From the monthly archives:

November 2009

That’s Enough DM Spam Twitter, That’s Enough

November 30, 2009 Opinion

Have you been getting lots of direct messages in Twitter, from people that you know (or are at least familiar with from following) that look something like this? Well, those are what is becoming known as direct message (dm) spam. They are spreading like wildfire across the Twitterverse (Twitter Universe?). Here’s a brief explanation of [...]

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The STL Social Media & Tech Report Weekly Roundup

November 27, 2009 Events

EDITOR’S NOTE: Each week we compile a list of events, specials, gossip, cool things, etc. that we found online during the previous week, had not mentioned yet, and wanted to make sure you did not miss! This week’s list: – Short list this week due to the holiday. Thanks for coming by, hope your Turkey [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving!

November 26, 2009 Events
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Help Get St. Louis A Startup Weekend

November 24, 2009 Events

Startup Weekend, a 54 hour, weekend-long event that brings people together to build communities, companies and projects. They currently have open voting on their site to gauge the interest in holding an event for would-be first-time host cities. St. Louis is doing pretty well in the voting, but more help would not hurt. If you [...]

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Gary Vaynerchuk Crush It! Book Signing

November 24, 2009 Events

Social media guru Gary Vaynerchuk is coming to St. Louis on his book tour for his new release entitled Crush It! on December 17th. The tour is sponsered by Cost Plus World Market, so the signing will take place at their Brentwood location. (Specifics are on our calendar.) What’s the book about? This, according to [...]

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McEagle Stops Using Social Media To Promote Northside Development

November 23, 2009 Opinion

In a post here on July 2, 2009, I applauded Paul McKee, his company McEagle Development and their Northside project for embracing new media in their attempt to explain their ambitious revitalization project of St. Louis’ north side – called Northside. They had just put up a website, made some a Youtube videos and even [...]

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Tweetsgiving 2009 is Tomorrow Night #TweetsGiving.STL

November 23, 2009 Events

Tweetsgiving 2009 is tomorrow night at the Schlafly Bottleworks in Maplewood. Come out and support a good cause while enjoying some good food and drink with some of your fellow local Tweeps. If this is the first you are hearing of this, please check out our previous post on the event, which includes all the [...]

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Google News Now Optimized For Mobile Phones

November 21, 2009 News

Earlier in the week Google announced a new Google News offering for iPhone, Android, and Palm Pre users. Owners of these phones join users of Blackberry, Windows Mobile, and S60 phones that already have a mobile-optimized version of Google News. Google claims “This new version provides the same richness and personalization on your phone as [...]

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Kurt Greenbaum Attempts to Explain Away His Snitchery

November 20, 2009 Opinion

In a long post reflecting on his starring role in the now -familiar comment scandal at STLtoday.com, online editor Kurt Greenbaum attempted to explain his position on the matter, defending why he took action against a vulgar commenter on the Post’s message boards that ultimately led to the commenter resigning from his job because he [...]

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Found Friday – The #STL Social Media & Tech Weekly Roundup

November 20, 2009 Events

EDITOR’S NOTE: Each week we compile a list of events, specials, gossip, cool things, etc. that we found online during the previous week, had not mentioned yet, and wanted to make sure you did not miss! This week’s list: – The Show-Me Institute will be hosting a blog conference tomorrow. – Gary Vaynerchuk in St. [...]

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The Social Media Club St Louis Risetothetop Event

November 20, 2009 Events

In case you were not able to attend, here’s a look back at last night’s Social Media Club Event at the Moulin. If you want to see more, check out the club’s Facebook Fan Page.

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MarketSTL Conference – Internet Marketing for Small Business

November 19, 2009 Events

Saint Louis business owners will once again get the opportunity to hear from some of the area’s top Internet Marketing, Advertising and Social Media gurus at the next Market Saint Louis conference. The conference, set for April 1 (no foolin’!) is a one-day event featuring local and national speakers in various Internet-related industries. Will Hanke, [...]

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Twitter Lists Can Now Have a Description

November 18, 2009 News

Twitter recently launched it’s new Lists feature, and it has quickly become a popular and useful feature. If there was one glaring thing missing from this feature, it would have to be the ability to give a list a description. That is being taken care of by Twitter in a rollout of improvements to Lists. [...]

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Twitter Has a Planned Outtage Tonight

November 17, 2009 News

Twitter is to be ‘maintained’ this evening (technically tomorrow morning for us), and it likely will be down or out intermittently for a while between the hours of 1am and 3am. So says the Twitter blog. Just wanted you to be aware.

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The Show Me Institute is Hosting a Blogging Seminar This Saturday (new event)

November 17, 2009 Events

The Show-Me Institute will be hosting a blogosphere event on Nov. 21 for established bloggers, as well as new and prospective bloggers. There will be training, panel discussions, and a panel presentation from the the Motorhome Diaries folks! It’s free, and they promise it will be a lot of fun. You do need to RSVP [...]

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