Chris Winfield of 10e20.com published a blog post today about Twitter. It’s a great example that if you talk about those who talk, you are going to be talked about.
Most marketing is common sense. Big up ten people and you will find ten people bigging you up in return.
Does this represent a new label for [...]

Categories: Social Networking

I finally found a use for Twitter which combines my love for knocking headline ideas around.
Basically, I get a headline idea which I think worthy of the Twitter mosh pit and I throw it in. If I get feedback great, if not, the headline needs serious work. Even is the response is, “Dude, you’re a [...]

Categories: headlines

When you have every social media marketing blog loaded in your RSS reader, you soon come to identify a problem within the space. The problem is the term Linkbait, it is overused, misused and stretched to cover almost all content ever published on the web.
Different definitions of linkbait I have heard:

A top ten list
Anything that [...]

Categories: Twitter · digg

“Keep silent unless what you are going to say is more important than silence”

It’s a self portrait of Rosa Salvator from the 17th century. Its unusual for it’s age as the quote is actually in the painting. This is one of my favourite paintings in the National.
If the quote is familiar it is because it [...]

Categories: Social media marketing

Check this out, this digg front pager greeted me at 5am on a Saturday morning. I noticed out of the 20 other front pagers there were 7 stories similar.

As you can see, none of my friends dugg. But what is interesting is I cannot see any of the usual suspects. Friends of ours. Kinda sounds [...]

Categories: Social media marketing

A year ago I thought about writing an ebook about linkbait and social media marketing. It seemed the most effective way to teach what I have learned and to do in a format that is financially rewarding. At the time I had to postpone it as clients got in the way, all wanting me to [...]

Categories: Social media marketing

Shel Israel Should Not Be Anywhere Near A Camera
Loren Feldman is pretty much the only guy who can make me laugh out loud on the interweberscope.
Good round up of the spat here, The Best Advice For Getting Yourself Out A PR Nightmare. I love a good spat, in fact I like to start the day [...]

Categories: Spat

Or go to a site which actually works.
From the Digg blog,
“Hey everyone, We know that we are currently having some issues on Digg at the moment. Submissions, commenting, digging and other actions may sometimes fail. We have a crack team assigned to it and will be making numerous fixes as soon as possible to get [...]

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Stumbleupon now allows you to change your stumble blog from a list to a grid. It takes a screen cap if the pages you have stumbled and makes a very cool grid. Here is a screen cap of my own blog which you can find here.

A lot of changes to websites such as SU can [...]

Categories: Stumbleupon

So I previously made fun of Twitter, but there was something about it which kept my attention. One thing which kept me connected was the fact that my peers were spending time there and a conversation existed. Not knowing what the conversation was about became painful, so I had to keep dipping in.
And, there are [...]

Categories: Twitter