New to social media? Rob Crumpler maps out six social media tips to start you in the right direction.
Plus other articles:
Share your content for Web 2.0 success
A Marketer’s Guide to Emerging Social Networks
My last post discussed how MSPlinks.com redirects make MySpace. com more dangerous for users. Since then, I’ve stumbled upon a brilliant MySpace GreaseMonkey script by Jason at smert.net that reveals the true destination of MySpace outgoing links that have been dangerously hidden by these MSPlinks.com redirects.
MySpace is irresponsible to impose these MSPlinks.com redirects. It is yet another example of how MySpace treats its millions of loyal, dedicated users as enemies. However in this case, MySpace’s profit squeezing is actually jeopardizing their users’ safety as well.
MySpace has openly displayed a blatant lack of concern for user safety by installing those msplinks.com redirects . In case you need a quick refresher, MySpace has installed software that forces every outbound link (links to other sites) on any MySpace.com pages to filter through the domain msplinks.com. Each link is then redirected to the original destination.
One very dangerous effect of these redirects is evident.
The msplinks.com redirects unquestionably make MySpace users even more susceptible to fraud, phishing, viruses, and other shady dealings.
Arun Kottolli wrote a great post about creating buzz around boring products. He also offers valuable insights into sales situations where the decision makers are not the produce end-users. His blog contains many other well-written articles also. Thanks Arun!
Also check the buzz marketing philosophy at buzzmarketing.com. Tons of good stuff there about the differences between the “push” and “pull” of marketing strategies and other buzz marketing fundamentals.
I must be the only person in Chicago who caught this nasty cold. After a week, it’s finally letting it. I attribute this mostly to The Remedy:
1 part Theraflu
4 parts Matcha powder
half boiling water
half orange juice
Those with caffeine sensitivity, an unhealthy fear of god, or tendencies toward hallucinations might not react well to this cure concoction. I swear by it now, as I’m finally starting to feel better. However Rachael thinks it tastes terrible and believes it to be a curse.
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Wordpress, like most other major blogging platforms, automatic add ‘no follow’ tags to the urls left in any visitor comments or trackbacks. This was initially done in an effort to combat blog comment spam. But there are now a growing number of people who believe ‘no follow’ tags create more blog spam - not less!
Why would I (or anybody) remove the ‘no follow’ tags from all visitor comments & trackbacks on their blog?
Community fairness, equity? People who legitimately comment on this blog (and all blogs) aren’t spammers. They are contributing to an ongoing, distributed conversation - their comments provide value to the sites they post on.
Some of you may already know that Open Academic first released DrupalED on April 20th. But yesterday they released an improved version (available for download through that link).
You can visit check out a live DrupalED installation to see how it’s set up. It’s podcasts, wikis, groups, FOAF functionality, bookmarks…. plus any other functionality available through the hundreds of contributed Drupal modules.
I’m very excited about this. If anyone has a DrupalED site setup that they want to showcase, please let us know in the comments. Thanks!
Mark Glaser wrote an interesting post that discussed whether social networking sites such as Facebook need to spend money on marketing & advertising. In the post, he states that the growth of social networking sites is ‘friend-driven’. From his post:
And the social networking sites are truly friend-driven and friend-powered. They don’t need to spend money on marketing, because they have the power of friends who cajole other friends to join in, who then tell 10 friends, who tell 10 friends, and so on.
I certainly agree that people enable the value of social networking sites to be fully realized. Social networking doesn’t work without the critical mass of social people.
A reported 258,000 people have donated money to Senator Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. This number is greater than the combined total of people who have donated to either Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney and Sen. John McCain, according to the Washington Post.
Senator Obama has utilized social networking and social media as part of his fundraising strategy. More than $10 million of Obama’s second-quarter contributions were made online, and 90% of these donations were only $100 or less.
What is significant about so many financial contributors donating $100 or less?
As we all know, Viacom ordered YouTube to stop playing Viacom-copyrighted videos (from Comedy Central & MTV) in February. Apparently this was done in an attempt to monetize the video content on Viacom-owned web properties.
However, Viacom’s controlling action has since backfired and as a result, Viacom brands has been negatively impacted instead of realizing increased profits. It turns out that ComedyCentral.com and mtv.com have lost significant traffic since the videos were pulled from YouTube.
