Social Links Freelance Social Media Social Media Tips and Marketing Blog Home About Contact Subscribe Justin Timberlake Loves Social Media and You Should Too by cinta5 on September 1, 2009 Musicians have historically been good at embracing the web. Just look at what the internet did for the Arctic Monkeys back in 2005. About the author Jacinta wrote 70 articles on this blog. They understood the importance of being on Myspace and connecting on the same platform as their fans. He’s on the more traditional social media platforms such as Myspace, Facebook, and Last.fm.  MORE >>

Have you ever wished that you jumped into the social media game back in 2005?  Back when Facebook was a college thing and people were intrigued by those quirky online journals called blogs.  Early blog pioneers still had to bust their butts to succeed but they were able to appeal to an open and less cynical public. My Son's Blog. Flash forward to 2010 and blogs are commonplace. In fact, some blogeratti have 2 or 3 blogs sprinkled across WordPress, Tumblr, and Posterous – oh my! They stay top-of-mind and lead the masses to their blog. MORE >>

This is a guest blog post by Michael White of Musings of a PR Student. began blogging in 2005 (my promoted blog was founded in 2009) and have never looked back. As I reached maturity it became clear that blogging was no longer for the weird recluse yearning for a better life; instead, it’s a practical application for furthering a career. Yet, despite my personal successes, I am still finding it difficult to convince fellow students to blog. 1.Your blog is your portfolio. Blog to control your SEO. Blogging shows your determination. MORE >>

Within the past week three people from three different industries (advertising, internal branding and higher education) asked me to contribute to posts they were writing about blogs. . However, what was especially interesting to me was every person was concerned (in varing degrees) about the viablity and longevity of blogs in a world of social network clutter. . wondered how different my point of view about blogs was back in the day versus today. So I pulled out a deck I presented to the AMA Oklahoma Chapter in 2005 (!). 10 + 1 Blog Take Aways -- from 2005. MORE >>

You may not realize it, but the font settings on your blog can have a huge effect on how many people read your content. Back in 2005, Jakob Nielsen reported that in a survey of web design problems, bad fonts got nearly twice as many votes as the next contender—with two-thirds of voters complaining about small font sizes. random sampling of new blog designs at SiteInspire (a web design gallery showcasing the best of the best designs) shows that the average font size for body copy is 12 pixels. Here’s another little-known rule that a lot of blogs break. Blog Design MORE >>