Archive for September, 2008

Blog Training with Posterous

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

Blog Training with Posterous is a great way to get used to blogging on a regular basis. Posterous is a quick and easy way to create short posts via email. No sign up, no profile to create, just an email account where you send your posts.
Here’s the home screen…you will notice at the top [...]

Social Media Marketing and Odeo

Monday, September 29th, 2008

Social media marketing and ODEO…yes the two do go together, but it took me a bit of digging to understand how this video and audio aggregator would be more than just a great place to tune in for my favorite podcasts.
It is critical, as you add components to your social media bag of tricks, that [...]

Faculte Helps You Create Multimedia Broadcasts

Friday, September 26th, 2008

Blog Training can be challenging because much of it is visual. In fact, there are many kinds of trainings that have a highly visible component, but also need a variety of platforms to carry the message.
Recently, a new social media tool arrived on the scene. Faculte is a great site that allows the user to [...]

10 Blog optimization tips

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

Blog Optimization is an important strategy if you’re running a blog. We’ve compiled a list of 10 must do blog optimization tactics.
Look good- It’s important to invest some money to make your blog look good. Get rid of the default template right away. Ideally get your blog skinned to match the rest [...]

Expanding twitter with video

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

There is a new service currently in beta that lets you update twitter with videos. Twiddeo was originally a proof of concept created by vSocial but they received such great positive feedback that they tweaked it and are releasing it as it’s own service. Twiddeo combines Twitter along with vSocials own video player [...]

Location based mobile browsing is the future

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

There has been a pretty consistent buzz about mobile internet access growing as well as location based services. It’s not a stretch to see a lot of ways these would work well together. When you add in the popularity of the iPhone and other phones that are location aware it makes it even more [...]

Is it ok to trust strangers now?

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

One of the worlds largest media service firms has just released a study of over 17000 internet users in 29 different countries entitled “When Did We Start Trusting Strangers?” (link goes to pdf). It’s a very lengthy study but touches on many important topics. They did a great job with the design to keep [...]

Etiquette for building links through comment posts

Friday, September 19th, 2008

A good way to get your name out there along with links back to your site is to read similar blogs and leave comments on them. However, when doing this, you should take a few things into consideration out of respect for your potential clients, the owner of the blog you’re posting on and [...]

Make your site social media friendly

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

Not every site is setup to be friendly for social media marketing. In order to have a site be social media friendly it has to appeal to people in the social field. Web1.0 had a focus on static and rarely updated sites - a storefront of sorts even if the site wasn’t [...]