Corporate Blogging at its Best
Posted in Around the Web, Blogging, Social Media on Nov 10th, 2011
The creator of Reddit, Alexis Ohanian, tells the tale of a whale’s rise to Web stardom. Well, not really. He talks about the rise of social media in the story of Mister Splashy pants. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conferences, where leading thinkers from around [...]
Posted in Blogging, Internet Marketing, Internet Marketing Tips, Social Media on Sep 15th, 2011
According to Nielson, an international marketing research company, which a division specializing in consumer-generated media measurement and analysis solutions, has found that Americans spent a quarter of their online time on social networking sites. The report combines data from Nielson mobile and online meters, buzzword data and survey has found that people spent more than [...]
Posted in Blogging, Internet Marketing Tips on Jul 28th, 2011
How to Increase Blog Traffic With hundreds of thousands of websites and blogs floating in cyberspace, how to you attract readers to your blog? Regardless if your blog is for consumption by the general public or if it is a special interest blog, which will only be read by a very specific population, you still [...]
Posted in Around the Web, Blogging, Social Media on Apr 19th, 2011
You’ve been building your social media profiles for months now, but you don’t go beyond a few hundred followers. What are you doing wrong? Unlike traditional marketing in television and print media, social media marketing is much more vigorous and strategy-based. Whereas a lot of money can easily land you a tv or radio commercial [...]
Posted in Blogging, Uncategorized on Feb 21st, 2011
When people ask me what I do for a living, they’re often shocked to hear that I’m a professional Blogger and Social Media Coordinator. Ten years ago, this role did not exist and social media writers were not taken seriously. How the world has changed. With social media becoming a major global marketing force, it [...]
Posted in Blogging, Social Media News on Dec 31st, 2010
Time Magazine recently released their collection of Bests and Worsts for 2010. One of the lists was entitled The Five Most Overrated Blogs of 2010. This is the third year in a row that time has compiled this selection of overrated blogs. The list is comprised of the following: 1. Fail Blog 2. The Big [...]
Posted in Blogging, Social Media on Dec 30th, 2010
For anyone with social media access or a private or company blog, one of the easiest ways to get yourself in legal, professional or personal trouble is publishing too much information about oneself or a related organization. While Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites make it easy for people to share their ideas, thoughts [...]
Posted in Blogging, Internet News, Social Media News on Nov 4th, 2010
The story that has been, if not blowing up the Twittersphere and Facebook this morning, definitely causing a ripple is one about blogger/website owner, Monica Gaudio and an article she wrote a few years back. You would not typically find a story about a brief history of apple pie to be at the centre of [...]
Posted in Blogging on Nov 4th, 2010
There’s practically nothing worse than an out-of-date blog – you know the ones where the last post was from eight months ago and is entitled something like, “I Promise I’ll Post More Soon!!”. Keeping up a blogging regime can be really hard, unless you’re a natural, so here are a few tips on how to [...]
Posted in Blogging, Social Media on Oct 15th, 2010
For those of you not in the know, infographics are big online right now. They are most often used to present information in a visually pleasing way and will often use beautiful designs to make otherwise impenetrable or unpalatable data accessible to all. Recently, they have become very popular on the social web as a [...]