Before you dive into social media it’s a good idea to identify your goals. Do you want to create a conversation with other designers? Reach new clients for your work? Find out what’s going on out there and get constant input through a myriad of RSS feeds?
All of this is possible, and you will get out of it what you put into it. Keeping on top of your social media presence can be a lot of work, but if you pick your tools appropriately, you can make it work for you.
For this site I wanted to have only text links for post submissions to Social Media sites like Mixx, Sphinn, Digg etc. and had to search several different sites to find all the code so I thought I would make a quick post with the relevant code for submission to these sites as text only links:
First the CSS which you should add to your main Stylesheet (style.css)
[sourcecode language='css']
.socials { background-color:#efefef; text-align:center; font-size:12px; font-style:italic; font-weight:bold; margin-bottom:10px; padding:5px 0px 5px 0px; }
.socials a { margin-right:10px; text-decoration:none; }
[/sourcecode]
Submit codes for Feedburner, Feedburner email, Twit this, StumbleUpon, Sphinn, Mixx, Digg & Delicious. Continue Reading
I thought I’d make some mini roundup now and again of some of the key post’s that have guided me along the way since being introduced to Twitter some 6 months ago. To start off just three I don’t want to make endless lists so I will keep them short!
Dosh Dosh
17 Ways You Can Use Twitter: A Guide for Beginners, Marketers and Business Owners
When Qwitter was announced ALOT of people jumped on the band wagon, then realized actually it’s quite depressing AND confusing due to the fact that you never really know why people unfollow you. It may just be coincidence that they unfollowed you after that last tweet!
I’m also a big defender of ‘If they want to unfollow don’t question why!’
Here’s another such service if this ring’s your bells TweepleTwak
There are a few notable people to follow in the blogging world Michael Martine is one of them who I have followed via RSS for a couple of years now and more recently on Twitter .
The information I have found on his blog has alway’s been ‘readable’ for me…
Anyway Michael released a free ebook which you shouldn’t miss!
Styletime posted some WP plugins and tips for SEO and I have decided to move this post here!
Some of these will be solely based for WP installations and recommending plugin’s, some are general tip’s that anyone could apply!
No order for these! Continue Reading
Mike Smith recently hit a nail on the head!
Social media is fun. Social media is a great way to connect with other like minded people. Social media is a great way to interact with potential clients and customers for your business. But what are you supposed to do when social media becomes too time consuming and wraps up the vast majority of your time and you’ve been sucked into the black hole and cannot seem to get out long enough to keep your business floating?
Digital Inspiration posted this:
The Social Computing lab at HP has released a research paper that finds a strong correlation between the popularity of content on Digg and the time when that submission was made.
Check out the full article…
Some great SEO tool’s recommended by some of the top SEO people!
From the Google webmaster blog:
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Head on over and download their internal SEO secret’s document!