And your inbox is more successful at managing text and multimedia better than the Facebook timeline, Twitter feed, RSS subscriptions and Google+ feed combined. Contrary to popular belief, Facebook is NOT the largest social network on the planet. That honor still goes to email. Think about it, your email contacts are like your Facebook friends, LinkedIn contacts, and Twitter followers all rolled into one. With email, we send more than 188 billion messages every day, where Facebook and Twitter combined only traffic 200 million messages. Is email used to discuss common interests?

This one is more cosmetic, as it’s a plugin that works on your RSS feed (this is where subscribers can read your blog). What I like about Align RSS Images is that it keeps the image formatting used on your blog post in the RSS feed, as opposed to losing the alignment like normal RSS feeds. Fix RSS Feeds. One of the possible dangers of changing designs or web hosts is it can mess up your blog’s RSS feed, and your subscribers aren’t aware of new posts. So, here they are. afterRead. Akismet. Align RSS Images. BackupBuddy. Clicky for WordPress.

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However, the algorithm EdgeRank seems to be a very good starting point for understanding the secret deciding what gets the highest ranking in your fans’ and their friends’ news feed. To sum up for those of you who don’t breath EdgeRank through the office air everyday: Time : The newer the post, the better the visibility in the news feed. More interestingly, Questions also attract a high level of engagement and thereby a high ranking in the news feed, despite only acquiring a simple cast of vote and occasionally writing an alternative option. The EdgeRank model. The results.

Week 4: RSS & Newsreaders Learn about RSS feeds and setup your own Bloglines newsreader account. Locate a few useful library related blogs and/or news feeds. RSS Feed. Welcome to the original Learning 2.0 Program. This site was created to support PLCMCs Learning 2.0 Program; a discovery learning program designed to encourage staff to explore new technologies and reward them for doing 23 Things. Since the programs launched, it has fostered Learning 2.0 programs all over the world. 23 Things. 23 Learning 2.0 Week 2: Blogging Set up your own blog & add your first post.

Burn Baby Burn… Burn Your Twitter feed: Why would you want to use an RSS feed for Twitter? Well, by using RSS, people can subscribe to your posts (and in this case Tweets) and get instant feeds sent to them. Just like a blogger would use RSS feeds to increase their popularity with search engines and help draw traffic to their blogs, you can use RSS feeds to do the same for your Twitter account. Next, in a different window open up your Twitter account and scroll down to the middle of your Twitter page and click on the RSS feed icon. Thanks for the info.

Facebook Home Cover Feed. The Facebook Home introduces the Cover feed, a new screen which replaces your phone home screen and lock screen! 'Starting April 12, buy HTC First Facebook Phones or download Facebook Home , a new Facebook Android app which will take over your Android smartphone and get Facebook as your front page, for better social connections with your Facebook friends. So finally Facebook phones turned out to be bigger than just phones with dedicated Facebook buttons. See how you new mobile home screen might look like in the image on the right. All Rights Reserved.

heard this on Sunday and so just for fun I filtered every one of the newsletters and rss feeds that I never even bother to scan into a mailbox. RSS Feeds. If you are using social media for marketing then you don’t want to bury people with information all at once but feed it little by little in useful quantities. will also use it to send content out to my network over a period of time so when I read my RSS feeds every day I don’t just dump a dozen feeds on my network but spread it out over the day. Great question isn’t it? Email. Automate.

Stand out in the news feed as well as within your timeline by including images where possible, including in as many news feed posts as possible. Brand advocates — people who share content that results in a new person engaging with a campaign – generate an average of 14 earned media impressions each, according to research released today by Wildfire, the social media marketing software company recently acquired by Google. The data is based on an analysis of 10,000 social marketing campaigns that ran on Facebook over the past 9 months.

I interrupt my regularly scheduled programming, to bring you this message in hopes that I can assist in cleaning up our Facebook feeds from unnecessary and often over done posts.  Take it easy on our news feeds will ya? Yes, we all choose our Facebook friends and thus are responsible for what we see, but I can’t help but point out a few things that…let’s be honest, deep down we all want to see less of right? Not to mention with their new larger photo previews on the timeline, the last thing I want to see is a closeup of your mangled foot disease.  Social Media

Keyword filtering has all kinds of shortcoming and RSS feeds are little better than headline services. All of a sudden, “ curation ” is one of the hottest words in the Web 2.0 world. That’s because it’s an idea that addresses a problem humans have never confronted before: too much information. In the process, it’s creating some compelling new ways to derive value from content. Content curation is about filtering the stuff that people really need from out of all the noise around it. The problem with curation is that it’s labor-intensive. More wheat, less chaff. Shhhhh!

This is despite that our active Facebook followers have increased much over 10000 followers now, but only very few hundred of them see our posts in their feeds! Of course Facebook curates your news feeds to filter the clutter and showcase interesting viral content, but has the algorithm changed now or it is about Edgerank  issues? Facebook answered this question in a recent blog post to explain that Facebook was not ‘gaming news feeds so you pay for more ads. My guess is you do. Now we get around 300-500 views! Dangerous Minds shows the math. Related articles.

Other options include Twitter Feeds, Posterous , Linked In , Ping.fm , Netvibes , Sharepoint , Google Docs and Echofon. Skip to content The Cube Home About us Speaking/Training Contact us Pitch us Subscribe Which are the top tools and apps: The results 27/09/2010 by Gemma Went A couple of weeks ago I started a survey to find out which business tools and apps you guys can’t live without. I’m delighted with the results. 80 people responded (you have no idea how long it took to get the final 1, I was never going to be satisfied with 79) and the feedback was great. clout.

You can star items and even subscribe to either your history or these bookmarks as a feed. Annotate Bookmarks and Feeds with a Private Friendfeed Room. The second way to use this is to start importing RSS feeds into a private room. They offer bookmarklets and other tools for easy flagging, a personalized RSS feed as well as mobile versions that strip down the articles down to just text for low-bandwidth reading on the go. You can follow this conversation by subscribing to the comment feed for this post. Blog RSS Feed. Comment Feed. Enjoy! Thanks.

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The latest News Feed can be confusing if you are friends with a lot of people but only want to really keep an eye on certain people. Once you have added friends that you want to follow, you can simply view your custom list in the News Feed, hiding all of the updates by those who you have befriended but don’t necessarily want to follow closely. Hide people or apps that annoy you in the News Feed by hovering over the item and clicking Hide and selecting your preference. Unsubscribe from feeds that you recognize you are not benefiting from. Twitter Lists.

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So, how do you find, develop and (buzzword alert) curate content that will feed into the passions of your followers? How does your product or service feed into the feeling of hope? Social media compounds the problem by demanding constant care and feeding. Recently, I had lunch with my friend Jim Farley. Jim is the visionary behind America’s best All News radio station – WTOP. He has not only created an engaging media outlet, he continually expands his reach into digital, social and mobile platforms. Thomas Aquinas. The levels of passion we experience are varied.

The app allows an active person to choose which one of nine charities it wants to support, ranging from  Habitat For Humanity   to Feeding America the  UN World Food Programme. Every month a raft of new apps appear to make your life easier. Fortunately, apps also appear to make the lives of others easier. And Charity Miles stands out for the way it makes giving seamless in one’s life. Here’s how it works. The athlete sets their iPhone on GPS to allow them to be tracked as they participate in their activity. You can find the app on iTunes here and on Android.

Due to lesser engagement, brand’s updates would rank lower in the news feed because of the EdgeRank algorithm. So brace yourselves brands, you need to keep coming up with interesting content to secure the engagement levels and to be seen in the news feed. How to Improve Your News Feed Ranking on Facebook. Tweet According to TheNextWeb , a new Facebook communication option appeared for Asia-based page admins. Apparently, this allows business pages to receive private messages from their fans. What does it mean for brands? What NOT To Do On Facebook.

At that time, they removed the prominent RSS icons and made it only possible to access an RSS feed for an individual by logging completely out of Twitter, and visiting that individual's profile page. Now #1 is also removed as far as I can see (and looking at the HTML source I see no evidence of any RSS feed). It seems Twitter has completely removed the ability to consume their feeds via the open standard of RSS in favor of their more proprietary API formats. If you would like to continue using RSS feeds from Twitter accounts, we recommend using a 3rd-party service.

If you can't see it displayed properly in your feed, click here to view it directly. ? They say “imitation” is the sincerest form of flattery – in which case, we would love to thank our friends over at HootSuite. Back in April, we came out of closed beta and opened up our platform to 1,000 users in an open beta. To celebrate this jump in status, we created a video in-house that shared an example of one of our users, the Bandit Coffee Group in Toronto. Here’s the video below. Simple. Clear. Here’s the HootSuite video below: This post contains a video. Clear.

News as RSS Feed. Sitemap. Search: Top menu. Overview. Workplan. Results. Events. Publications. Partners. Weblog. Contact. APOSDLE learn@work. -->. Right menu. Workshop on Contextualized Attention Metadata: Profiling and Modelling User Activities - Call for Papers. International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications: Metadata for Semantic and Social Applications. 22-26 September 2008, Berlin, Germany. Submission deadline of tentative abstract: 12 June 2008. Submission deadline for paper submission: 23 June 2008. CAMA 2008. Deadline for applications is March 15th, 2008.

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It would simply have to cram too many into the feed, and that could wreck the user experience it has spent years building, and lead people to visit less.” Out of Facebook’s mobile user base of 543 million, nearly 20% access the social network via mobile only. That’s 102 million people accessing Facebook every month only from mobile – a 23% increase over the 83 million mobile-only users in March 2012. Facebook’s US growth has slowed to 10% in the past year, vs. a global average growth of 29%. Mobile ads just started showing up on Facebook in February 2012.

scan 275 RSS feeds in Google Reader and I use dozens of bookmarklets and shortcuts to help me manage it all. The Toolbar then automatically feeds it into a new message. Some enterprising folks have taken data feeds from the BBC and CNN and ported them to Twitter. Be sure to turn off SMS alerts if you use these feeds since they will pile up.). and automatically feed these into your Gmail database? you can feed these into Gmail automatically too. or Google Reader shared feed through Yahoo Alerts. This works for any RSS feed, not just bookmarks.

Like now, a majority of the interactions with your brand on Facebook will take place in the News Feed – not on your Page (or Timeline). Rumor has it Facebook will be rolling out Timeline for brand pages any day now. The most frequently given date is February 29. Until Facebook makes their official announcement, however, we don’t exactly know how Timeline will work for brand pages. Assuming it’s going to be a lot like Timeline that’s already rolled out for people, here are 3 easy ways brands can prepare for the change: 1. Prepare your cover photo.

” Having pieces that spark conversation (like the controversial breast-feeding cover) can also help to drum up interest on the social network. Time magazine has become one of the most popular news brands on Google+, with over 1.2 million users adding Time to their circles on the social network.  Cathy Sharick, managing editor of Time.com, shared some tips for achieving success on Google+, as reported by Journalism.co.uk. In addition, Time is taking advantage of several features unique to Google+, including circles and hangouts.  ”  Plans for more hangouts are in the works.

The SXSW Twitter feed helped many communicate with each other and even allowed for individuals to meet for the first time. Twitter as a feed reader (for more important feeds). subscribe to nearly 150 feeds and have no systematic way of reading them ( unlike Robert Scoble ). Sometimes, I’ll read the noisier (and most frequently updated) feeds first so I can tune into the more important feeds later. But sometimes, there’s some breaking news and I’ll never know about it until I actually hit the particular feed that discusses the news.

Set up Google alerts for your keywords and add them to the same file in your RSS feed. Use a dashboard like your RSS reader and build RSS feeds from each of the searches listed above. It’s going to be more helpful for the person who doesn’t understand how to set up RSS feeds, because it walks you through the process of installing the different search widgets. Today’s guest post is written by Lisa Gerber. guess I shouldn’t be surprised anymore. Maybe I’m just sad now: At how many organizations are missing opportunities to be involved in the conversation.

look at news feed – Users like an average number of 28 pages. – People have usually liked a page that was recommended to them by their friends – Users pay more attention to page updates in the news feed rather than adverts on the right-hand side – 71% of the users looked at ads on their profile page but only 31% of users looked at ads on their news feed. People read the page updates and are likely to notice the targeted ads as well. The study was conducted by the National College of Ireland on behalf of Mulley Communications.

If there is an RSS feed for that, it would be great. I would really like to grab an RSS feed and show it as sidebar widget if possible). What is the simplest, easiest and fastest way to bookmark web pages? Are you still saving bookmarks in your web browser? Are your  bookmarks and ‘read later’ lists available when you need them? In Superfast Bookmarking with Google +1. Its everywhere – Ever since Google said that +1 button can influence search engine rankings, webmasters ensure all webpages boldly display an easy to find Google +1 button on every webpage.

do schedule some of my blog posts and tweets, especially when I know that I’ll be in meetings throughout the day, that way I don’t spam my feed with 10-15 links at the same time during the 30 minutes that I have to surf the web or stumble some favorite site. I recently participate in an Twitter chat where the conversation turned to whether or not it’s a good idea to automate social media activities. Other, more controversial suggestions included allowing automated services to generate tweets for your or using filler tweets like paper.li Cheers! Digg this!

If you’re buying followers and they’re not interested, that content won’t show up in their news feeds or in the feeds of people who truly do have an interest in your product. Get my Internet Marketing newsletter , buy my book, The New Community Rules: Marketing on the Social Web , and subscribe to the Techipedia RSS feed. A few years ago, a colleague of mine was given a tremendous responsibility to oversee the social media department at a prestigious well known NYC-based public relations firm. I’ll be exploring some of those reasons below.

hope you have enjoyed the social media humor and I’ll be continuing with my comics and cartoons throughout 2013 so check back or use the form on my home page to subscribe to my RSS feed and have them delivered to your Inbox. It’s that time again, time to bring all of my 2012 social media comic strips, cartoons and humorous graphics into one single post. If you haven’t already, also be sure to check out my roundup of social media comics and cartoons that I created in 2011. Cheers! Bloggers: Would You Rather Be First Or Right? Or Is It? Are You A Social Media Channel Changer?

don’t follow RSS feeds as it would be just one more thing I would have to stay on top of. Liz Hover, a Canadian digital media manager : I’m not a fan of feed readers. find the layout of feed readers noisy. pay for a Feed My Inbox account that allows me to receive email updates from any website with an RSS feed – even if email isn’t offered as an option. Many of my friends prefer feed readers but I don’t see the logic in collecting information at another inbox and having to remember to check it. devour email. One inbox.

Thus if you do not want a particular information to feature on your network's feed and if you do not want that the whole network of your friends view it then this is an incredible facility. In such cases when you share the entire post with everyone it may start making people turn a blind eye towards your feeds as they are not relevant material to them. With the result people may start to 'hide' your feed on their home page. Very recently Facebook has introduced a new social plugin, the 'Send' button. It may not be general interest to all persons.

You never know until you check out their feed. By studying their feed, you can learn a lot more about how important social media is to them. As an example, let’s take a look at Robert Scoble’s FriendFeed (click the image for a larger view): In this screenshot, Robert utilized both Google Reader and Twitter, and the comments spread to his feed where an ongoing discussion ensued. You can subscribe to your friends’ feeds, but you’ll easily drown in the frequency of updates. That is, of course, if your friends are using Twitter. Very informative!

Click the Follow button and their status updates will start appearing in your home feed. This search identifies tweets relating to community management by searching the #cmgr hashtag 6) Set up some searches and conversations to follow – In TweetDeck and HootSuite, your home feed represents the tweets from people you are following. So, you’re ready to Tweet, right? Before  you jump in and start tweeting away, here are seven tips that can help you avoid looking like a newbie and (hopefully) avoid some common pitfalls. Who are you? What do you like? Again, listen. Learn.

With a Tweet, Tweet Here, a Video There, … In addition to using Twitter as a realtime information feed, farmers are using video , blogs and Facebook to keep customers in the loop about conditions on the farm, in the hopes that this will keep customers engaged and supportive. The other side of the supply chain is becoming more connected to realtime data feeds, too. As a mobile-friendly platform, Twitter has been used by farmers to share information, check realtime conditions, and connect with customers from its earliest days –  CNN reported on this  as early as 2009.

If you can’t see it displayed properly in your feed, you can view it directly here. People ask where marketing fits in with social media, and if it still has a place as consumers and “normal people&# enjoy a bigger say in how successful a product is. To help with this, here’s a short and simplified presentation that offers a new take on an old method (the Four P’s of Marketing) and an overview of what this means for you. It’s not meant to be an exhaustive look; more an easily digestible social media and marketing biscuit. Hope you enjoy.

If you can't see it displayed properly in your feed, click here to view it directly. Get sharing your Friday thanks in the comments below, and we’ll announce the winners on our Twitter feed come Monday morning! You see, gentle readers, they wouldn’t call it ‘TGIF’ if it wasn’t for the ‘thank’ part. mean, could you imagine if you were only moderately pleased, yet largely indifferent, that is was Friday? Then they would refer to this feeling you have, week after week, as ‘MPYLIIF’ – and that is… just a lot of letters.

It collects all your “social networks&# activity and creates a linear feed where your friends can leave comments. This is great but what if you wanted total control of your feed as well as how your site looks. You basically subscribe to a feed (RSS) and as the news is posted it comes right into reader. If you have an account on Flickr, you will notice on the page where your stream is, at the bottom, a link to RSS feed. Ctrl Click on the latest and copy that FEED Address. Save this feed and you are ready to go. Read more. Tumblr is the answer. 

Facebook itself just added RSS to its feeds for Facebook Pages and opened its database so you can reformat their content, so long as users approve, in any way you like. In the new design I can’t find an RSS feed anywhere. Previously there was a link to the lower-right allowing you to add an RSS feed. They also had a link to the RSS in the source of the HTML so your browser would automatically recognize the feed, and just entering the URL for the user profile into Google Reader, they could automatically detect the feed for you. link]. Hope that helps!&#.

It appears that Facebook listened though, as there is now a "Subscribe via RSS" link on Facebook Pages, and the source now links to an atom feed for clients that want to auto-discover the feeds. Today JSON based APIs are quite a bit more powerful than RSS feeds and have become preferred by the vast majority of developers when building on the platforms you mentioned. This means that it's worth investing more time and energy into APIs over feeds. You can see it by looking down at the bottom left on any Page now. Of course, he had a point.

use a RSS reader and read feeds because it is part of my writing process. My feeds are organized into folders and the folders ordered by priority. Like a farmer tending his crops, I'd scan through each folder, each feed, bookmarking and annotating what caught my eye, and looking for patterns and connections. Photo by Lynetter. Lately, my RSS reading habits have changed. haven't given up on it completely, but my process has changed. This scan, capture, analyze patterns, and write a blog post is a part of my routine. It still is, but I now use other methods for scanning.

After that, all touch points between the brand and the fan are conducted in the Facebook News Feed. of all comments on his client’s status updates come from within the News Feed, not on the Wall of the page. Beyond that, all my interactions occur in the News Feed. Exposure Via Facebook News Feed Ain’t Easy. Whether or not those status updates continue to show up in the News Feeds of your fans is no sure bet. of all status updates are shown in members’ Top News feed (which is the default setting used by ~95% of all Facebookers).

If people don’t like what you’re sharing on your Facebook page, they’ll un-Like you, hide your content from their News Feed and/or never engage. The less they engage, the even less visible you will be in the News Feed (thanks to the EdgeRank algorithm ). I hear it a lot. “We had/have a Facebook page, but it didn’t/doesn’t do anything.” ” If you’re thinking this right now about your brand’s Facebook page, forgive me for being the bearer of bad news, but your Facebook page is not going to do anything. Promote your page.

And not least reaching people with relevant content in their News Feed, where they spend the highest percentage (40%) of their time on the platform. As shown in the above model from the report, the first step for a brand is then to actually be seen by fans in their News Feed. Tweet Recently, ComScore , the global leader in measuring the digital world, published a report on social marketing and how it’s not just about getting likes! Facebook pages are the go-to destination. Compared to brands’ normal websites, a Facebook page has become the go-to destination for consumers and fans.

But because ALL of it shared as a feed, the whole becomes available and accessible, and thus interesting. Second, the items in the feed are seen in two ways, in the Tickler blended in with all of the rest of debris of our lives, and in Timeline where it’s laid out against the context of time. News Feed was met with derision and boycotts but in the end, people found it too valuable. Now Timeline and auto-feeding of your activities is pushing the edge again. Leading up to Facebook’s f8 conference today, my biggest concern about the rumored new “Read. Watched.

Brian Meeks has delusions of novelist, which he feeds by writing the Henry Wood Detective series (Available soon and on his blahg). When Facebook no longer feeds their social media buzz, they turn to Twitter (the crack of social media).  Brian Meeks has delusions of novelist, which he feeds by writing the Henry Wood Detective series (Available soon and on his blahg ). When the economy went south, he turned to social media and does this to feed and clothe himself.  Kathryn sat at her desk watching her Twitter stream on TweetDeck.  A few bits of spam were trashed too. 

If you could get your content into their feeds, then the sky is the limit to where you can go as a blogger. Yes, it’s also the most time-consuming, as you have to do all the legwork and find the sites in your niche that accept blog feeds to be shared. As is adding the syndicated feed to your email signature, or other online destinations. For instance, instead of people sharing your blog post on Twitter, Facebook, etc, they share the syndicated feed. For most (if not all) bloggers, one of the key metrics on how their blog has grown comes from how many readers it has.

During that time, I quickly flip through my RSS feeds via Flipboard or Feed.ly. have a Twitter RSS feed set-up to push tweets with the #blogging hashtag to my Reader. Here’s a post from Kristi Hines showing you how to do the RSS Feed Ninja move. If I have time left, I check my RSS Feed again. It’s a typical, grey, Michigan winter day. People are heading home trotting quickly to their cars bundled against the cold air. One cube warrior walks a touch slower than the rest. He’s lost in thought. You can see the steam rising from his moving lips. It’s me – blogging.

Step 3 – Get your foot in the door (11 weeks out) The first thing I do is add all these blogs to a feed reader like Bloglines. You’ll want to process your feed reader at least once a day for 7-8 weeks. You can also add the blog feeds to a custom Google search engine. we automatically rank the blog per influence.Step3:- we consolidate the feed real time (can be extended to twitter, youtube, facebook pages and anything with an RSS) and give you capability to dive in the river of conversation and spot/trend/discover topics of interest.- thanks. Glad I did.

So after a full weekend of removing feeds that hadn’t updated in a year, I began to slowly collect feeds from new bloggers I have connected with since the last time I did a full sweep of my RSS subscriptions. can access my RSS feeds on any computer I am logged into my Google account. And I can access my RSS feeds on my phone via the Google Reader app for Android. See what posts have the highest engagement on any of my feeds with the PostRank Chrome Extension. How does one keep up with hundreds of RSS feeds? So how do I organize all of those blogs?

Feed readers may need to click through to view). This morning I caught wind of a Steve Spielberg produced, J. Abrams directed movie scheduled to come out next year. I’m sure I’m very late to the game but was inspired by what I found.  The movie is called Super 8 , which is unfortunate due to an association with a motel chain I had a very bad experience with once.  That’s a story for another time, or, never.)  The movie has a high quality and special effects trailer that doesn’t directly reveal much about the plot.  Take a look.  Related articles by Zemanta.

Organic reach refers to the number of unique people who have seen your content in their news feed, ticker or on your page. The promoted posts will then reach more of your fans depending how much you spend and be shown as a sponsored story in their news feeds. When people engage with the post, it will be shown in their friend’s news feed too. Tweet As we already know, Facebook is constantly testing new features and optimising how the platform works, both for personal profiles, but also for company pages and Facebook’s marketing opportunities. Assign Admin Roles.

If you can't see it displayed properly in your feed, click here to view it directly. A lot of people continue to talk about Klout and whether it’s something to take note of, or simply another tool that’s fun to use but doesn’t offer real value. Personally, I’m in the second camp. Probably because I don’t feel you can measure influence purely by what you do online, and most definitely because there are so many variations that make up a single decision that – to me – it’s impossible to say what influenced that decision the most.

By Lauren Drell Facebook has started rolling out Promoted Posts for Brand Pages, a new feature that allows businesses to pay for posts to be more predominantly displayed on news feeds. Here are your 5 must-reads on Facebook’s Promoted Posts that began rolling out last week. Facebook Promoted Posts: A Step-By-Step Guide. Facebook Launches Promoted Posts For Pages. Facebook Promoted Posts (Sorta) Explained. By Drew Bowling A Facebook spokesperson replied to a few questions I had about the promoted post features. Below is the Q&A from our correspondence.

Feed URL (e.g., RSS Feed Syndication Sites. Over time, the top source of traffic for most blogs is search. The two keys to search success are great content and links. Assuming you’ve already got great content, there are many places to get links (e.g. social networking profiles, social bookmarking sites, other bloggers). But two great sources are blog directories and RSS syndication sites. Not only do they provide valuable links, they can also supply direct traffic and help build your RSS subscriber list. charging for inclusion). Preparation: What You’ll Need First.

This is contrary to a February study by email marketing firm ExactTarget , The Social Break-Up , which concluded that 81% of consumers have either “unliked” or removed a company’s posts from their Facebook news feed. A new study by marketing firm Constant Contact and research company Chadwick Martin Bailey sheds light on how consumers interact with brands on Facebook. According to 10 Quick Facts You Should Know About Consumer Behavior on Facebook (below), it turns out that people engage with their favorite brands on Facebook far more than on any other social network.

For instance, I have “ must make ,” “ winter training ,” “ books worth reading ,” “ gift ideas ,” and more that feed my creativity. Pinterest feeds that in a big way. I’m not going to lie. I’m obsessed with Pinterest. blame my sister. She’s an enabler. Since its launch, I’ve been a big proponent of it. It’s, in a sense, an online scrapbook. You find images and videos you like and “pin” them to your online boards. But the best part? Something like 84 percent of us are visual learners.

– Lara Tweets are very similar to article headlines so an RSS feed may be the right solution for those who want to read tweets alongside their news in a reader. Go to [link] and follow the two easy steps needed to generate an RSS feed. Simply search for the hashtag on search.twitter.com and it offers the results up as a feed as well. Who can tweet somthing in 140 characters that you need to set up a feed for. I’ve just wasted a million years searching the Twitter help section for a way to find the RSS feeds from my lists. Great tip, Mana! Awesome!

If you enjoyed this post, please consider leaving a comment or subscribing to the feed to receive future articles delivered to your feed reader. When I talk to my family, friends, colleagues or community and ask them how they’re doing, usually they respond with some variation on being too busy, tired and in need of a vacation. This is because we have been trained to run as hard as possible to stay competitive. For many of us, we live our lives online which exacerbates this because of the never ending firehouse of information and feeling that we need to keep up.

Now add feeds of content to each tab. Find the RSS feed for each search. Once you have added all the search feeds from news. Monitor these feeds of conversations every day for two weeks.  You can use the phrases and feeds you know to be relevant and use a smarter tool for long term monitoring and social intelligence gathering. When you start monitoring social conversations it takes a while to figure out which words and phrases return the most relevant content. iGoogle is one easy-to-create and easy-to-use dashboard.  If you have an account, sign in. And voila! 

If you can't see it displayed properly in your feed, click here to view it directly. If you can't see it displayed properly in your feed, click here to view it directly. If you can't see it displayed properly in your feed, click here to view it directly. ?. Ahh, the promise of fame: “ Kid, you’re gonna be a big star. Your face is gonna be up on billboards. You’re gonna make a lot of money. You’ve got the stuff of legends “ These days, 15 minutes of fame happens every minute of every day. It’s a rich breeding ground of social phenomenon.

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Despite the fact that he had over 50,000 Twitter followers, his entire feed was a broadcast. Their social media efforts were spearheaded by a guy who looks like a nice dude, but after studying his personal Twitter feed, it was almost the same kind of thing: the process was almost wholly automated. Effort was placed into collecting articles and scheduling them over time to give off the appearance of a “fresh&# and “relevant&# Twitter feed, but engagement was kept at a true minimum. However, following their home Twitter feed was really difficult. Why not?

News Feed for your Page Likes.  Click on Home and you will see the News Feed for all the Pages you Like as your Page.  Woooweee Facebook has rolled out some big changes to the Pages!  We knew it was coming when the gave us a sneak peak into the new look back in December.  No more tabs, new notifications for comments and Likes, logging in as your Page, new photos at the top – yikes!  Here’s everything that has changed in a nutshell. Logging in as the Page.  Now you can comment on other Pages as your Page and Like other Pages as your Page.  That is fantastic!  Facebook

John argues that rather than visiting websites, people will increasing turn to their “favorite feed app on the iPad and start flipping through that inexhaustible river of fresh content that keeps coming at you every day, 24/7. ” Professor Gelernter and John certainly have a point in that streaming information (a Twitter feed being a prime example) is an increasingly popular way to consume web content (and time). Websites are dead. Search engines are going away. Soon no one will care about the traditional commercial site focused on a company and its products. Poppycock.

If youre new here or just an old friend, Id love it if you subscribed via RSS feed. If you enjoyed this post, please consider leaving a comment or subscribing to the feed to receive future articles delivered to your feed reader. Justin Levy Marketing and Social Media Home About Archives Contact Disclosures Newsletter Speaking Understanding How Google Works [Infographic] Written on July 8, 2010 by Justin Levy in google , infographic 0 Comments - Leave a comment! Thanks for taking time out of your day to come hang out here! 250 discount if you use "JUST25" when registering!

Facebook Interview with Jason Weaver, CEO of Shoutlet (Examiner.com) Facebook users may no longer have their say on privacy policies (Examiner.com) ‘People You May Know’ Feature Appearing On Facebook Mobile News Feed (AllFacebook) Facebook Begins Converting Users To HTTPS (AllFacebook) Yahoo, [.] In social media, there is never a dull moment! Check out the list of headlines below. This week in social media (November 19-23, 2012) was written by Cendrine Marrouat for her social media blog, Creative Ramblings. Great Resources Miscellaneous News social media headlines

The tool indexes millions of RSS feeds and a Feed Authority score is applied to each. 'Blogger and influencer outreach is an area with strong crossover between PR, audience development and link building. For publishers it typically involves identifying users that are sharing, discussing and linking to content from your brands and their competitors, and about specific topics. Then building relationships with those users over time and coming up with ideas for outreach, content development and promotion. But the same general approach applies to any industry. Followerwonk. Topsy.

Week 4: RSS feeds and Feedreaders. Install a feed reader. Add SLAV to your feeds Copy and paste the following address into your reader: [link]. The Victorian School Libraries Learning with Web 2.0 Program… Re-imagine … Home. Contact Us. Credits. Further instructions for this week’s task. Register your blog. Welcome! Congratulations to all of you who have chosen to participate in this program and who are on your way to developing an understanding of the Web 2.0 tools readily available in todayâ??s society. Some take up to 30 seconds to begin. Good luck!

Home Content RSS Log in Social Media Citizens Home Case Studies Reports SMC List TOP Lists Video Consulting Portfolio TOP 15 Augmented Reality Blogs February 26th, 2010 by Giedrius Ivanauskas Leave a reply » Share I’ve just created a new tab in my RSS reader solely dedicated to Augmented Reality. Previous Entry: TFM&A starts tomorrow Next Entry: Extremely funny social media roundup by Marcus Brown Posted in Augmented Reality (AR) Tags: ar ar top blogs Augmented Reality (AR) augmented reality top blogs social media citizens You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0

Tags and Feeds. Entries Feed and Comments Feed Sims Learning Connections. Living at the intersection of People, Technology, and Content — with a passion for Knowledge and Learning. About. Inspiration. Open Content. Personal Learning Environment (PLE). Synonyms: personal knowledge management (may be closer to relate term than truly synonym…hard to say as neither term has a generally accepted definition). Related Terms: e-portfolio, virtual learning environment, VLE, digital lifestyle aggregator, DLA, continuing professional development, CPD. Resources. By Author.

Total impressions (How many people viewed the post in the news feed or wall?). Measuring the effectiveness of social media campaigns has been quite a hot topic over the last few years. One of the biggest objections business leaders make about the medium is the difficulty to measure success. Is that really the case? Using analytics and other measurements, we can get a solid idea of what social media is (or isn’t) doing for our brand. What you choose to measure is up to you, but should always reflect an analysis of your main business objective(s). Website traffic. Total page views. Email.

If you can’t see it displayed properly in your feed, click here to view it directly. I was flattered (and a bit surprised) when Hessie and Danny over at Jugnoo asked me to speak at Social Mix 2012. We’ve been in conversation about the challenges around measuring the marketing effect of social media since we met.  I guess I said something of interest. So what did I speak about?  My presentation was titled “Influence: Today and Beyond”  . The continuous challenges of influence. Today, influence is measured as a person’s ability to push information to a group of people.

Tabs can be fancy with a lot of bells and whistles, but I recommend focusing more on news feed optimization and keeping your tabs simple. Adding a custom tab to your Facebook Page can be an effective way to help your Page stand out from the crowd, promote exclusive “fan-only&# deals, showcase a new product or simply welcome new visitors with a branded splash page. Two simple, yet effective, tab types: 1. graphic with a message explaining what people can expect from “Liking&# your page (ie exclusive discounts, behind-the-scene access, general conversation, etc). No worries.

Facebook Facebook Fan Pages now have a dedicated feed (Examiner.com) Facebook teams up with ChildLine to suppress intimidation and abuse with new ‘Step Up: Stop Bullying’ campaign (The Next Web) Facebook test makes comments on page posts more like web [.] In social media, there is never a dull moment! Check out the list of headlines below. This week in social media (November 12-16, 2012) was written by Cendrine Marrouat for her social media blog, Creative Ramblings. Great Resources Miscellaneous News social media headlines

Smart people are posting ideas for new business models based on an open API , lamenting what could have been  had Twitter become an API company rather than an advertising company, and raising money to build  an alternative realtime feed API. Now the company is partnering with NBC to create an events page for the Olympics, with a curated feed of the most popular posts from the games. Ever since Twitter picked a business model  based on advertising, the company has been emphasizing the importance of creating a “consistent experience” for Twitter users. says Anil Dash.

saw it on my news feed among other friends’ updates of this and that that they wanted to share with me. Some friends see the story in their news feeds, others may miss it. The above screenshot is taken from one of my Facebook friend’s walls. blinked at the word “Sponsored” as I hadn’t seen a sponsored update before. Clicking the link, I learned about sponsored stories and how companies and brands can choose to pay select Facebook users for the privilege of sharing that brand page with their friends. Here’s how it works. Marketing Facebook

Posted by: Amit Agarwal , a professional technology blogger at Digital Inspiration and an exceptionally creative Docs user We were first introduced to Amit Agarwal when he sent us a video , detailing how to use Docs as an RSS feed reader (check out the accompanying and instructive blog post , as well). Site Feed. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Live blogging with Docs. Wednesday, July 09, 2008 6:51 AM. We watched the video, read his blog post, and were completely impressed. OK, we are now ready to roll. Now you have two options here. Now there’s a small trick involved here.

” as a Facebook status update, then Facebook could re-purpose that post and and add this advertisement to any of my friends’ news feeds: This blog post brought to you by Facebook Ads…just kidding Unfortunately, regardless of whether you liked by a pawn in Facebook’s advertising game, there was no way to opt-out of being part of the program. In 2011, Facebook announced a new advertising program called “Sponsored Stories” that basically told your friends what you were doing in the form of an add. Watch out co-workers!” The case, Angel Fraley et al.,

Thanks to their inherent viral features (such as activity feeds, friend invites, notifications etc), social networks provide the ideal platform for spreading the word about your campaign and your brand. If you have a Facebook Page for your business, you should strongly consider running a social, interactive promotion on your Page. According to Jupiter Research: 80% of all internet users have entered at least one sweepstakes or contest within the past year, and 50% enter them at least once a month. Pretty powerful metrics for any type of business. source: Wildfire. Playing by the Rules.

Streaming only your blog’s RSS feed on Twitter. Using your Twitter feed as a chat room for conversations that are exclusive in nature and not as a broadcast medium. As a friend recently said to me, “I’m tired of my Twitter feed being a [private] conversation between person X, person Y, and person Z.&# If you’re going to claim your social media profile on that totally awesome service, either don’t share your feeds at all or interact on a semi-consistent basis. just don’t want to clutter my feed with @name1 @name2 @name44 Tweets.

You can even pull an RSS feed or feeds into a Google Doc and go from there. Today’s guest post is written by Kami Huyse. . Let’s face it, most people who go into public relations do it because our skill sets run in a certain direction. We are great writers, we love strategy, we think broadly about issues, we are connectors, and we “ love people ” (that is a little PR joke). But math and analytics? Most of us would say, “Not really.” ” However, we can’t let an aversion to our less developed skills intimidate us. Become an analyst.

And, if you have an iPad, use Reeder for your RSS feeds. Evernote is not great for RSS feeds or saving links to read later, but it is super efficient for note taking, journal writing, taking photos (I use it when I am relegated to the trainer and want to enter my stats in Training Peaks later), creating to-do lists, and never carrying around another notebook again. A few months ago,   Danny Brown ,  Frank Dickinson , and I had a comments conversation on  Danny’s blog about  Evernote. said I love it; they both couldn’t understand why. Yes, it’s taken me a few months to get to it.

in Twitter, track URL mentions, create feeds from searches and more. David McClellan presents an outstanding to optimizing all of the elements of your Twitter profile (name, bio, avatar, URL and feed) for search. You follow two people,&# “Your feed consists of status updates. While a dwindling number of business executives still dismiss Twitter as a waste of time, recent research suggests it is one of the most valuable social networks for business. 51% of active Twitter users follow companies, brands or products on social networks. How you can use it most effectively?

The reason being that when your Post gets on the feed of your Circle Members there is a huge chance of their interaction as well. With Google bringing out the Google+ Business Pages it is clearly understood by many that you will have a heads up on the Google Search aspect. While there is no such certainty what perhaps you need to do is take care of your SEO when you are working on your Google+ Brand / Business Pages. What you need to look at and pay extra attention to is: When you Post on Google+ make it a point to have the Public Visibility on. Participate in conversations in Google+.

PostRank will help balance out the information from Google Analytics, including RSS feed tracking and conversation on Twitter surrounding a particular link. It happened again this weekend. Over mimosas and a lovely chat. Laser focused and sincere the question came: “How many followers should I have on Twitter?&# Ahh, yes. It’s still a common question, mostly I believe, because its the easiest to measure, its a number you can view at a glance.  I get this question a lot. My answer is always the same: “It depends on your goals. Increased brand value?

Even if you don’t have a Twitter account, you can still use their  search application to find conversations.While we believe everyone should have a Twitter account in order to funny understand and take advantage of their wide range of services, you can subscribe to the RSS feed without an account. you find visitors coming from blogs, add those sites to your RSS feeds, comment on the blog posts, and develop relationships with the bloggers. There are five steps in social media we always recommend to  new clients who are just beginning to branch out online. First things first.

If you can't see it displayed properly in your feed, click here to view it directly. They say “imitation” is the sincerest form of flattery – in which case, Jugnoo would love to thank our friends over at HootSuite. Back in April, we came out of closed beta and opened up our platform to 1,000 users in an open beta. To celebrate this jump in status, we created a video in-house that shared an example of one of our users, the Bandit Coffee Group in Toronto. Here’s the video below. Simple. Clear. Here’s the HootSuite video below: This post contains a video.

Or stand over the fax machine feeding through one press release at at time. The Internet and social media have certainly made it easier to conduct media relations in a more efficient and less intrusive way. At my first PR job I had to type in contact addresses from the hard-copy Bacon’s guide so we could mail merge and send out the press materials. Being required to do cold-call follow-ups as a junior employee was one of the main reasons I gravitated toward other forms of online marketing as soon as they started to emerge. –Well at least until the next round of layoffs. Images!

Don’t feed the trolls! 'Hopefully you’re reading this before you need it. Life is so much easier when you’re prepared isn’t it? This post is intended to help you see a crisis coming and have the tools in place to assist. Monitor first, last and always. well informed team can react before things get out of hand. Set up monitoring tools for reputation management. At a very minimum set up Google alerts, but we recommend setting up additional social listening tools as well to be sure to get timely reporting. The more the better in this case. Have a plan.

Overall, the report talks about how important it is to reach fans with relevant and engaging content in their News Feed, since their interaction with the content makes your message spread to their friends. Tweet In my last blog post , I wrote about a recent report focusing on how social marketing is more than just ranking up a bunch of likes! Further, several cases (respectively based on both earned and paid media) were included in the report in order to demonstrate how successful management of a community contributes to the brand increasing its sales figures. Social media personas.

If you enjoyed this post, please consider leaving a comment or subscribing to the feed to receive future articles delivered to your feed reader. Prior to starting any project I always ask a very simple question: What defines success? This may seem like an obvious question but not necessarily. Many times we start projects not knowing what success actually means, by the numbers. We may think that we know what success will be but a lot of times those become moving targets that can make make it seem unobtainable. When you work as part of a project team, require this of the team.

RSS feeds for press releases and blog posts. It almost goes without saying, but important news should be shared via the company’s Twitter feed, Facebook page and other important social media outlets. by TomPick and guest blogger Maria Verven. Almost every PR pro over a certain age remembers press kits–actual physical folders stuffed with a company’s recent press releases, management bios,  a corporate fact sheet, a few case studies, and maybe an article reprint or two. They were bulky, killed lots of trees, and of course weren’t searchable.

To stay up to date, please subscribe to our RSS Feed. Social networking is very essential for today’s online business world. If you want to get success through your online blog it is essential that you get some social media help so that you can grow faster and get better profits. Online blog needs various marketing methods to get converted into big business. Here are some social media tools that you can use to monitor your social media and the profits you are earning through it. Facebook Insights. This is one of the best monitoring tools for online blog. Google Analytics. Bit.ly.

jasonyormark.com Home About Me My Videos My Resume Contact Me Browse > Home / Social Media / 9 Twitter Directories You Should Be Listed On | Subcribe via RSS 9 Twitter Directories You Should Be Listed On December 21st, 2009 Posted in Social Media Tweet Share There are a variety of ways that you can build a strong following on Twitter, and one of those ways that is to take advantage of a few key Twitter directories that have established themselves quite well. By listing yourself on these directories, other users can find you if they are looking for like minded individuals.