For a year or two I had a love affair with Twitter, then I decided we needed some time apart, and Twitter cops an attitude and suspends my account. How rude, can you be?! I have been a very active twitterer, I have worked some w/ the api, and I have wrote many blog posts regarding twitter. In July I decided to take some time off from social
Image via CrunchBase A blog can be an island, or it can be a massive cruise ship carrying elite guests all over the world. The best way for me to tell you how to Social-fy your blog is to tell you what I have done to make my blog more social. 1. Join as many social networks as possible especially: Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, Youtube,
If bytes were dollars, then a Petabyte would be the equivalent of a Trillion Dollars. While it's not very conceivable that any of us will ever be Trillionaires - Owning a Petabyte is another story. A PetaByte is the equivalent of 1000 Terabytes(Don't crap in your pants...yet). Now you might not even know what a Terabyte is so I'm going to tell
Image via CrunchBase Is icecream fattening? Is the iphone a hot ticket item? Does the sun set in the west? If you answer no to any of these questions then, you're obviously from another world, and social media does not even apply to you. On the other hand if you're from Earth, and call yourself human then social media or new media is
Image by Steve Rhodes via Flickr Everyone is all a flutter today about Twitter's value to the Iranians who are revolting against the latest Iranian Election. I've been excited about twitter for quite awhile, even enough to program my own twitter app: TwtFollow. I've also noticed twitter being used for many social changes, but think
Image by HubSpot via Flickr Deltina Hay is a social media consultant and principle owner for the Independent press, Dalton Publishing. Her online presence includes social media sites like PlumbSocial, Social Media Power, and her publishing company Dalton Publishing. Deltina Hay has presented for many social media and web 2.0 events.
This is the simplest tip I'll ever write about - it's also the hardest. How can you guarantee more traffic? WRITE MORE POSTS! Did I say it loud enough for you? Fact: There are a million different things you can do to try and optimize your blog, but if you don't have the traffic it doesn't matter. Each blog post I write will bring in at least
Image via CrunchBase Between Ashton Kutcher, CNN, Larry King, and Oprah the world is now buzzing over Twitter. I personally love twitter, and have used it to build up a number of web properties. (BTW Follow me!) I love how easy it is to follow real-time trends. I love how fast a person can get questions answered. Sure you could use one of
Image via CrunchBase Apps are great, but sometimes we can get overloaded by them. Whether they're facebook apps, iphone apps, wordpress plugins, or myspace apps, sometimes more is not better. In an effort to bring attention to only the best of the best apps, myspace has announced that they are rolling out a new "Editor's Pick" category in
Image via CrunchBase To Follow or to UnFollow - That is the Question! Right now Twitter is the most hyped social network on the planet. More people are joining Twitter everyday than any other website. There's no way to discount that kind of momentum. Now maybe you've been with Twitter for awhile, or just starting out - but you will
