Your Guide to the Social Media Jungle
When someone brings up social gaming, a few things may pop into your head: Angry Birds, Mafia Wars, Farmville…
What if social gaming wasn't all about beating levels, planting crops or killing bosses? What if the players were real and their actions drove your success or failure?
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Have you used Klout? Can it really tell you how influential people are online? Can it be gamed? Read my review and decide for yourself.
Klout calls itself the "measurement for your overall online influence," but what are they really trying to do? To understand Klout's goal, you have to understand influence itself and the difficulty in measuring social media ROI. In the beginning, social media was measured in followers and fans, and for a time, life was good.
But with companies joining social media
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If you're not a huge fan of writing, it's probably safe to say that you've considered speaking your content instead of organizing it into written words.
If that's true, then you've probably heard of several podcast-type platforms, all the way up to the big dog in the industry, BlogTalkRadio.
Because demand is the main driver of more podcasts, platforms have evolved to add a number of social and practical features to entice would-be hosts to join their community. Today, we add a new face to that group with Spreaker.
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It sounds like a dating site when you read the tagline: "Zipcast is the way to meet online."
But don't be fooled—this new feature from SlideShare is more than just fake profiles and spambots (to be accurate, it's zero parts fake profiles or spambots).
Zipcast wants to be the new way people hold meetings online, and it might have a shot.
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Are you considering using Quora? Has all the buzz got you wondering if it's worth it? Keep reading for my full review.
When I first heard about Quora, the conversation went a little like this:
Jill: "Have you heard of Quora? It's a question and answer site."
Jack: "You mean like Yahoo Answers?"
Jill: "No, it's full of experts who give you the best answers."
Jack: "You mean like LinkedIn Answers?"
Jill: "No, the community votes for the best answer and
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Could your web browser replace the need to visit Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn on a regular basis? To find out the answer, keep reading...
Web browsers have changed considerably over the past 15 years. From Internet Explorer to the upstart Mozilla stealing their thunder and most recently Google rearing its head with an ultra-fast browser, Chrome, the field of play is starting to get crowded.
Obviously, that means it's time for a new name to join the fray—and with a social
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Setting aside the budget to go to a conference like BlogWorld and New Media Expo can be a big decision for a solo brand, a small business or a department head. It’s important to get a sense of where your money’s going, and more importantly, where the return on investment is.
I was tasked to write about this mega social media conference. Here are 6 specific things that I took away from BlogWorld 2010.
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Most of us use the Internet every day. Whether for work, school or play, the Internet is woven into the very fabric of our lives. Although we spend so much of our time online, we rarely give much thought to what actually makes up the content of the Internet.
Let’s be clear, the Internet is really divided into three types of stuff: (1) terribly addictive, uncomfortably funny or tremendously valuable content, (2) average, run-of-the-mill, “I already knew that” -type content and finally (3) utter crap.
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We live in a world where the entire globe can have access to your name, IP address, photo and all of your public information with a simple search.
Now social media takes it one step further. I not only can find your past exploits online, but I can hear the conversations that the entire globe is having about you, right now, with a simple click (and maybe some typing too).
Twazzup, Addict-o-matic and SocialMention are three free platforms that allow you to measure your social media mettle—or more simply put, see all
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Since Facebook announced the Open Graph API, the response has ranged from "Facebook is the future of the web" to "Facebook is ending privacy as we know it."
Matt Schlict definitely believes the former.
Matt saw Open Graph API as an opportunity to connect people across the web—not just through personal connections, but also by their connection to the most popular content. Instead of waiting for users to browse one of the 100,000 sites using a form of the Open Graph, he decided to post all of the most
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