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May 1, 2010 Uncategorized

Welcome

My cell phone goes off indicating that I have a new DM ("Direct Message" which is posted privately) on Twitter. It says "Thanks for following. Visit my website at ____." My reaction? Thanks for the thanks, but did I really need to have my day interrupted with this?

If you are active on Twitter like I am, you will be gaining new followers and following new people all the time, sometimes to the tune of 20 to 50 or more a week. Imagine if every one of those sent me a DM? My cell phone would be going off several times a day. I already have enough interruptions!

Plus, do I need to know what their website addresses are? Chances are I've already checked out their sites when I decided whether to follow or not. And I can easily find their web addresses on their profiles if needed. Messages like this have that ever-present hard sell aroma to them.

The other type of welcome DM that is not so welcoming are the "What are you working on?" or "What can I help you with?" messages, often accompanied by their website address. These are weak attempts at conversation. Sometimes I feel spiteful and I actually respond--in a reply DM, of course--with a 140 character litany of my current projects. With rare exception, their return response is, well, no response. So what does their non-response tell me? Either they don't really care what I was working on or they really don't want to help me.

In contrast, I have received some very genuine, personal welcome DMs and those are truly welcome.

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I'm trying to come up with a idea for welcome home cake for my husband ?Any websites or ideas,holla back?

Theme is welcome backhome . i have idea what to do but i need backround. to give you a idea.

my 2 sons are in each top corner and have thought bubble coming out their mouth saying welcome home daddy. me in the bottom corner saying welcome home pappabear(everyone has nickname for him in my family)my sister in one corner saying welcome home big bro. and my mom saying welcome home jaybird.(everyone has thought bubbleof their own)but what would you say the backround would be?
i would love to read some ideas.

why don't you do a big love heart with your 2 sons at the top on either side, yourself at the bottom, your sister down one side and your mother down the other and a "welcome home" in the middle. just a thought.

Guns N' Roses - Welcome To The Jungle

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