Tech-Savvy Females Play a Large Part in LeWeb 2009 : The Next Wo
leweb event image LeWeb 2009 was yet another interesting web event, gathering a very international crowd of over 2,000 people, from which just over 350 were women. The location was exquisite, the heating system was working and although the food was far from the quality you’d expect in France, there was plenty of it for everyone.
6 Quick & Easy Tools To Measure ReTweets
It’s said that on Twitter it’s not the number of followers you have that counts, it’s how many times you’ve been retweeted. And there’s some truth to that. While follower counts can be tricked, inflated or simply represent the number of people actively ignoring you, retweets show people actually engaging with what you’re putting out there.
HOW TO: Measure Social Media ROI
Olivier Blanchard Basics Of Social Media Roi Defining Clear Goals As a standard formula, ROI is pretty basic, ROI = (X - Y) / Y, where X is your final value and Y is your starting value. In other words, if you invest $5 and get back $20, your ROI is (20 - 5) / 5 = 3 times your initial investment. In the financial sense, ROI is measured purely in the context of dollars and cents, however, the principles can really apply to any type of investment — monetary or not. Having concrete goals and concrete baselines is crucial to calculating your return on investment.
Five Technologies That Will Keep Shaping the Web in 2010
As we’re coming to the end of this year, everyone starts to look towards the next one and there will no doubt be an upsurge of articles predicting the web trends of 2010 in the next days to come. However, in this article, we’ll be talking about what’s actually driving these trends now, and what they mean for the future of the internet. 1. CSS3, HTML5 and Fonts as a Service
Advertise with Promoted Tweets
Give your Tweets super powers. Promoted Tweets are regular Tweets but with the added bonus of reaching both current and potential followers you target. Promoted Tweets can appear in: User timelines and search resultsTwitter for mobile, desktops, laptops and tablets Targeting: You’ve got options.
How Do You Rank on Twitter? - Technorati Blogging
Do your tweets matter? Are you following influential people in your industry, or a bunch of spammers? These fun Twitter tools will check your influence among your followers, show what people are tweeting about, and give you some detailed insights into your own tweets. TwitterGrader – Calculates your Twitter grade. While the site won’t reveal exactly how it does this, it measures a combination of the number of followers you have, the power or “clout” of those followers, how often you update your timeline, how often you’re retweeted and more.
How to Use Twitter to Become a Marketing Genius - ClickZ
inShare0 A list of people and services that should be on every online marketer's radar. Chances are, you're already using Twitter.
The Google Phone: This changes everything (mostly)
We don’t have much information on the Google Phone just yet. In fact, it sounds more like a party favor than anything else. However, if and when Google starts selling this thing, prepare for some of the strangest – and coolest – times in mobile we’ve ever experienced. What do we know? It’s an HTC phone – probably the Passion, a distant cousin to the beautiful HD2 – with large touchscreen. It’s GSM unlocked and everyone at Google has one so whatever the super secret specs are, they won’t stay super secret for long.
5 Twitter Tools to Enhance Your Marketing
Are you looking for new and creative ways to use Twitter? Here are 5 lesser-known Twitter tools that your business should be using. Each of these tools has unique capabilities that may help your business get an edge over your competitors.
30 SEO Problems & the Tools to Solve Them (Part 2 of 2)
Last November, I authored a popular post on SEOmoz detailing 15 SEO Problems and the Tools to Solve Them. It focused on a number of free tools and SEOmoz PRO tools. Today, I'm finishing up that project with a stab at another set of thorny issues that continually confound SEOs and how some new (and old) tools can come to the rescue. Some of these are obvious and well known; others are obscure and brand new. All of them solve problems - and that's why tools should exist in the first place. Below, you'll find 20+ tools that answer serious issues in smart, powerful ways.
10 Must have Plugins for Wordpress blog
Many of the best web hosts, even if they are not marketed specifically as WordPress hosting, offer WordPress hosting. If you are new to WordPress and blogging as a whole, you might not be able to take advantage of the full potential of this great blogging platform. WordPress comes with a lot of functionalities, but if you want to make your blog really one of a kind, you need to install plugins. Here are some of the coolest WordPress plugins, which are a must have for many (if not every) WordPress blog:
Why does searching for Twitter lists suck so much?
Let’s say you want to find a Twitter list on a topic like, say, “tech.” Where would you go? For me there are two sites that cover Twitter lists: 1.
