Facebook is Not Your Blog

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Last week, one of the most-clicked stories from SmartBrief on Social Media was an article from Advertising Age: What Happens When Facebook Trumps Your Brand Site? It’s a legitimate concern for businesses. With millions of people using Facebook and that number growing every day, brands like Coca-Cola, Victoria’s Secret, and Oreo are getting more Facebook … [Read more]

Why Facebook May Not Be King Forever

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Whether you’re a business with a blog or a blog that’s a business, if you don’t have a Facebook presence, you’re missing out on a major way to connect with readers. Right now, Facebook is king when it comes to social networking sites. Heck, even my mom knows what Facebook is, and she’s not what … [Read more]

Facebook Cannonballs Into the Location-Based Apps Arena With ‘Places’

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Of course, the day after I ask everyone what location-based app I should try out, Facebook announces that they’ve entered the arena with their own application, ‘Places‘. Maybe it was a good thing I waited this long to hop on board? Yesterday Facebook made the Places announcement at their Palo Alto headquarters, even inviting their … [Read more]

Phone in Your WordPress Blog!

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Now this is a feature I’m not so sure I’d ever use, mostly because I can’t stand the sound of my voice, but you can now enable “Post by Voice” in WordPress and record an audio blog post straight from your phone. By enabling the feature, you will receive a phone number and a unique … [Read more]

Facebook Adds Ability to 'Like' Comments

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Facebook announced this week (if you haven’t already seen it!) that users can now Like someone’s comments. Of course, don’t worry if you haven’t seen it yet – because their blog reveals that they are “rolling this out gradually, so if you don’t see the new button yet you will soon“. Whether it’s a witty … [Read more]

Blogs & Social Media Sites Land in Top 1000 Sites List

Google came out with their Top 1000 Sites list this week, and I have to admit that I’m not surprised Facebook landed at #1! There were some other blogging and social networking sites that made it into the top 20 – including WordPress, BlogSpot, and Twitter. And of course there are a variety of blogs … [Read more]

How Darren Rowse Liberated My Facebook Account

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I was reluctant to embrace Facebook and fought it for several years. I had Twitter and that was enough of a time suck for me. The problem with Twitter was that my family and personal friends weren’t really a part of it. So I joined Facebook to be keep in touch. That was all she … [Read more]

You Need To Be A Social Media Evangelist

I had never heard of Dan Grover until I found THIS POST on Techmeme this morning. To make his point Dan uses the example of a recent Read Write Web post that ended up being ranked high by Google under the search term “Facebook Login“. Guess what happened; tons of people clicked that search result … [Read more]

Why Pepsi Is Good For Bloggers

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This is certainly not a “Pepsi is better than Coke” or now begins the cola wars , I am referring to the world of monetizing.  Recently ABC reported, Pepsi announced that it would discontinue spending money on advertising on Super Bowl Sunday.  I have for years thought that the price of advertising on that day … [Read more]

Facebook and Everyone Else

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I have been trying to figure out how to keep up with the social networks I have for BlogWorld & New Media Expo and my own personal networks.  I have always touted that I can drink from the social media firehose as well as anyone but I have been noticing recently that I am having … [Read more]