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Social Networking

New Facebook Like Button

by Eric Miltsch on 04/25/2010 · View Comments

Facebook’s Like button is the newest content sharing feature to hit the ‘Net. And its kind of a big deal when it comes to social media optimization, easy content sharing and making extra connections. Websites can include the same “Like” button everyone in the universe is familiar with, within their own content. Why is this [...]

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Rally Up – Really Like It

by Eric Miltsch on 04/01/2010 · View Comments

Social media noise getting to you too? Look no further. The innovative minds over at 12Seconds launched a new location based social network called Rally. And its got some pretty nice features. real friends get push notifications and end up in your feed feed friends just end up in your feed (no push notifications – [...]

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Get Your Buzz On

by Eric Miltsch on 02/10/2010 · View Comments

Image by Search Engine People Blog via Flickr Google announced their latest social networking strategy by releasing Google Buzz yesterday… Big step towards the centralized, portable profile mentality by combining the social buffet of stand-alone platforms & channels. In typical Google early-release fashion, it lacks certain items – such as the ability to update your [...]

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Google has been hard at work preparing for one of the biggest recent changes in the world of search – Google Caffeine should roll out sometime after the new year. What is it? Google is changing the criteria for choosing which websites show up when you search for information on the web. How are they [...]

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Magntize Your Introductions

by Eric Miltsch on 11/22/2009 · View Comments

Magntize is trying to change how online introductions are made. Their unique way of showcasing your personal brand is different than other social sites. The ultra-creative team at Magntize is doing some really cool things in the introductions department. In their words… “Magntize introduces you to the world.” Free account Pro version – for $9/mo. (extras like custom [...]

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Cuban on Sports Social Media

by Eric Miltsch on 10/05/2009 · View Comments

Social media and sports. They seem to have the same on-again, off-again relationship like Chris Brown and Rihanna. The NFL tries to ban player tweets before, during and after a game for specified period of time; the NCAA has absolutely no clue and tries to ban all fan-based social media activity during football games. Who’s [...]

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How Facebook Got 6 Million Free Workers

by Eric Miltsch on 06/15/2009 · View Comments

Give it up for Facebook and their latest marketing stunt: Vanity URL’s. Within hours, Facebook wrangled about 6 million people to convert their profile URL from, this: www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1128085240 to this: www.facebook.com/ericmiltsch Does this help you? Sure, maybe you feel better now that your name isn’t a number. Personally, I haven’t seen my Facebook profile move [...]

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Let’s define quality twitter followers – everyone wants them. A quality follower for me: Rocky IV ipod Follows back Has a full bios with link(s) Engages and participates Has a nice balance of self-promotion & re-tweeting Has positive energy Keep in mind, my activities center around providing valuable automotive content, among other things, to help [...]

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7 Great Places To Post Your Content

by Eric Miltsch on 04/07/2009 · View Comments

Building great content is one of the foundations for building your online presence. More content creates linking opportunities; more links will improve your search engine rankings. Here’s 7 sites that are easy to set up, easy to use and best of all, the search engines play nice with them: Google Knol. Arranged psp Assault on [...]

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Build A Better Blog Challenge

by Eric Miltsch on 04/06/2009 · View Comments

What’s Your Elevator Pitch? Today is the first day of the Build a Better Blog Challenge, by Darren Rowse from Problogger.net. This is an excellent way to learn more about blogging and your own blog. It’ll also provide a daily task to help make your blog more effective. The first task: Write an elevator pitch [...]

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