From the monthly archives:

January 2009

With social media being distributed as it is, being able to share your blog content through multiple services is an imperative. Sharing, or syndicating, your blog through Friendfeed, Facebook, Yahoo Pipes and others requires you to provide your RSS feed address. Do you know what your RSS feed address is? It turns out that WordPress [...]

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It used to be really expensive and difficult to advertise yourself to the world. In fact, unless you were the president of Coca-Cola or Shell Oil, it was pretty unlikely that anyone was going to write an article about you or put your face on television. Luckily, today, anyone has access to public scrutiny and [...]

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Using the Internet to gain exposure, position yourself, attract and maintain new business has never been easier. Thanks to the continued growth of the Internet, especially due to the explosive growth of new social media web sites you can build relationships with people around the globe. You can share your passions and add value to [...]

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I’ve been asked how to find the RSS feed for Blogger a few times now. It’s a handy thing to know because with the RSS feed address, you can link Facebook notes and Blogger content which allows you to connect your content to a larger audience. Finding the RSS feed address in Blogger is a [...]

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Connecting Twitter with Facebook is one of the best mashups available for Social Media. You get the easy a quick action of Twitter combined with the sticky content that leads to more interactions and connections you get with Facebook. Following the instructions in this video (darn easy), you activate a Facebook application which accesses Twitter [...]

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Do you have a passion for a hobby that involves a lot of data? Magic the Gathering Baseball Football Cricket Fencing Basketball Car Races Fine woodworking TV Shows The list could be very, very long here, but the point is that there many niches out there which involve statistics, data and all kinds of other [...]

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The Obama Inauguration is going on today and having attended previous inauguration celebrations, I must say that I’ve never seen anything quite like this. As I watch it from the warm indoors, DC is packed with what may turn out to be over 2 million people, and the Metro is jammed. Judging by social media [...]

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This is a story shared from a new friend of mine. It just goes to show that any niche can find a place on the Internet! Like every other blogger, I was fairly clueless when I started blogging. I supposed I even started with no plan at all. I wanted my blog to succeed and [...]

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Tonight is session one of the social media training webinar I’m hosting. http://www.yoursocialbrand.com/jan09live.htm If you’d like an opportunity to join the class for free tonight, here’s what you do. Send a Tweet (that’s with Twitter) to me @davesaunders include the URL for registering for the class and a phrase like “have a great time with [...]

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I’m pretty excited about my live social media training event coming up on Jan 13th. People are registering and I’m continuing to prep materials for all the attendees. http://www.yoursocialbrand.com/jan09live.htm It’s really exciting stuff. The best thing about a live event is that I really enjoy pouring my energy into public speaking. Even though it’ll be [...]

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