CategorySocial Media

Last week I tweeted that I’d not checked my Google Reader account in a month. Well, it turns out that I’m not the only one. Within minutes, I started getting tweets back from others saying that they rarely check their RSS feeds any more. Instead, people were finding content from ...more

This guest post is by Matt Robison of Propdrop Web Development and Marketing. In mid-April of 2010, I officially launched Pitbulls.org, a site for Pit Bull owners to connect with other owners and read accurate training and health information about their pets. At the same time it would help curb ...more

This guest post is by Tricia Lawrence of Realbrilliant.com I’m not one of those people who relies solely on search engine optimization to get me to the top of the heap. I am paid to write blogs for clients every week, and they focus on their SEO enough for the ...more

This guest post is by Caz Makepeace of y Travel Blog. Facebook Fan pages are swiftly becoming a standard extension to blogs’ brands and messages. This is a highly effective form of engaging with your target market and building a community around your brand. If you focus on making your ...more

This is a guest post by Devesh of Blokube. What is “blogmarking”? Many of us already use and understand social media, but very few of us tap into the great and growing potential of social blogmarking sites. Blogmarking is the process of you bookmarking your blog post on a blog ...more

This guest post is by Tommy Walker, Online Marketing Strategist and owner of Tommy.ismy.name. “Build a community.” You hear it all the time. “Comment on other people’s articles, guest post, and join the conversation.” One of the problems with the way most online communications systems are set up is that ...more

This guest post is by Dan Zarella of DanZarella.com. Want to maximize sharing of your content on Facebook? Here are seven tips that are sure to help. 1. Publish on the weekend Many companies block Facebook access from the office, so sharing of stories on Facebook tends to increase over ...more

2010 will be remembered as the year that social media made a big splash in the lives of business owners. If you’re someone who runs an online business, you’ll have realized that social media has joined the ranks of SEO as a must-do activity (and, for some, has started to ...more

For most businesses, participating in social media is unchartered territory. When there are no examples to follow, the only way to learn is to experiment. Over the last 18 months, I’ve been observing what’s worked and, more importantly, what hasn’t. Here are the top five ways a business can alienate ...more