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May 15, 2008
Tweeting Tenaciously on Twitter
Been going kinda crazy since I rediscovered Twitter. Here's a sampling of my tweets from the last couple of days:
-Bob

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- Derek Sivers of CD Baby is my guest tonight on a free conference call. Should be a good one.
- StickersAndMore.com is giving away cool music merch packages at the June Bootcamp. Awesome! www.IndieBuzzBootcamp.com
- "People do business with people they know and like." From "Never Eat Alone" by Keith Ferrazzi, www.tinyurl.com/5u434q - great advice!
- Amazon just announced a new MP3 Clips Widget. Check out www.tinyurl.com/597uot
- Attended the St. Louis Publishers Assoc meeting tonight. David Strom talked about blogging basics and Web 2.0 101. Or is it Web 101 2.0?
- Just finished editing the transcript for a college campus music gig booking audio for indie musicians. Great info. Stay tuned.
- 5 people have signed up for my LA music "news hooks & story ideas" workshop. I just announced it yesterday! Details: www.tinyurl.com/2aax4s
- Question: What have you done for your fans today?
- @innergypsy has a great USP: "acoustic world beat pop music with a gypsy soul" - nice!
- Just blogged about my new insight on Twitter. Now I'm Twittering about my blog ... about Twitter. Hmm ...
- Listening to Norma MacDonald, a singer we met in Halifax last year. This girl is good! Check out www.myspace.com/normamacdonald
- Just got back from nametag guy Scott Ginsberg's after prepping for our Buzz & WOMM class at Pub U in LA May 29 - www.tinyurl.com/6mkvj6
- Thanks to @jmoonah for the "These Brands Build Community" article link. Great lessons for indie artists. www.tinyurl.com/6mgshf
- We met Ziggy cartoonist Tom Wilson Jr a couple months ago. Just posted the pic of @Pooki and me with him: www.tinyurl.com/65vx9l - way cool
-Bob

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