How to Keep Your Readers Coming Back to Your Blog | Social Media Examiner

How to Keep Your Readers Coming Back to Your Blog | Social Media Examiner

Excellent ideas if you desire to have many different people watch your blog.
Watching the Social Media Examiner is a good idea if you have a political or commercial site.

Social Media Examiner: Twitter Tips

 Social Media Examiner is an excellent site to monitor to help you improve your social networking. A good example is the page on twitter: Twitter Tips from Copyblogger’s Brian Clark (video) | Social Media Examiner

Computer Tips From A Computer Guy

Computer Tips From A Computer Guy 
The best source for technical information I have found. It covers just about anything from web development to problems with spyware on your computer. Try it! The seach box is for the site and not just a Google list. He writes in English and not techese.

Use Change.Org Create a Petition

If you want to help make change for the better, create a petition on the web using Change.
You can also sign up for other causes.

Google Friend Connect

Google Friend Connect
Enabling Friend Connect on your website couldn't be easier. All it takes is entering your website's URL and name when first signing into your Friend Connect account.

About AdSense for Your Blog - Blogger Help

About AdSense for Your Blog - Blogger Help

Photos/Images: Photo Programs,Online Photo Albums and Photo Editors

If you are going to use your own photos/graphics you will need some place to edit and store them. You have My Pictures on your computer. I suggest you keep a separate folder for each site labeled images. Also it is a good idea to put backup copies on the web or a CD. Images placed on the we are usually jpg.

You can edit pictures in Paint by right clicking on the picture and clicking on edit.

You also have Windows Photo Gallery on your computer. Very basic but makes it easy to tag, caption and burn to CD's'  Also Windows Media Center.

I really like Irfanview as an editor and viewer. It is free to download and is a most complete editor. You can scan and do batch editing and change your photos in a great number of ways.For Photoshop effects free download Gimp. 

InkScape is illustration software similar to the commercial packages Adobe Freehand and Adobe Illustrator, but without the cost.

Godaddy: Photo Hosting Made Easy
by Godaddy.com has a small cost. If you like Godaddy it is worth it.

Picasa is a free site that must be downloaded to your computer. It is very complete and gives you an online web album.

Snapfish is free online site that is quite complete. Not as good editing, but you can do all sorts of things with your photos.

Photobucket is another excellent free site that has a very interesting feature, Scrapbooks.

There are other good sites, and many of the free editor sites, like Godaddy, have image storing and editing capabilities included.

Tools to Boost Your Social Media Productivity � SocialOomph.com

Tools to Boost Your Social Media Productivity � SocialOomph.com

Advanced. An integrated set of apps. Free or Premium.

**TweetDeck

TweetDeck
Have your SN sites all at one place with lots of special features.

See also Flock.com

Twitterfeed.com : Feed your blog to Twitter

twitterfeed.com : feed your blog to twitter
Also other social sites. You need to post only once to have the post on each site. Posting is by set times, e.g., by the hour.

AddThis - The #1 Bookmarking & Sharing Service

AddThis - The #1 Bookmarking & Sharing Service 

Share across sites. For the serious SN worker. Seriously increases traffic. (Good or Bad?)

Revised List of Active Social Networking URLs

SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES


URL

http://www.bebo.com/

http://www.blogger.com/

http://www.bravenet.com/

http://www.broadbentpage.blogspot.com/

www.commoncraft.com/video-social-networking

http://www.craigslist.com/

http://www.delicious.com/

http://www.digg.com/

http://www.drupal.org/

http://www.facebook.com/

http://www.flickr.com/

http://www.flock.com/

http://www.frank-broadbent.blogspot.com/

http://www.friendfeed.com/

http://www.furcadia.com/

http://www.gather.com/

www.gimp.org/

http://www.gmail.com/

http://www.google.com/sites/help/intl/en/overview.html

http://www.groups.google.com/grphp?hl=en

http://www.google.com/intl/en/googlereader/tour.html

www.google.com/talk/

http://www.grandparents.com/

http://www.imeem.com/

www.irfanview.net/

iWeb

iPone and others

http://www.kompozer.net/

http://www.linkedin.com/

http://www.mashable.com/

http://www.mashable.com/2007/10/23/social-networking-god/

www.mashable.com/2009/01/13/free-social-media-iphone-apps/

http://www.meebo.com/

http://www.meetup.com/

http://members.suscom-maine.net/?body=support&cat=webspace

www.myfamily.com/welcome/tour/

http://www.myspace.com/

www.units.muohio.edu/psybersite/cyberspace/cmcreal/index.shtml

http://www.opensocial.org/

www.irfanview.net/

http://www.orkut.com/

http://picasa.google.com/  

http://www.pixlr.com/

http://www.photobucket.com/

http://www.regroup.com/

www.shutterfly.com/

http://www.snapfish.com/

http://www.spoke.com/

http://www.tweetdeck.com/

http://www.twitter.com/

http://twitter.com/fbroad

http://www.typepad.com/

http://www.vimeo.com/

http://www.weebly.com/

www.wetpaint.com/

http://www.wikipedia.com/

www.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites

http://www.wix.com/

www.microsoft.com/windows/rookies/kylie4/?ocid=ftp_rookpmk_wl_281

http://home.live.com/

http://www.fbroad.spaces.live.com/

http://www.wordpress.com/

http://groups.yahoo.com/

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/broadbentclass

http://www.yola.com/

http://www.youtube.com/

Advanced Twitter Tips - butterscotch

Advanced Twitter Tips - butterscotch
A series of instructional videos to help you make better use of Twitter.
Note that the site contains a large number of instructional videos that are very helpful.

Twitter

Twitter is a miniblog and getting to be one of the most popular SN sites. A good number of people do not tweet themselves very often, but rather they follow celebrities, news, information, etc.
Some college students use it for group  work and note taking or note sharing.
Some people just twitter inanely. High school students often gossip on it or some even share answers with it comfortably out of sight on their phones. Many companies and organizations use it for PR and advertising. Others just use it to keep up with what is current (most twetted topic). It has been useful to get news out of Iran and other places along with other SN sites.

As with other texting there is a whole new abbreviated vocabulary:  
8:] a Gorilla
and smilies


You will notice that many tweets contain links to other sites and are sort of bookmarks.

Twitter has many apps that expand it beyond just a miniblog. See the post below.

Help with Twitter

Mashable has a very comprehensive online Guide to Twitter.

Twitter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Twitter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

List of Twitter services and applications - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

List of Twitter services and applications - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

OUR BLOGS

Below is a list of our blogs. You may want to associate with them.
http://www.CoryGardiner.blogspot.com
http://jimtoddsblog.blogspot.com/
http://www.kconnors123.blogspot.com
http://www.skiprobinson.blogspot.com
http://www.fortheloveofhouses.blogspot.com/
 http://www.jmftravelgirl.blogspot.com
http://www.richarddevito.blogspot.com
http://www.myanika-myanika.blogspot.com 

Fancy up your Profile

If you want to make your profile fancy try link below.  You will have to do this at home since the audio is very important.

http://www.fbexpressions.com/videos.html

Vox.com is Fun, Easy Blogging with Powerful Privacy and Multimedia Features

VOX is an easy alternative to Blogger that you might like better especially if multimedia and privacy are your prorities.
Vox.com is Fun, Easy Blogging with Powerful Privacy and Multimedia Features

Creating Events

Blog on using Events. Invite people to participate in your event.