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November 2, 2011
A blog can be a fun way to share information with your peers. It can also be a great way to put situations in perspective so that you can learn from your adventures and even laugh at them. However, there are a few things that teachers need to keep in mind when starting and contributing to a blog. The following are just five crucial blogging tips for teachers.
Always Get Permission to Blog
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Every blogger knows that social networking sites are a wonderful way to promote a blog – especially newer sites like Google+, which are growing in popularity. However, each network does have it’s own rules and regulations, but the biggest thing bloggers should remember is to practice good netiquette. In other words, spamming is a big no-no. This means you need to approach these sites professionally so that you don’t get booted. If you’ve never promoted your blog on Google+, or are worried about whether or not you’re doing it properly, here are some tips to help you out.
No matter what your blog is about, one of your biggest goals must be to gain visibility if your blog is to be successful. Social networking sites are perhaps the most common and most effective way of marketing your blog. Social networking sites that specialize in promoting popular blog pages of interest are called social bookmarking sites. Such sites include Digg, Del.icio.us, StumbleUpon, Spurl, Reddit, BackFlip, SocialMatic, and Diigo, among others. Social bookmarking sites can be a great tool in your blog marketing bag of tricks. Here are five reasons to use social bookmarking to promote your blog.
Reach. Social bookmarking sites are used by people all over the world to access articles in any and every area of interest. That means that when you submit your blog pages to social bookmarking sites, you are exponentially increasing the reach of your blog to people who might’ve never before had the opportunity to come across it.
Linking and networking. When you submit to and use social bookmarking sites, you automatically connect yourself to like-minded bloggers. This provides you with the opportunity to create symbiotic relationships with other blogs so that you can add to your blog’s blogroll, write and post guest blog posts, and create new linkbacks to your blog all over the Internet. read more
November 1, 2011
Twitter is a very powerful networking tool that can be used to greatly expand your Internet reach, whether you have a blog, a business website, or just a personal desire to promote yourself. Once you get a decent following, you’ll probably realize that Twitter’s very simple user interface is oh-so necessary because Twitter moves at lightning speed Because social interaction on Twitter moves at such a quick pace, this open chat forum could get very complicated if not for its basic design and helpful organizational features. There is a lot you can get from this highly popular social networking site, but if you want to make the most out of all that Twitter has to offer, you have to employ some outside help. Here are five tools for keeping track of Twitter followers:
October 31, 2011
How Powerful is Social Media?
Through the vast advancement of technology, people nowadays depend highly in the juices of technology. We are able to accomplish things fast and efficient through the high tech gadgets and machineries invented. We are also able to connect with different people in diverse culture and race through different social media marketing.
Businesses are one of the great benefactors of social media marketing. Because as we trace history, before we are having a hard time promoting our products and service because of the limited resources we all have. The most popular way of advertising is through the Trimedia (TV, RADIO and Print). Fortunately, many methods are available to help us generate more traffic and eventually translate the lead generation to our target audience. read more
October 21, 2011
When browsing most well put together blogs they all share some very common characteristics, for example at the top of each page or along the sidebar there are categories which allow users to understand the various focuses of the website. Well built blogs also tend to make sure that the content found on the site is the focus, for example a cluttered blog with too many bright colors might distract from the blogs content driven message.
When creating a photography blog it’s important that a sound structural design is also implemented, a design that allows users to easily find the type of photographs they want while providing easy to view work by the artist will benefit readers and help create a loyal following
In this post we will examine some very simple elements that you can apply when building your first photography blog. read more
October 17, 2011
For a business owner, Social Media presents a unique proposition. It is unique in the sense that the opportunities offered by Social Media sites like Twitter and Facebook are like a bait to bigger brand awareness. However, at the same time the viral nature of the Social Media platforms implies that a business would need a solid strategy to tap these media for business and brand promotion because an ill-conceived campaign, backed by a flawed Social Media strategy could become a major bottleneck to the areas of brand promotion, brand awareness and brand positioning.
There can be no denying of the fact that Social Media is one of the fastest media that can be employed to spread a word around. This is so true when you look at how successfully political situations from across the world have been advertised with a special mention going out to the Egyptian crisis of the Tahrir Square. On a similar basis, the natural catastrophic incidents like the Japanese Tsunami have been covered by the people who were on the ground and this has eventually resulted in a better understanding of the ground reality from the perspective of extending timely help and aid to the affected people. read more
September 13, 2011
The use of the social media to promote products on the internet has gained a lot of popularity. There is need therefore to know how well the product is doing among others in the internet. There is normally a need to be able to know of the different sentiments that people are sharing about the product. In the past, people would only read about the content of your product and then they would navigate elsewhere. But now things have changed and now after readers can take some good measureable actions to be able to track of the audience of those reading about the brand. This is made possible by the use of the right tools for the task. The different social medias present normally have different methods of keeping track of the products. The keeping track of the product will guide in the other decisions which needs to be implemented about the product. The management is also assisted in knowing which social media is getting a bigger capture of the targeted clients.
On Digg, the only way of keeping track of their products by hearing a lot of news about them. The website would register tens of thousands who visited it but never again to have them return. But this has changed and now Diggs offers a widget that can keep track of all the most read stories about your product on the site.
On Facebook, there is the benefit of using the like options which can be installed on ones stories in order to keep track of products. This has been the most used feature of facebook which has been used to track the products. When we move the attention to twitter, there is normally no chance of indexing the old tweets. There is however a popular link that is used to offer a detailed statistics about the number of click through of the links.
Google analytics can easily help to keep track of the domain by enabling one to know which media sites are taking keen interest on their products. But sometimes there will be the possibilities of having to go through a lot of feed backs some of which could be irrelevant. In order to know the genuine followers of your products, one can make good use of the sentimental analysis. These are able to measure the emotion of each and every tweet, posting, comment or any feed back left behind about a product.
There are other ways of keeping track of how the product is doing on the social media by employing some company which have specialized on keeping track. An example is the scoutlabs which normally offers the service at a fee.
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August 8, 2011
Depending on what degree a certain person might be trying to obtain, it might actually be in the best interest of a person to skip college and go right into starting their own business or making it the hard way – working.
There are some types of degrees you absolutely have to go to college for. You cannot become a doctor or a plastic surgeon without going to school (at least in the way our world is operated now). And you more than likely cannot be a chemical or electrical engineer without going to school either. However our school system was based on a system that was created many, many years ago – and it may perhaps be entirely outdated.
Should SEO be taught in schools?
Could you imagine how many more Internet startups there would be if they taught it in high school to teenagers? You would have 14-18 year old kids cranking out affiliate gateways, blogs, and providing SEO services everyday after school at 3 p.m. The SEO industry would be flooded within the matter of a semester or two of teaching it and the competition on the web would skyrocket. read more
July 28, 2011
After typing my last few dozen words for the day, I tweeted out advice that I follow whenever I feel as though I don’t have anything to blog about: Write. Don’t Blog.
Then, out of the blue, someone reacts to my vague tweet and gushes with short phrase describing their own blogging experience. I am not all too sure about what the intent was and will probably never know because I really didn’t want to engage much further beyond acknowledging that I had read their reply to my tweet.
The real intent behind the tweet was to merely share a reminder of what I think blogging really is and should be: It is writing.
Some people first get into blogging thinking that it’ll give them some measure of acclaim and some level of popularity. Some go into it thinking they’ll master the “new media” and make something of their skill. Some people get into blogging for money and they’re not much different from those who put up websites with similar intent. Some blog because they believe that it is actually the best way to raise awareness and build up support for a cause or an idea. Some blog as a matter of personal expression or a personal mission.
These are all valid reasons for blogging, but sometimes these reasons get in the way of consistently writing a blog.
