Archive for December, 2011
How to Write Popular Blog Posts
We all want more traffic to our blogs, more subscribers, more Facebook likes, bigger email lists – and so on. Getting more traffic to your blog is no easy task and many bloggers face this challenge every day – struggling to remain relevant and keeping your traffic levels. Blogging and social media go hand in […]
Read More | ShareSocial Media Credibility
How do you build your Social Media Credibility? In the social media world you need to stand out, you need to build your credibility in this space so you become a respected and trusted identity. But how can we do this? 1. Honesty Be honest with about your social media status updates. If you have […]
Read More | ShareFacebook buys Gowalla
It has been reported that Facebook has purchased Geo-loation mobile application, Gowalla. Gowalla has competed with Foursquare for several years and always been the smaller of the 2 location based social networks. Gowalla is based in Austin, Texas and has around 30 employees. It has been speculated these employees will move in Facebook’s mobile division […]
Read More | ShareGoogle Still Pushing G+ Hard
It seems Google is still pushing their social network Google Plus fairly hard in terms of self-promotion. I can now see on various Google Search sites around the world a blue bar across the top of the search homepage. This bar is pointing to the G+ site and is actually fixed, you can’t dismiss the […]
Read More | ShareNapster Finally Shuts Down
Napster was the origional Peer to Peer music software sharing platform, created by Sean Parker (who now has major stakes in Facebook, Spotify, Plaxo, and others). Napster had consistent legal issues since it’s inception, mainly Music companies prosecuting Napster for allowing the distribution of their content illegally. As a result the company has changed hands […]
Read More | ShareAds now in your Twitter Stream
You may have noticed that Twitter is now putting ads in your Twitter Stream. Specifically these are promoted tweets from companies you are not following. Here is an example of an Australian advertiser this afternoon when I logged into Twitter: You then have the option to Dismiss (remove) the ad from your stream if it […]
Read More | ShareThe Secret to Viral Content
So what is the secret to Viral Content? Well if there was one hard and fast rule, everyone would be doing it and all content on the internet would be viral – that doesn’t make much sense, and it wouldn’t last long. Firstly, we need to define exactly, What is Viral Content? Lets keep it […]
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