social networking
Social Media Marketing – Driving Traffic
Saturday, August 9th, 2008Using Social Media to Drive Traffic
I am writing to you from Long Island, NY… (It seems like another
country compared to Connecticut..:o)…)
Howie Schwartz, Simon Leung and Ross Goldberg put together a two
day event on ‘The Three Sides of Traffic’. The content today was
awesome. They did a live broadcast this afternoon.
(I wanted to let you know about the ustream live broadcast
this afternoon but I was having Internet access problems.)
But if you go to:
http://www.threesidesoftraffic.com/live
you can watch the replay.
If you can, get on at 2:00pm EST tomorrow, Saturday, they will
broadcast a new show.
I have been online for several years,,, read a lot,, have bought
a lot of products and these guys have taught me a lot about
social marketing.
Even if you can’t make it live, make sure you watch the videos at:
http://www.threesidesoftraffic.com/live
Get the info from the guys who are doing using social media in
their marketing now.
Helping You Define Your Road Map to Success,
Linda
PS Twitter is an awesome social marketing site,, learn some
tricks here.
Twitter Report
Friday, August 1st, 2008
TwitterFeed – Live Widget for Twitterfeed
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008Twitterfeed Widget – I just added a widget in the right navigation for TwitterFeed. (It is just about the MyBlogLog widget.)
Like you, I am wondering,, what is the purpose of this widget? Why would I want it on my blog?
First let’s backup: Twitterfeed is an easy way to put your blog RSS on Twitter. All you do is sign up for an account and then type in your username and password for Twitter. Go to you blog and copy the RSS feed URL and paste the URL in TwitterFeed.
Now you can decide how often you want TwitterFeed to check for new updates and the number of entries you want to show. I chose to check every six hours and show up to five new posts. From the drop down I choose to include both the Title and Description.
The next dropdown is for shortening your URL. Since you only get 140 characters you want to shorten your URL to save space. The options are: TinyURL, TweetBurner, and SnipeURL. I like TweetBurner because it tracks my links and I can find great tweets by browsing through the top tweets listing.
I will send a tweet and see if I can get a response for the value of the Twitterfeed Widget…
Helping You Define Your Roadmap to Success,
Linda
PS If you haven’t tried Twitter, sign up for an account now.
Twitter – Waste of Time?
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008Twitter – What is it?
When I first saw this little blue bird asking me to join Twitter, I just shook my head. What next? A cow asking if I wanted to moo?
Since I am always looking at how to maximize the social networking sites, I decided to join and just watch for a while. Most people use Twitter to post meaningless sound bites about what they are doing now. There is a place for that,,, I guess.
But my time is quite precious and I don’t have time to just twitter my life away. But as I started following a few people and my creative juices kicked in and I started using this as both a social interaction as well as a marketing tool.
Will share more how I use this social networking site as well as where I got the cool Twitter image in the sidebar.
Helping you define your roadmap to success,
Linda