Posts tagged with: Social Media

Here’s a Quick Way to Get Twitter into Google Reader

Jan 08, 2010 | Antti Kokkonen | View Comments

Let’s set up simple monitoring systems for Twitter to ensure you get notifications when you, your site or certain terms you want to follow come up on Twitter. In Twitter clients, like TweetDeck, you can set constant search queries, which get updated just like your normal Twitter feed.

For certain terms, like your name or your website(s), it is good get notifications even when you don’t have Twitter open. To achieve that, we can do Twitter searches and then subscribe to the RSS feed of that search query, and get notifications on Google Reader whenever your name, businesses or websites are mentioned.

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Other Tags: Google Reader, Hints & Tips, RSS, Twitter
Topic: Social Media

Review of the Beginner’s Guide to Twitter

Dec 01, 2009 | Antti Kokkonen | View Comments

Review: The Beginner's Guide to Twitter by Mike Cliffe-Jones

This is a review of Beginner’s Guide to Twitter -eBook by Mike Cliffe-Jones (known as MikeCJ). I first got connected to Mike through his blog and a coaching course we both took. However, I’ve gotten to know Mike better through Twitter, which goes on to show that Mike knows how to Twitter should be used and because of that, Mike is one of the “tweeps” whose tweets I pay close attention to.

I’ve written my share of social media posts and articles lately, but I’ve concentrated on more detailed guides than an introductions to these tools, so I was happy when Mike offered me the opportunity to see what his guide is all about…

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Other Tags: Guide, Review, Social Networking, Twitter
Topic: Social Media

How To Connect Your Social Media Profiles

Nov 20, 2009 | Antti Kokkonen | View Comments

Massive Guide To More Effective Social Media Usage

There are hundreds of social media sites out there. There is no way you can be active member and contributor in all of them, so you will have to choose the ones you focus on. However, there are ways to automate certain tasks, making things easier for yourself AND help all your social media followers at the same time.

For example, it is very likely that you want to share the new blog post you just published, your new YouTube video, etc. In addition to my own content, I also want to share the best blog posts, articles and videos I’ve read or watched.

As I want to send these to Twitter anyway, I should make that process as easy for myself as possible, right? I’m thinking automation! And in the end, it’s quite easy too! So if you want to send the “standard” updates automatically too, this the post is for you!

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Other Tags: Getting Things Done, Guide, How-To, Productivity, Social Media Tools, Social Networking
Topic: Social Media

Where Is The Money in Social Media?

Sep 22, 2009 | Antti Kokkonen | View Comments

They say there’s money to be made in the social networks? They say you can make mmmillion dollars on Twitter?

Are they for real?

To be honest, I have no idea. Maybe?

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Other Tags: Making Money, Social Marketing Strategy, Social Media Marketing, Social Networking
Topic: Social Media Marketing

Are You Using Social Media Like You Should or Are You Social Notworking?

Aug 27, 2009 | Antti Kokkonen | View Comments

Be a Social Worker, Not a Social Notworker!You are social notworking when you’re spending time unproductively on social-networking websites like Facebook, Twitter or MySpace. The term social notworking is specifically used when one is using social network site while one is at work or one should be working.

For an Internet marketer, blogger and more and less anyone who is doing business on the net, the concept of social notworking is a bit more complex as building a social (network) presence is essential in today’s Internet business. However, social media must be used in the right way for it to bring in any kind of results, otherwise you’re wasting time and thus, social notworking.

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Other Tags: Facebook, Social Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Social Networking, Social Networks, Social Notworking, Twitter
Topic: Social Networking
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