Archive for Social Media
Written on July 11th, 2008 at 12:07 am by Darren Rowse
A Blogger’s Guide to Branding with Social Media
This is a guest post from Steven Snell. Steven writes about social media marketing at Traffikd.
As the number of blogs online continues to grow rapidly every day, the need for effective branding is also constantly increasing. Branding allows you to stand out from others in your niche and show your readers what you’re all about […]
Written on July 8th, 2008 at 12:07 am by Darren Rowse
Plurk 1 Month In - Small Can be Good
I’ve just celebrated a month of playing with Plurk (join here if you’re not already a Plurker) over this last weekend so I thought it might be a good opportunity to spend a little time analyzing my experience with this new(ish) social messaging tool.
Summary of My Experience
Let me cut to the chase - While Plurk […]
Written on July 5th, 2008 at 06:07 am by Darren Rowse
How to Monitor the Quality of StumbleUpon Advertising Campaigns
In a guest post Neil Matthews of ClickQualityConsultant.com writes about how we can monitor the quality of paid visits from a StumbleUpon advertising campaigns.
Darren advocates using paid advertising from StumbleUpon in his post Run a StumbleUpon Advertising campaign for your blog, as a way to build your blog’s audience. In this post I would like […]
Written on July 2nd, 2008 at 12:07 am by Darren Rowse
Social Media - Should You Use it Or Focus Upon Building Your Own Properties?
Steve Rubel has a thought provoking post today asking the question - should you rent or buy social real estate?
In it he explores the idea of using a service like Twitter (where you ‘rent’ and build up a community on someone else’s property) versus having your own blog on your own domain (buying).
My immediate reaction […]
Written on June 25th, 2008 at 12:06 pm by Darren Rowse
Using Facebook Pages to Promote Your Blog
Today Mike Henry explores Facebook pages (as opposed to profiles) and how they can be use to promote their blog, business, product or profile.
Darren wrote a post recently on 12 tips for building relationships with other bloggers. They are all great tips that could be expanded into individual posts or even an entire blog, […]
Written on June 25th, 2008 at 06:06 am by Darren Rowse
How To Promote Other People’s Content and Drive Traffic to Your Own Blog
Much has been written on the topic of how to utilize social bookmarking and networking sites to promote your own blog posts. Submitting your posts to sites like Digg, StumbleUpon and Reddit - posting about your posts on Twitter and Plurk….
All of these techniques can work to drive significant traffic to your blog - […]
Written on June 14th, 2008 at 12:06 am by Darren Rowse
The Main Difference Between Twitter and Plurk (to me)
Over the last week I’ve been experimenting with a social messaging/micro blogging service called Plurk. Over the last week I’ve seen many comparisons between it and Twitter - but wanted to show one of the main differences that I’ve observed:
To illustrate let me show you a ‘tweet’ and a ‘plurk’ message that I posted an […]
Written on June 6th, 2008 at 11:06 pm by Darren Rowse
Top 10 Plurk Users Statistics - What’s the Karma Algorithm
As a quick followup to my last post on my experimentation with Plurk I thought I’d do a quick analysis of the top 10 Plurk Users (as currently rated on the Interesting page). They are rated there on a basis of their ‘Karma’. There’s no explicit definition of the way that they calculate Karma except:
“Your […]
Written on June 6th, 2008 at 10:06 pm by Darren Rowse
Add a ProBlogger Tab to Your FriendFeed
If you are a FriendFeed user AND you like ProBlogger - you might want to check out a greasemonkey script for Firefox users that Duncan created that puts a ProBlogger tab to the top right hand corner of your FriendFeed page.
It means you can view ProBlogger from within FriendFeed - like this (click to enlarge):
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