility for their own gain. Then again, on a social network like LinkedIn, maybe we’re all busy trying to...
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How do I recover a hijacked Twitter account?
As with any criminal activity, the best thing to do is to stay calm and think about all your options. In this instance the first step is to ensure that your email account is secure. To do that, change...
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Can I post a Web photo to Instagram?
The original intent of Instagram has always been that people would use it to share smartphone photos so you have that sense of immediacy and so we’re all saddled with the same challenge of getting...
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How to create a Twitter poll?
Twitter announced its fairly rudimentary polling feature a few weeks ago, but as with everything on the modern Internet, there’s a staging process and it’s going to take a few weeks — or months? — for...
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Can I search my LinkedIn connections by alma mater (college)?
Can you search your LinkedIn friends and connections to find people who attended or graduated the same college you attended? Oh heck yeah! That’s really the core purpose of LinkedIn even if it’s...
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How do I delete an Instagram post photo?
Yikes! When we take selfies and other photos and post them to social media, we often forget that not everyone at a party or event wants to be online or even wants to be visible in the background. In...
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Change your Twitter Profile Photo from iPhone iOS?
In the early days, mobile apps that let you access major sites were the less-able stepchild of the company, letting you do a small subset of the most popular actions but never quite as capable as...
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Manage your Twitter stream with Twitter Lists?
Glad you like Twitter Power 3.0, what co-author Joel Comm and I feel is the best book on how to use Twitter as a marketing channel available today. We definitely tried to distill a lot of best...
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How to add a URL link to Instagram?
You ask an eminently reasonable question except for one slight hiccup: Instagram isn’t designed to share URLs or Web page links on individual posts and even if you try adding a Web page address to your...
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How do I make an Instagram collage photo?
I know exactly what you’re talking about and it was my 12yo who showed me how to make those beautiful Instagram collage photographs that look so sophisticated and artistic, believe it or not. She...
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Replace your Twitter profile photo from your iPhone?
The Twitter app for iOS is quite sophisticated and has a lot of capabilities that aren’t always obvious, one of which is, yes, to let you be able to switch your profile photo or your account banner...
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