Tumblr (3.0; @yoursocialmedialink)http://www.yoursocialmedialink.com/<p><b>You’ve been directed to this site because you recently promoted or created questionable content.</b></p> <p>It probably had a headline like “How Seth Rogen Can Make You a Better Blogger” or “Eight Things You Didn’t Know About Social Media (and What To Do About It)”.</p> <p>It probably offered advice on creating supposedly “engaging” content. It may have referenced Twitter or Facebook and offered tips on “getting the most” out of them. The word “marketing” may have been used.</p> <p>Next time you’re about to promote one of these links or write such a post yourself, please reconsider.</p> <p>Ask who it benefits. Ask if it aspires to be thought-provoking, unique, entertaining. Ask if it’s newsworthy. Ask if it’s worth wondering what the person who wrote it is like in real life.</p>http://www.yoursocialmedialink.com/post/221009937http://www.yoursocialmedialink.com/post/221009937Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:02:00 -0400“Stop aiming for the middle.”http://www.yoursocialmedialink.com/post/223929738http://www.yoursocialmedialink.com/post/223929738Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:01:00 -0400<p>We will fail along the way. Not everything will be great. Not everything will be interesting. But the intent should always aspire to something more than mediocrity.</p> <p>Please take a moment to thank the person who sent you here. He or she is working hard to make the internet a better place for us all.</p>http://www.yoursocialmedialink.com/post/223932760http://www.yoursocialmedialink.com/post/223932760Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:00:00 -0400