Today Mike Henry explores Facebook pages (as opposed to profiles) and how they can be use to promote their blog, business, product or profile.
Darren wrote a post recently on 12 tips for building relationships with other bloggers. They are all great tips that could be expanded into individual posts or even an entire blog, [...] [..] Read complete article
Published 24-Jun-2008 by Darren Rowse in social media Read 1 times
Over the last week I’ve been experimenting with a social messaging/micro blogging service called Plurk. Over the last week I’ve seen many comparisons between it and Twitter - but wanted to show one of the main differences that I’ve observed:
To illustrate let me show you a ‘tweet’ and a ‘plurk’ message that I posted an [...] [..] Read complete article
Published 13-Jun-2008 by Darren Rowse in social media Read 2 times
As a quick followup to my last post on my experimentation with Plurk I thought I’d do a quick analysis of the top 10 Plurk Users (as currently rated on the Interesting page). They are rated there on a basis of their ‘Karma’. There’s no explicit definition of the way that they calculate Karma except:
“Your [...] [..] Read complete article
Published 06-Jun-2008 by Darren Rowse in social media Read 2 times
If you are a FriendFeed user AND you like ProBlogger - you might want to check out a greasemonkey script for Firefox users that Duncan created that puts a ProBlogger tab to the top right hand corner of your FriendFeed page.
It means you can view ProBlogger from within FriendFeed - like this (click to enlarge):
He’s [...] [..] Read complete article
Published 06-Jun-2008 by Darren Rowse in social media Read 3 times
Just a very quick post to let readers know that I’m playing with Plurk (another micro blogging/life streaming tool that is a little like Twitter).
At first I only intended to grab my names (problogger and darrenrowse) and use them as placeholders but I’m now starting to find it a really interesting medium. It takes the [...] [..] Read complete article
Published 05-Jun-2008 by Darren Rowse in social media Read 3 times
Every time I?ve written about Twitter (or FriendFeed or most other social media) I see comments left saying ?Twitter is a waste of time?.
My response is simple - yes it is.
Twitter is a waste of time?. unless you use it in a way that isn?t.
Twitter can be a waste of time just like blogging can [...] [..] Read complete article
Published 05-Jun-2008 by Darren Rowse in social media Read 1 times
Most regular readers of ProBlogger will know that I’ve been playing quite heavily with Twitter over the last few months. I’ve found it to be a very fruitful exercise.
Over the last month or two FriendFeed has been another tool that many bloggers are also playing with. I’ve dabbled with it (my FriendFeed Account is here) [...] [..] Read complete article
Published 24-May-2008 by Darren Rowse in social media Read 4 times
Bruce Simmons asks:
Social Network sites like Digg and StumbleUpon and what not seem to have unspoken rules about who can promote a blog. What I mean to say or ask is: OK, with Digg, one cannot submit their own blog. But Twitter, you can chest thump all day long.
Do have a list of what sites [...] [..] Read complete article
Published 19-May-2008 by Daniel Scocco in social media Read 7 times
Last week in my 5 Tips to Grow Your Twitter Presence post John suggested that an additional strategy to grow your follower numbers in Twitter is to target bigger Twitter users for conversation.
The logic behind this is that if you can get them to reply to you and even have a multiple part conversation with [...] [..] Read complete article
Published 11-May-2008 by Darren Rowse in social media Read 4 times
Yesterday I wrote 5 tips to help increase your follower numbers on Twitter. Thanks to everyone for your comments and suggestions on the topic.
As I read over the comments I realized that there were a few more things that I’d been learning on how to use Twitter that might be worth sharing. So over the [...] [..] Read complete article
Published 08-May-2008 by Darren Rowse in social media Read 2 times
I don’t do many guest posts on other people’s blogs these days but this week I was asked to do one that I couldn’t resist. Kristen from Social Media Mom asked me to write something on Social Media and being a Dad.
My first thought was that it was all too hard - but I decided [...] [..] Read complete article
Published 23-Apr-2008 by Darren Rowse in social media Read 3 times
This is a guest post on targeting Social Media Sites is from Steven Snell. Steven writes about social media marketing at Traffikd.
Most bloggers recognize the incredible potential that exists with social media marketing. Many want to maximize the traffic they receive from social media, so they add a Digg button to their posts or sign [...] [..] Read complete article
Published 07-Apr-2008 by Darren Rowse in social media Read 5 times
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