Archive for the ‘the-social-web’ Category

2010 Traffic Trends: Bizstreaming Gains Popularity But Doesn’t Quite Mainstream

Lifestreaming has been around for a while, arguably longer than blogging.

Where a blog is a collection of regular entries containing commentary around a certain person, topic, niche or business, authored by the people associated with it, lifestreaming is a centralized collection of the various streams about a single person, topic, niche, business or other entity.

Though it’s been growing in popularity for individuals at a fair clip since 2007, the technology to successfully lifestream has been behind the rate and design at which a business would find useful.

Most individual lifestreams are a collection of every public stream of information that individual finds relevant to share.  If you’re familiar with services like FriendFeed, you may already have an idea what this looks like.

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7 Social Media Tactics for Explosive Results in Your Business

Smart Social Networking Reaches the Entire MarketFirst, let’s define the term Explosive Results for our usage.

When you visualize something exploding, you think about a burst of energy, often associated with fire for some reason – probably the fault of our favorite action pictures.

I love to see things blow up as long as I know no one really got hurt – not just in movies but in website promotion. And an intelligent social media strategy won’t just get you several thousand links from various social sites. It can bring you premium web visibility, more targeted visitors, and bring you closer to your existing audience.

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Network Solutions and The Security Breach: Are We Missing a Wake-Up Call?

networksolutionsIt’s taken me a bit of time to write this article. I’ve been trying to figure out the best way to express my concern for all of us without it sounding like I’m belittling the concerns of those affected by this unfortunate event.

Then I realized – that pretty much says it. Please take the sentiments that will follow in that context.

Before we go any further, I want to repeat the disclosure I made in the article I wrote on Tuesday. I serve  on Network Solutions’ Social Web Advisory Board. It’s necessary to state that because my relationship with them may bias my opinion under certain circumstances. This is not one of those instances.

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[article plus video] How Will Oprah’s Audience Affect Twitter?

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I hardly ever watch TV live, and today was no exception. But Mashable has a portion of today’s Twitter appearance featuring @Oprah and @aplusk (Ashton Kutcher), who reached 1 million Twitter followers, beating @CNN, so I ended up seeing the Twitter-relevant part of the show in a fairly timely fashion after all.
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