This is part of the series the 31 Day Challenge To Optimize Your Blog With Social Media. Social media gives voices to individuals marginalized and ignored by traditional media, enabling the world to hear these voices for the first time in history. However, as in the physical world, the online world poses many barriers to […]
Archives for January 2010
3 Twitter shortcuts: SocialOomph, Twitterfeed, CoTweet
This is part of the series the 31 Day Challenge To Optimize Your Blog With Social Media. In this short screencast, I’ll show you a few automated Twitter techniques that are probably grounds for you taking out a restraining order against me. We’ll begin with SocialOomph (formerly TweetLater), a way to auto-follow back the people […]
13 ways to get your blog posts retweeted
This is part of the series the 31 Day Challenge To Optimize Your Blog With Social Media. First of all, what’s the big deal about getting retweeted? If you have a ton of followers who are engaged, and you’re happy, then why should you care if they retweet your blog posts? If you’re using Twitter […]
Save resources & money with Better World Telecom
A telecom that does good from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Until I met Salem Kimble (who earlier covered GoingGreen for Socialbrite), I had never heard of BetterWorld Telecom. With a tagline of “Change the world. One call at a time,” they’re a socially conscious telecom provider for nonprofits and mission-driven businesses that donates 3 percent […]
Text a few dollars to support Haiti
Use the power of the social Web to make an impact The earthquake that shook Haiti last week demolished and devastated the entire nation. Looking at pictures online, reading testimonials of survivors and following the developments in the rescue and emergency response teams, I felt, like many of you, overwhelming sadness. Mere weeks after completing […]