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This Inexpensive Marketing Plan Can Lead to More Traffic, More Leads and Higher Customer

July 27, 2012 by Tom George Leave a Comment

Are you up against competition that has deep pockets and can outspend you in traditional advertising methods? Click here to find out how you can bring traffic and leads for next to nothing… Traditional outbound marketing can end up being a poor investment. You have to rely on channels like cold-calling, paid branding and print [...]

Filed Under: Content Marketing Tagged With: Attention, Google, Inbound Marketing, linkedin, marketing, Quora, Search engine optimization, Social Media

Quora Makes a Move for Big Growth

July 19, 2012 by Tom George Leave a Comment

Since its launch in 2010, question-and-answer website Quora has been likened to both Wikipedia and Twitter. But, at least in one way, Quora is making a move to distance itself from both sites: The start-up is relocating to Mountain View–and not to San Francisco, where the other two companies are located. According to a Bloomberg [...]

Filed Under: Business, Technology Tagged With: Adam D'Angelo, Facebook, Mountain View California, Palo Alto California, Quora, san francisco, twitter, wikipedia

10 Things You May Not Know About YouTube

June 26, 2012 by Martin Gysler Leave a Comment

Social media verse is full of some best kept secrets. YouTube is one of them. Yet when I think about cultural shifts enabled by social media, YouTube is the place that comes most vibrantly to mind. It’s big, wide and deep. In my last post I mentioned that the social media ‘verse is full [...]

Filed Under: Business, Social Media Tagged With: Facebook, Pinterest, Quora, Social Media, Tumblr, twitter, www.jeffbullas.com, Youtube

How and When Do You Find Time For Blogging?

June 7, 2012 by Tom George Leave a Comment

So here’s how I manage my blogging. First, I do most of my writing either late at night, or first thing in the morning. Ideally, I will write my post the night before, and set it to publish the following morning at 8am. If I haven’t come up with a post idea by the end [...]

Filed Under: Online Curators Tagged With: blog, Facebook, Google, Google Reader, Quora, Social Media, twitter, Writing

Instagram’s founder had no programming training. He’s a marketer who learned to code by night

April 13, 2012 by Tom George Leave a Comment

Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards Instagram‘s CEO, Kevin Systrom, will go down in history as one of the greatest Silicon Valley success stories of our generation. Unlike Mark Zuckerberg, the man responsible for acquiring the popular photo sharing app for $1 billion, Systrom received no formal engineering training. Systrom, an active user on Quora, is a [...]

Filed Under: Business, Content Curation Tagged With: Facebook, Instagram, Kevin Systrom, Mafia Wars, Mark Zuckerberg, Nextstop, Quora, Silicon Valley

:: The Real Relationship between Social Media and SEO ::

April 6, 2012 by Ishak Latipi Mastan Leave a Comment

Via Scoop.it – Information Economy How is social media affecting SEO and a list of useful tips on what social activities that will help you impact your ranking. Via socialmouths.com

Filed Under: Social Media, Technology Tagged With: backlink, Facebook, Google, linkedin, Quora, Search engine optimization, Social Media, Social network

Collective Intelligence Join In The Discussion Now on Quora

March 5, 2012 by Tom George Leave a Comment

Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards Covering the emerging 3.0 semantic web, content curation and social tools that will eventually lead to universal online intelligence. We are having a discussion on this topic via Quora so feel free to jump in and make your knowledge on the topic known. Via www.quora.com

Filed Under: Social Media Tagged With: Facebook, linkedin, Quora, Semantic Web, Site Management, Social Media, twitter, Yahoo Answer

Platforms vs. Websites – the coming Platform tsunami

February 12, 2012 by Mike Ellsworth Leave a Comment

Via Scoop.it – Enterprise Social Media “My take on the coming Platform tsunami. Examples of recent platforms: Pinterest, Scoop.it, Hunch.com, Quora and G+. Platforms from our very recent past: Facebook, Twitter, delicous, StumbleUpon, Linkedin. As Amazon (PLATFORM) moves toward 1B pages in Google we are all are in the platform business.” If your enterprise [...]

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: Facebook, linkedin, Marty Smith, Quora, Social Media, StumbleUpon, twitter, Web 2.0

Quora: The Super Bowl of Social Media

February 4, 2012 by Tom George Leave a Comment

Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards Quora: “a continually improving collection of questions and answers created, edited, and organized by everyone who uses it. The most important thing is to have each question page become the best possible resource for someone who wants to know about the question.” That’s how Quora describes itself. My take: It’s like [...]

Filed Under: Entertainment, Social Media Tagged With: Facebook, green bay packers, Pittsburgh Steelers, Quora, super bowl, Super Bowl XLV, twitter, wikipedia

What’s Behind The Pinterest Craze? 15 Super-Users Share Their Thoughts

January 21, 2012 by Tom George 1 Comment

This piece was written by Arik C. Hansen – he was fascinated by the growth of Pinterest in such a short time so he set out to ask 15 people that he refers to as “super users” what they like about Pinterest, how much time they spend on there per week, and more. In this [...]

Filed Under: Pinterest Tagged With: business, Facebook, Google, Instagram, Pinterest, Quora, Social network, twitter

You Are What You Curate: Why Pinterest is So Hot

January 12, 2012 by Tom George Leave a Comment

This piece was written by Om Malik for Gigaom The author says “Pinterest is one of the hottest startups around these days and represents the latest buzzword in the Valley: curation”. Here’s what you need to know: 2012 will likely see an acceleration of structured, push button, social curation across the web. Why? Because most [...]

Filed Under: Pinterest Tagged With: Facebook, Pinterest, Quora, Social Media, Tumblr, twitter, wordpress, Youtube

Will Pinterest Lead The Way & Transform the Web in 2012?

January 5, 2012 by Tom George Leave a Comment

I selected this post written by Elad Gil because not only was it interesting and timely, but the comments from his readers were equally as valuable. So many different social curation platforms emerging, Pinterest is one to watch……. Excerpt: Social Content Curation As The Next Big Thing The most interesting wave hitting the social web [...]

Filed Under: Social Media Tagged With: Facebook, linkedin, Pinterest, Push-button, Quora, Silicon Valley, Social Media, twitter