I read a blog post today that distressed me greatly. The post was about the new Facebook like button and the poster was explaining to readers why the Like button was not right for everyone. Darn. I knew that. I should have posted it and explained why first! Maybe I can make up for being tardy on information by providing additional information that might explain better what has already been said on another blog.
What does the Facebook Like Button do?
The Facebook like button can be embedded into any website and allows visitors to share content over Facebook. When content is shared, the link is displayed in the News Feed (the ‘what’s on your mind’ field) with a thumbnail and description. Shared links have potential to bring in social networking traffic from the Facebook friends of the sharer or liker if you will.
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WordPress is not owned by a not-for-profit company and, despite the fact that WordPress software is intrinsically free and open-source, the software does bring in a significant portion of revenue for Automattic (the company that owns WordPress). Below are the primary ways WordPress brings in a profit for its investors: WordPress.com Premium Features Google AdSense advertisements are [...]
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A recently trending topic among the blog tip community is the subject of blog controversy. Because blogs are opinion-oriented and involve user interaction, most bloggers are no strangers to controversy. Whether the conflict is internal (heated debates in the comment section) or external (blogs writing dirty material about other blogs), it is always interesting to [...]
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Guest blogging has become explosively popular in the year 2010. Not only do guest posts bring fresh, alternative perspectives but they also make life easier for the blog owner and build strong blogger-on-blogger relationships. Finding guest posters and blogs to guest post on isn’t any easy task however. Sometimes the top blogs in the niche are [...]
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A guest post by Patsy from Go-Gulf.com. LinkedIn is an excellent social media tool. Over the past few years, social media has jumped to the forefront of the marketing world. It has connected millions of people worldwide. So how, as a blogger, can you use LinkedIn to maximize your blogs exposure? Take a look:
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A guest post by Internet marketing specialist Mark Johnson. Blogging is a social media. It is all about sharing your ideas with your blogging community, and whilst a portion of that community will come to you, your blog will never reach its potential if you don’t put yourself out there and get involved with your [...]
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The heavily anticipated WordPress 3.0 launch is just around the corner with the WP development team releasing the second beta on May 6th. I’ve personally taken the beta for a spin and have found most of the updates minor but notable nonetheless, especially to hardcore WordPress fans like myself. The admin control panel is virtually [...]
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Before the Internet age, advertising and PR was simple. Agencies had to fill billboards, television time slots and newspaper pages with the all the right things. But with the advent of the Internet and eventually the Blogosphere — the epitome of self-expression on the Internet — things changed drastically. Consumers were given a voice. As [...]
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Gravatar avatars are small images that represent an email address. Their purpose is to allow for global recognition of commenters and persons on the Internet. Rather than having a different avatar for different sites, people can register an avatar at Gravatar.com and associate it with their own unique email address. Blog posts in WordPress that have commenting enabled [...]
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An article by Ben Vershow from futureofthebook.org. Does blogging restructure consciousness? The following story suggests that it does. Last month, Chris Bowers of the progressive political blog MyDD, underwent a small existential crisis brought on by a ham-fisted report on public television about political blogging that bungled a number of basic facts, including Bowers’ very [...]
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I’ve already mentioned that blogs can be used as powerful tools to decry a social issue or start a Bolivarian revolution. This week Hugo Chavez, controversial socialist president of Venezuela, took to the blogosphere with a Twitter account called chavezcandanga. “Candanga” roughly translates to “devil.” With only two tweets so far, he doesn’t have as many followers [...]
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Yesterday I spent a few hours writing a PHP script for a commenter that would generate an HTML element based on the condition that the visitor was either on the home page or not. The idea was to create a custom background only for the frontpage with a div layer that wrapped around everything within [...]
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