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A company's social media presence can heavily impact its reputation for better or for worse. Here's a humorous look at some corporate social media blunders to avoid.

Want to improve your fiction writing skills? Think like a PR pro. I've learned a lot about fiction from my friends in PR, and you can too.

Protecting your Tweets offers some measure of privacy, but does it defeat the purpose of using Twitter in the first place? Should you or shouldn't you protect your Tweets?

Considering making your own pet food? Daniel Stein, a pet behavior and nutrition expert and editor in chief of a popular dog website, helps you get started with home cooked pet food.

Brizzly is a new service that allows users to post to multiple Facebook and Twitter accounts, manage lists, save searches and more. The simple browser interface, with no download required, appeals to many users.

Love it or hate it, Digg is one of the best-known social content aggregation sites on the web. Should you be using Digg to promote your content? Find out here.

Twitter Lists add a new layer of interactivity to the popular microblogging service. Learn how to use Twitter Lists, how to remove yourself from a Twitter List and how Twitter Lists can help you build authentic relationships.

In Part Two, the final five Twitter challenge awards are presented to contestants who didn't win the Sweepstakes but who are nonetheless worthy of special recognition for their entries.

AC gives much deserved props to AC Twitter Challenge entrants who weren't randomly selected as sweepstakes winners, but who nonetheless deserve recognition for their contributions.

Using Twitter, but wondering how to get people to start following you? Check out this list of the best ways to gain followers on Twitter, with no shady mass following apps or spam tactics.

Politics, religion, dating, kids and marital aids, oh my! The Twitterverse is buzzing with discussion of intimate and controversial topics. When is discretion the better part of Twitter valor (Twalor)?

Politics, Twitter, and why I choose to post about my personal political views and affiliations on Twitter.

Luke plans to Tweet about Associated Content, social media, AC assignments and his own life experiences.

See who has taken the plunge and entered the AC Twitter Challenge already! If you haven't entered yet, hurry up--you can enter twice each week through Twitter and get a bonus entry with the Twitter Challenge assignment!

Users of Twitter have developed numerous terms and abbreviations specific to this microblogging service. Learn to understand and use Twitter vocabulary.

Are you considering taking the AC Twitter Challenge, but stumped on just how you "retweet" something or what a hashtag is? Here's a guide to getting started on Twitter, from account creation to building a network.

Topics covered in the AC Happy Hour on 9/15/09 included social bookmarking, Twitter, the difference between spam and networking and more.

You've probably heard of "power users" who always know what's hot in social media and whose submissions skyrocket to the top of Digg, Reddit and other sites. Learn the surprising social media strategy advocated by Digg's top user, MrBabyMan.

Learn to invest your efforts wisely by focusing on participating constructively, authentically and prolifically in one or two social media communities.