This is a guest post by Manuel Marino where he shares how he has combined using LinkedIn for connections with blogging to build a community of artists helping artists.
Is it possible to merge an artist’s talent with social networking, adding some blogging spice for a perfect mix?
My name is Manuel Marino and I’m a music composer and producer, but I consider myself an all around artist, blessed with many talents, from music to painting, graphics and design. [click to continue…]
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In the latest episode of Future of Engagement, Murray Newlands interviews branding expert David Spark (@dspark on Twitter), founder of the custom publishing company Spark Media Solutions which provides custom content marketing services.
David and Murray discuss how content including video content creation works for business. They go beyond creating videos to how to use them to share your content and build relationships through blog outreach, guest blogging, and relationship building using social media.
“To be shared, your content must be valued by your audience
and only then it is truly useful to build your brand.” ~ David Spark ~
This is a guest post from Murray Newlands sharing a new social media monitoring and management solution.
Social Media Monitoring
It’s the new year, and if you’re like me, you’re taking a good, long look at your business goals and the services you use to achieve those goals. If your goals include lead generation, networking, becoming a thought leader, engaging in more conversation, or understanding your competition better, then I want to introduce you to Alerti social media monitoring and management service.
This short (under 2 minutes) video shows how to set up alerts in Alerti: [click to continue…]
If you haven’t heard about the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) so far, most are bound to have noticed Tuesday, January 18, 2012 when they were unable to get to many of their favorite sites from Wikipedia to Reddit to WordPress to Mozilla to Craigslist.
Do not fall for the red herring that these bills – both SOPA (in the House) and Protect IP Act (PIPA) (in the Senate) are ONLY about stopping “renegade pirate sites”.
Small business owner and managers can benefit from advice from 28 Social Media Marketing experts presenting during the 2012 Small Biz Success Summit.
Small Business Success Summit is entirely online so you can watch from the comfort of your own PC. Sessions are live and presented from Feb 1 through Feb 23, 2012. The event sold out last year so if you want to attend you need to register now.
Save 50% if you REGISTER BEFORE this coming Thursday, Jan 19, 2012.
By using TipTop first to see typical search results for any given keyword phrase you can fine tune what you set up in iTweetLive and greatly reduce the amount of time you’ll spend weeding out searches that were either too general or have too many other meanings.
It is faster to fine-tune your searches first than to manually review and delete those that did not work later.
iTweetLive Example Setup:
It is often easier to understand when you see a real life example – and understanding is a faster way to be productive with a new tool than trial and error – and that gets you results much faster. [click to continue…]
Future of Engagement is a new series of video interviews produced by Murray Newlands of Influence People.
In this 6 minute video, Murray interviews Chief Revenue Officer Alex Rowland of Alphabird, recognized by Entrepreneur Magazine in 2011 for their unique Editorial Video Syndication that distributes video content on a pay for performance instead of impressions model.
There have been reports so far from two bloggers involving three blogs that after upgrading to WordPress 3.3.1 the checkbox for the GrowMap anti-spambot plugin (G.A.S.P.) goes missing.
Blogs affected so far are all using the FREE version – not CommentLuv Premium.
Ileane @BasicBlogTips Recommends GASP Click Image to Read
Bloggers using CommentLuv Premium who have upgraded to WordPress 3.3.1 including Donna Fontenot’s (@DonnaFontenot) ebusiness coaching blog and Ron Cripps’ (@AffiliateXFiles) MakeItYourRing do NOT have the problem.
Kristi Hines (@Kikolani) – a wonderful person who supports other bloggers and wrote the Ultimate Blog Post Promotion Guide, dropped everything and upgraded a blog using the free version to 3.3.1 to test for issues.
The GASP checkbox was still visible, so the good news is there is not a major problem with upgrading to WordPress 3.3.1.
What if you could share just your most important links with influencers you don’t even know yet and have them retweet them to their 1000s or tens of thousands of Twitter followers? You can.
Join us at JustRetweet.com where it is fast and easy to share what we would most like to have retweeted.
Using JustRetweet is the easiest how to get retweeted method.
JustRetweet ~ The Retweeting Site for Influential Bloggers- CLICK THIS IMAGE to GO TO JUSTRETWEET.COM