Category: Social Media News
Google Search Plus Your World Launched
Google Search, Plus Your World You ready for the greatest Google search transformation to date? Earlier today, Google announced its industry-changing method of personalizing the online search engine process for users, launching “Search, Plus Your World.” Google states that searching for content online is a personal process. The keywords you submit to their search engines [...]
I Help Brand and Market Experts
This past week, I revealed my early plans about launching a subscription site for educators interested in making effective, successful blogs, websites, and online businesses. As each day passes, my excitement only intensifies as I can’t wait to begin sharing my expertise in education, social media, and website design to help my colleagues amplify their [...]
Hey, Chatty Cathy – Ease Up on Your Social Media Accounts
In an effort to market a blog, website, or online business…it’s not uncommon to create social media accounts to promote your happenings and automate postings to spread your content. But don’t you think 178 may be a bit too many? “168,” you say? According to a report by the Altimeter Group, that’s exactly how many [...]
Quick, Easy Method to Like Facebook Pages
I don’t intend to write an elaborate blog post on this topic… …I stumbled across an extremely quick, easy way to “Like” other Facebook pages while playing around with my own FB page news feed. In the right column, Facebook posts a “Recommended Pages” column full of various FB pages that you can immediately “Like.” [...]
Education Bloggers Can Gain Instant Viral Traffic, Just Using StumbleUpon
StumbleUpon is one of the most powerful websites education bloggers could utilize for getting viral traffic to your content. While there are no guarantees, StumbleUpon can send tens of thousands of visitors to your site in a few hours AND prove to be a consistent source of traffic over the long-haul.
5 Things to Know About Facebook Timeline
As of last week, the Facebook Timeline feature on user’s profile pages is now fully operational and available. According to Mashable’s description: “Timeline presents a way to digitally document your entire life, from birth to present, via wall posts, photos, announcements and events. Consider it a neatly organized social scrapbook with a visually pleasing interface.” [...]
Finally Registered for Scoop.it
After waiting several months, I finally realized that Scoop.it ended its invitation-only beta membership and now is accepting open registration for users. Social media tools like Scoop.it harness great power in content curation, as individuals can “scoop” content they view online and recommend articles/photos/video to others who have created a Scoop.it topic page with a [...]
VisualCV Website Ceasing Operations
I’m actually quite disappointed that another dot-com website is closing-up-shop. This time, a pretty cool tool that helped individuals create a visual curriculum vitae (CV) or resume will cease operations effective December 30, 2011. The website enabled users to update their CV with information and upload photos and videos to make one’s CV more visually-appealing. [...]
Pinterest: Organize and Share Your Favorite Education Links and Images
I’m so happy to share another bookmarking-content curation tool that was recently launched, called Pinterest. Using Pinterest, individuals can create a board on a specific topic while “pinning” various images and links on their board for others to read. It’s described as “online pinboard” that yields people with the power to organize and share their [...]
Get More Twitter Followers with Hashtag #FF
Most people new to Twitter tend to get frustrated that their Twitter following isn’t nearly as high as others. Quite frankly, the total amount of Twitter followers shouldn’t be your primary goal. Instead, focus on your actual amplification reach and number of mentions and retweets. Both of these analytic measurements can be indicators of your [...]
