article thumbnail

Weekly Roundup: Who Are You?

Waxing UnLyrical

Why: this is a fascinating look at an exercise in trying to drive action via online influencers. Why: Tom pointed me to this after Friday’s post on making your blog mobile friendly. Image: Filipe Dâmaso Saraiva via Flickr, CC 2.0. The answer will surprise you. Turn your blog into an iPad app! , by Tom Moradpour.

iPad 125
article thumbnail

State of Crisis Communications and Social Media from a Professor’s Perspective

Waxing UnLyrical

A recent report from Continuity Insights in 2014 shows that “over half (58%) rated mobile technologies [are considered] as absolutely vital in carrying out crisis communications plans, up 5% since 2013” (page 4). Photo: Alan Cleaver via Flickr, CC 2.0.

article thumbnail

Judging A Blog Post By Its Cover

Waxing UnLyrical

Image: mj*laflaca via Flickr , Creative Commons It’s about how that writing looks. As you continue to hone your craft (as I try to do), here are some of the exercises I put my writing (and those of my guest bloggers) through on a daily basis, to see if it looks as attractively as it (I think) reads. D’oh, you say.

Class 215
article thumbnail

How to Create a Reader Avatar for Your Blog

ProBlogger

Grace is on Facebook, is a heavy user of email and has a Flickr account. If you’re just getting started with your blog, this same exercise could be done with potential readers – or the type of person you want to read your blog. Why Should You Create Reader Avatars? Now it’s over to you.

Avatar 42
article thumbnail

The Bamboo Project Blog

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Flickr photo via Nesster. If you do the exercise, please let me know, either in comments or by blogging about it and tagging it with "web2.0wednesday" and "workliteracy." Then move to mobile application, etc. Stephens PLE: Store photos ( Flickr ) and video ( Google video ). through the lens of Web 1.0,

Project 265
article thumbnail

Twitter versus Plurk: Not Even in the Same League

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

On the other hand, Plurk is really new, and thus, Twitter wins on followers (and the fact that mobile access — via SMS — totally owns), so the Plurk discussions (for now) are at a minimum. I am starting to use Plurk more with the mobile interface, though it isn’t 100%.

Twitter 199
article thumbnail

What Traits Define a Social Media Marketer?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Also interesting is the “digital nomad&# trend – increasingly mobile computing, from laptops to cell phones and beyond. Then consider how one could be productive with just a cell phone, and it may even be a worthwhile exercise to write a blog post using pencil and paper. Do they go to BarCamps, PodCamps, etc? Be real time.