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.

Tips on Making a Website

Yola's tips on making a website.

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.

Using YouTube to Increase your Traffic

YouTube Can be used to help make your brand and increase your traffic. Create informative or entertaining videos about your niche topic. Yachts 
How about: How to use your scanner as a camera; Lobster Pot Marriages; What is a Land Trust; or A Quick Tour of Maine Farmhouses?
Even a good, interesting ad can get some traffic. Lowes

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.

Lunarpages Education Program | Free Web Hosting

Lunarpages Education Program | Free Web Hosting
A nice freeby only for schools and teachers. Why not offer your services to a local school?

websitewizard-guidebook.pdf (application/pdf Object)

websitewizard-guidebook 
A helpful PDF worth reading.

Site Build It! Video Tour

Site Build It! Video Tour

Very interesting half hour video if you want to start a business based on your interests. Hand holds you through the whole business development process. Uses the Social Networking Approach that we have pursued. If you really want a successful web business you should really listen to this video even if you do not want to use their services.

Amazon and eBay Stores

The Amazon Stores
Gain the power (and cost) of Amazon with an easy to make store.
WebStore by Amazon: Online Store Feature Tour

What's an eBay Store
Set up store and have your items posted as the famous "buy it now" items. Lots of visibility.
Some interesting information available on these pages.

Google for Webmasters

Google for Webmasters 
If you are realy serious about your site use these tools. They often come with the site-builders. Not useful if you just want a site that friends can pull up using your URL.

How to Create Your Best Website Layouts Ever |

How to create your best website layouts ever | News | TechRadar UK
This is for the serious designer who is willing to use a little HTML. The idea of using a sketchpad and creating a map of the site is useful for those developers who do not use a pre-made template. First, look at lots of websites to see what you like.

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.

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/

Create a Custom Toolbar | Conduit

Create a Custom Toolbar | Conduit
Get traffic and leave visitors with a piece of your site. Allows you to run sweepstakes or contests, etc. Small monthly cost therefore mostly for commercial use.

Try Causes to Help a Cause or Create a New One

Causes is a way of contributing to or starting a new cause.
 

Getting help on FaceBook for Causes.

Photo Buffs Try Splashr and Photoshow

Splashr takes the photos you have on Flikr and makes a great presentation.

You may like Photoshow better. Why not check them both out?

I will have more on this later, if anyone requests it. You can follow the instructions yourself if you are a photo buff or are considering a commercial or a site for a cause.

This could be a class or group project by making a show about Senior College.