Tag Archive | "blog"
Social Media,Social Networking
We are one day away from the start of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver. And although social media has been around for a few years, this will be the most Tweeted, Facebooked, YouTubed Olympic games ever. Soon we could see well-known American speedskater Apollo Ohno or skier Lindsey Vonn breaking world records. Both athletes have Twitter accounts that [...]
Blogging News
I think, no matter your religion, if Pope Benedict XVI says something important, everyone listens. Over the weekend And the 82 year old shockingly sent out a message to most specifically Catholic priests over the weekend saying they must no longer just have a website sharing the word of God, but they also need to blog [...]
Social Media,Social Networking,Studies & Stats
This has been quite the year for Twitter. Becoming the most popular word of the year, according to the Global Language Monitor, and even a source for breaking news, Twitter is just getting started. It’s hard to imagine Twitter without a checking out the current trending topics, but the feature was just released in April along [...]
Social Bookmarking,Social Media,Social Networking,Web 2.0
Facebook seems to have yet another statistic which will amaze us once again. Last week on December 4, Facebook’s feature, Facebook Connect celebrated its one year anniversary since joining the site. Late Wednesday, the company announced some pretty amazing statistics. “Today, we are celebrating the first anniversary of Facebook Connect from the LeWeb conference in France,” said Ethan [...]
Blogging News,Search News,Social Bookmarking,Studies & Stats
Blogging on your company website could help you bring in more traffic. At least that’s what HubSpot is saying after a recent survey. The company sampled 1,531 HubSpot customers, most of which were small- to mid-sized businesses. Roughly 52 percent, or 795 businesses, had blogs on their sites, while the remaining 736 did not. The study shows that companies with blogs [...]
Social Media,Studies & Stats
It seems that social media sites have become a search engine of sorts. A recent report released by the Nielsen Group has search engines such as Google, wondering if their days maybe coming to an end. However search engines are still the favorite option when it comes to searching at 37 percent, but social media [...]
Blogging News,Opinion
Blogs have finally reached that point where they are practically a staple in our daily internet cruising. With such diversity available, blogs end up serving many different purposes. Whether you’re surfing the extensive repertoire of blogs for fashion, celebrity gossip, sports, or metaphysical enlightenment, the basic goal of any good blog is to inform and [...]
Blogging News
In the world of printed writing, there are many established laws concerning what can and can’t be done. The boundaries are generally clear, and these laws are widely known by those who take up a pen. But once those written blurbs move online, the law becomes a little bit fuzzier. Just ask Stephen Hogge, owner [...]
Blogging News
If you’re looking to start a successful blog, you might find yourself a bit discouraged. Confronted with so many established blogs, an internet presence can seem like a difficult thing to establish among such stiff competition. But before you get too down on yourself, let’s remember that there are a lot of ways to gauge [...]
Industry News
In 1979, the Buggles informed the world that video killed the radio star. Now, the question facing our generation is whether blogging will kill the newspaper star. As the catchy pop song taught us, the golden age of technology past is inevitably swept away for the glitz and glamour of the new. In terms of [...]