Archive for September, 2011
Delicious transferring to new owners shortly
Yahoo previously sold Delicious – their social bookmarking website to YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen at their new company AVOS – http://www.avos.com/ Current Delicious users need to agree to the new Terms of Service and transfer their bookmarks to the new site by September 23. If you use Delicious for Social Media Marketing, […]
Read More | ShareLinux turns 20 Years old
On Saturday 17th of September was the 20th Birthday for Linux kernel, where version 0.01 was released. You may not be aware but a huge amount of websites today run on a Linux operating system. In September 1991 the first Linux kernel was released to the public by Linus Torvalds. The original kernel had about […]
Read More | ShareFriday Follow – 16 September
Friday Follow time again 🙂 #fridayfollow #followfriday #FF #Twitter Our Friday Follows for this week are: @duanebrown – Duane is a freelance digital strategist, check out his website at: http://creativetraction.com/ @gatesfoundation – The Gates Foundation is Bill and Melinda Gates charity organisation. They are doing some great work and you should keep updated with their […]
Read More | ShareGoogle Plus Developer API released
Google has now released to the public their developer API for the Google Plus social network. This will allow developers to build applications on-top of the Google Plus social network and extract public user data. If you are a developer and would like to explore how to build an application, go here: https://developers.google.com/+/ If you have […]
Read More | ShareFacebook Subscriptions Button
Facebook has created a Subscriptions button, which appears underneath your profile picture when viewing your own profile. Think of the subscription button like the Twitter Follow button. You can opt-in to this service, this will let anybody (eg people who you arn’t friends with) subscribe to your updates (follow you). However that user will only be able to […]
Read More | ShareWhat is Social Media?
Over the next couple of days we are going to get back to some Social Media basics. I often receive emails from people who are starting out in social media, and don’t want to be baffled by more advanced SM topics, they want generic definitions. Many users come to this site for basic information and I want […]
Read More | ShareACCC, Small Business, Social Media
New chairman of The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, Rod Sims has admitted the organisation has not always engaged the best it could with small and medium sized businesses. Mr Sims has said the ACCC is looking to increase it’s use on Social Media platforms to connect better with the SME market. This is a […]
Read More | ShareBook Give-away on SocialMediaNews.com.au
If you are a Social Media marketer, or just interesting in promoting your own business through social networking sites – then we have a great book give-away for you today. We have 3 copies to give away, book titled: Learn Marking with Social Media in 7 days by Linda Coles. I am reading this book […]
Read More | ShareAlexa Rank under 10,000?
I was researching sites on Alexa last night, mainly looking at highly trafficked sites with an Alexa Rank under 10,000. Normally if you view a website with some traffic you will get to see the following Traffic Rank stats: – 3 Month Average – 1 Month Average – 7 Day Average If you have a […]
Read More | ShareSocial Media sharing impacts Search Ranking
Ok, so this may not be new news to you that Social Media sharing impacts how a URL ranks in search engines. I was checking my rankings in Google today and wanted to make sure I was still ranking for previous keywords I noted down. One particular keyword search I’m interested in is: Social Media […]
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