Are You Failing At Blogging? 3 Successful Blogs You Can Learn From
Tweet Blogging is many things to many people and the personal blog is only a recent invention. It is younger than the mobile phone and the personal computer… in fact it has been with us for less than 15 years. The term “weblog” was coined by Jorn Barger in 1997 and was broken up into the [...]
Who Are The 10 Most Influential Twitter Users In The World [Study]
Tweet The geeks in the labs are donning white coats and poking and probing the social networks with powerful servers and custom software to see how the human lab rats in the global social media labyrinth are reacting to certain stimuli. The discoveries are quite enlightening and can assist us in understanding what we need [...]
Average Twitter User Only Retweets 1 In Every 318 Links
Tweet So you are wondering why you your tweets aren’t being retweeted? You are not feeling very influential? Well, the latest research from Hewlett Packard Labs shows that (after analyzing 2.5 million users and 22 million tweets over 300 hours) only one in every 318 URL’s is retweeted. So you need a lot of followers who [...]
How Real Time Social Media Marketing Is Changing PR and Advertising
Tweet I was discussing the changing landscape of the public relations market over coffee the other day with a couple of PR professionals and we got to chatting about how social media is changing their industry. One key point that they made is that with traditional print media the advertising and the message has to [...]
Is Facebook Killing The Blog?
Tweet People love to publish. They publish photos, images and videos… it could be on Facebook or it could be on their blog. Twitter allows you to write very short stories (140 characters) and MySpace is for publishing music and music videos. LinkedIn is for publishing information about yourself and to encourge networking. The Web [...]
How Did A Blog Reach 2.6 Million Followers?
Tweet The social media blog Mashable along with the political blog Huffington Post are evidence of the mainstreaming of Blogs into the global niche digital publishing arena with both companies providing a great example of best practice. To understand this more I would like to investigate the rise and rise of Mashable. Peter Cashmore began [...]
Is Blogging The Future Of Publishing?
Tweet Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are growing so fast that the numbers are a blurrrrrrr……. If you want to look up something to buy or research you will Google. What if you are passionate about technology, politics, fashion or cycling and you want to find out the latest trends? You will quite often find yourself [...]
22 Secrets Of Power Bloggers
Tweet I was watching Seth Godin who is one of the worlds top bloggers, being interviewed the other day on an online video. I had never seen him on video before or even seen a photo of him except for his blog photo which is a rather memorable partial image. What really intrigued me was [...]
How Do You Measure Twitter Influence: Is It Worth Measuring?
Tweet So ”How Do You Measure Twitter Influence?” .. Is it worth attempting to put a metric to? This question is becoming more relevant and will continue to be increasingly important as the growth of Twitter climbs,the worldwide takeup continues to spread and its entanglement with other social media platforms. “Twitter Influence” could become a powerful and significant part of [...]
"6+1 More Great Resources on Using Facebook For Your Non Profit Organisation, Personal Brand and Company"
Tweet As I promised in my last post, here are 6 more great resources on using Facebook, for companies, personal branding and NGOs (Non Profits). What you will find in fact is that there isn’t 6 but a “Bonus” which makes 7, which is about “5 Tips for Enhancing Your Brands Presence on Facebook”. A lot of people end up being passionate about one type [...]
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