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Building a Popular Social Media Profile: Seven Essential Characteristics

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:21:06 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Highly recommended!

Building a Popular Social Media Profile: Seven Essential Characteristics

If you’re a new or not yet established brand, how should you use social media to build a reputation for yourself?

Apart from making sure your product/website is relevant to the social media channel, it is also useful to participate in social media communities as an end-user or brand representative.

How to Build a Popular Social Media Profile: 7 Helpful Characteristics

1. Strong Profile Visibility: Developing Brand Recognition

2. Active Participation: Maintaining a Continuous Presence

3. Practice Reciprocity: Seek Win-Win Outcomes

4. Effective Communication: Conversations are Important

5. Support the Community: Putting the Collective Before Oneself

6. Provide Value Above All: Gaining Trust and Attention

7. Demonstrate Integrity

Tags: social media, blogging, blogs, howto, internet, selfdevelopment, social networking, tips, technology, branding

Productivity by Elimination

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:32:13 GMT

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Clip Source: www.skelliewag.org

Productivity by Elimination

True productivity is not about doing more in less time. It’s about doing less in less time. It’s about defining what is truly worth doing and sticking to that alone.

I’m not suggesting that you do all the below, but I’d like you to ask yourself each question and consider the pros and cons of your answer. How much time would you save? What’s the trade-off? A mental exercise rather than a prescriptive list, I want you to start thinking about where elimination fits in your blogging routine.

What if you stopped moderating comments?

What if you paid someone to moderate comments for you

What if you stopped reading feeds?

What if you mastered the art of short, polite and to the point email?

What if you checked email less?

What if you sorted email by importance?

What if you only checked stats once a week?

What if you posted less?

What if you stopped using social media?

What could you eliminate from your blogging routine?

Tags: blog, blogging, blogs, tips, productivity

7 Types of Forum Members You Should Get to Know

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 23:36:31 GMT

clipped by: sweetsfoods
clipper's remarks: Which of them are you in the social community you belongs to?

Clip Source: www.10e20.com

7 Types of Forum Members You Should Get to Know

Two weeks ago I posted about the ins and outs for forum marketing. When joining a community, especially if you plan to market to them, it is important to understand the dynamics behind a lot of the interactions.

Below are what I’ve noticed as the different types of prominent forum members.

If there is a good forum out there that you would like to use to help market your products, it’s important to try and identify these 7 types of people. See which ones might be a good fit to help you get your message out there and who wouldn’t. Investing a little bit of extra time doing this can make a huge difference.

Tags: social networking, social, social media, soc

For teens, social media is not technology, it’s just life

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:00:59 GMT

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Clip Source: ebiquity.umbc.edu

Alan Kay got it right when he said “Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.” — a quote I’d not heard until I saw it on danah boyd’s blog recently. She cited it to explain why today’s youth find it so natural to use Internet technology while their parents find it a bit strange and artificial.

“Some 93% of teens use the Internet, and more of them than ever are treating it as a venue for social interaction — a place where they can share creations, tell stories, and interact with others.

Girls continue to dominate most elements of content creation. Some 35% of all teen girls blog, compared with 20% of online boys, and 54% of wired girls post photos online compared with 40% of online boys. Male teens, however, do dominate one area — posting of video content online. Online boys are nearly twice as likely as online girls (19% vs. 10%) to have posted a video online where others could see it.”

For teens, social media is not technology, it’s just life

Tags: social networking, social media, social networks

4 Ways to Get Banned from the Technorati Top 100

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:47:13 GMT

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Clip Source: www.blogstorm.co.uk

The Technorati Top 100 list is probably the most accurate blog ranking system available but most people don’t realise how much hand editing is involved.

The following people are all deserving of a Top 100 ranking based on blog reactions but have been removed from the list because they didn’t get there “naturally”.

Create a popular plugin

Create some blogging software

Design a popular blog theme

Web developer Alex King runs by far the most popular blog in the world. His Technorati Authority of 87,909 dwarfs Engadgets authority of just 31,201. Technorati has decided that Alex isn’t worthy of being the number 1 blog in the world and has removed him from the top 100 list.

Be evil & exchange links

John made the mistake of asking his readers to write a review about of his blog in exchange for a link back which resulted in his ban from the list.

Matt has been unceremoniously banned from the Technorati Top 100 because his links come from the default Wordpress blogroll.

Tags: technorati., blogging, internet, social networking, social media

A Quick Introduction to Twitter for Bloggers

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 19:39:39 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Very interesting guide!

Clip Source: performancing.com

Quite a few times recently I have been asked why if I am ditching social media sites such as Facebook I am still putting so much effort into Twitter. Well, the simple answer is I get a lot of enjoyment and a reasonable amount of professional benefit from the service. You just have to know how ...

As I say, I find a lot of value in the service, both for information (breaking stories) and networking. It wasn't always this way, in fact to begin with I dismissed it. Only after taking a second look and working out the wrinkles did I find its true worth. To save you the hassle, here are my Twitter tips:

Read first

Audition

Just like with a blog, do not launch into connecting with people on Twitter until you have done the preparation work

Do not be upset if someone does not follow you back! People have limited attention to spare so can not follow everyone.

Post information, links and questions

engage people in conversation

Tips From Twitters

Tags: social networking, networking, twitter, blogging, internet, social media

Facebook Kills Your Memories

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 18:28:14 GMT

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Clip Source: www.pcmag.com

Social-networking services disconnect us by scattering our lives into tiny compartments. Years down the road, we're going to regret it when we try to delve into our boxes of virtual memories and find they're not there.

But social-networking sites may destroy our ability to keep our memories, because our online discourse is neither interoperable nor locally stored. If you get a MySpace message, there's no way to remove it from MySpace and store it on your PC (other than rough copying and pasting, which is pretty tedious if you're a heavy Spacer), or transfer your MySpace friends, data, and accumulated messages to whatever faddish service will be next down the road.

Facebook is even worse, because so much Facebook information is metadata, a stream of "pokes" and "virtual gifts" and other non-e-mail-related information that adds up to a history of human interaction.

Social-networking sites are Web sites, so they can be scraped and manipulated with simple HTML scripts.

Tags: internet, computers, social media, software, facebook, myspace

16 Ways to Expand Your Blog’s Reach in 2008

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:32:12 GMT

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Clip Source: www.doshdosh.com

It’s 2008 and you’re looking forward to growing your blog even more this year. You are eager to build a large readership and maybe even make a full-time income from blogging. You want greater influence and a stronger reputation. What you need is an expansion plan.

16 Ways to Expand Your Blog’s Reach in 2008

Create Multiple Channels

User Generated Content

Localize Your Blog

Build a Blog Network

Set up a Forum/Social Network

Establish an Email Newsletter

Clone Your Blog

Participate in a Social Community

Optimize For Social Media

Bring in New Writers

Sell a Product or Service

Create Premium content.

Create an Industry Event.

Partner with Other Blogs

Make Your Blog Mobile.

Start Doing Video/Podcasts

Tags: social media, blogger, blogging, blogs, web 2.0

7 Types of Blog Posts Which Always Seem to Get Links and Traffic

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 23:42:59 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Here’s a really good question: what kinds of posts should I write to get more links and traffic?

Clip Source: www.problogger.net

It’s a question every blogger asks themselves. I want to answer it here by outlining 7 content methods that seem to work wonders on social media while also generating a lot of grassroots in-bound links.

1. Resource lists.

2. Lists of tips.

3. Good advice.

4. Arguing a popular point of view.

5. Anything with a killer headline.

6. Q&As with high profile people

7. Best-of list

Tags: blogs., blogging, blogs, blogger, writing