Twitter Thursday - Interesting Twitter Related Blog Posts
July 9th, 2009 by Dave in Social Networking
Twitter is everywhere in the media. You can’t avoid it. More often than not, it’s a casual mention or a shameless plug to get more followers. Bloggers have been at the forefront of the Twitter onslaught with literally thousands of Twitter articles being churned out every day. It can be time consuming to weed out [...]
Does Twitter Appeal to a More Professional Demographic Than MySpace or FaceBook?
March 11th, 2009 by Dave in Social Networking
Social media has become a rising phenomenon in Web2.0 with three main contenders fighting it out for control of an endless stream of internet users. MySpace, FaceBook and Twitter are all reaching for the brass ring but as each evolves around it’s users, a trend is emerging that has the lines between each drawn [...]
Social Hijinx - Digg Impregnated With Rickrolling Malware and Facebook Group Hijacked by Spammers
February 12th, 2009 by Dave in Social Networking
The internet is a great place to find information but on the internet you can be assured of one thing: Wherever people gather on the internet in large numbers, there will be spammers and hackers who are lurking in the shadows, waiting for an opening to pownce on unsuspecting internet users.
As social media becomes [...]
Will Twitter Start Charging for Commercial Accounts?
February 10th, 2009 by Dave in Social Networking
A few weeks ago I wrote about Monetizing Twitter without causing an uproar with the existing members. Since then there has been quite a bit of discussion amongst Twitter users as to how Twitter is going to attempt to generate income from their startup.
It appears there has been word from Twitter co-founder Biz [...]
Is it Possible to Monetize Twitter Without Selling Out?
January 16th, 2009 by Dave in Social Networking
Ever since Twitter CEO Evan Williams stated Twitter has plans to have monetization in place by Q1 of 2009, there’s been a lot of discussion about various methods that Twitter can use to monetize their popular micro-blogging service. Most Twitter enthusiasts have speculated some sort of Twitter-Ads platform such as Facebook and MySpace have implemented [...]
Social Media Optimization for Social Media Marketing
December 29th, 2008 by Dave in Social Networking
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard a lot of affiliate marketers talking about Social Media Marketing. Social media has become a cornerstone for successfully promoting a product, services, websites, blogs and anything else you can think of. While the concept might seem straighforward, many novice marketers completely miss the boat on [...]
Entrecard Economy Closed to Free Enterprise
September 29th, 2008 by Dave in Social Networking
If you haven’t been using EntreCard to promote your blog, you’re probably missing out on one of the best tools bloggers have to garner short bursts of traffic on a regular basis. Sure, there are detractors who will say EntreCard turns only traffic with a high bounce rate and most people visiting a [...]
Is Social News and Social Bookmarking not unlike the Lord of The Flies?
August 4th, 2008 by Dave in Social Networking
As bloggers, most of us have experimented with social bookmarking sites such as Digg, Reddit, Sphinn, Searchles and others to garner a wider audience for our work and to possibly get some traffic to our respective blogs. In theory it seems like a good thing but in reality, social bookmarking leaves a lot to be [...]
Best Forums For Social Networking and Gaining Backlinks
If you’re just starting out in the publishing and webmastering business of if you’re a seasoned professional, two of the hardest things to accomplish are building solid backlinks to your website and getting more traffic to your website. Many experienced professionals will all agree on one particular activity that will not only accomplish both of [...]
Newsvine Review
September 25th, 2007 by Dave in Social Networking
As far as “Social News” websites go, Newsvine is by far the most professionally designed, intuitive and elegant website in the plethora of available communities. Whereas Digg is by far the most popular and driven by it’s fanatical Linux and Macintosh user base, Reddit is designed for simplicity and is easy to load in your [...]



