filed in Social Networking on Jul.29, 2009
There are a huge stack of tools out there to help you make the most of Twitter. Â There are varying levels of quality but one of the tools that I’ve been playing with today is Tweepi and it’s impressed me hugely. Geeky Follow One of the problems that people have with Twitter is finding people [...]
filed in Social Networking on Jul.28, 2009
If you’ve ever had one of your blog posts re-tweeted by a big hitter on Twitter then you’ll know the massive amount of traffic that they can generate. That big wave of traffic can generate additional RSS subscribers and newsletter subscribers as well so it’s not just a one-off benefit. On a smaller scale I [...]
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filed in Social Networking on Jul.17, 2009
Google has just published a list of all of their accounts on Twitter. There are quite a few as you can see but even for a small business, it may be worth considering having a couple of Twitter accounts. For example, if you ran a digital media company and your company produced websites, graphics, videos [...]
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filed in Misc, Social Networking on Jul.13, 2009
The Queen (well, the British Monarchy) have started using Twitter. http://twitter.com/BritishMonarchy They’re doing very well and have managed to attract over 9000 followers in a very short space of time. Â However, I wonder if they’re actually managing to get the most out of Twitter. Â For a start, very few of their tweets are under the [...]
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filed in Uncategorized on Jun.25, 2009
Habitat is a pretty well respected brand here in the UK but they have made the most astounding clanger with the use of Twitter and hashtags. Hashtags are words that you paste onto the end of your tweets to add to a larger conversation. Â The way it works is that people will use Twitter Search [...]
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filed in SEO, Social Networking on Jun.22, 2009
There are thousands of self-proclaimed experts on Twitter but there are very few actual experts that are worth following for their SEO advice. However, having been very active on Twitter for over a year now, I’ve built up a list of people who use Twitter to hand out solid SEO advice (amongth other things) and [...]
filed in Misc on Jun.02, 2009
According to Mashable and various other reports throughout the internet, China has blocked access to Twitter, Flickr, WordPress, Hotmail, YouTube, Blogger and a host of other websites. Apparently this is down to the upcoming anniversary of the Tiananment Square Massacre in 1989. The Chinese authorities obviously don’t want their people to be exposed to alternative versions [...]
filed in Marketing, Social Networking on May.15, 2009
Strange title isn’t it? But it’s about a wonderful story involving a London bakery using Twitter to inform people when they’re just baked a fresh batch of bread. You can get the whole story here: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iIgCLG0fRo40rP-hNwT54BwCTIBA It’s a fantastic example of a business looking at how it can take new technology and use it to [...]
filed in Misc, Social Networking on May.11, 2009
CNET reports about two major upcoming changes to Twitter search. Twitter search has a massive amount of potential but has been seriously overlooked so far. That’s about to change. Firstly Twitter is about to start crawling and indexing the links that are tweeted to provide a far broader view of what’s popular at the moment. [...]
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filed in Blogging, Marketing, Social Networking on Apr.16, 2009
Today I want to share an example with you of how powerful a newsletter is at attracting new clients. Recently we launched a new ‘Affordable SEO‘ service especially aimed at small and medium sized businesses. Â We knew that it was going to be a popular service but we didn’t realise just HOW popular it would [...]