I’m about 9 months into my role at Strategies 360 running their social media outfit, and we’ve just about hit critical mass where we are exploring and upgrading our social media tools around monitoring and engagement. Up to this point, we’ve been able to manage without the enterprise level offerings such as Radian 6 and Sysomos, but times are a changin. Over the past few weeks we’ve been demo’ing and researching a few different options, and it’s fairly overwhelming trying to make heads or ...
Did Apple Miss The Boat With The iPhone 4S?
I was disappointed. No doubt about it. I've been eagerly anticipating the next iteration of the iPhone seeing it was a 15 month window since iPhone 4. There was so much speculation as to what was going to be announced it was practically impossible to know what to expect. I thought for sure we'd see something ground breaking with how quickly the competition was closing the gap. Not so much the case. Sure the improved performance enhancements are great along with the camera upgrade and ...
Klout Adds WordPress But Not For Self Hosted Blogs?
A few weeks ago I noticed that Klout had added the Wordpress button to the available channels to connect to which was encouraging. Quite frankly I think those that write successful blogs carry more influence than just about anyone in the social media sphere, so a welcome addition. But not so fast. Apparently the new wordpress plugin only covers Wordpress.com hosted blogs and not self hosted blogs. Why does this matter? Anyone that goes to the trouble of self hosting a blog typically is serious ...
5 Great Tools For Finding A Domain Name
I’ve always been quite entrepreneurial in nature and constantly am thinking about new ideas for websites, blogs or businesses. Needless to say that often has me frequently looking for good names to inspire me enough to go through with those ideas. I always feel like if I can actually find an affordable name, it’s more likely that I’ll see them through. Of course it goes without saying that finding a good domain name is incredibly hard these days. Practically every .com you can think of is ...
How 1 Blog Post Increased My Klout Score
I know what you’re thinking; big deal right? I know. It’s not a big deal at all really. But I did find it very interesting based on my particular circumstances, and I thought sharing might be useful in some way to some of my readers. So I went on a blog hiatus for a few weeks, and it certainly made a significant impact on my Klout score. I was hovering around 70 for awhile, and after about 4 weeks of not blogging, I dropped down to 67. I’m not entirely sure what I ...
5 Sure Fire Ways To Lose Website Visitors
I’m always surprised at how many sites use questionable tactics with their websites that most certainly drive away readers. In some cases these decisions are certainly centered around monetizing a site, but in others, they are simply mind boggling. I’ve taken the past few months to really gather some feedback on how I’d like to evolve my blog in terms of making it more reader friendly and call to action oriented, but I can assure you that I would never consider any of the following ...
