Author Archives: Vidar 'blacktar' Andersen

About Vidar 'blacktar' Andersen

Entrepreneur, Bootstrapper, Norwegian Legal Alien in CGN, Co-Founder of Gauss - The People Magnet: http://getGauss.com Plone & more in the past. Let's talk! +1 (408) 533-8042

- How to Use Social Media Sanely [BLOG]

Dear friends and followers, Tara Sophia Mohr (@tarasophia) from Wise Living recently wrote a guest post with 10 social media commandments over at Productive Flourishing that you might find interesting. From the post: We—the bloggers, blog readers, twitterers, people who … Continue reading

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- Top 10 Social Media Blogs of 2011 [AWARDS, BLOG]

Dear friends and followers, socialmediaexaminer.com recently published a Top 10 list of the social media blogs you should be reading in 2011. What do you think? Did they miss your favorite blog? Do you prefer other blogs on the subject? … Continue reading

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Social Media Monitoring [GERMAN, BLOG]

Dear friends and followers, if you are interested in social media monitoring in Germany, you might want to check out Stefanie Aßmann‘s (@miss_assmann) German blog on the subject: Here’s an excerpt from a recent post: Kostenlose Tools sind schön, für … Continue reading

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German Facebook User Data, 31.01.2011 [STATS]

Dear friends and followers, according to facebookmarketing.de there are 15.096.500 active German Facebook users as of 31.01.2011. Interestingly enough, Dusseldorf seems to have more active users than Cologne, although Cologne has almost twice the population. Do you have any idea … Continue reading

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- SocialBakers: The Heart of Facebook Statistics [BLOG]

Dear friends and followers, if you are interested in Facebook statistics, you might find socialbakers.com a good resource for the latest metrics and news: Screenshot.

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An Overview of the Social Media Studies in 2010 [GERMAN]

Dear friends and followers, you might find this massive overview from ikosom.de of the 2010 German and international social media studies of interest. Hier ein Überblick über die wichtigsten Social Media Studien des Jahres 2010 aus dem Bereichen: Demographie Infrastruktur … Continue reading

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Announcing the Social Media Lunch Cologne “Winter Evening Special” [26.01.2011 @ Lorbass]

Dear friends, fans, acolytes, skeptics, pros and newbies of Social Media, on the 26th of January, at 2000 hrs CET it’s that time again to meet, share and learn! This time around we’re meeting in the evening over a cup of … Continue reading

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Season Greetings & A Happy New Year!

Dear friends and followers, this is Vidar (@blacktar) writing to wish you all a wonderful holiday season and a happy new year! We are going to kick off the new year with a winter fireplace special in the evening on … Continue reading

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The Real Life Social Network v2 [PRESENTATION]

Dear friends and followers, you might find this presentation by Paul Adams (@Padday) on real life social networks versus online social networks of interest. In other news, Paul Adams recently transfered from Google to Facebook. View more documents from Paul … Continue reading

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I’m on Facebook – Now What? By Jesse Desjardins [PRESENTATION]

Dear friends and followers, you might find this great presentation on brands and social media by Jesse Desjardins (@jessedee) of interest. View more presentations from @JESSEDEE.

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