The Five C’s To Social Media

Sunday, February 14, 2010 By 5 Comments

We all are in need of tips to try and begin utilizing Social Media to its fullest potential and although it is ever growing and changing, certain things remain the same.

CHere are your five C’s to Social Media, that can be applied to Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and any other Social Networking site that you use for personal or professional gain.

  1. Connect- Your first pursuit with any Social Networking site is to find people to connect with. Friend and Fan those you are already aware of that use Social Media and then branch out. Don’t just randomly add people or friend those back because they have added you. Instead, check out their page and see what things you may have in common. This will cause you to have a more positive and long-lasting relationship with people, instead of numbers.
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Reddit Founder Discusses Social Media on TED

Monday, February 8, 2010 By 2 Comments

When Alexis speaks, Redditors listen.

From Mashable:

We’ll start things off with a real-life social media parable about how the biggest and most effective forces on the web usually take shape by accident. Alexis Ohanian of Reddit.com tells the quick and hilarious story of how the social web provided some unexpected help to Greenpeace in halting the Japanese whaling industry. Internet marketers take note: The meme is all powerful, and it cannot be controlled.

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SocialBlade is in the Running for a ShortyAward

Monday, February 1, 2010 By 3 Comments

I wouldn’t have expected it, but it’s true. One of my most important “jobs” occurs every Thursday at 7:00 pm PST. The Social Blade Show has become an important part of what I do and how I do it and as a result, it is with great pride that I announce we are a finalist for a Shorty Award.

Never in my life have I “campaigned” for an award, especially a web award. This time, it’s different. It’s personal.

It’s for keeps.

OK. Maybe it’s not that serious, but it’s still “pretty darn cool” enough to ask you, oh loyal Social News Watch readers, to hop on your Twitter and vote for us in the News category. Here’s the link: Social Blade Show Rocks the News World and Doesn’t Talk Much About Twilight. You know what to do.

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Do you know how big the Internet is? (Infographic)

Saturday, December 12, 2009 By 6 Comments

The people over at OnlineEducation.net put together this truly enlightening infographic bringing the Internet into an understandable scale. Enjoy!

A Day in the Internet
Created by Online Education

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The Social Media Dividers are Crumbling

Tuesday, December 1, 2009 By Leave a Comment

In the good ol’ days, there was a clear distinction.

  • Social NewsSocial networks like MySpace and Facebook let people engage.
  • Social bookmarking sites like Delicious and Simpy let people share and stay organized
  • Social news sites like Digg and Reddit let people drive traffic to news, images, and videos

The distinctions are going away. The walls that separated are crumbling. Many send share and stay organized through social networks. Others drive traffic through social bookmarks. Even others engage through social news.

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Digg Survives Negative Press, Will Likely Not Revert Diggbar

Tuesday, July 21, 2009 By Leave a Comment

UPDATE: As predicted, they did not revert. They are going forward with their plan. Two nice “concessions” – a blog post explaining it (I didn’t expect that) and a reverse on older URLs already in use prior to today (good move – don’t change what we’ve already tweeted).

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I hope I’m wrong, but…

Patience. It’s a virtue.  It’s also one that is hard to channel when issues concern social media. The “real-time web” is not real when it comes to decisions and changes (or lack of changes) on large websites, especially when something goes wrong on social news websites. Such is the situation with Digg and their recent Diggbar fiasco.

Diggbar_Fiasco

Kevin Rose, founder and CTO at Digg, was apparently not happy with the rollout of the recent change to the Digg URL shortener. It received quite a bit of negative buzz once the story broke, but the fervor of complaints have dwindled to whispers.  Rose was just returning from a 2 week trip when the changes were made to push clicks from Twitter and other sources to the Digg story page rather than a framed source as other URL shorteners do.

The tweet you see above was a reference to “catching up” from this trip with the negative buzz as one of the top points of discussion. While many (including me) are hoping that the new code will be pulled, a lack of response at this stage is not a good sign.  Here are the possibilities: [Read more...]

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