Yesterday we looked at the strategic question of, "What do you want new visitors of your blog to do?" It's a question that's very powerful in helping you to achieve your goals as a blogger. Today I want to take the question and apply it to repeat readers—an exercise that I think is really important. [...]

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Fans of X Factor USA will soon be able to cast votes for the show through Twitter, after the company revealed details of its partnership with the hit TV show on its...

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If you are just starting out your internet business or have been at it for awhile, you soon realize that in order to monetize your website, you are going to have to drive traffic to your website.  Without website traffic, you are not able to generate interest that turns into prospects and ultimately sales for [...]

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Sometimes it's easy to forget how many different teams Microsoft Research has on hand to pursue new, and sometimes even useful, technology. Today's installment of ‘fresh, and probably impractical' is this:...

Read More: Microsoft shows off new touchscreen tech that works through garments

It’s no secret that every brand under the sun is clamoring for red-hot social media channels packed full of loving fans that are hanging on your every word. After setting...

Read More: Going beyond the Like: How to maximize your follow through

It’s no secret that every brand under the sun is clamoring for red-hot social media channels packed full of loving fans that are hanging on your every word. After setting...

Read More: Going beyond the Like: How to maximize your follow through

crown.jpg In the social media world, content is king and photos (or diagrams, graphs or illustrations) act as his crown and jewels.Photos are a great way to introduce your topic, break up an otherwise overwhelming amount of text, support and enhance your content.  Also, did you know a tweet containing a picture link often has a click through rate five to ten times greater than a typical tweet?  Adding photos to yo [...]

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This guest post is by Danny Iny of Firepole Marketing. Our blog is less than a year old. We started Firepole Marketing less than a year ago, and we’ve done pretty well with it over that time. A lot of people know who we are, and what we do. I’ve even been dubbed the Freddy [...]

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The 57th US presidential election will be held on Tuesday, November 6, 2012. And as with all presidential elections, there's sure to be a lot of talking points en route to the finale, which is why it seems YouTube is launching a new dedicated Politics site in the build up to election time. In a [...]

Read More: YouTube launches ‘Politics’ to track the US election campaign through video

If I asked you to name someone you know personally that doesn’t like to talk about sports, or clothing, you’d think of someone fairly easily. Even though these are insanely popular topics of conversation, you probably know someone that isn’t really interested in discussing them. But what if I asked you to name someone you [...]

Read More: How innovation in food and beverage is accelerating through customer-centricity

The analysts at Gartner have released a new report today, detailing tablet market trends and forecasts. Not surprisingly, their findings confirm the obvious: the iPad is killing it. According to the firm, the Apple iPad will account for 73.4% of tablet sales worldwide this year, and no other platform besides Android will have more than a 5% share of the market during this time.

In addition, Apple will continue to have more than 50% of the tablet market until 2014, according to research VP Carol [...]

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Exclusive - eBuddy, the Dutch company that enables millions of people worldwide to communicate with each other on the Web and a wide range of mobile phones, says it's the first independent messaging app to exceed 250 million user accounts.

A lot of those new users are people who use Android-powered phones, eBuddy says, positing that growth on that particular platform is up 300 percent year-over-year.

Of course, not all of those 250 million user accounts are active, but you'd be surprised to le [...]

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One of the more popular, on-demand music service platforms just launched an improved musical experience. Rhapsody makes discovering music faster and easier thanks to a new streamlined interface and rich social features.


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For some, Facebook is easy. As a social media society, we've abandoned our privacy, our ability to speak in complete sentence or use complete words, and our tendency towards any form of introversion. We want to encapsulate our moments, days, and lives into quick status updates that are intended to inform others of who we [...]

Read More: LyricStatus: Because Expression through Lyrics Makes Facebook Easier

This post is written by Molli Megasko. There is  new digital connectivity endeavor that I'm really excited to talk about here. Ticketmaster is going social by creating new features that allow music lovers to see where their friends on Facebook are sitting at concerts. A good friend of mine, Kyle Kiefer, pointed this out to [...]

Read More: Music Lovers Unite … Through Facebook

All of us can remember where we were on September 11, 2001. Some of us were at work, school or watching the tragic event unfold on television. Unfortunately, most of us cannot remember where we were or even what we did the following day. I, however, may not remember exactly what I did as a person on September 12, 2001, but I remember very vividly what we did as a nation: we came together as one.

Read More: Patriotism Through the Eyes of Social Media

Ever wondered what it would be like to witness your favorite band live in concert from the front row?  Or what it would be like to stand on top of Mount Everest? Have you ever wished you could see what the world looked like through other people’s eyes, or share your own view of the world with others?  Visual social media platform Mobli makes it all possible.


Read More: Mobile App Lets You Experience The World Through The Eyes Of Other People

The cameras embedded in phones have gotten pretty good over the years. They've come a long way since the days of postage stamp sized fuzzy purple tinted photos produced by early cameraphones. But, as good as some of the cameras used in phones are today, there are times you probably wished you could quickly send a truly high quality image from a good compact camera wirelessly. That's what Panasomic is trying to deliver with the new camera under their Lumix brand.


Read More: Lumix FX90 Camera Can Send Photos Through Your Phone to Facebook

The tweet above seemed like a simple enough tweet to send out and only a bit of fun. Little did the person who sent it know that he would come back from his holidays to find 23,000 retweets and have won over £11,000 in a bet when he expected a tenner at best. Some people started claiming it was a scam but you can see from the blog post that the guy was clearly shocked by the reaction and unsurprisingly the boss seems to be backing out of the original bet.It’s one of those tweets that people just [...]

Read More: Man "earns" £11,000 through Twitter by betting against his boss

Jack Layton, leader of the Canadian NDP party, died this week, and Canadians expressed their reactions on social networks.


Read More: Canadians Proudly Pass Jack Layton’s Farewell Words To Friends Through Social Media