Archive for the ‘Social Media’ Category
May 14th, 2009 - 3 Comments »
More value lies in conversation than in repetition. @replies yes, RT’s no.
Retweeting can make Twitter a pretty noisy, and echoey place at times. If everyone had the option of seeing @replies to people they did not follow, the need for retweeting would diminish and by removing the option you make ReTweeting a more vital part of discovering new people.
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April 13th, 2009 - 8 Comments »
How I lost my Twitter name. A cautionary tale…
How I lost my Twitter username simply by attempting to change the capitalisation from frankiep to FrankieP – a tale of woe…
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March 26th, 2009 - 2 Comments »
Twitter paid accounts & finding the feature that will maintain Twitter’s loveliness…
With some excitement about confirmation that paid pro Twitter accounts will be rolled out sometime in the vague future, I got to thinking about what features might be useful, including:
- Existing third party features for Twitter that could be made ‘official’
- Statistics and analytic tools for Twitter
- Easier maintaining of Twitter followers
- The secret business feature that hasn’t been invented yet!
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February 3rd, 2009 - 4 Comments »
FaceBook polls, the economy of free, and the offer of a prize…
As things stand, I think FaceBook polls may be ignored by users, much as FaceBook ads are largely ignored. Filling in a poll is an invasion into the ‘freeness’ of Facebook – a price to be paid in one’s time for someone elses gain.
Would offering a potential reward mean the polls would be seen as further free stuff to be had, rather than a price to pay?
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November 26th, 2008 - 5 Comments »
Fun Survey on Social Sites & Blogging – the results
I ran a small survey with 100 bloggers and asked them about social sites and promoting their own blog posts.
While this is purely for fun, and not at all scientific, there are some interesting nuggets to be found.
86.9% of the respondants don’t bookmark their own posts, while 50.5% of respondants do bookmark other people’s blog posts. Read on for more results and analysis…
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October 21st, 2008 - 3 Comments »
A super quick survey on blogging and social sites – 10 Q’s – pretty please partake!
Please click here to take a really really quick survey on social sites and blogging, results will be shared here later!
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September 3rd, 2008 - 12 Comments »
Communication before publication. Encourage, don’t demolish.
Brendan Hughes wrote an interesting piece on how it can be offputting for new companies to get involved in social media because they witness other companies getting a good old fashioned dressing down online if they put a foot wrong – should experienced and popular bloggers be gentler with those that make mistakes?
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August 25th, 2008 - No Comments »
Electric Picnic 08 Tweetup :)
The electronic world collides with the electric world! If you have even a passing relationship with the internet and you’re going to Electric Picnic then drag yourself out of your tent before lunchtime to meet your favourite avatars at their most dishevelled :)
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April 25th, 2008 - 3 Comments »
Twitter: who, and what, is it good for?
Having used Twitter for a couple of months now, here are my initial thoughts on the application and what it can be (and is being) used for.
Read on to understand a little bit about Twitter and how I use it…
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April 11th, 2008 - 6 Comments »
The Power of StumbleUpon…
Are you looking to increase traffic to your site? Do you find that your bounce rate from other sites is very high? Perhaps you should investigate StumbleUpon. Read on for more about my experiences with StumbleUpon…
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