Pinterest Tip: How to to Check who is Pinning your Website Content
So you may have a website or blog and have included the Pin It button so people can post up your images and content. We have all heard examples of how much referral traffic Pinterest can drive and the site does have large amount of users in Australia. Pinterest will give you a notification every time someone repins […]
Read More | ShareKlout Update – Wikipedia now impacts your Score
Klout made a major update yesterday and released some specific notes on how the service now measures online and offline influence. After summarising these changes, there are the most important points to understand: What social networking activities impact your Klout score the most? Facebook Likes and Comments on your personal status updates (not fanpage) Twitter Retweets and […]
Read More | ShareYou can now announce your pregnancy on Facebook
Facebook have just made a tweak to their site so users can now announce their Pregnancy as a Life Event on their timeline. Previously there was an option to announce your expected child, but this option wasn’t used much and hence Facebook have seen the need to build a better alternative. To announce your pregnancy, […]
Read More | ShareGoogle Changes Favicon
Well it looks like there is a new Google Favicon icon. It now looks to be a blue icon: It seems other people have been posting this link on Twitter- http://www.google.com/images/google_favicon_128.png , possibly where the new favicon resides. Anyway here it is:
Read More | ShareLiam Walsh appointed to Australian Facebook Chief
Facebook this morning have appointed Liam Walsh as the interim chief to the Australian Facebook operation. Mr Walsh has been the Sales Director for Facebook Australia since mid 2011 and now he takes the reigns from Paul Borrud who resigned earlier in January to spend more time with his family and othert projects. Mr Walsh […]
Read More | ShareAdvertising has come to the Homepage of Facebook
It seems Facebook is pushing full steam ahead with their application and platform strategy. I have just noticed these ads on their homepage: We can see Facebook is now promoting certain apps on the homepage of their site. This is a big deal as Facebook has never done this before, and any spare space on […]
Read More | SharePinterest finally open to public, removes Registration Invitation
Pinterest has finally opened their social network to the public, removing the Invitation Registration feature previously set. For around 2 years you have had to register for an invite to the social network, which was usually approved within 2 business days or so. Considering millions of people use Pinterest on a daily basis I find […]
Read More | ShareIs Guest Blogging still worthwhile?
When I first started this blog in early 2010 – at that time guest blogging was one of my main strategies to build exposure to the site, gain new traffic, build relationships, and admittedly build relevant contextual links. I still to this day have these pages on my site inviting guest bloggers – Guest Blogging in Social […]
Read More | ShareI’m bored with Facebook but terrified of Twitter
Since acquiring a Smartphone it’s super easy to get my daily dose of social media and although Facebook has lately been a little disappointing, I ‘m still addicted. I’ve noticed though, that a lot of my friends are slowly withdrawing from their daily online status updates. Some have taken to twitter as a duck takes […]
Read More | Share6 Tips to Build Your Personal Brand on LinkedIn
In their latest earnings call, LinkedIn reported their social network has now amassed 175 million members worldwide. With such a strong business network we need to look for ways to stand out from the crowd and one aspect I find very useful with the LinkedIn site is the potential for personal branding and reputation management. […]
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