Ever since the iPhone 4S has been released, Siri has been the darling of the media, with whole websites dedicated to its responses cropping up on the Interwebs. “What is...

Read More: Hilarious: Siri’s temperament after a year of nonsensical questions [Comic]

old_register.png There is a sometimes violent argument from some social media advocates about the idea of monetizing your blog activities. To the more hard lined, there is never an appropriate time to “sell out” your audience. They nobly cite editorial integrity, journalistic creeds, and the dangers of bias from being too close to the money when asserting your opinion.

On the Other Hand…

On the other extreme side, you have the blogs compl [...]

Read More: Top 10 Questions to Ask Yourself before Pitching Brands for Your Blog

Thinking about starting a blog?  Before you even think about sitting down to set up your blog and write your first post there are several questions you need to ask yourself.  These seven important questions can help you determine whether you’re on the right track, how you should proceed and whether you should even be starting a blog at all.


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friend.ly staff pictureFacebook nabbed another social media company — friend.ly. The Mountain View, Calif.-based startup is a Facebook app for asking and answering questions with other people on the social network.

Read More: Watch Out Quora? Facebook Getting Into Questions with Friend.ly Acquisition

Originally published on the Porter Novelli blog Would you like access to data behind the online performance of 3.7 million companies? Sure, who wouldn’t? Jeanne Hopkins of HubSpot presented on Content Marketing for Inbound Lead Generation at Social Fresh Charlotte on last Tuesday. She shared tons of actionable lessons and stats from Website Grader’s database of [...]

Read More: 3 Key Questions Content Marketers Should Be Asking

For many, the primary reason they joined Twitter was to follow their favorite celebrities. Twitter gets plenty of attention as a news aggregator and as a general lifestream, but we often forget who really has the attention of most Twitter users: the "idols". This infographic by our friends at inboxQ breaks down the data they've [...]

Read More: Which Celebrities are Taking Questions on Twitter?

One of the great things about Twitter is that it lets you send a shout-out or question to virtually anyone via @reply.  You can ask your biggest idols, favorite actors, musicians and role models anything and maybe…just maybe…you’ll even be lucky enough to get an answer.  A new infographic from Column Five Media and InboxQ, a service for asking and answering questions on Twitter, explores which people are getting asked the most questions on Twitter.


Read More: Who Gets Asked The Most Questions On Twitter? [Infographic]

A few cool stats came across my desk this morning, from social media management platform Roost, that I thought were worth sharing. If you are trying to up your engagement on Twitter and Facebook, here are a few tips and stats to help the cause. These are not magic steps but they are still worth [...]

Read More: A Few Simple Tricks For Engagement: Photos, Questions, Quotations

When the British government met with social media giants Twitter, RIM, and Facebook in August, the matter seemed closed. Apparently not. The UK government questioned the media giants again this week.


Read More: Apparently the Fat Lady Never Sang: Social Media Faces Questions from British Government, Again

Gootip is a free iPhone app and web-based service that is part of the trend of providing responses from people instead of search engines. One of its spins on this is it a location based questions and answers service. Unless otherwise specified, your question is based on your current location or a specified city.


Read More: Gootip for iPhone Gathers People Generated Answers to Questions Based on Where You Are

For Canadian bloggers, mediaphiles and political junkies, ichannel is launching a new TV series developed to bring these social media users together online and on TV.


Read More: #FAQMP Poses Frequently Asked Questions to Members of Parliament

The Internet continues to change the way we ask and answer questions. The invention of services like Twitter, for example, has made us just a little bit lazier when it comes to doing our own investigative research. Rather than taking the time to uncover answers for ourselves, some of us now rely on Twitter's fast-acting and real time community to gather swifter responses.Unfortunately, many of our questions tend to go unanswered or receive silly responses that are in no way helpful to the i [...]

Read More: InboxQ helps Twitter users with questions get direct answers from experts

The Internet continues to change the way we ask and answer questions. The invention of services like Twitter, for example, has made us just a little bit lazier when it comes to doing our own investigative research. Rather than taking the time to uncover answers for ourselves, some of us now rely on Twitter's fast-acting and real time community to gather swifter responses.Unfortunately, many of our questions tend to go unanswered or receive silly responses that are in no way helpful to the i [...]

Read More: InboxQ helps Twitter users with questions get direct answers from experts

Yes yes I know Facebook Questions pivoted into some kind of "poll your friends" thing back in March but still this is sort of funny, simply because it's the most symbolic concession of the Q&A space I've seen from Facebook yet. Hey, people interested in interning at Facebook, ask a question about it, ON QUORA.

Read More: Facebook Asks People To Post Questions About Interning At Facebook, On Quora

The latest pitching season has just ended at KAYWEB Angels, during which we invited approximately 30 of 200-plus funding applicants to present their ideas in person.We allowed these individuals and groups 20 minutes to go through their prepared presentations, before firing away with questions from our board members for another 30-40 minutes.While we have made our selections, I thought I would share some of my key pointers for entrepreneurs and startups preparing to apply for angel or VC funding. [...]

Read More: Hey Pitchers: Here Are 10 Questions Investors Need You To Answer

This guest post is by Eric Transue of erictransue.net. "Warning: this post may cause dizziness." This is not a warning you want to put at the top of a blog post. But guess what? Many should. Why? Because some blog posts leave visitors feeling dizzy and confused. They come in with the intention of either [...]

Read More: 3 Questions to Ask Before You Publish Your Next Blog Post

facebook_questions.png Do you remember approximately six months ago when Facebook Questions were all the rage?  If your News Feed looked anything like mine, it was cluttered with random poll answers from random Facebook friends.  Today, it seems that these poll questions have simply disappeared.  Surveys and polls can be an excellent tool for gaining insight and interacting with your fans, why exactly did this feature lose p [...]

Read More: What Happened to Facebook Questions?

This guest post is by Stephanie Hetu of StephanieHetu.com. Most of us international bloggers learned pretty much everything we know in English, just because the community of bloggers is there, huge, active, and available. We don't have to search very far to learn all sorts of little tips and tricks to make our blogs more [...]

Read More: 5 Crucial Questions to Ask Before Deciding to Blog in Another Language

Speech recognition is one of those functions that works well and is desirable under some conditions (e.g., voice dialing while driving) and doesn't make sense under others (e.g., dictating a report while in a crowded cubicle environement). Some speech recognition applications are great show pieces but might not be practical. Nuance's new free iPhone app leans toward this category.Dragon Go!Nuance describes Dragon Go! like this: Dragon Go! knows what you want simply by how you say [...]

Read More: Dragon Go! from Nuance: Free App for iPhone That Answers Questions You Speak