Gary Eckstein Social Media 2 digg, king ping, mixx, ping-o-matic, promotion, propeller, Social Media, social networking, twitter, voting, WordPress
Many people believe that attracting visitors to a website is as simple as setting up a few pages and then sitting back whilst vast numbers of visitors come along. This article explains how to get visits through some of the various free promotional mediums e.g. social media and search. Promotion, in the context of this [...]
Gary Eckstein Social Media 3 addthis, bookmarking, digg, google, mixx, sharing, Social Media, web 2.0, yahoo
Just what are Digg, Mixx, Delicious, Reddit, Furl and the multitude of other ‘sharing’ and ‘bookmarking’ services? And more importantly, why should a website owner pay any attention to them? Often sharing and bookmarking services, and the ability to post to the services are combined such as with the tell-a-friend, add-this and ShareThis services (see [...]
Gary Eckstein Social Media 2 cnn, facebook, flickr, mainstream media, mixx, sky news, Social Media, twitter, youtube
The lyrics ‘impending doom, it must be true’ as sung by The Killers seems to be the general approach taken by mainstream media in response to the explosion of Social Media popularity. Suddenly many media outlets are battling to figure out just where their competitive advantage lies. This morning on television a Sky News reporter [...]
