Posts Tagged ‘ social media ’

Links Possibly Not All-Important: Mentions May be Sufficient

For years a major part of Google’s success was based on its ability to determine the popularity of a particular web page based on the amount of links to the page. This is still a huge factor for search engine ranking. But there’s mounting evidence that links may not be the only way to count […]

Are You Talking or Listening?

Social media is an interesting animal and one that has been capturing the attention of companies for quite some time.   But the big question for most companies is how best to use this platform to their advantage – by the way,  if you’re looking to create more traffic to your website, you definitely do not […]

Clean Out Your Twitter Nest

One of my favorite blogs is Erin Doland’s www.unclutterer.com. Being very particular about cleanliness and neatness (more the latter than the former), I find great tips I can put to use keeping my work, personal and online lives nicely organized.  It also helps me to feel a little more sane when I read about how […]

What's Your Strategy?

If you haven’t chosen your favorite Internet marketing tactic, now’s the time to give your opinion.  Lee Odden of Top Rank Blog is conducting a poll on which Internet marketing tactics are most favored for 2009. It’s not surprising to see that blogging ranks as the number one tactic.  Hubspot asked 167 respondents and 75% […]

Photoshop Express: photo editing goes social

Perhaps it was just a coincidence, but Adobe released the beta of Photoshop Express the weekend prior to the Photoshop World expo, held here in Orlando a couple of weeks ago. I was fortunate to be in the audience when Adobe Sr. VP John Loiacono demonstrated the new application, which is entirely web-based. To “oohs” […]

The Machine is Us/ing Us

[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE[/youtube] This is from last year but I was just re-visiting it now and I still think it’s one of the best examples of the idea of “Web 2.0” or “Social Media” as we prefer to call it now. It also touches on the separation between content and format which is so essential to building […]