Internet Marketing Weekly Roundup » Social media

Great-Tasting Bookmarks

IMWR — Sat, 23 May 2009 22:01:56 +0000

If you’re relying on just your browser to manage your bookmarks, you’re missing out on a lot of what can be done with them. Delicious is a great way to add a lot of power to your bookmarks, and all you have to do is install an add-on for Firefox or Internet Explorer or a bookmarklet for other browsers.

Tag your bookmarks and group them; add notes; sync them between all your browsers and computers; and share them with others—be sure to comment on the IMWR site about how you’re using this social networking site to increase your IM business.

Protecting Your Web Identity

IMWR — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:01:14 +0000

As social networking and other Web 2.0 sites proliferate, and as you begin getting involved more and more in them, your user name pretty much becomes your identity. If your user name gets used by someone else, it could be a big deal to you—particularly if it’s a branding ID like your real name or your product.

UserNameCheck.com checks a plethora of sites (currently 68) for the availability of your user name, then gives you either a link to signup (if available) or to view the user on the site. Use it not only to see how and where your user name is being used, but also to show the newest Web 2.0 sites you should be checking out.

What the Heck is Social Media?

IMWR — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 06:10:04 +0000

You’ve probably noticed that the last several issues of IMWR have had a common thread running through them: Twitter. That’s not been by design, but as social media sites like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube grow in popularity, tools to make better use of them begin to proliferate.

If you’re not regularly using social media — well, why not? It’s not just for “kids” and it doesn’t have to be a time waster. Perry Belcher and Ryan Deiss recently sat down to talk about Winning at Social Media and why and how you should be involved.

Twittering on Steroids

IMWR — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 07:55:04 +0000

If you’re using Twitter to follow lots of people, there’s no way you want to visit each of their status pages to get the latest updates. What you need is a desktop application that automatically grabs the updates and displays them for you.

At the moment, I’m using TweetDeck, a cross-platform application that not only shows the updates, but also allows you to group them in multiple ways. Search through and filter the updates, then respond right in the main screen

Bonus Twitter Resource

Website Discussions

IMWR — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 23:22:53 +0000

Disqus is a powerful comment system that easily enhances the discussion on websites. In minutes, you’ll connect your community with those of over 45,000 other websites.

Threaded replies, video comments, ratings, and mobile replying make it easy for your site visitors to get involved. And an intuitive admin section and customizable widgets give you control over every aspect of your community.

Twitter Auto-Follow

IMWR — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 23:55:53 +0000

I was intrigued when, after following John Taylor on Twitter, he immediately sent me a direct message and also followed me. I did a little research to see how this was done and came across TweetLater.com.

I particularly thought this was useful because John’s message invited me to visit his blog. What a great way to introduce your new followers to your blog, a product, or anything else you can fit into 140 characters!

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