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Monetising Forums. What's This Fascination with Ad Networks? (Or, the Online Media Business Will Be About Brands First, Technology Second) Back a year ago, I wrote a three part series on the future of the media business. It began as an attempt to think out loud about a topic with which I had become obsessed, and it ended up becoming a manifesto of sorts about conversational media and marketing.

As you may recall, I started that last set of posts with the observation that major media companies – Time Warner, NewsCorp, CBS – had all fired or parted ways with the long time managers of their digital assets, opting instead for insiders or traditional media folks with whom they were more comfortable. Out were pioneers like Larry Kramer, Jon Miller, and Ross Levinsohn.

In were people with whom the bosses were more comfortable – folks who, in the main, came from television advertising sales backgrounds, the very medium that built those selfsame major media companies. Well, a sequel of sorts is brewing. The much respected Wenda Millard Harris left (or was pushed out of) Yahoo last year. Huh. It has to be, right? But then what? Best Adsense Alternatives List (Advertising Networks) - Webs Guides. HOW TO: Reactivate a Disabled Facebook Account. LinkedIn and Event Networking Blog Post. This is one of 40 LinkedIn lessons from the Integrated Alliances U LinkedIn Sales Training Program for corporate sales teams. While it’s definitely slanted to sales, it makes a lot of sense for ANYONE that networks both in person and on-line with LinkedIn. Networking in person is a wonderful way to forge strong business relationships, and there are a number of ways you can meet valuable future business partners. LinkedIn groups will often organize events, there are also business-orchestrated networking events and meetings, chance meetings, and meetings you go out of your way to find on EventBrite, Evite, MeetUp, and similar sites.

When you find an event you would like to attend, check out who is hosting and find them on LinkedIn. Send a message saying you plan on attending and solidify this new connection. After arriving at an event, you should check in with the host and see if they have any suggestions about who you should meet. Welcome - Timely by Demandforce. About ifttt. How to Museum box Tutorial - YouTube#at=47#! Museum Box – Transform Students into Curators. Written by Mark Brumley Turn your classroom into a virtual museum and give your students a chance to be the curators with Museum Box. Using the site’s unique virtual boxes, you and your students can add pictures, videos and other resources to create mini museum exhibits. The site is not limited to history teachers.

Students can use museum boxes to provide evidence to support an argument, describe a scientific or mathematic concept or create portfolios of their writing and artwork. Each museum box is made up of individual cubes and features 8 cubes per layer. What students put on each side of the cube is up to them. A special teacher section allows you to create accounts for students and monitor the boxes they create or save money on field trips by taking students on a virtual field trip that you create for them. Here’s a video tutorial of creating a Museum Box: Mark Brumley (112 Posts) 10 cool ways to get more insight into your tweets. Twitter recently acquired the startup BackType which would imply that some inbuilt analtyics into your Twitter account may very well be on the way.

Until they get here, there are some really solid services that already let you know all sorts of interesting information about your account. You can find out what your level of influence is on Twitter, which of your links are the most popular, and which users interact the most with you, using the following apps. If you’re using Twitter to market a product, or even yourself, it’s important to know how your affecting your followers, how fast your Twitter account is growing, and other interesting bits and pieces of information. TweetReach Want to find out how many people your tweets are reaching? Tweet Stats TweetStats is a great service for getting a ton of insight into your account.

TweetGrader TweetGrader is like taking your Twitter account to school. Archivist Archivist is handy if you want to check the stats on a specific hashtag or keyword. The 12 most confusing things about Tweets, Retweets, Replies and Direct Messages. Want a short URL to remember to share this specific post with new folks? Just tell them to visit bit.ly/BestTwitterTips Because different interfaces create and display Twitter messages in different ways, depending on your interface, you may have an entirely different idea of what a retweet is than someone else does. And also because tweets that look similar can act in different ways, people take a long time to learn how messages on Twitter work. Here are the twelve things that confuse people the most about tweets, retweets, replies and direct messages. ► 1.

These are known as “@messages,” and are pronounced “at messages.” Some people call this Twitter preventing you from eavesdropping. @Girlfriend Dinner tonight? None of @Boyfriend’s follower’s will see it unless they also follow you. @TweetSmarter is very helpful—if you’re looking for help, contact them. None of your followers will see this tweet unless they already follow @TweetSmarter! . Here’s how native retweets work: ► 2. . ► 3. . ► 4. How To Delete All Tweets From Your Twitter Account At Once? How to Search Twitter for Old Tweets – And How to Archive Them. 235 Flares Google+ 19 Twitter 165 Facebook 9 Reddit 0 StumbleUpon 1 Pin It Share 1 1 LinkedIn 40 inShare40 235 Flares × John P's Brilliance on Twitter Let’s face it. Every once in a while, you grace the Twitter world with your brilliance. Well, for some people…like John P….it happens on a daily basis.

The problem is, when you want to go back and admire said brilliance, it can be difficult to find! Twitter only lets you search so far back. That’s just not enough when you need to find a link you or a friend posted, or look up a quote or a funny joke. Search Keep in mind, with most of these options, you have the ability to choose who’s Twitter Timeline you’re searching. Also keep in mind that these services will search back 3200 tweets before it stops looking. SnapBird: Search Tweets Snap Bird SnapBird.org says they won’t search the public timeline (the tweets that are currently available via twitter.com), but that doesn’t seem to be the case. Topsy But wait…there’s more! Social Searching Backup. Cloud Storage for Social Media: Twitter Backup. Manage All Your Social Network Settings with BlissControl | PCWorld#tk.fb_am.

Social networks are great--except when you need to make a change to one of your settings. Then it's a veritable click-fest of wading through menus in search of just the right option. Hassle city. BlissControl helps you manage social-network settings with ease. Just choose the setting you want to modify, then the service, and then click Go. In an instant, BlissControl steers you to exactly the right setting page within that service.

No fuss, no muss. And no annoying login for each and every account, no setup that "grants access. " The site offers an even dozen settings: change bio, change password, change mobile settings, change design, delete account, and so on. It supports about a dozen major networks, including Faceook, Foursquare, Instagram, Meetup, Pinterest, Tumblr, and Twitter. BlissControl is free, easy, and fabulous--especially for users who are constantly stumbling around in search of the social-network setting they want. Seriously, bookmark this.