content sharing
Triberr to Take the Blogging World by Storm
Triberr founder calls it a Blog Amplification Platform. Each member shares their latest blog posts, and other members amplify the blog by sharing each other's posts to social media.[read more]
Beware Sharing Content Without Reading It
It’s now very easy to share content that we find on our social networks, but it’s also very easy to just to click a share button without actually reading the content. Often, this is harmless. But be aware that there could be information in there that you really didn’t want to be associated with.[read more]
Buffer and Feedly: Two New Tools for News-Sharing
Businesses that want to be successful with social media and blogging must be mindful of news topics and trends within their industry. Breaking news and important industry stories are ripe for great blog posts. In order to monitor potential sources of information for sharing or blogging, business owners need to invest some time into a few tools.[read more]
Is Your Content Worthy of a Like, Share, Pin, Retweet, Google +1?
How many hours have you spent adding buttons, gadgets and widgets to your new blog or website? You research the right tools, share buttons, share bars, analytic tracking tools and more. You install them with a hope and a prayer that someone somewhere is going to use them. However, unfortunately many business leaders find they don’t...[read more]
Why Do People Share Online?
Learn the factors that spur the sharing of content on the web. Great resource for online marketers, social media experts, and business people in general.[read more]
Keep It Real: How to Use Linkedin to Maximize your Blogging ROI
Over the past few years, Linkedin has added some wonderful, free features that can help bloggers maximize their online efforts. Below are some of the top activities you can do to not only increase blog awareness, but generate traffic and, ultimately, engagement levels:1. Join Groups – Your free Linkedin account will limit you...[read more]
The All-Too-Common Mistake Many Lifestyle Bloggers Make
"There are people (like me) who love sharing content we find online. We share it on Twitter. We share it on Facebook. We share it on LinkedIn. But what we don’t do is spend an extra 5 minutes doing it manually – shortening URLs ourselves and hunting down your Twitter username so we can include it in the tweet. Many times, we will simply not share it. And sharing is the whole point of social media."[read more]
Audio Archive: The 2011 State of Community Management Webinar
The participants...Rachel Happe (@rhappe), The Community Roundtable (Moderator)Rachel is a Co-Founder and Principal at The Community Roundtable, a private peer network for community managers and social business practitioners. Rachel has over fifteen years of experience working with emerging technologies including enterprise social...[read more]
Audio Archive: Smartgrid and the Customer Experience
Contributors include...Christine Hertzog - Moderator, Smart Grid Library Christine is a consultant, author, and a professional explainer focused on Smart Grid technologies and solutions. She has two decades of experience helping companies that range from small start-ups to multi-national corporations deliver competitive and cost-...[read more]
Top Techniques to Maximize Content Sharing
If you’re trying to get your content shared on social networks such as Twitter and Facebook, here’s a list of tips to increase your chances of retweets and shares. And if you know others, please add them in the Comments! [Credit to Dan Zarrella for his many posts and webinars from which many of these best...[read more]
Your Website Only Needs One Social Share Button
Over use of social media share widgets are plaguing websites and distracting users from reading your content. You only need one.[read more]
Experience on the Edge Podcast Episode 3
Segment 1 – Opening GunAh, once again, time to get your mans up…whatever that means. I take a look at the way to look at social CRM as we enter a phase where it’s a major part of the conversation, but not of execution at companies. Though its individual elements are a part of execution. Then again, who adopted a...[read more]
5 Easy Ways to Recycle Your Content (While Still Staying Sane)
It's often said that online, content is king. Certainly it's central to social media, which often revolves around sharing that content, whether it be via blog posts, status updates, videos or countless other channels. Creating original content is what helps to get your name out online, build your credibility and drive traffic...[read more]
A StumbleUpon and Fotolog adventure
Yesterday StumbleUpon and Fotolog announced a content agreement in which StumbleUpon users will now have access to photos posted by Fotolog's over 18 million members in over 200 countries. As a StumbleUpon lover myself, I am excited about the idea of stumbling upon more unique content. Imagine discovering an exotic island for your next...[read more]
FriendFeed got me too!
I don't know why I waited this long! So many have written about it, most are even fascinated by it, I would say FriendFeed should be the next superstar on Brian Wallace's 5 Most Addictive Social Media Sites list. Aggregating friends' and group streams from 41 different social services is an amazing site for social media junkies...[read more]
Associated Press Fails To Support Web Ideals
By now anyone who is active in this space has gained word of the stunts pulled by The AP. To add insult to their own injury, The AP has updated their content sharing policy to a pay per word model. I don't have much to say about the matter, other than I wanted to help spread the word, for The AP is setting a terrible example that should...[read more]
Here Comes Everybody
A new book about how the Net has changed our social interactions Reading Twitter today I saw a reference to this blog post by Clay Shirkyon. It's a lightly edited transcription of a speech he gave at the Web 2.0 conference in April. He compares the early days of the industrial revolution to the early days of TV, when we spent...[read more]

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