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How Businesses like Sylvan Learning Center and Computer Explorers.

Saying It Social

Foursquare awards points and badges when users check-in at locations (check-ins can be done via a mobile phone with internet access or a computer). Businesses can engage and reward consumers by providing deals and discounts to Foursquare users that hold certain badges for checking in and patronizing their business. Get creative!

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Social Media Chat Tuesday, July 21st

Adam Cohen

If I name dropped them all, it would actually like correlate to a good portion of my RSS feeds , and the weekly chat is a way to interact and answer some questions real-time. Much to their dismay, Marc and Jason have invited me to host the tweetchat this week. More about this blog here. Thanks for dropping by.

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How To Promote You Facebook Page URL on Your Personal Profile.

Saying It Social

You would think that one of the first features Facebook would have added when the hype around creating Facebook Pages for business sprung up would have been a one (or two) click maneuver to easily post a link or a badge to your Facebook Page on your personal profile. Not as pretty as the Page Badge but still a way to promote your Page.

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Blog Design for ROI Rule #6: KISS Headers, Navigation, and Sidebars

ProBlogger

It’s a waste of space to use XXL branding, because we could instead prioritize the email signup form , which definitely feeds our long-term audience growth. Takeaway #2: Don’t distract visitors with long blogrolls, loads of award badges and other unruly sidebar features. Simpler sidebars.

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Foursquare Gowalla and Yelp Oh'My

Koka Sexton

As I travel around, I check into airports, hotels and where ever else I go and I earn little badges and become the virtual “Mayor&# of locations. Instead of badges and Mayorships, Gowallians get stamps on their passports, collect pins and find items along the way that you get to tote around in a digital backpack.

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Koka Sexton dot Com

Koka Sexton

As I travel around, I check into airports, hotels and where ever else I go and I earn little badges and become the virtual “Mayor&# of locations. Instead of badges and Mayorships, Gowallians get stamps on their passports, collect pins and find items along the way that you get to tote around in a digital backpack.

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Koka Sexton dot Com

Koka Sexton

It can take almost any blog and feed it into a Twitter account, so you see new items when you’re on Twitter or using any of the Twitter applications. Twit This is a badge similar to the popular “Digg This” badges, which help the visitors of a web site to quickly include its URL into a Twitter post.

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