article thumbnail

Facebook considers competing with Myspace on the music front

Freelance Social Media

The surging social-networking giant is talking to a number of song-streaming services and music community sites, including Rhapsody.com, iMeem.com, iLike.com and Lala.com, about an outsourcing deal that would more deeply integrate their music experience into Facebook, sources familiar with the situation said, the NY Post reports.

MySpace 100
article thumbnail

Poor Social Responsiveness Risks Tarnishing a Brand’s Image

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Now, small and medium businesses can compete with the big guys when it comes to getting their brand out there and establishing awareness where it matters. We live in a real-time world; monitor your Twitter feeds and Facebook page and have someone available who is competent to respond. This is a guest post by Corey Northcutt.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Four Steps To Optimize A News Release For Google News

Waxing UnLyrical

A word to the wise In my experience, communication pros these days are, more often than not, wise to SEO in general. When you SEO a timely news release, you are competing with news, correct? But what about SEO for news sites, particularly Google News? You likely want your story to be news, now. These fine folk did: Jan.

News 274
article thumbnail

10 Best Time Saving Apps and Plugins To Optimize Your Blog

Kikolani

Building a blog that matters is a full-time gig these days, especially if you want to stay ahead of close to 200 million other competing blogs – which you do, right? So the most useful thing you can do today is to install Simple WordPress Backup. Makes backups for your WordPress site simple. Just do it. Related Posts.

HootSuite 167
article thumbnail

The Problem with the Social Web

Direct Marketing Observations

But we weren’t competing for the same eyeballs and ears, so it didn’t matter. I’m generalizing blogs, but if you insist, I could go with WordPress, Typepad and Blogger. I see things being created that are offshoots of the basic premise of connecting, sharing and communicating-but nothing that is transformational.

Patterns 162
article thumbnail

Work Literacy

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Introduce yourself to the rest of the community. Trying to keep my blogs to one place, so here it is over at WordPress: subQuarks blog on Second Life in eLearning. Knowledge Worker Competency Series - #1: Finding, sorting, and determining relevency of information. Welcome to Work Literacys Web 2.0 for Learning Professionals.

Web 2.0 206
article thumbnail

70+ Resources on How to Start a WordPress Blog

Kikolani

It is also great for socializing and building your own community. However, if you want to set up a business site, I suggest WordPress. You can use a hosted WordPress or a WordPress installation. The next list includes sites that have the installable version of the software (like the WordPress that we will be discussing).