Submitted by Jeffisageek
from Google Reader:
WordPress, the blogging platform we all know and love is used by almost everyone from main stream media such as CNN, MTV to universities such as Arkansas at Little Rock to celebrities such as Perez Hilton. Wordpress is also used by leading tech blogs such as Mashable, TechCrunch and Gigaom . Installing a self-hosted version (Read More)
Submitted by Sschablow:
What if this is as good as it gets? What if there is no recovery? What if the new economy is ours to invent? ...rather than planning how to get through tough times until the status quo ante returns, what about planning as if the status quo ante is gone forever, that the new reality will be nothing like the old, and that th (Read More)
Web Strategy Workshop
One of the first things to look at when looking at your web analytics are bounce rates. Bounce rates tell you how many people landed on your website and left without looking at any other of your site’s pages.Here Avinash Kaushik talks about Bounce Rate, saying “If you could only choose one metric to look at, Bou (Read More)
: Amazing new feature there Jason! It can help me follow socialmedian even when I am pretty busy...at lease I can get a quick glance of what is going on! Keep up the good work!
Delicious/Adgenius
For marketers, Web 2.0 offers a remarkable new opportunity to engage consumers.If only they knew how to do it.That's where this article aims to help. We interviewed more than 30 executives and managers in both large and small organizations that are at the forefront of experimenting with Web 2.0 tools. From those conversatio (Read More)
Broadcasting Brain
There are benefits to getting more Twitter followers, so with that thought in mind, I’m going to tell you about the things that will help you build your own Twitter following. I’ll tell you about some things that seem to work and some that don’t work: short term or long term.Let me be perfectly clear: I am not writing this (Read More)
: This is a good article because it is not the typical approach to how to use Twitter and get followers. This article highlights good and not so good behaviors that will impact whether people decide to follow you or not.
: The way I see it, you need to be niched on Twitter, kinda. To make a name for yourself. Especially when there are no "rooms" in Twitter (?). If you use Twitter for daily life snippets and lifestreaming, I don't know if aiming for more followers would matter at all. And I can't see why my tweets would be of interest to someone else either :)
Submitted by Solacetech:
Soon, anyone with a Facebook account will soon be able to use it as login for micro-blogging service Twitter, we've learned.That's because Twitter is at this very moment working on an integration with Facebook Connect -- the service that allows Facebook members to login to third-party Web sites using their Facebook account. (Read More)
: Serious? Ok, so combine that with the fact that Google just announced Twitter is coming to Google Connect. Does that mean you can use that as a workaround to login to Google Connect using your Facebook account??? :)
Submitted by Magitam
from Google Reader:
As the cable industry ramps up its migration to digital TV, confusion mounts with some cable customers seeing basic cable channels disappear from their analog packages. (Read More)
: I expected some sleight-of-hand from cable operators during the DTV transition. Consumer groups and regulators need to keep watching the cable franchises, to make sure customers get the same or better services during and after the transition.
: I am looking forward to this as RCN is adding a ton more HD channels and the first SD converter box is free with more at 4 bucks/month...so not as bad as $7 for time warner the author cites
Submitted by Pamelaweir:
What is Tweetsgiving?Tweetsgiving is a Twitter celebration of gratitude and giving created by Epic Change, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. The project aims to demonstrate the power of the social web by raising $10,000 in 48 hours to build a classroom in Tanzania.TweetsGiving will be held from Tuesday, 11.25.08 (12pm EST (Read More)
Submitted by Fruchter
from Google Reader:
For almost the past week Hugh MacLeod has been posting some of his best cartoons drawn on the back of business cards that I think he has drawn for some time. They are all about poking fun at the idea of there being some sort of profession called social media specialists; and I have been looking forward to every new post of (Read More)
Submitted by Jasongoldberg:
9 months ago most of us hadn't even heard of the guy. But today he's breaking tech news like the best of them. Active on FriendFeed. And, already the most popular non-employee Newsmaker on socialmedian.
http://www.socialmedian.com/users?s=popular . (Read More)
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Submitted by Sschablow:
If you can recall the year that President John Kennedy delivered his famous Berlin Wall speech, you can probably rack up serious points in a new Facebook video trivia game created by NBC News.The game, dubbed “What’s Your iCue?” challenges players to answer multiple-choice questions based on short videos of historic and cur (Read More)