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The cry of “Content is King” has been a rallying call for bloggers and on-line publishers for years.
Creating and marketing your content is now as easy as typing text and uploading images and videos and then hitting the publishing button.
This has been facilitated by the advent of social networks and blogging software that facilitate fast efficient multi-media publishing.
The reality is that everyone is now a publisher as social media has provided easy to use tools which has put a personal printing press in everyone’s hand...
Via Martin Gysler
10 Facebook shortcuts you might not know: Alt+M: This is used to send a New Message by opening the send message window.Alt+1: This will take you to Facebook home page.Alt+2: Might be useful to go to any profile page.Alt+3: You can go to Facebook Friend request page.Alt+4: This will bring you to to messages page.
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Benefits of joining Empire Avenue
1) Get connected. A lot of top players in the social media industry are playing, and it is a good place to meet them. If you play the game right as I teach you, you will get noticed.
2) Find like minded people. You can join a community inside Empire Avenue, or compete your stock in a niche specific Index such as blogging, Technology, Travel and many other indexes inside the game.
3) Get traffic to your blog and social media profiles. People that will connect with you will want to know who you are, and will check your blog, Facebook profile and fanpage, your twitter account, etc.
4) Forces you to learn how to use the social media correctly. Because if you are not performing as well as somebody else than probably you are not doind things as well as you should.
5) Good social proof. You can’t rank well in Empire Avenue without being influential in the social media sites. To get high share value you must get retweeted, likes, view, comments, which will only happen if people listen to you.
6) Makes networking in social media fun - If you think that fun is not an important factor in life, you probably
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Remember Places, the Facebook Foursquare clone feature you probably didn't use? I say probably, because Facebook just axed it entirely, BI reports, admitting inevitable defeat in the check-in war. It's about time!
Via Morten Myrstad
visual.ly - Create, Share, Explore Great Visualizations.
Via Philou49
A desktop client for Google Music that supports minimize to tray with a dragable playback control bar and support for multimedia keys.
Via Philou49
It is hard to believe that Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), at any point, was not the undisputed leader in the search world, let alone actually just a small part of the market. In the early days of the Internet, search engines like Lycos, Excite, AskJeeves, and others competed for pieces of the pie. By the end of the 20th century, however, Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) emerged as the leader, surviving the dot-com bubble that dragged the smaller companies under. Yahoo! then purchased most of these for next to nothing. In 2000, the site had 56% of search engine referrals, six times times its closest competitor. Google had roughly 1% of the market in June of that year. In 2001, Yahoo! began using Google’s search algorithm
Read more: Nine Companies That Destroyed Their Largest Competitors - 24/7 Wall St. http://247wallst.com/2011/08/23/nine-companies-that-destroyed-their-largest-competitors/#ixzz1VrK6y23T
Via Tom George
Last month we looked at video that Alex Chitu at Google Operating System shared, showing that Google was testing a new design concept for its search results... In the video, you can see that the results pages still end with the pagination that matches the default Google user experience of today. You still have to click to go to the next page if you wish to see more results. However, we speculated at the time that this could open up the door to infinite scrolling in web search results, as Google Image Search, which already has this feature, has a similar design concept.
Via Tom George
Search and preview millions of books from libraries and publishers worldwide using Google Book Search. Discover a new favorite or unearth an old classic.
Via Megan Townes
Google offers much more than just a simple search engine. Google Tools can support research, collaboration and investigation in the classroom. ESSENTIAL QUESTION: How can online search and collaboration tools enhance teaching and learning?
Via Megan Townes
Video highlighting how brands play a role in the SEO and search engine marketing game. Brand advertisers dominate Google AdWords.
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Engineers at Facebook say the social network will release its own photo filters after failing to acquire Instagram, according to a report.
Via Jason Feather
With more than 100 million users, LinkedIn is the most popular social network for professionals as well as one of the top social networks overall. Are you using it to its fullest potential? While Facebook, Twitter, and now Google+ have been generating the most buzz lately in the social media world, LinkedIn is a powerful platform that often gets underutilized or put on the back burner. The truth is, LinkedIn can be extremely useful -- especially when you're aware of all the little hidden tricks that don't get nearly enough exposure as they deserve. To help you master LinkedIn, below is our ultimate list of 20 awesome tricks you've likely overlooked.
Via Robin Good
The first official #EAv Seattle meetup, featuring the most active and motivating player on this exciting, new social media portal.
Facebook is the king of the hill when it comes to social networks, but it faces growing competition from a couple of old foes. Google is rampantly trying to play catch up in the social networking space, while Twitter seems to have a new-found motivation for improvement. There is news out about Facebook’s strategy (which interestingly enough is reminiscent of Google’s overall strategy for the last decade: acquisitions, acquisitions, acquisitions. What should Facebook acquire to maintain its edge? Tell us what you think. Acquisitions A new report out from Bloomberg says that Facebook is planning to make about 20 acquisitions this year, which would be twice as many as last year. This isn’t a rumor. It’s straight from Facebook’s director of corporate development Vaughan Smith.
Via Tom George
For those relatively new to Google plus, this post will help you navigate, adding friends (fast), circles, security, search engines, and more. Read. Learn. Connect.
Via Philou49
You may not be ready to ditch Facebook for good, but now that you've had a chance to kick the tires on Google+, you might be ready to make it your go-to social network.
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In discussions about new media, you will often hear the division of media opportunities as Paid, Owned, and Earned media (P.O.E.M.). Over the years, I’ve studied the various categorization of media from a few perspectives, that of content creation, how social networks cater to consumption and sharing, and also how media opportunities are packaged and sold by each network. I believe media is not limited to three groups, but instead categorized into five key segments: Paid, Promoted, Owned, Shared, and Earned. To visualize the model that reflects the state of new media, I once again partnered with my good friends at JESS3. The result…The Brandsphere.
Social networks and channels present brands with a broad array of media opportunities to engage customers and those who influence them. Each channel offers a unique formula for engagement where brands become stories and people become storytellers. Using a transmedia approach, the brand story can connect with customers differently across each medium, creating a deeper, more enriching experience. Transmedia storytelling doesn’t follow the traditional rules of publishing; it caters to customers where they connect and folds them into the narrative..... [read full article http://j.mp/ru3k12]
Via Giuseppe Mauriello
In Italy and Spain too, low-quality content has not been spared by Google’s Panda update. After already announcing the winners and losers in the USA, UK, Germany, France and Austria, the lists for two other major European countries are now available. Just as before, on the basis of absolute and percentage values we are demonstrating which domains in these countries have achieved gains and losses in terms of their visibility in the Google search results. This is therefore not the same thing as a rise or drop in traffic as I explained in this blog post.
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Google rolled out a new verification badge program today, making it easier for users to confirm the identities of celebrities and public figures.
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Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research.
Via Megan Townes
From search games to presentations on how to use Docs & Spreadsheets with your students, here you can find real-world examples of innovative ways that teachers and librarians are using Google tools to help students learn. Visit the Google for Educators Discussion Group to share your own examples.
Via Megan Townes
A big analysis on Google's new social product. On this article you're going to find the best things about Plus as well as those who are not so good.
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