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Submitting stories, blog posts and articles to social news sites such as Digg, Mixx, Sphinn and others can be very time-consuming but if done properly, can also have huge payoffs. Why then do so many people shoot themselves in the foot by not following proper etiquette? Is there such a thing as "social bookmarking etiquette?" Certainly there is! Here are a few things to keep in mind if you want to get the most out of your social bookmarking activities.
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I should almost make this a weekly column as the fine folks at Mixx are always working to make their social news service better. Here are some of the latest updates, most of which are a result of feedback and suggestions from members.
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It appears that Mixx has rolled out some new features through the night - the main one being that you can now edit stories and comments on the Mixx social news site. There is one catch - you have just 15 minutes to do it. However, this is a great feature as I don't know how many times I have hit the submit button and then regretted my impatience because I had listed something incorrectly.
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I know that LinkedIn Company Profiles is in beta but seriously, they should have fine-tuned it a bit more before announcing it to the world. In a March 20th announcement, LinkedIn informed us that we would now be able to see over 160,000 company profiles in the same manner that you can see individual profiles. These include Fortune 500 companies such as eBay to philanthropic organizations such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Mixx has added a new feature to help get stories that are considered "breaking" to the "Popular" page faster. The feature is called "Breaking News" and is only accessible to Super Mixxers. Breaking news stories can become popular just like any other story, but they gain additional visibility since the Breaking News category is visible on Mixx’s “Popular” page. As an additional check, one Super Mixxer is not enough -- it takes two to Mixx a Breaking News story.
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Social news site, Mixx must be getting more popular. I am seeing a lot of spam recently, mostly of the kind where people are submitting stories to multiple categories. Now there may be times where this is good but in most of the cases I have seen, it has been spammy. I can only assume people are doing this to try to gain additional exposure for their submissions but all it really does is make a lot of noise.
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 While social news site Mixx is currently only sending a small fraction of the traffic that a popular post on Digg can send, there are several reasons why Mixx is better in my opinion. Not only is the Mixx staff much more friendly to the search marketing community than Digg is, they outscore Digg in several functionality features. Read on to discover 7 reasons why I think Mixx is better than Digg.
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Mashable reports that YouTube has answered the call of making sure you can see your favorite videos just about anywhere. The popular video site has announced they are launching several new APIs that will let you be even more interactive with their service from just about anywhere. Read on for some features surrounding the new APIs.
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I love the fairly new social news site, Mixx and find myself spending time there each day, adding stories and voting on others. While viewing my profile today, I see a "Super Mixxer" badge next to my name. Cool, but what does it mean? According to the Mixx FAQ page, "A Super Mixxer is a user on Mixx, who, through a combination of Karma points, high quality, diverse submissions and comments, and being a model Mixxer for at least 30 days, has access to special feature enhancements."
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Twitter has become an essential part of my daily life. I use it to keep up on the lives of friends and colleagues, to share interesting things I find on the web as well as to discover items of interest from others, and to share bits and pieces from my own life. I have even learned about breaking news on Twitter before I heard it anywhere else. However, even with all the things Twitter has become useful for, one has to be careful that it does not become a distraction. Read on to learn about 7 gadgets (as well as a link to many more) that will enhance your Twitter experience.
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I came across an excellent post yesterday by Allen Harkleroad, a small business owner I have met over at the social news site Mixx, where he outlines some of the lessons he has learned playing and marketing on social networking sites. It is common sense for most that there is a right way and a wrong way to go about interacting on social media/networking sites. Allen compiles the lessons he has learned in a most excellent read. Read on for link to article as well as a summary of some of the do's and don'ts of social media marketing.
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I love Twitter. It is a continuously open tab in my Firefox browser right alongside Bloglines. Yes it can be a huge time waster and some people "abuse" it by updating about the most ridiculous things. However, I like it and find it quite useful for a number of things. Maki of DoshDosh has come out with an excellent post listing 17 ways one can use Twitter.
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I'm really starting to like Mixx, a social news site that operates in much the same way Digg does but is so much better in my opinion. Just in time for Christmas, Mixx has added some new features. Features include the option to make groups public, daily email digests, address book importer, the 'on deck' circle, and improvements to the duplicate checker. Read on for more details regarding each feature.
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I published a piece today at Search Engine Guide entitled "5 Ways Small Business Can Benefit From Social Media/Networking Sites" which lists five ways small to medium sized businesses (SMBs) are benefiting from the social media/networking space. Sites like Facebook, Flickr, LinkedIn, YouTube and many others are providing numerous opportunities for SMBs to brand themselves, build link popularity, attract traffic to their sites, interact with consumers and network with others in their industry.
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You know it is inevitable - that is social networking functionality will eventually infiltrate just about every web site on the planet. Now, my favorite basketball team, the Phoenix Suns, have embraced social media with the launch of PlanetOrange. PlanetOrange is the team’s new site, which was created in conjunction with KickApps, featuring iStreamPlanet for this white label solution. Based on Microsoft’s Silverlight technology, iStreamPlanet offers the site’s streaming media player.
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In today's socially connected online world, reputation management is becoming more and more a concern for any business. Sure, most companies are able to secure the number one spot in the organic search results for their brand via their company web site. However, what about the remaining first page real estate and even that of the second and third pages? What is an effective means for companies, especially small to medium sized business to control that real estate without necessarily deploying multiple company web sites? The answer - social media.
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Do we really need another social networking site to keep up with? We already have Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Sphinn, Small Business Brief, Digg, MyBlogLog, ... shall I go on? But wait, Gooruze plays a slightly different role. In fact this new social networking site exists to save us from information overload by combining the functions of forums, blogs and social bookmarking sites, all into one place. I just signed up and am currently working on building out my profile which includes adding this blog's feed so posts are syndicated there.
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Traditional companies have been very slow to embrace social media. In fact it seems that some are downright scared to death of it. Sites like MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn, Digg, even Twitter continue to grow in popularity as well as usage and yet the willingness of many companies to jump on board is to say the least - apathetic. One of the most common fears seems to be the lack of control a business has once they step into that social media space.
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Stoney deGeyter poses this question at E-Marketing Performance. Subject to the reasons why Diggers will bury an article, would Digg itself survive? What is the supposed reasoning behind the process of burying a story? Duplicate story, spam, wrong topic, inaccurate and ok, this is lame. Stoney has put up a reader's poll asking whether you would digg or bury Digg.com based on the five reasons listed above.
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 There's a new social community site that is drawing the attention of affiliate and search marketing professionals everywhere. Its called, BUMPzee, and is described as a niche blog aggregator with a community on top. BUMPzee is organized into bite-sized communities into which they pull the latest relevant blog entries from around the Internet. Members of those communities keep up with the latest news, vote on the best stories, and discuss them, either here on BUMPzee or over at the blog itself.
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The folks over at MyBlogBlog have made some updates that will make it more difficult for spammers to game the system. This action is in response to an exploit taken advantage of over the weekend where a spammers sent multiple requests to join their communities as co-authors and then automatically approve the requests. Danny Sullivan and Shoemoney were just a couple of many impacted by this.
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Andy Hagan, who refers to himself as the laziest SEO in the world, has done it again. He has given away his entire link baiting game plan in "The Ultimate Guide to Linkbaiting and Social Media Marketing." It is actually a quality piece that no truly lazy person could accomplish. At least it would require some time away from sandy beaches and sipping Mai Tais. Read on for a few juicy tidbits as well as link to the guide itself.
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It was first rumored in November but never confirmed. Today it is a reality. Yahoo! has acquired MyBlogLog, a social network for bloggers and blog readers. MyBlogLog will be part of the Yahoo Developer Network. The size of the deal is not being confirmed, although rumors put it at around $10 - $12 million. I have only recently heard about MyBlogLog when Andy Beal introduced me to it. In fact, I have barely set up my own personal profile little alone started to build any kind of community before news of this acquisition hit today.
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With all the social networking sites popping up everywhere, the idea of branding comes to mind. Sure there is the thought of how web sites can draw traffic from social networking sites, even sell product or services but in addition to that, what about protecting your brand before someone else beats you to it? This is especially important with respect to user names and unique URLs. Read on to discover why it may become more important to seek out these kinds of site and if nothing else, at least secure your brand before someone else does.
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Is this a sign of trends to come? Large companies setting up MySpace types of sites? Disney has now jumped on the social media bandwagon and will launch a new site next week focused on social networking for kids. The site will be similar to MySpace.com but will have parental controls and feature chat and video clips. WebProNews goes on to say that analysts are skeptical about the success of the site despite the strong brand behind it. CEO Robert Iger in Las Vegas will officially introduce the site on January 8 at the Consumer Electronics Show.
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David Naylor (aka DaveN) and his team of programmer have release a new social networking site called TickMe. He describes it as "a bit like Myspace/Faceparty but with more privacy and a dating slant." How is TickMe different from other social networking sites? David describes it as, "the answer to your greatest social problem - finding out if someone likes you without risk of rejection. Tick someone you know or a random hottie and no-one finds out unless they Tick you back!"
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What is a "brand advocate" anyway? ClickZ defines them as "consumers who spread opinions via word of mouth, as well as over social networks, instant messaging, chat, photo sites and blogging." According to a new research report released today by Yahoo! and comScore Networks, not only is social networking's influence on marketing growing, but particularly vocal individuals are having more of an effect than ever.
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I came across an interesting article today at MarketingVOX regarding the tremendous growth of social media. In the month of September, one out of every twenty U.S. Internet visits landed on one of the top 20 social-networking websites, nearly double the share of visits compared with a year ago. This according to a new study released by HitWise. Out of the twenty sites, MySpace is the undisputed leader receiving 82 percent of those visits. Not too much surprise there.
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A bill amending the Communications Act of 1934 was passed by the House yesterday. The Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA), H. R. 5319, was introduced in an attempt to protect school kids from online sexual predators as well as obscene and pornographic imagery. According to the bill, schools and libraries receiving federal funding would be required to bar minors from visiting commercial social networking sites and chat rooms, unless they were under adult supervision. How does this impact marketers looking to target youth? Read on to find out.
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A Pennsylvania congressman has recently introduced legislation that would ban minors from accessing social networking websites such as MySpace and Friendster as well as forbid libraries from making such access available. The bill goes by the name "Deleting Online Predators Act of 2006."
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Social networking site MySpace.com has been getting a lot of parents, teachers and even religious leaders concerned over the amount of information young people are putting out there on themselves. There is the added concern over what kids are actually doing on MySpace as well as who they are doing it with. CNet runs a story today on how MySpace along with other Net companies and child advocate groups, are trying to calm parents concerns over what their kids are doing online.
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WeeWorld has a new site that allows one to build and fully customize a cartoon character that represents themselves. They can then participate in live chats, see existing friends or meet new ones, create their own web space and even buy shirts, mugs and other items in which they can apply their character. Rand Fishkin of SEOmoz invited a few of us to join up for a chat this afternoon. read on to see what happened.
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