Tools
Add a Facebook Fan Page Widget
Learn how to add a Facebook Fan page widget to your site. Take your site and information to them through a Facebook Fan Page and let them join via your site.
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Social Media Domain, Blog, Twitter Account and Facebook Page
Blog, Twitter, Facebook
These are a great way to start your social media setup. Particularly with WordPress as the blog, a Twitter account connected, and a Facebook page. Twitter and Facebook have such a large audience it makes good sense to start with them. Of course the realm of possible social media sites to participate in grows daily.
Getting Started
Getting started with a strong social media foundation typically begins with a blog, hosting, a unique domain, Twitter account and Facebook page all linked together.
It is suggested to obtain a unique domain right at the start so all the links in you work hard to obtain. As a blog WordPress is free, easy to use, and incredibly powerful due to all the plugins created for it. Obtain a hosting account from a provider such as GoDaddy which provides a WordPress hosting account, your domain and your off and running.
Consistent Naming
For branding purposes it is wise to obtain a domain name, Twitter account and Facebook page with the same name, such as longest.com for a domain and twitter.com/longest for a twitter account.
Social Brand Search provides a quick search of domains, Twitter names, and Facebook Pages. Go to Social Brand Search Here (it is free) and start choosing a name, then get your hosting and you are off and running. Social Brand Search searches for you and let’s you know which names are available.
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Twitter is the Fastest Growing Social Network Site in 2008
According to Nielsens blog, Twitter had the largest growth rate of the top social network sites in 2008.
Sample Size
To be fair to the others on the list, Nielsen did mark both Twitter and Ning with an asterik stating that these two sites do not meet the minimum sample size standards which means their measures of these two can fluctuate greatly month to month.
Top Growth Social Networks
Other growth social network sites were Tagged, Ning, LinkedIn, Last.fm, Facebook and others. It is interesting that Twitter is considered a social network. I am not sure what their definition of a social network is, but I am guessing since you can follow others it meets their criteria, as opposed to a micro-blog.
Update Twitter with your Blog Posts Automatically
If you are using WordPress and looking to make your life easier, here is a plugin I just started using. Twitter Updater automatically updates your twitter account by creating a tweet with your message and a link to your most recent post.
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Wordtracker Free Trial and Videos
Wordtracker is an amazing tool. Get a free trial here. Whether you spend your time on search engine optimization or search engine marketing, picking the right keywords is essential.
12Nov2008 | Brian | 2 comments | Continued
Top Twitter Tools
A list of the top twitter tools, for monitoring, responding, posting, statistics, metrics and more.
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Twitter Autoresponder Tweetlater
Tweetlater is a twitter service that allows you to auto-respond to those that follow you and set up automatic messages, if you are on vacation for example.
28Oct2008 | Brian | 2 comments | Continued
How to Use Reddit
As a blogger and content publisher you can reach a greater audience with your content by having it submitted to sites like Reddit. You can submit the story yourself or let another submit it for you. Read the entire article…….
7Aug2008 | Brian | 2 comments | Continued
Blog Comment Tool
Take a look at Blog Comment Demon, it helps you find relevant sites and posts to your content.
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MySpace Friend Adder
This is an interesting tool to assist with adding friends in MySpace with Add New Friends. Not to be used for spam, it just helps automate friend requests and more. You will still need to use the captcha etc.
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