5 Things To Do When You (Feel Like You) Suck At Everything

Have you ever have a day when you wake up and feel like a total failure of a human being? Yep. Welcome to the land of the unemployed. I’ve been out of a full-time employment for over a year now. While I have been freelancing steadily since August, it was never an easy transition to go back to sending out resumes, waiting by the phone, and getting rejections.  And when working on-and-off like I have been, constant fights with EDD over unemployment benefits never helps either. After so many turn-downs and/or lack of responses, not only I start to doubt...
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A Twitter Study 2: Your Ass is Getting Deleted

[ Read Part 1 ] I’m happy to report to you that I have finished cleaning up my client’s following list from over 3,100 down to just a little under 400. There is still some fat to trim and some tweeps to start following, but overall, we are off to a great start. Since I’ve gone through thousands of accounts, I came across many profiles and tweeting styles that baffled me. Some of them, in hindsight, I should’ve just taken a screenshot of as a lesson for all. More than anything, I have learned so many things about what one...
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A Twitter Study: Rules to “Follow” By

For this past month, I have been freelancing as a community manager for an advertising agency.  My job here was to interact with the community especially on the much neglected Twitter. I found it odd that there was so much junk and spam on their feed. And then I realized that this account was following over 3,100 people. And yes, the account was indeed following spammers, bots, fake accounts, and random people it should not be following. It seems that at one point in time, this account had an auto-follow set up where an application would automatically follow whoever follows...
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