SocialMediaFish

Community Management, Social & New Media

Month: November, 2008

Why companies should hire 14-year olds!

Forget expensive trendwatchers. Most of them are now discovering Facebook and god forbid if you mention Twitter. As soon as someone calls himself a trendwatcher, he’s a late adopter at best. You’ll pay a lot of money for something most of your competitors already know

TweetDeck, Ordering the Chaos

Many developers have turned to the social network to create contacts and business opportunities, there are of course many to choose from; Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace and my personal favourite Twitter. Many now use Twitter; according to TwitDir an estimated 3,287,083 people use the network and that’s just the people TwitDir follow!

Google penalizes Video Bloggers for Keyword Stuffing

Blackhat SEO techniques are the bane of our lives at Google and it has been brought to our attention that after year’s of work from the Google team our endeavors have to take a new twist. We recently started indexing Video posts and have been very concerned with the results from some authority figures using ‘Keyword stuffing’ and other subliminal techniques to hypnotize their visitors into action’s that they would not normally take like buying that blogger’s latest sensational ebook!

New WordPress plugin add Twitter id to your comments!

A couple of days ago I added the ability for those leaving comments on my TwiTip Twitter Tips blog to add their Twitter ID as well as their URL to comments. Since doing this I’ve been asked time and time again how we did it. In this guest post Sean Walberg (the guy who actually made it happen and who is my server admin on TwiTip) explains how he did it.

Reviewing some of Sphinns Greatest Hits

I’ve been a Sphinn user for ohh a couple of weeks it wasn’t until today I checked out the Greatest Hits section where there are some pearl’s, along with a few dud’s!

Making Sales with ‘Glen Garry Glen Ross’

I was introduced to the movie in 1990 after a started work for a new software company selling Graphic Development tools. My immediate reaction, OMG who is this new sales manager and WTF does he want from me, my soul?

Check out the ‘Influential Blogger Interviews’ – Ebook

Some interesting answers from some key bloggers in the industry if you don’t read the whole book at least check out the links to their favorite posts!