Sun.Jul 17, 2011

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Weekly Roundup: What’s Buzzing?

Waxing UnLyrical

Everyone’s buzzing about Google+ (I’m starting to like it a little better since I did my first hangout with Jack B and Jill Foster a couple of nights ago). Everyone’s starting to buzz about Spotify (I got my invite on Friday and LOVE it). “Everyone,&# of course, being everyone who’s into this kind of stuff… which is still not a lot of people in the grand scheme of things (though my Facebook and Farmville-addicted mom joined Google+ yesterday, so I take that qu

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Do You Protect Your Content?

Small Business Mavericks

Content scrapers have become a huge nuisance online. They’ve always been a problem, but since anyone can now have a robot that crawls the Web, anyone can effectively have a content scraper. Note that I don’t believe that simply owning a robot makes you a content scraper. There are legitimate reasons for scraping content and doing so ethically, but there are many unethical content scrapers who are ranking higher for content that they have scraped from someone else – even big bra

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Media Hacks Is Back With Episode #38

Twist Image

Episode #262 of Six Pixels of Separation - The Twist Image Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to. This is also episode #38 of Media Hacks. And we're back! Chris Brogan , Hugh McGuire and I dig deep into Google + - the new online social network from Google that has over 10 million users in under two weeks and over one billion items shared.

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6 Killer Writing Tips from a Great-Grandmother of a Copy Editor

ProBlogger

This guest post is by Aman Basanti of Ageofmarketing.com. Meet Ailsa Campbell. Ailsa is a great grandmother of an editor (pun intended): she’s been teaching English longer than many of us have been alive. Needless to say she knows a thing or two about writing well. Here are Ailsa’s top tips for becoming a better writer. 1. Get your homophones right. “Homophone&# sounds like an alien word, but you use homophones every day, and often incorrectly.

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21 Advanced ChatGPT Prompts To Take Your Social Media to the Next Level

Upgrade your social media game with our in-depth playbook: "21 advanced ChatGPT prompts for social media managers". These powerful prompts are tailored to supercharge your content creation, strategy development, and results analysis. Say goodbye to writer's block and hello to endless creativity as you effortlessly generate engaging posts, come up with original strategies, and optimize your social media performance - all in a fraction of the time.

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Thinking passed the NOW in social media

Jeff Esposito

This is post is part of the Institutionalizing Social Media series. To see previous installments or to learn more about the series, click here. Social media is one big contradiction. Its strength is its fast pace and evolutionary nature, but that’s also one of the biggest obstacles when trying to institutionalize social media. Rapid changes to existing networks and emerging “next-big-thing-” platforms can leave even a battle-tested social media manager’s head spinning.

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Don’t Drive Your Blog Distracted

ProBlogger

This guest post is by Chris The Traffic Blogger. I can tell you a thousand ideas I have on how to be creative and when/where to write, but I struggle to create a list of times when you shouldn’t write. Most authors advise that you create articles during the good times and the bad in order to do two things: Improve upon your writing skill and increase the diversity of your writing.