A Social Media Party Guide: Wallflower to Swinger in 6 Stages
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It seems to me that if you can learn how to be the life of the party, you can learn how to work the social media scene. Let’s think of it as a party then, and do a run down of how it would work out.
Stage One: You Go to the Party
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The more I think about what some people are doing wrong with social media, the more it occurs to me what other people are doing right, and how it can be emulated. I’m also realizing that I’m assuming that people know how to relate to each other, but that’s not necessarily true either.
Bookmark | Save | Share | EmailI’m A Digging, Sphinning Plugger who will Bump or Stir You Into the Mixx - How to Solicit My Vote
I can dig it, no pun intended. You want me to vote for your story on Digg, StumbleUpon, Sphinn, PlugIM, BumpZee, StrrdUp, Mixx, or my save on del.icio.us, Facebook, etc….
I know I said my vote isn’t for sale. But, paradox that I am, my love don’t come for free either, baby. The currency ain’t legal tender, is all. It’s respect for my time.
Bookmark | Save | Share | EmailBuying Social Votes Misses The Point, Or Why My Vote Is Not For Sale. Or Loan. Or Lease.
Before I get started, let’s get two things straight.
- I’m not saying you shouldn’t offer to fairly compensate the people whose advice you’re seeking. Just the other day I requested that a well-known social media personality help me think through a tough scenario for another party, and I demanded that said party kick in the dough to compensate this person for their trouble.Effective advice? Is worth the price. In this article I’m saying referring specifically to Votes.
- Personally?I will take a look at just about anything submitted to me in the way that I prefer. Like anyone who gets a lot of incoming requests, I have a completely un-straightforward, quirky, but extremely effective way of organizing incoming information so that the right thing gets my attention at the right time, which I’ll talk about later.
Tool Time Friday | Lord have mercy! Is this the GIMP we’ve been looking for?
GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching (boy, do I need that one), image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages. Sacre bleu, mon ami.
GIMP is an acronym. It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.
GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted.
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Again, with keeping the same sort of thread that ran through Tinu’s posts dealing with JV-ing (it’s not really a joint-venture, it’s more like joint sharing) and commenting (it’s the commenting that made these tools available to you), as discussed in the earlier Tool Time Friday post today, I again ran across a great site with something really cool for all of you.
Martin over at Kabatology, has graciously allowed me to repost his awesome ‘8 Web Developer Must-Have Firefox Extensions!’
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In keeping in line with Tinu’s recent post dealing with JV’s Traffic Tip #4 as well as her post addressing the 10 Easy Ways to Increase Blog Commenting, I offer you a tool that I ran across while commenting on a post over at FronTools, a site you should all visit as often as you can. The author of this site, Joliveira, was kind enough to give me permission to share this tool with all of you habitual and rabid fans of this site. So, without further adieu -
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7 Steps to Simple Website Promotion Time Management
Here’s an effective and simple way to figure out what you should be spending time on to market and promote your site.
1- Write down all the activities you do to draw visitors. Include any active marketing and promotion — this exercise is not for passive items.
Bookmark | Save | Share | EmailTool Time Friday | This Tool is so Cool!
Want to create thumbnail images, convert images, create Web pages automatically, adjust image sizes and rename files and folders all at the same time?
Want to automatically create Web pages of thumbnail pictures, which open full size pictures when clicked?
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This program takes your photographs and converts them into black and white sketches or watercolor paintings. Sweet.
Here’s what PC World has to say:
Bookmark | Save | Share | EmailTool Time Friday | Do you ever use your HandBrake?
HandBrake is a free, open source application that rips DVDs to a number of different formats, including those supported by Apple TV, PS3, Quicktime and more
Those of you who may have used Handbrake 0.9.0. version will be happy to know that the newest version 0.9.1 has been released and has fixed all the ‘bugs’ that were inherent in the original version.
Bookmark | Save | Share | EmailJoint Ventures and Why They Should Be Your First Source of Visitors | Traffic Method #4
No Foreplay - the answer is because it’s easy traffic from people with a vested interest in helping you, who are you are also helping. If you start with joint ventures you may never need any other type of help again. This isn’t the case for everyone, but it’s the potential advantage is too big to ignore.
Bookmark | Save | Share | Email10 Easy Ways to Increase Blog Commenting
Everyone wants more blog comments - enough never seems to be enough. As a blogger, you can get addicted to how much feedback you’re generating. Be careful that you’re not posting just to be controversial, instead of focusing on the value of your post itself.
11 Ways To Piss Off Bloggers When You Comment
Some folks have realized that they don’t necessarily have to be bloggers to benefit from blog traffic, and have taken to commenting on blog posts to increase traffic and links.
It’s not the best method out there, but hey, whatever pays your rent.
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This post is inspired by our beloved Tinu because she’s a Mac freak and a lover of music.
Also, this post isn’t going to make you money or teach you sumpin’ you cain’t do without - BUT - it is for all you Mac heads that would like to be able to combine two of the most popular things in today’s technology.
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