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Archive for the ‘Tools’ Category

April 30th, 2008

Follow up: Radiohead backs down

Thom Yorke has admitted defeat. The unpaid downloads were a “one-off event” that won’t be repeated.
In an article published yesterday in the Hollywood Reporter, Yorke said, ” “I think it was a one-off response to a particular situation.”
So, what? Because this didn’t go the way you expected, all of a sudden, using new distribution methods […]

By Colleen -- 1 comment

April 25th, 2008

The new recruitment

Yesterday’s post about how I got my gig with b5 Media got me thinking. Social Media is obviously the new way companies are looking for employees and people are looking for work. Not only are companies googling their potential employees; the potential employees are googling their companies.
Geoff Livingston, author of Now is Gone, recently appeared […]

By Colleen -- 0 comments

December 19th, 2007

Tools: TubeMogul

When I returned from Blog World Expo one of the things I wanted to focus on, particularly with my personal blog, was video. So far I have created less than a handful of video blogs, I have been writing scripts and brainstorming ideas to do over my week of vacation so I can build up […]

By Kevin -- 0 comments

December 11th, 2007

Social Web Aggregation

The current explosion of social networking will soon result in most websites having a social networking component As a result the big step in social networking isn’t going to be who creates the next MySpace, Facebook, or YouTube, but who creates a website or software to consolidate all the data that […]

By Kevin -- 4 comments

July 31st, 2007

Easy Adder for MySpace

Apparently the death of the myspace bot programs have been greatly exaggerated with new creations springing up over the last few months. As part of my series on how to build a large blogging audience on MySpace I am about to introduce automation into the process, before I do that I want to review one […]

By Kevin -- 2 comments

July 10th, 2007

So You Have a Business Blog You Want to Promote on Social Networks

I have heard from some people that looked at my case study and were a little bit hesitant to share content from their business blog. They didn’t want to risk hurting their Google ranking by having the same content on multiple sites, which is a very valid concern.
However you can still promote your business blog […]

By Kevin -- 4 comments

June 8th, 2007

hi5robot

To read my review of hi5.com click here.
As we exam the different social networking sites available I want to make sure I talk about the tools that are available for you to use on them.
Hi5robot.com offers a bot program for Hi5.com that gives you complete management of your profile and allows you to automate a […]

By Kevin -- 5 comments

June 4th, 2007

Facebook Applications

Recently Facebook opened their API to developers so they could design plugins, here is a list of plugins that can be used to market yourself or your business.
HotBlog- This application allows you to place a blog on your Facebook page, this is a great way to share and create content with your Facebook friends, clients, […]

By Kevin -- 1 comment

May 24th, 2007

Tools: Flying the Coop

Recently mozilla announced their entry into the world of social networking, with the coop addition to the firefox browser. They have made a mock up available, and have talked about the development and the features here in their blog.
Right now it is just a prototype that is using Facebook’s “Share” feature, but it looks […]

By Kevin -- 0 comments

April 12th, 2007

Want lots of new myspace friends? Friendstorm might be your ticket…

Sorry to be concentrating so heavily on myspace.com this week, it just seems that I have had an abundance of news leading towards that site.
On myspace and other social networking sites one of the goals a company has to have when it comes to marketing their product is getting their page seen by as […]

By Kevin -- 3 comments

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