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
If you’re smart, you’ll be invited, or better yet, throw the party. The party of course, meaning the place where you socially interact in the social media arena.
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.
Think about it – often, not always but quite a bit, people are congregating online to avoid offline encounter. It’s not always because they are shy or anti-social. Sometimes being online is more efficient than, say, having ten people fly out or conference call for a meeting.
Allan Cockerill started discussing what he says is the central issue to social media interactions: (more…)
Before I get started, let’s get two things straight.
Okay, so now that we’re on the same page…
Just in case you’re a newbie to social media.
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.
GIMP is written and developed under X11 on UNIX platforms. But basically the same code also runs on MS Windows and Mac OS X!
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!’
So here they are, in reverse order. Jump on over and when you’re done, thank Martin for his awesome work!
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 -
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.
2- For the next week, every time you do something to market or promote your site, write it down. At the end of the week, star each action that in some way contributed to generating a profit. Sort them by how much money they made you, then in reverse order of how long each activity took.
Remember that if a combination of four actions makes you $100, group them together as one item and add their time expenditure together.
3- Anything you did that doesn’t make the list of contributions to a sale, de-prioritize them.
Tinu Abayomi-Paul
I build traffic systems to increase the profitibility of your website. You can implement them yourself with one of our how-to manuals, below, or you can email us at support@asktinu.com for a free consultation, to evaluate your site for a custom solution.
Morgan and Cindy Lighter
Cindy is our organizational whiz. Morgan is the author of our most popular column, Tool Time Fridays.
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