Archive for the ‘multimedia’ Category

[video & article] Are Regular Consumers Using Buzz? If so, Should We Care?

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If you’re wondering to yourself whether Google Buzz is being used by the non-techie majority in Gmail’s estimated 220 million users, here’s a tip for figuring out whether it’s active in your area.

Before you watch the video below to see the “how-to” of this, let me explain why this is of any importance, in case you haven’t already come to one of these conclusions yourself.

You see, now that the furor over Google Buzz has died down considerably, many businesses and site owners are thinking about how they can use it to get exposure to their sites. Some are discovering that simply plugging their Twitter feed into it, or treating it like Twitter is failing.

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UPDATED: Google Social Search and How It Impacts You #business #socialmedia #Google

(Sound problem on video has been fixed.)

It’s a bit more clear how Google Social Search Impacts Your Business with visuals, as the video above “How Google Social Search Gives Your Social Media Efforts More Impact” will show.

Here’s a quick summary of what you’re looking at, followed by a few points I didn’t make in that video.

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[video] Twitter’s Retweet Button Joins the Conspiracy to Make Me A Completely Lazy & Useless Carbon Based Unit

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Oh Twitter.

Why are you a bunch of damn bastid? How dare you make me into a sloth? Isn’t it enough that I pimp my friend’s and the people I stalk on Twitter as my daily content? Did you have to go and make it moronically simple to do?

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27,000 Visitors a Week? Ripoff or Real?


Here’s a link to the su.pr traffic video if you are viewing this post via a syndication channel and can’t see the video above.

The video above is some of  StumbleUpon traffic, specifically the traffic I drove using su.pr. In the example above, the numbers average to about 5000 Stumbles a week, and I’m not a Power Stumbler by any stretch.

That’s not even traffic I got for myself, it’s for other people.

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[video] UberVu vs Topsy

Quick video I did on UberVu vs Topsy.

I normally use Tweetmeme and BackType Connect to follow social media conversations about my site. But these were worth a mention, as I love anything that will link back to my blog when someone’s tweeted about me.

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[video] How to Find and Use Your Google Information Page

Here’s an oldie but goodie that I recently re-did and split into two videos. It’s all about examining basic information about your site in Google, but without logging into Google Webmaster Tools.

Hope you find these useful.

Part One:

Part Two:


Here’s the description that’s on the YouTube page:

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[video] How to (Un)Market on Facebook if Your Audience Knows and Likes You

I’m back again, continuing the Facebook Business Basics series.  

If you went to my Facebook page, you saw two videos about how you can find people on Facebook who may be interested in you and let them come back to your site. This video talks about  what to do once you have someone viewing your profile. (more…)

[YouTube video] Why LinkedIn in a Nutshell from David Bullock

David Bullock (an ACTUAL social media expert – we’ll talk about that later) interviews Mike O’Neil about LinkedIn. If you don’t know why you should be using it, take six minutes and 21 seconds to find out why. Another great LinkedIn expert?

Vincent Wright – especially if you’re looking for work right now. I hope to talk to him really soon.