Social Media

Is Social Media Replacing Blogging? Will Micro-Blogging Destroy Blogs?

November 8, 2011 Social Media
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It is always great to have the opportunity to share your knowledge with others, and I am grateful to have had the opportunity to do so at BlogWorld. As a panelist on the topic of Promoting Your Blog in the Age of Social Media, I dealt with many questions on promoting a corporate blog and [...]

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Falling Back Into Old Bad Habits: Blogging vs. Social Networking

August 20, 2011 Social Media

The eternal debate over moving your social identity from blogging platforms to other social media like social networks will never die (for the foreseeable future, at least), but I for one believe that you should never cede complete control of your personal brand to the innumerable social networks. A personal or business blog, hosted on [...]

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How Your Virtual Assistant Can Ruin Your Online Reputation

August 14, 2011 Social Media

One of the troubling trends that I’ve seen more and more of recently, is that people are outsourcing aspects of their social profile to Virtual Assistants (VAs) who are clearly unqualified for the task. I see the average Joe, large speakers and other personalities who participate online and use a VA to do so on [...]

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A New Form of Twitter Spam: ReTweet Stories With Your URL

September 4, 2009 Social Media

Over the past week or two I’ve noticed a new form of what I would deem Twitter SPAM. I’m not talking about all the crappy auto-responder messages or the direct tweets that try to get you to visit a link. This new form of spam on Twitter is more devious. Examples: As you can see [...]

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Twitter Fail: Site & API Down AGAIN!

August 25, 2009 Social Media

It looks like our good friend, Twitter.com is down once again. Facebook has also been giving me problems for a few days, so my guess is that there is another attack happening . . . of course that is just speculation! Where’s the Fail Whale when you need him?

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Hiding Your Real Identity when Participating in Social Media – Good or Bad?

May 3, 2009 Social Media

Should a Real Name be Required when Participating in Social Media? This question has been floating out there for a while, but I just wanted to get it in circulation again. Frankly, I believe that if you are not willing to reveal who you really are when participating in social networks, forums, and other social [...]

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Technorati’s WTF Got Game(d)

May 15, 2007 Blogging

Introducing Technorati’s WTF aka Where’s The Fire I don’t think it has quite caught on yet, but Technorati has built it’s own answer to Digg, Reddit and the rest of the social news and bookmarking sites. It’s called Where’s The Fire or WTF and covers “What’s Hot, and Why.” Considering the popularity and resources of [...]

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My Suggestions for Improving MyBlogLog

May 13, 2007 Networking

I’m a huge fan of MyBlogLog, as it has become a great tool for building blog traffic, but I have one issue with the site that continues to annoy me: The Problem with MyBlogLog When you add a friend, the site redirects you back to your own profile. This is extremely annoying! When I find [...]

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Selected Useful Reads from the Problogger Group Writing Project (Filtered for your reading pleasure)

May 13, 2007 Blogging

It is hard to go very far without running into a site with entries in Darren Rowse’s latest group writing project; it was a huge hit with close to 900 entries. While it is great that people are linking to one another from this thing, it seems that many involved in the project are simply [...]

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Freedom of Speech and the Internet: Should Comments be Moderated?

May 7, 2007 Blogging

I just read an interesting post over at the Bivings Report titled, Online Venom or Vibrant speech?, where author Todd Zeigler looked into a recent article on the Washington Post and examined a comment made about moderating comments on Post articles. It seems that the online edition of the newspaper gets some extremly rancorous and [...]

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How to Use MyBlogLog to Succesfully Build Massive Blog or Website Traffic

April 23, 2007 Blogging

Update 2/24/11: Yahoo has announced that it will discontinue the MyBlogLog service on May 24, 2011. I wrote about using MyBlogLog a few weeks ago (networking with social media sites) for networking purposes. I now want to tell you exactly how to build massive traffic using the MyBlogLog community. MyBlogLog is an extremely important tool [...]

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MySpace Takes on Digg / Netscape and Fails to Deliver. Yup, It Sucks!

April 20, 2007 Social Media

Looks like MySpace wants to go back to its roots and launch another crappy product without style or functionality. The recently launched their MySpace News Beta (of course they had to include the uber-lame BETA tag – more about BETAs in another post), which looks like a really poorly modified Pligg clone. You would think [...]

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Social Media Site Twitter Beats the USGS in Reporting Mexico City Earthquake! A News Revolution Begins!

April 13, 2007 Commentary

Instantaneous News Delivery: A Social Media News Revolution Thanks to Twitter I’m floored! Technology has completely changed the world and it continues to do so. Apparently, the large Mexico City earthquake yesterday was first reported on Twitter by users in the heart of it! While its wild to think that we can find out about [...]

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