Submitted by Mahendra
from Google Reader:
Everyone is talking about the “real-time web”. That’s usually a pretty strong indication of a buzzword that will soon mean very little. Some would argue that it already doesn’t mean much. And yet, as Paul Graham’s web 2.0 article showed, it is possible to extract value even out of apparently meaningless buzzwords. “Real-tim (Read More)
louisgray-com
Operating a blog focused on early adopters means being willing to adapt as technology and the world around us evolves. One of the more-recent additions to the blog was my embedding of buttons from TweetMeme, to show how often my posts were being linked to on Twitter, and making it easier for others to retweet these items, e (Read More)
Web Strategy by Jeremiah
Top Bloggers Spend Less Time BloggingI’ve noticed a gradual change in what we know as blogs when Scoble and Shel wrote the book on Naked Conversations. Both of them are now focused on micromedia: Shel has an upcoming book on Twitterville, and Scoble spends more time promoting Friendfeed than his own blog. Secondly, I just (Read More)
: Life-streams might be the new journal-style blog. But people who are marketing themselves as consultants or authors still need a more robust blog with posts that read like articles. Once they get (internet) famous, rich, or lazy, then the life-stream only presence can suffice.
FriendFeed API
Your action plan in setting up your Social Media Marketing strategy focuses on the 5 key components:
1. Central Hub Salesfunnel
2. Sales Funnel Process
3. Content Syndication Network
4. Social Networks
5. Search Engine Visibility. (Read More)
Belongs to the News Networks :
none (yet) -- click "share" to share with a network.
: Hi 5 folks - its a lot harder than it should be? - just coming up with a decent topic that other folks would want to share in-turn helping you to get your content seen by many and just posting one post to any of the social bookmarking sites seem to get buried very quickly you just need to lock on to any of these sites to see the endless streams of new posts getting knocked down the long lists of new threads being posted on a daily basis - so in todays networking environment you need to tackle your exposure tactics more like a science than just being friendly simply because there are so many competing for those eyeballs in the first place - first places lol
: Good information that everyone from the newbie to the most experienced can benefit from. Blogging is hard work, with persistence, duplicable systems and the right information for accessing good traffic is the ideal situation for attracting people through your sales funnel/tunnel.
louisgray.com
The promise of Twitter's advanced search capability is tremendous - letting you dice your queries by the sender and recipient, and even limiting the date range for said tweets, the location, hashtags or even emoticons. And at one time, it was a valuable resource. Now, depending on which account you're viewing, the data set (Read More)
chrisbrogan.com
“With our award-winning process designed to meet your business needs, we feel confident that you’ll love our forward-thinking solution.” What? Shut up! Just stop it. I don’t know why we have to revisit the lesson, but let’s do it, just to be clear: everything you know about a nice dinner party applies to all business commun (Read More)
Submitted by Panda88:
Anyone out there who's trying to get retweeted knows that it's harder than you think - sometimes the tweets you most expect will get retweeted don't, and you're left asking yourself, "What's so great about that guy's tweets that they get retweeted all the time, but mine never do?"There are three factors that I think determi (Read More)
: I am just starting on Twitter - and mostly because it's apparent that I'm the only person in the world who isn't Tweeting! :-) I haven't run into the why-am-I-not-being-retweeted question yet, but I'm sure that I will so thanks for your timely and helpful article. I will refer to it when the time comes.
: These are great tips. I also think it is good to have followers that are interested in your subject. Again, small is better if it is focused and targeted.
Submitted by Biocutisblog
from Digg:
Most of us have NO IDEA about what’s in the beauty and skin care product we used this morning. We’re either uninformed or unconcerned with safety and often believe that ‘they’ are watching out for us. (Read More)
: Thank you for this article. There are so many products that are harmful to us and many people just focus on the products they ingest. I always use skin products that are 100% natural and avoid harmful chemicals. The most important screening I do is looking for that alcohol content in these products that dry up your skin and hair. Our skin is the largest organ of our body and people forget to protect it. I hope many people will read this and use your information for future purchasing decisions. Even if it costs a little more money, your body's health is worth it.
: Very good list of things to avoid putting on our skin. Anti-aging products for our skin and looking for ageless tips is really summed up in something else you've said - something like, the best supplements for anti-aging aren't supplements at all. They are organic and come from the ground, like berries!
: Oh my goodness. You are making me read every label! Just kidding...I knew we were getting a lot of trash, but not this much. This is especially bad for skin on those of us who are a little older. Our skin needs less of poisons and more of nutrients.
Web Strategy by Jeremiah
Expect the Groundswell to continue, in which people connect to each other –rather than institutions. Consumer adoption of social networks is increasing a rapid pace, brands are adopting even during a recession, so expect the space to rapidly innovate to match this trend. Clients can access this report (starting tomorrow (Read More)
Ronn's Cellular Obsession
Gmail can now open up PowerPoint presentations as well as .TIFF-formatted images that have been received as attachments in its HTML, multi-page document viewer. The service has been able to open up both .PPT-formatted presentations in its presentations viewer since mid-2007. Under the new system, however, the presentations (Read More)
louisgray-com
As has been widely reported by now, the popular social sharing site, FriendFeed, revamped with a laser focus on realtime discussions and information discovery. As it, and the social Web in general, continues to evolve, there is always room for improvement, even when innovative companies like FriendFeed are pushing the envel (Read More)
Submitted by Mogston
from blog:
Facebook has a thing for moms.
The last two times I've attended a Facebook event - both the unveiling of its redesign and its announcement of Connect on the iPhone - Facebook employees emphasized how excited they were about the fact that their mothers had recently joined the social network... (Read More)
Submitted by Heatherrast
from Twitter:
RT @MarketingProfs: Check out the 'Marketer's version of the Urban Dictionary.' Love it: http://bit.ly/q7ii. (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
Can you believe that using social networking sites at work can increase your workplace productivity? A new study just published by Australian scientists found that taking time to visit websites of personal interest, including news sites and YouTube, provided workers a mental break that ultimately increased their ability to (Read More)