Archive for July, 2008
Social Media Tip of the Day: Take the Time to Optimize Your Blog Posts
Posting a blog entry once or twice a week is a lot of work in and of itself, so taking that extra few minutes to optimize the post can make it worth the time you spent creating it.
Here are a few things you can do to optimize your blog posts:
Add them to appropriate categories.
Add tags […]
Social Media Tip of the Day: Recommended Tool- Lijit.com
The Lijit.com “wijit” is an interesting approach to letting your readers search your content all over the social Web, as well as your network’s content. It is sort of like creating your own search engine for your readers, where you determine the sites that are included in the engine. Once you choose your content sources […]
Purpose-Built del.icio.us Pages Explained
del.icio.us is a social bookmarking site that allows you to save your favorite Web sites and blogs, comment on them, tag them, and share them with others.
When you create your del.icio.us account, the link to your page will look something like this: http://del.icio.us/your.account, where “your.account” is the username you choose when you create your account.
When […]
Social Media Tip of the Day: Tagging Your Multimedia Wisely in Flickr, YouTube, and beyond
It is amazing the kind of exposure you can get by properly tagging the images you upload to Flickr, video clips to YouTube, or any other type of multimedia you share in media communities. First of all, choose descriptive file names, using at least one good key term. Then, always take advantage of tags and […]
Social Media Tip of the Day: Regularly Check the Blogosphere for References to Your Posts
Make certain you know what others are saying about you and your site. And, if appropriate, comment on their feedback. There are a number of ways to do this, but I find it easiest to use Google alerts. That way, I am informed via email and don’t have to go searching. There are also some […]
Social Media Tip of the Day: Know the Difference Between a Business and Personal Profile
There is a fine line between your business profile and your personal profile in many of the social networking sites. MySpace makes it easy to build a presence specifically for your business, and as long as you keep a business look and feel about your page, there is no question. You need to be careful […]
Social Media Tip of the Day: Save More than Your Own Pages on Social Bookmarking sites
When contributing to social bookmarking sites or news aggregators, contribute content that is not your own. Many people consider it spamming if you only add your own pages and posts to such a community. One way to avoid doing this is to participate regularly on only a few of your favorite sites. Also, keep their […]
Web 2.0 Development Firm Launches Interactive Guide
June 30, 2008 Web 2.0 Development Firm Launches Interactive Guide - Social Media Power Offers Hands-on Instruction on Social Media and Optimization: Social Media Power launches a practical, solutions-oriented guidebook to social media and Web 2.0 optimization to benefit entrepreneurs, small businesses, authors, and small publishers.
Read the entire release here…
Top Picks: Facebook Applications for Business Pages
The Social Media Power team has compiled a Top Picks list of Facebook Applications that we use most often for our business clients. We found that implementing these applications creates an interactive page that also gives visitors a personable look into a business.
My Flickr (http://apps.facebook.com/myflickr/): Display photos from your Flickr account using this application. These […]
