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		<title>Why do I LOVE Twitter?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 19:32:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[3 Days ago I asked this question on Twitter: Name 1 reason you love Twitter and 1 tool that you use to &#8220;Tweet&#8221; the most. Here is my answer: Here are the first 50 answers (Replies or Direct Messages) from my friends on Twitter: What is Twitter? Find out here! Follow me on Twitter here! [...]]]></description>
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<p>3 Days ago I asked this question on <a href="http://twitter.com/guruofsales" target="_blank">Twitter</a>: Name 1 reason you love <a href="http://twitter.com/guruofsales" target="_blank">Twitter</a> and 1 tool that you use to &#8220;Tweet&#8221; the most.<br />
Here is my answer:</p>
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<p>Here are the first 50 answers (Replies or Direct Messages) from my friends on <a href="http://twitter.com/guruofsales" target="_blank">Twitter</a>:</p>
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What is Twitter? <a href="http://www.guruofsales.com/general/73/follow-me-on-twitter" target="_blank">Find out here!</a></p>
<p><img style="max-width: 800px;" src="http://guruofsales.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/twitter2.jpg" alt="" width="541" height="362" /></p>
<p>Follow me on <a href="http://twitter.com/guruofsales" target="_blank">Twitter here!</a></p>
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<p>Twitter is a personal friendly tool used to network socialize and most importantly staying up to date on what&#8217;s going on in the world.</p>
<p>Best answer that made me laugh was <a href="http://twitter.com/netik" target="_blank">@netik</a> answer, we all know that you work there John, so thanks for participating <img src='http://www.guruofsales.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>All the other answers are great, I received almost 100 replies with only one of them asking if they can say why they hated twitter. Well, as any person would, I was a bit skeptical too when I first started using Twitter. But that&#8217;s another story in the making and will be shared with you all soon.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t forget to comment on this post of what you think of the answers and of Twitter in general.</p>
<p>Thank you to everyone that replied or DM&#8217;ed me back and if you are looking to learn more about Twitter and beyond, I have just finished a 5 hours session to be included in <a href="http://www.guruofsales.com/general/launch-notes/397/first-official-guru-of-sales-online-school-announcement" target="_blank">the free online school</a> starting November 1st, so <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/guruofsales" target="_blank">keep updated</a> and sign up when the doors opens soon <img src='http://www.guruofsales.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </div>
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		<title>Blog Action Day lives on (Part 2 of 2)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just when you think it&#8217;s over&#8230;Well it&#8217;s not!The problem still exists!As I promised, I will continue helping on a daily basis, but for this blog, here is the wrap up: 49 comments from other bloggers who cares.Click here to view the comments left by them.Here are the links to their blogs that I encourage everyone [...]]]></description>
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<p>Just when you think it&#8217;s over&#8230;<br />Well it&#8217;s not!<br />The problem still exists!<br />As I promised, I will continue helping on a daily basis, but for this blog, here is the wrap up:</p>
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<div align="left">49 comments from other bloggers who cares.<br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.guruofsales.com/general/427/fight-poverty-its-blog-action-day-today#comments">Click here</a> to view the comments left by them.<br />Here are the links to their blogs that I encourage everyone to visit* and spend some time to read:<br /><small></small><small>(* Please Note: All the links below opens in the same window, after you visit and read the link, and need to read more, just come back to this page by hitting your browser&#8217;s back button)</small>
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<li><a href="http://haiku-poems-blog.blogspot.com/" rel="external nofollow">kouji haiku</a></li>
<li><a href="http://kivab4b.org/" rel="external nofollow">KivaB4B Team</a></li>
<li><a href="http://b4bcommunity.org/2008/08/the-kiva-affiliate-program-hel.html" rel="nofollow">http://b4bcommunity.org/2008/08/the-kiva-affiliate-program-hel.html</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.julian1st.wordpress.com/" rel="external nofollow">Julian Ayrs</a></li>
<li><a href="http://sisterlysavings.net/" rel="external nofollow">jenniefr</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.cancuncanuck.com/" rel="external nofollow">CancunCanuck</a></li>
<li><a href="http://blog.piajanebijkerk.com/" rel="external nofollow">Pia</a></li>
<li><a href="http://blahblohblog.wordpress.com/" rel="external nofollow">YingYang</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.itsallaboutyoga.com/" rel="external nofollow">Diane Cesa</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ieplexus.com/blog" rel="external nofollow">Kris</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.divamarketingblog.com/" rel="external nofollow">Toby</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.winningtheweb.com/" rel="external nofollow">Gyutae Park</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.peacecorps.zzilch.com/" rel="external nofollow">Thryn</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.fudgegraphics.com/" rel="external nofollow">Franz Jeitz</a></li>
<li><a href="http://neworleanscitybusiness.wordpress.com/" rel="external nofollow">Deon Roberts</a></li>
<li><a href="http://neworleanscitybusiness.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow">http://neworleanscitybusiness.wordpress.com/</a></li>
<li><a href="http://news.tonic.com/" rel="external nofollow">Dan</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.wildapricot.com/blogs/newsblog/default.aspx" rel="external nofollow">rjleaman</a></li>
<li><a href="http://anewmillennium.blogspot.com/" rel="external nofollow">Brian Dowling</a></li>
<li><a href="http://unitedwaycapitalarea.blogspot.com/" rel="external nofollow">Armando Rayo</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.musingsofanightowl.blogspot.com/" rel="external nofollow">Courtney</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.oliveaux.blogspot.com/" rel="external nofollow">Oliveaux</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.baileygardiner.com/" rel="external nofollow">Indra Gardiner</a></li>
<li><a href="http://faithandaids.wordpress.com/" rel="external nofollow">h.e.g.</a></li>
<li><a href="http://everydaygyaan.blogspot.com/" rel="external nofollow">Corinne Rodrigues</a></li>
<li><a href="http://blogtipz.com/" rel="external nofollow">Kevin (Blog Tipz)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://tuwloh.blogspot.com/" rel="external nofollow">day&#8230;</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogtogreat.com/" rel="external nofollow">rob, BtG</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.responsiblechina.com/" rel="external nofollow">Erica Schlaikjer</a></li>
<li><a href="http://responsiblechina.com/2008/10/07/the-responsiblechina-show-courtney-mccolgan-and-casey-wilson-wokaiorg/" rel="nofollow">http://responsiblechina.com/2008/10/07/the-responsiblechina-show-courtney-mccolgan-and-casey-wilson-wokaiorg/</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.scottpenton.com/" rel="external nofollow">scottpenton</a></li>
<li><a href="http://shaynepacker.com/" rel="external nofollow">Shayne Packer</a></li>
<li><a href="http://hummingbird604.com/" rel="external nofollow">Raul</a></li>
<li><a href="http://howtomakeadifferencenow.blogspot.com/" rel="external nofollow">Meg</a></li>
<li><a href="http://howtomakeadifferencenow.blogspot.com/2008/09/shame-on-you-dr-jack-phillips-give-us.html" rel="nofollow">http://howtomakeadifferencenow.blogspot.com/2008/09/shame-on-you-dr-jack-phillips-give-us.html</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.crisscrossed.net/" rel="external nofollow">Christian</a></li>
<li><a href="http://lifestyleproject.wordpress.com/" rel="external nofollow">Chris @ Lifestyle Project</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.nickanstead.com/blog" rel="external nofollow">Nick Anstead</a></li>
<li><a href="http://creativeenterprise.blogspot.com/" rel="external nofollow">Charlotte Carey</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.carpetology.blogspot.com/" rel="external nofollow">Elizabeth</a></li>
<li><a href="http://barrywallace.wordpress.com/" rel="external nofollow">Barry Wallace</a></li>
<li><a href="http://barrywallace.wordpress.com/2008/10/15/blog-action-day-2008-word-vs-deed/" rel="nofollow">Blog Action Day 2008: Word vs. Deed</a></li>
<li><a href="http://fatherblogger.com/" rel="external nofollow">Angel Cuala</a></li>
<li><a href="http://fatherblogger.com/2008/10/15/family-against-poverty-blog-action-day-2008/" rel="nofollow">Family against Poverty: Blog Action Day 2008</a></li>
<li><a href="http://blog.betterworld.com/" rel="external nofollow">Jack</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.workingfilms.org/" rel="external nofollow">Working Films</a></li>
<li><a href="http://notesfromthefrugaltrenches.com/" rel="external nofollow">Frugal Trenches</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.linuxloop.com/news" rel="external nofollow">InTheLoop</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.octwelve.com/" rel="external nofollow">Luc</a></li>
<li><a href="http://tutormentor.blogspot.com/" rel="external nofollow">Dan Bassill</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.mobilemammoth.com/" rel="external nofollow">MobileFreak</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.mobilemammoth.com/mobile-websites/mobile-web-reducing-poverty-blog-action-day-2008" rel="nofollow">http://www.mobilemammoth.com/mobile-websites/mobile-web-reducing-poverty-blog-action-day-2008</a></li>
<li><a href="http://aboutnewmedia.com/" rel="external nofollow">Guinevere</a></li>
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<p>The reason that there is 53 links is that some bloggers left the specific link to their posts about the issue and I included it under each one of them.</p>
<p>I hope that I delivered the message clearly! From this point on, I hope that everyone else will do something to help <img src='http://www.guruofsales.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Note: All income and money raised from this blog from October 15th until the 19th, will go into 2 of the organizations mentioned at the blog action day home page as donations. Thanks to all that helped. <img src='http://www.guruofsales.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </div>
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<li> To continue to be; persist: <i>old customs that still exist in rural areas.</i></li>
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		<title>Blog Action Day lives on (Part 1 of 2)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I continue my effort towards this critical issue (Poverty) and as I mentioned in this post that this effort should be ongoing and not just for one day, also as I would like to bring up the point of blogging and how powerful it is bringing people together world wide. I started something wild, [...]]]></description>
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<div>As I continue my effort towards this critical issue (Poverty) and as I mentioned in <a href="http://www.guruofsales.com/general/427/fight-poverty-its-blog-action-day-today" target="_blank">this post</a> that this effort should be ongoing and not just for one day, also as I would like to bring up the point of blogging and how powerful it is bringing people together world wide.</p>
<p>I started something wild, and it took me about 14 hours of reading to finish it (almost).</p>
<p>I personally went to every blog that was picked up on the blog action day home page and read every single post by all the bloggers from around the world, aside from the amount of info that I learned within the 14 hours of reading (Thanks to all), it came to my mind that blogging is not just about writing (Although it is the biggest part of it), but also it&#8217;s about connecting people, I have seen personal blogs, business blogs, romance blogs, religion blogs, health blogs (And the list goes on&#8230;), all sharing the same call against poverty which was the topic of the 2008 blog action day. Some bloggers actually did the same thing I did, which is connecting, how? By commenting on other blogs.</p>
<p>Whether you are a reader, blogger or just a surfer, you can raise your voice and be heard simply by commenting on other blogs. And that&#8217;s what I did!</p>
<p>I commented on over 150 blog posts that I read throughout the last 48 hours commending everyone on their posts (I specially liked the ones with photos &#8220;Photo blogging&#8221;) and asked them all to come and read <a href="http://www.guruofsales.com/general/427/fight-poverty-its-blog-action-day-today" target="_blank">the article that I wrote</a> and let me know what they thought about my contribution to solve the issue.</p>
<p>I also promised them that I will encourage my readers to visit their blogs and read their opinions as well. I would call this &#8220;Social Blogging&#8221; which is simply getting every one involved in action.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll go through commenting and blogging as a social networking, opinion sharing tool more in <a href="http://www.guruofsales.com/index.php?s=online+school&amp;x=0&amp;y=0" target="_blank">my upcoming online training school</a> that I&#8217;ve announced earlier this month.</p>
<p>The point of this post is that every time I have received a comment back from another blogger, I knew they cared about the issue, that does not mean that everyone else didn&#8217;t care, I understand that sometime people get sidetracked by life, but the people who commented on the article (44 comments up to this point) did a lot to share to solve the problem, even if they didn&#8217;t know it, they did put the effort of just sharing to raise the issue higher into the open field of blogging.</p>
<p>And that&#8217;s another way of solving any problem, we see it every day, whether on a newspaper site, on a political forum, or on any blog of any kind. And I will do my part and share the love with you from everyone that commented on this article and a link to their blogs in the second part of this article and I really hope that you will take a minute for each blog to read their opinion. And don&#8217;t forget to comment <img src='http://www.guruofsales.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>I will go back to my normal blogging, but in my life, this issue along with a lot more issues (Like my involvement with <a href="http://www.one.org" target="_blank">ONE.org</a>) which was the main reason for me to start blogging, will continue on a daily basis. And I will also share my knowledge with everyone on <a href="http://www.guruofsales.com/general/launch-notes/397/first-official-guru-of-sales-online-school-announcement" target="_blank">the online school that will start on November 1st 2008 for free!</a> (Again this is not all about money or profit, but it&#8217;s to share the good and feel the better).</p>
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