Everything Social Networking
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You’ll find all kinds of stuff posted at my blog, so keep checking back. You’ll find a lot of information related to social networking, Facebook, Twitter, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), just cool internet tools and technologies.
Bio:
Name: Steve Hart
Job: Interactive Development Director for a large media communications company.
Interest: Everything Social Networks, SEO, Blogs, and Media Publishing.
RSS Feeds and Twitter Follow Me for WordPress.com
You’ll notice a couple of new items on my blog. A Twitter “Follow Me” link and new RSS feed links.
You can drive more traffic to your WordPress blog by using these two features. By keeping them in a highly visible area of your site, your encouraging your readers to use these tools to follow you.
Feedburner.com is a great tool to manage and track your RSS feed. Feedburner also lets you create link to allow users to subscribe to your feed by email. Providing both these links gives choices to your readers. Google’s Feedburner help will walk you through setting up Feedburner. Feedburner will provide you with code you can use on your wordpress.com blog. Using the wordpress.com “text” widget, you can embed the feedburner code. Google also describes how to use the “subscribe by email” feature.
Feedburner provides you with the opportunity to embed Adsense ads within your RSS feed. Now, wordpress.com users can take advantage of making money with your blogs.
Technology Council Meeting – Social Networking as a Busines Strategy
MySpace – Jason Oberfest
Its all about self expression.
Discovering new content.
Facebook - Paul Ollinger
Social media is becoming mainstream media.Its about sharing information. Sharing content
Giving permission of who can see what of my world.
No banner ads. Advertising looks like it is part of the content.
Targeted ads
Use fan pages as reader rewards pages. Offers deals and dscounts, they’re easy to measure their impact.
Use MySpace and facebook to target your advertisers on MySpace and facebook.Social recommendations. People spreading the news.
YouTube - Sam Cimino
Intuit tax “rap” is an example of using YouTube a marking tool. Sounded stupid at first, but worked well.
User generated ads. Show us your ocregister.
YouTube annotations – watch pages. Links within the video. Stringing content videos together.
Bottom third ad overlay. Links to advertisers.
Bloggers on YouTube
Tell you own story or someone else will.
Yammer - David Schwartz
Social Networking for internal use. Internal social network.
Use to find who’s who in you company.
Realtime communications
Use yammer for web support communications.
Ask questions and see responses. Becomes a knowledge base of answers.
Pringo - Majid Abai
Enterprise social networking platform
People want their voice to be heard.
Convergence of business portal and social network.
Earthquake broke on twitter befor it made it to the media websites
Evaluate products and services.
General notes
Media is any content people find entertaining.
Blogging company info
-no insider info
-say who you are
-dont attack others
-dont discuss company stock
People are talking about you or your business. Don’t ignore, it is happening. Embrace it. Good or bad, it is still press. You can’t control it, but you can engage it and use social networking sites and tools to get your message out.
- Steve Hart
Cool New Technology – Accuvein
Every once in awhile I venture away from the topic of social networking to bring you advancements in technology. This is one of those posts.
Ever had blood drawn from you arm only to find out the nurse can find a vein? Never again with new technology from http://www.accuvein.com.
As stated on their website, AccuVein strives to make every vein puncture successful on the first attempt by revolutionizing vein location through our new patent pending technology.
See more videos here: http://www.youtube.com/user/AccuVein
Bored with the Internet – Comic
I came across this great comic from the team over at http://xkcd.com.
- Steve Hart
Tags: Comic, Entertainment, funny, life
See All Your Social Profiles on GizaPage
Thanks to the folks over at www.cmswire.com for turning me on to the newest social network profile management tool – www.gizapage.com. Now I have one place to track all my social network profiles.
http://stevekhart.gizapage.com
Online identity management takes a lot of time. This is because each site you have a profile on has unique information based on the type of social network. For instance, Facebook is used to maintain social connections where LinkedIn is intended to be more work centric. What if you wanted to have a page that contained all your social networking profiled pages?
This is where GizaPage comes into play. GizaPage (Beta) is a social network organizer that helps consumers and brands manage their online presence by consolidating their many social networking profiles side by side under a personalized URL. GizaPage provides a secure and centralized way to share profiles while more deeply engaging online with others by exploring their profiles and identifying additional social networks they have in common. GizaPage was founded in 2008 and develops tools to help consumers and brands organize the social web around them by consolidating their online profiles, connecting with others and more easily navigating the social sphere.
With the service, a user imports all their profile information from various social networks. At the moment, GizaPage supports around 40 social sites including Flickr, Facebook, FriendFeed, Digg and so on. After your GizaPage is configured, you have one location for your online contacts to see your activities across your personal social networking universe.
What other tools do you use for profile management?
[polldaddy poll=1624010]
Tags: Profiles, Social Networking
How to drive traffic to your WordPress.com blog
In response to a recent comment I received from Alex Hwang at http://thetechadvisors.wordpress.com, here’s my suggestions on increasing traffic on your www.wordpress.com blog. While I don’t claim to be an expert in this area, I have seen some recent success with these techniques on this blog. There are many more ideas to drive traffic, but they require a personal install of WordPress.
Here are my suggestions:
- Submit sitemap to Google – WordPress XML Sitemaps Submittal to Google
- Have a Twitter, Facebook, and Delicious accounts
- Distribute your posts to various social sites:
- Focus on Twitter, Facebook, and Delicious or other sites within your industry
- Check out My Social Network Publishing Model
- Brand your microblog post with your site name – see www.twitterfeed.com
- Create a Twitter direct mail auto response to new followers
- Check out Twitter Follower Auto-Responding Email Message
- Brand your blog in the direct message
- Fully utilize the WordPress SEO fields
- Become part of the community – Post comments on other sites with references to your blog. They will in turn post on your blog
- Check your site out at www.googleRankings.com Website Diagnostics Panel
- Cross site linking is key – find other sites that will link to your site and return the favor
- Use Trackback links when you quote or refer to other blog posts. What is TrackBack? Essentially what this does is send a message from one server to another server letting it know you have posted a reference to their post. The beauty is that a link to your blog is now included on their site.
- Review your sites stats to see what posts are driving traffic, and focus on those topics
- Blog on a consistent periodic basis so your readers know when to check back
- Create a “Rap up” post reviewing the post from the past week or month depending on your post frequency
- Promote your posts on Digg and StumpleUpon. Unfortunately these are manual processes
- Make sure you tag your posts!
- Create great content
- Ensure you blog has a purpose
- Create hyper links to other sites within your posts
- Link Building Tricks for Search Engine Optimization SEO
- Use graphics/photos – pay attention to meta tags (Alt tag, description, link url) .
- Ask your readers for their opinions and or suggestions
- Focus on hot topics and keywords
- Post titles should contain relevant keywords. Use catchy headlines
Remember, driving traffic takes time. If your blog is new, don’t expect lots of traffic. Stick to it and keep blogging. If your content is good, readers will find you following the steps above.
If you have other suggestoins, I like to hear from you.
- Steve Hart
Tags: Blog, driving traffic, increasing traffic, Page views, SEO, wordpress blog
How to update your Facebook status with your Twitter tweets
Since my How To Tweet Your Facebook Status post is tracking the most page views, I thought I’d show you how to update your Facebook status with your Twitter tweets. My first post showed you how to get your Facebook status updates onto your Twitter page. This post shows you how to get your tweets from Twitter into your Facebook status.
Here’s what you need to do: 
- Go to Twitter and login. If you don’t have an account click here.
- Click the ”Settings” link at the top of the page.
- Go to the “Account” tab and fill in your info.
- About the middle of the page, you’ll see a link for “You can also add Twitter to your site here”. Click this link.
- Click on Facebook and follow the instructions.
- Steve Hart
Tags: facebook, how to, status updates, tweets, Twitter
Free Business Cards From Google
For a limited time, Google is giving away free business cards.
Here’s the catch…you only get 25 business cards and they’re based on your free Google profile page.
Not a bad deal…they’re free.
To get your free business cards, go to http://www.google.com/profiles/me and set up a profile. Add as much information as you can. Once saved, you should see the “Freed Business Cards” offer at the top of the page. Walk yourself through the iprint.com process and your cards will be shipped free of charge.
Update: 5/11/09 – here are the cards I received:
- Steve Hart
Sell Your Twitter Name
Have a great Twitter account name? Think someone would want to buy it? Tweexchange thinks so too.
Here’s the latest in entrepreneurial social networking money making schemes. Post your twitter account and price and let the money roll in. Now Twitter has a policy about not selling names, but I don’t know how they’ll enforce it.
- Steve Hart
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- Steve Hart
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