Archive for community building
Beyond Twitter: Mobile Microblogging Meets RSS Aggregator – A Beginner’s Guide To Jaiku
Posted by: | CommentsMobile instant messaging tools have evolved rapidly in the first half of this year into always-on micro-blogging applications. But while Twitter might let you tell the world what you\’re doing, Jaiku goes a step further by serving as a mobile RSS aggregator. Creating an online presence and sharing it with friends is not only a great way of keeping in touch, but also an excellent means of promoting your business, website, blog or just yourself. Increasingly, however, we make use of a vast range of tools and services to manage our online media. We might upload our photos to Flickr, our videos to YouTube and post our current whereabouts using Dopplr or even Twitter. Which is all well and good, …
Online Business Networking Exchange: The Advisor Garage Community
Posted by: | CommentsOnline business networking is an increasingly important way for investors, startups and expert advisers to meet up and make connections. A new service takes this a step further, giving you the tools to create your own focused micro-communities and make ideas become realities. Photo credit: Vasyl Yakobchuk The recent success of offline, face-to-face events such as OpenCoffee Clubs and their virtual equivalent in the form of the LinkedIn social network, have made it very easy for ideas and money to collide. Great as it is, the problem with the OpenCoffee Club concept is that it relies on people making connections on a local level, based on where they are located geographically. And while LinkedIn offers a partial remedy to the …
Are you willing to increase the popularity of your blog though you have already tried all of the conventional methods? Then you might be interested in knowing more about a service called MyBlogLog and how you can leverage it to drive traffic to your blog. Here, on Robin Good\’s MasterNewMedia other editors have recently written about the importance of building and joining web-based communities focused on a specific interest in order to gain visibility and authority on the Web. MyBlogLog is a powerful social networking service that allows you to group your readers into a community and is an extremely important tool for getting a blog off the ground and for incrementing the exposure of your site. Why? Because thanks …
User-generated content, web video and social networking services dominate the evolving Web 2.0 landscape. Now you can combine all three right from your website using a single easy-to-use service. The biggest success stories of recent times have managed to combine these three increasingly essential components. Think of multi-billion dollar enterprises such as YouTube or MySpace and you will see online destinations built on these very foundations. It is not enough now to send out your message and be done with it. Successful web enterprises, be they blogs, corporate websites or start-ups are tapping into the potential of community, and of the web as a two-way conversation. If you want to boost your web traffic, get your message out into the …
How To Record, Promote And Finance Your Music Talent: SellaBand
Posted by: | CommentsTo succeed as a recording artist or band these days it is essential to promote your music online. But breaking your way into the recording industry is far from easy. Luckily there is a service that helps you to do just that by tapping into the phenomenon of crowdsourcing. \’\'Crowdsourcing is a neologism for a business model in which a company or institution takes a job traditionally performed by a designated agent (usually an employee) and outsources it to an undefined, generally large group of people in the form of an open call over the Internet.\’\’ (Wikipedia, Crowdsourcing) Sellaband taps into the crowdsourcing model by turning the fans and listeners of bands into their product evangelists, asking them to invest …
While social media has become the hot trend in publishing many of the properties generating social media content are not attracting headline experts into their frays. Photo credit: sgame Gather.com is addressing this by seeding leading figures from book publishing, music, heath and finance to post content and field comments on a peer basis with other Gather members. Getting experts to act as community members should not be too unfamiliar to publishers already used to organizing conferences but using experts effectively in social media outlets may require them to lay aside some preconceived notions about how experts support their publishing requirements. Here more details: …