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How Being a Social Network Butterfly Can Help You Land a Job and Improve Your Career

Posted on October 20, 2008. Filed under: BlogSpot, Facebook, Google, Heroes, MySpace, Obama, Red Sox, Social Network, Star Trek, Twitter, TypePad, Web 2.0, WordPress, blog, iPhone | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

This article was originally written as a 3-part piece for Talent Zoo. I got enough positive feedback (and found it slowly getting buried beneath new blog posts), that I thought I’d re-post it here in it’s entirety. Since this was written alot has happened with Social Media, social networks and the job market. This has [...]

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Social Networks Show Users are Not Designers. And That’s Okay.

Posted on July 16, 2008. Filed under: Consumer Generated Content, Facebook, Michael Durwin, MySpace, Social Network, Twitter, Web 2.0, WordPress, blog, consumer marketing |

I recently came across fellow Twitter-buddy Bokardo’s blog on designing for social networks:
Ugliness, Social Design, and the MySpace Lesson
Good points all around. An important thing to keep in mind is Form Follows Function. In other words, first it has to work, then it can be made to look pretty. Well, like it or not, MySpace [...]

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Web 2.0 Errors: Mashable/Digg

Posted on April 7, 2008. Filed under: Michael Durwin, Social Network, WordPress | Tags: , , |

Digg is down as of 1pm EST.
Mashable misspelled “Microsoft” as “Microsot”. Npt sure if it was intentional or not. I’ll upload screen grabs as soon as the bug in WordPress 2.5 is fixed that is preventing me from uploading images to the blog.

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My First iBlog

Posted on June 30, 2007. Filed under: Apple, Browser incompatibility, Safari, WordPress, blog, iBlog, iPhone |

I’m happy to report that the Apple iPhone is currently living up to it’s promise in my hot little hands. I’m only typing a little slower than usual because I’m only using on hand.
This phone is unbeatable. But it’s 2:45am so you’ll have to wait until morning.
p.s. WordPress needs to fix the image upload feature [...]

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Are Social Networks Losing their Sparkle? Yeah right!

Posted on June 22, 2007. Filed under: BlogSpot, Boston, Consumer Generated Content, Facebook, Google, Michael Durwin, MySpace, Social Network, TypePad, User Generated Content, Web 2.0, WordPress, blog |

This blog is a response to this blog:
I think that what’s hot or not can be misleading or misunderstood as a vague announcement. MySpace may not be where the hippest users flock or the site that gets the most cool press, but with over 24 million users, I’d say it’s far from being a ghost [...]

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