Positive spaces and the Tumblr ecosystem - on Livestream.com
“20 Billion monthly pages view”
Matthew Ingram interviews with David Karp about tumblr - covering the genesis of the site and What’s next.
Ingram adds the thought that young people seem to abandoning facebook for tumblr.
Source: new.livestream.com
Thursday June 21, 2012 - at the Membership Meeting Birgit Pauli-Haack gave a 30 min presentation, on why you should start blogging. In essence: Blogging increases Search Engine Visibility within months and gets your site ready for the Social Web, ready for the sharing economy.
The slideshow is available on slideshare.net:
For a deeper research into low-cost popular Blog Engines read Relevanza’s “4 Best Blog Engines For Small Business & Start-ups”
Which Blog Software is right for me? How do I get started? Who can help me?
These are all valid questions! And there are no easy answers.
Most of the time your decision will depend on a few variables you will need to consider. And, sometimes, after writing (blogging) for a year or so you may decide your original assumptions are out of date or have changed.
What does one do then? Start over? Shell out more money to convert your original site?
Our team deals with a variety of different software writing/blogging packages - and we’ve tried many more. Each has its advantages and disadvantages. The world of Internet communication is filled with trade-offs.
On Relevanza we published not only our own view on which blog engine is best. Our matrix of 17 different features allows you to compare and decide, what will work for you.
Sometimes you want to follow the suggestion of your webdeveloper, who might use a different content management system. The list of features and their brief explanations will help you to make sure that you receive the features that you need.
Please feel free to contribute to this discussion and let us know if we missed anything. Or post your questions. Or tell you story of creating your blog.
When looking into selection of blogging software there can be a little confusion between the difference of a website on WordPress.com as opposed to a website built on Wordpress but hosted elsewhere, (= self-hosted). The guys of WPbeginners.com posted an overview.
At this weeks WordPress for Beginners class at the Naples Free-Net we had a similar discussion, and we talk through an earlier infographic published by the same site.
Source: wpbeginner.com
A few students in our group asked us if we can also recommend books on social media. We used Pinterest to put a collection on books published about Social Media its overall concepts together. We admit, we have not read them all but we follow all authors on Twitter and are familiar with their online work, they generously share on blogs and in the news.
Here is the link to our Pinterest Board: (or click on the images)
http://pinterest.com/relevanza/social-media-books/
In her spare time, Birgit Pauli-Haack volunteers for the Naples Free-Net, an all-volunteer 501(c)(3) nonprofit community network. Since 2009, she runs the program NFN4Good - technology support for area nonprofits, providing WordPress technology support and training, among other services
On March 21, 2012 at 9pm Birgit will conduct a 3-hour “WordPress for Beginners” class at the Naples Free-Net offices. The class is free and there are still seats available.
Yesterday morning we started a new session of our Social Media Bootcamp and we welcome you also to the website about Social Media Technology.
Welcome everyone to three weeks of Social Media Bootcamp! As a participant, we added you as new reader to this blog’s notification system. Every Sunday there will be information posted about questions that came up, the slide-shows used and additional material. This will continue even after that last session of the seminar. This site has the goal to help you keep up with the ongoing changes of features, services and analysis.
We were off to a phenomenal start with very, very intersting discussions in a diverse business owner group that was not at all deterred by minor, technical glitches at the computer room. Thank you for your patience and flexibility. Harry Looknanan from the SBDC will work with FGCU to get it all worked out before the next session, so everyone will be able to use the computers in the classroom.
Should you not be able to attend all three sessions, you will be able to pick up the material at this spot.
If you are puzzled by anything Social Media Technology, please feel free to ask through our ‘Ask Your Question’ and we will post answers.
You can also, of course, write me an e-mail: bph@relevanza.com or write to Steve Hart steve.hart@relevanza.com
Yesterday’s material is available for download now:
Rand Fishkin, CEO & co-founder of SEOMoz has been an avid promoter of “Good SEO tactics” and his company has consistently provided useful day-to-day tools and information that allows site owners and publisher to increase site traffic and lead generation in a consistant manner.
This week, he published “21 Tactics to Increase Blog Traffic”. It’s a great list of ideas, that we talk about in our Social Media Boot Camp for small businesses. In this article you’ll find a great summery with additional links and thoughts.
If you haven’t visited SEOMoz, I highly recommend it. At least read this list of to-do items that should get you thinking about the content your publish on your site.
Resources for Social Media Technology for small business owners.
Published by Relevanza, Inc.
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