Tailoring Your Blog To Your Readers
Ever stop to think about who is reading your blog? No one knows your readers better than you, so what are you doing about it? Your blog should really evolve right along side you. A few things to...
View ArticleWordPress As a CMS
Rather than reinvent the wheel here I’m going to share some articles I both agree with and have found helpful in the past. WordPress is extremely powerful in its simplicity but is made more powerful by...
View ArticleGet More ReTweets Out Of Your ReTweet Button
Most of the time when talking about RTs, we discuss the best times to post to Twitter and the number of characters you should be using and so on and so forth. But let’s step back a second and talk...
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Comparing Twitter Retweet Data Services
I mainly use BackTweets but am always looking for better solutions. I actually switched from TweetMeme to BackTweets once I learned about BackTweet’s advanced functionality and Google Analytics...
View ArticleChristmas Survival Guide for Twitter
So you would like to celebrate Christmas and the holidays on Twitter? Well so do I so I’m putting together this little post to gather my thoughts. Here are some things you can do to help get into the...
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9 Free Ning Alternatives And Some Open Source Solutions
Many people have started communities on the popular network creation site Ning since its inception. On April 15th they announced they would no longer offer their free services. Realize this isn’t the...
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Socialize Goes 1.0
It has been a long time since I last updated the socialize plugin. I made small updates here and there to fix some of the more common problems people were having but I never got around to making all...
View ArticlePosting Attractive Blog Posts – Back To Basics
Most bloggers stick to paragraphs and an image or two when writing new posts. This is fine for some however you may want to broaden your horizons and learn more about the potential WordPress and its...
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Embracing Social Tools
My mother shared the following article with me in an email: Professionalism “Less than Desired” in Entry-Level Employees – SURVEY RESULTS. I was surprised by some of the results and disagree with a few...
View ArticleWhich Bookmarking & Sharing Buttons Should I Display On My Site
As search results give more weight to social factors it’s more important than ever to make your content easy to share on the internet. A recent study by ShareThis in cooperation with Starcom MediaVest...
View ArticleNew To Twitter? Learn Who To Follow
My girlfriend just joined Twitter and I find myself trying to explain how to get Twitter followers. When I joined Twitter a few years ago everybody followed pretty much everyone who followed them....
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Automating The Internet With ifttt
A relatively new site has peaked my interest called ifttt (If This Than That). I never really fully embraced a social media automation tool until now. What really sets this site apart from the rest is...
View ArticleGetting Ready For Social Media in 2012
I attended an AMA event a few weeks ago where Tomeeka Farrington spoke about The Future of Social Media. As we continue to scratch the surface of how the internet can enable us to connect and share...
View ArticleHow To Make Social Sharing Buttons Display Faster and Measure Their...
As a follow up to “Which Bookmarking & Sharing Buttons Should I Display On My Site“, I wanted to talk a bit about how to make those buttons display faster and how to measure their effectiveness....
View ArticleGetting The Most Out Of Your RSS Reader: Full Posts Instead Of Summaries
Keeping up with all of your favorite blogs and news sites can be time-consuming. There are new blogs with amazing content popping up every day and it can get very hard to keep track of them all. Most...
View ArticleGetting The Most Out Of Your RSS Reader: Finding The Most Relevant Content
As I explained in my last post, I’ve got about an hour before I get to work where I need to consume as much content as possible. Ideally I would like to get to the good stuff as quick as I can. I’m...
View ArticleMaking Your Website Social
This post was written by Jon Bishop and Zac Champigny (Website, LinkedIn, Twitter). Zac is an Online Marketing Strategist with several years of experience working with online technologies. He recently...
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How I Get The Most Out Of TweetDeck
As soon as the first Twitter clients allowed for multiple column views I was on board. I bounced between Seesmic, TweetDeck and HootSuite but always came back to TweetDeck. So while these clients can...
View ArticleDid WordPress Do That?
WordPress is tremendously powerful, mostly because of its enthusiastic community. I’m constantly surprised at how many people still think WordPress is just for blogging. Check out this pie chart that...
View ArticleThe Opportunities With User-Generated Content
It’s pretty hard these days to put together a digital marketing campaign without a user-generated content (UGC) layer built-in. At the very least we ask our users to share offers with their friends on...
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