From the category archives:

Blogging

In a previous post I talked about how to increase the viral potential of your content with more actionable bookmarking and sharing buttons. Now here is a list of cool custom bookmarking and sharing buttons you can use on your blog that are sure to attract more bookmarks and shares.
Social Icons hand drawned

Polaroid icon set

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Better Social Bookmarking and Sharing Buttons

One of the first things most people do with their new blogs is install some sort of plugin to help facilitate the sharing of their posts. Thoughts of Twitter obsessively retweeting your content begin to float through your mind and let’s not forget the ridiculous amount of traffic you’re gonna be getting from Digg.
The truth [...]

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7 Awesome Twitter Plugins for Wordpress

by Jon Bishop on March 13, 2009

in Blogging, Plugins, Twitter

Twitter Wordpress Plugins

TweetSuite
TweetSuite is an excellent plugin developed by ’social & viral marketing scientist’ Dan Zarrella. It started off as a plugin that returned all ReTweets of a post and has turned into a complete Twitter/Wordpress solution.
Features include:

Server-side (no-JS or remote calls) TweetBacks
ReTweet-This buttons for each TweetBack
A digg-like Tweet-This Button
Automatic Tweeting of new posts
A Most-Tweeted Widget
A Recently-Tweeted [...]

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Too Much Trash In Your Sidebar

I’ve made this mistake in the past and it may have cost me a few readers. People get trigger happy with their plugins and readers can’t get to the content.
You need to remember that the content is the main reason someone might be reading your blog at any one point in time. If your blog [...]

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Social Media Strategy Not Working

Wondering why you’re not seeing any results from your marketing efforts in social media? Probably because you are doing it wrong. Here are a few things you can try doing differently.
Twitter
I feel like Twitter is the easiest one to do right and somehow so many people do it wrong.
First you have your spray and prayers. [...]

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How Twitter Will Integrate With Blogs in 2009

by Jon Bishop on January 12, 2009

in Blogging, Twitter

Wordpress and Twitter in 2009

I’ve been hearing a lot of hubbub about how Twitter will change Blog design and layout in 2009. I personally think that list is already a bit dated but could be a great resource for someone trying to catch up. I want to look forward a little bit and start thinking about how Twitter [...]

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E-Learning with Social Media

by Jon Bishop on October 27, 2008

in Blogging, Social Media

E-Learning

While I was living out in Amherst, MA I worked for the computer science department creating math problems in Adobe Flash (well it was Macromedia at the time). The project was called “Wayang Outpost”. It was a virtual SAT tutor that toned in on a students problems and presented exercises to help fill the [...]

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