Archive for September, 2008

URL shortening taken to a new level

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

Everyone is aware of some of the larger url shortening services like tinyurl.com and is.gd. Those services work ok but they don’t provide any kind of information for you. Enter cli.gs.
Cli.gs is a new url shortening service that takes it to a new level. Of course it takes a long [...]

Best practice in social marketing campaign

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

Over at Six Pixels of Separation Mitch has posed the question “What are your best practices for Social Media Marketing?” and has asked people to highlight what they consider to be their most important Social Media Marketing practice. There have been some great posts on this subject including Being Vigilant, and building a DINU.
While [...]

Top 5 keys to a successful social media strategy

Monday, September 15th, 2008

Easy Does It
With the ability to scale ideas, networks, crowd sourcing, and product research to a virtually unlimited level; it is quite easy to jump in head first into social media marketing and overexpose yourself. Make sure you take things slow and build up a good knowledge base of the conversations that are happening [...]

Reasons to Utilize Podcasting

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

There hasn’t been much noise about podcasting in the news lately but this is still a very effective method for joining or creating a conversation.
Here are some major reasons as to why podcasting may be right for you.
Perfectly Efficient
Your podcasts are only downloaded by people interested in hearing your message. No paying for wasted [...]

Ning: Close but not quite there

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

Ning.com is what we consider to be the home of niche social network sites. Ning is home to well over 120,000 different social networking sites which vary in interest from Labradoodle Owners to Social Media Networks to Ninja Secrets. It’s not a stretch to say that if you’re interested in something there is [...]

Can social media grow in a recession?

Monday, September 8th, 2008

As our economy tries to maintain a clumsy balance between underspending and overspending in order to remain afloat, we have seen cuts made to a multitude of IT budgets. Rising costs for production due to increased oil prices and a wary near-election society add to spending cuts and budget slashing in just about all areas [...]

Twitter removes link juice

Friday, September 5th, 2008

Well I swear to branch away from twitter and google posts but both have been hot in the news lately.
Today twitter did something that made quite a few people unhappy if you check out #6 on my post Using twitter for business you’ll see that you could put a link in your bio [...]

Rss Applied is now on Vox

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

We have joined Vox so if you’re a member over there don’t be shy!
Rss Applied Vox Account

Has Google turned evil?

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

I wrote about Google’s Release of Chrome. They have come under a bit of fire from the blog world for their Terms of Service. Remember that thing you skipped over reading while installing Chrome? Well, if you take a closer look you’ll see this:
By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give [...]