Prbc. 15 Blogs To Follow If You Want To Kick Ass Online | SocialMouths. Being successful online requires that you beat a pretty long learning curve and while I try to contribute with my 2 cents, there are amazing bloggers out there that you should be reading on a regular basis. These people put their amazing talent and knowledge into blog content and deliver it to their online communities week after week. I have to advise you that if you see that I’m not going with the obvious is for 2 reasons, one because I like helping you discover stuff that you might have missed (there is just too much content out there…) and two, not that I don’t occasionally read the usual suspects, but this is the stuff I visit frequently.
Also let me say that this is not a ranking so don’t pay attention to the order. Why am I sending traffic to other blogs? Think Traffic I just love the approach, it presents a different view at building website traffic. The Launch Coach ViperChill Glen Allsopp teaches you how to build traffic, get hundreds of comments, tweets and subscribers. Mars Dorian. ToneCheck Checks Your Tone Like A Spell Checker Checks Your Spelling. Ever sent or received an email that was just screaming to be misunderstood? There’s a good chance you have, and if not it will happen some day – just trust me on that one. Unless … Canadian startup Lymbix thinks it can help you avoid situations that come out of misinterpreted textual communication with the launch of a new service called ToneCheck. Think of it as an emotional spell-check application.
Available today for Microsoft Outlook, with support for more desktop and Web-based email clients slated for the future, ToneCheck is supposedly capable of identifying the emotional definition of words and phrases in order to help end users improve the clarity of their communication. The application gauges words and phrases against 8 levels of connotative feeling, enabling end users to make real-time corrections and adjust the overall tone of messages using a simple menu system.
Text interpretation problems: solved. Blogger relations - 9 tips for researching bloggers | Communications Conversations. If you work in the arena of what I like to call “digital PR”, chances are you’ve probably put together a blogger list or two on behalf of your client or organization. But, because the tools just don’t exist yet to put these lists together in a timely, efficient fashion, it’s a somewhat manual process.
And everyone seems to have a little different way of doing it (some better than others). I must admit, I do work with a couple of great folks who put together blogger lists for me from time to time. But, I’ve also created a few myself. So, I thought I’d share my process. 1-Cast the net. 2-Check the blogger’s Technorati authority ranking. 3-Check their other social platforms. 4-Check how often they post. 5-Check their “About” page. 6-Check their blogroll. 7-Check what kinds of media the blogger uses. 8-Check their Twitter lists. 9-Check their blog badges. 10-Check their LinkedIn profile. 11-Check Google.
I’d love to hear more about your process in researching bloggers. A Case Study: The NBA's Social Media Strategy & Tactics. 3 Advertising Tips from Mad Men - Guest post by Don Draper. This is a guest post by Don Draper, formerly Creative Director at Sterling Cooper and now partner at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce and star of the AMC hit TV show Mad Men. Don is also a guest speaker on Mad Men: The Webinar. (He won't actually be on the webinar since he's fictional, but trust us, it will be fun to pretend!) I have been asked to write this guest article to share my advice on marketing and advertising. From my experience working on many large advertising campaigns for some of the most valued brands on the planet, I can distill the basics down to the following 3 guidelines.
Of course, you really should leave advertising to the professionals at an advertising agency, but perhaps these tips will help you evaluate the agency you are currently working with. Know thy customer. The first step in all great advertising is to know your customer. Image Credit: 1960s Ads Boil down the message. "Make your move" - That is the main message in this Chrysler ad. Image Credit: 1960s Ads. What your Twitter @name says about you* Hear This: UK SoundMap Creates Audio Landscape. Back when Greg J. Smith and Max Ritts launched their Toronto Sound Ecology project, for which they hiked the city and recorded its sounds for an interactive map, we asked if anyone had heard of any other similar audio tours. It's been done in the States--see Open Sound New Orleans and San Diego, California's sound map. There are more in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Zurich, Switzerland, and other places around the world, too.
What's the point? A sound map paints a more thorough sociological picture of a place. There are some obvious no-no's here. The UK SoundMap has begun with sounds of Sheffield and is expected to extend to the rest of the UK later this year. This is Why You Don’t Bury Your Blog’s Gold. This morning I checked my blog’s traffic and discovered this: Now that’s a pretty big spike from 5am – 7am. So I checked my referrals and couldn’t really tell where the traffic was coming from.
I did see some referrals from a link shared via this FriendFeed user, but I couldn’t tell for sure if that had caused the surge. So I went back to SiteMeter and checked out the entry pages, or the page that people are first landing on when they visit this site. For example, if you find this page via a link shared on Twitter, Sitemeter will tell me that you entered my site via this post. When I checked for entry pages from 5am-7am, I found this: Almost every visitor during that time was landing on this post.
Look to the far right of my blog, under the section on Search My Site. All because of a very simple change in my blog’s layout that took some of my more popular posts, and showcased them. Let’s face it, we all have too much content to sort through, and not enough time to find everything. .CO Domain Names Now Available. Missed out on a great .com domain name? Well, maybe you can still get the .co variety. Registry operator of .co domains, .CO Internet S.A.S., today announced that .co domains are available through registers such as GoDaddy.com, Register.com, Network Solutions, and others.
For all practical purposes, .co domains are the same as .com domains; that means they are available to everyone and come on a first-come, first-serve basis. One of the biggest advantages of the .co TLDs, besides the fact that they're similar to .com TLDs, is the fact that they are already widely recognized. More than 20 countries, including the UK (.co.uk) and Japan (.co.jp), already use them for their country-specific domains. URL Shortener for RSS2Twitter.com : Hyperlocal News Site Fwix Debuts Local Trend Search. Fwix, a news site that offers a stream of hyperlocal, realtime news by location, is launching a new portal today that aims to give anyone a real time view of what’s happening in a location.
You can access the new search portal here. Fwix Local Trend Search allows users to search for anything that is happening at any geo-point. The search feature rounds up news, events, government data, business reviews, check-ins from Foursquare or Gowalla and more on a map of a given area. You can expand the sphere of location to show coverage from a greater area or a more localized location. For example, you could see all of the hyperlocal news from the city of San Francisco, but can then pinpoint the Mission neighborhood and see all of the most recent news relating to that given area. One question I had for Fwix’s CEO and founder Darian Shirazi was how the site determine an article’s “location.” Of course, with the introduction of a news search portal, Fwix now competes with Google News.
Content Strategy - 5 Steps to Winning Fans | Blogging and Content Creation | Social Media Consulting - Convince & Convert. 7 Ways to Track Hot Trends on the Internet. EmailEmail As the Internet progressively moves towards real-time information, the need to know what’s popular right now is becoming increasingly important. Here are the best ways to track trends of all types, so you’ll always be in the know about what’s hot on the Internet. 1. How to track popular Internet video trends Mag.ma is the definitive source when it comes to tracking what’s hot for Internet videos. It aggregates all the hot videos from sites like YouTube, Vimeo and Daily Motion, takes into account social media buzz, links, positive reviews, how fast views are growing, then and shows you a selection of videos which are up and coming. Because it tracks chatter from around the web and links to the video as well, using Mag.ma, you’ll usually be able to watch viral videos very early on rather than waiting for it to hit the masses. 2.
Trendistic is one of the most visual ways to track Twitter trends out there. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Try it, the results may surprise you. Google+ Lifehack: Using Google Chrome Tabs To Manage Information | e-Strategy Internet Marketing Blog. HootSuite - Blackberry Private Beta Access. AdamVincenzini Home. Letter to our customers announcing the close: Since launching Society earlier this year, we've seen over 150K people sign in to Society and spend an average of 8 minutes per visit to communicate with over 600K people across 168 countries.
More importantly, we've seen people acting as advisors to others, helping them with issues around dating, crushes, friendship, family, careers, and over ten thousand other interests you created. You've provided over 2 million answers to people, many of whom you'd never met who reached out for help that you provided out of the goodness of your heart. Unfortunately, the bills must be paid... eventually. As we looked out at websites with ten times the traffic of ours, we found most unable to generate enough ad revenue to make their business work. It is the sad truth of running a community site, but a truth nonetheless. With that, we've made the hard decision to shut down the Society website on . A Case Study: The NBA's Social Media Strategy & Tactics.
Social Media Accounts for 22 Percent of All Online Time Shows New Study. Is social media taking over the web? Just in the last year, the number of social media users has continued to climb at record speed and the audience demographics have widened. And marketers have noticed the trend. For proof of social media’s steep rise, take a look at the number of statistics that surfaced in the last month. These findings further support what most of us already believe: Social media is only getting bigger. 75% of U.S. Nielson Company, in their report “Internet & Social Media Consumer Insights,” just released some impressive data on social networking activity in the U.S. In addition, the research showed the average U.S. worker spends almost 5.5 hours a month visiting social network sites from the office.
The data confirmed that Facebook is still the leading contender of social networking sites with a unique audience of 125.2 million visitors. Other interesting factoids from the Nielson study: 75% of all active U.S. Social Networking Use Will Reach All-Time High in 2014. My cabbie has a mini-Kaka on his dash...v v cool! Having lunch with the groom- to-be in Genoa...check out our view! The Miami Heat Goes MIA. A few hours ago, I watched “The Decision” on ESPN and Lebron made his announcement. He’s Miami bound. So, I decided to click over to the Heat’s official Twitter page to see what they had to say and I discovered the unimaginable. They were speechless. Hadn’t tweeted a peep in over six hours. Where were they I asked? This was their time to shine. This was a land grab. What happened to the human behind the brand? Wouldn’t it have been nice to have Chris Bosh and D.
There were missed sponsorship opportunities as well. Then about an hour later, they arrived. Lesson: This space is alive and it doesn’t turn off. And, the way Lebron and Dan Gilbert handled this is another post. zp8497586rq. How to Discover What’s Trending on Facebook. Since Facebook announced the Open Graph API, the response has ranged from “Facebook is the future of the web” to “Facebook is ending privacy as we know it.” Matt Schlict definitely believes the former. Matt saw Open Graph API as an opportunity to connect people across the web—not just through personal connections, but also by their connection to the most popular content. Instead of waiting for users to browse one of the 100,000 sites using a form of the Open Graph, he decided to post all of the most popular content in one place, on ItsTrending.com. What Is ItsTrending.com?
Itstrending.com is a site that collects all of the content shared via Open Graph, and ranks it by the number of times it has been shared. This guarantees that everything on the site is the most popular content of its kind. Let me give you an official tour: Why Is It Different? I know what you’re thinking. Wrong. On those sites, all the content is physically placed there by individuals then voted on for popularity. Cannes Advertising Festival Seminar: Social media as an instrument of change. Credit: Campaign Brief For those at the seminar who want further information, or for those who couldn’t make it, here are a synopsis, a list of key points and links to the case studies that I mentioned in my seminar at Cannes today.
SYNOPSIS: The advertising world is reeling from change – and it’s not just because they have yet to fully embrace social media in their brand campaigns. The problems in advertising are much more profound—they literally extend deep into the heart of capitalism. The core issue is that advertising and capitalism are dying the same death. Both are being challenged by powerful forces of social change in today’s new world: globalization, digitalization, social media and a loss of values. At the root of these pressures is also a powerful motivator: consumers want a better world, not just better widgets. Today’s talk addresses what the advertising industry needs to do to reinvigorate itself, if not simply to survive. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 1. 2. 3. 4. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 1. Foursquare Launches Location Layers - This is Big. Looking at life through rose-colored glasses?
How about walking through your town and seeing it as the Huffington Post or the Independent Film Channel sees it? IFC announced a new campaign this morning with leading location-based social network Foursquare that will allow you to do just that. The Huffington Post launched a Foursquare layer today as well. IFC polled its member base for short descriptions of their favorite places in the towns they lived in or visited, then picked the place-descriptions that best suited the IFC's brand ("Always on, slightly off") to upload into a Foursquare database. Foursquare users can now opt-into getting those tips pushed to them whenever they check in near one of the annotated locations. Location as Platform In January, Canadian newspaper chain Metro did a deal with Foursquare that tied content like restaurant reviews to specific locations as "tips.
" Please Push Me A Psychedelic Journey IFC's crowdsourcing its data set is very cool. Top 10 Social Media Articles That You Might Have Missed In May 2010 « Digital Marketing Mercenary. Boom! cc @AdamVincenzini. 40 of the Most Useful Social Media and PR Blog Posts of Q1, 2010 (Jan - Mar) How Social Media Has Radically Altered Advertising. Social Media Monitoring Tools - How to Pick The Right One | Guest Posts | Social Media Consulting - Convince & Convert. Fresh Resources - Digital Jobs, Social Media Jobs, Web Jobs, Online Jobs, Marketing Jobs, Designer Jobs, Developer Jobs. Foursquare Perspectives | Awareness, Inc.
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