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Most know the huge potential for traffic that social networks offer and that they also have other benefits such as building back links, brand or name recognition and increasing your blog or websites’ popularity. While many know of the potential of social networking, many also utilize them the wrong way.
A common strategy among social network spammers marketers is to join a network, build a minimal profile (or a fake profile), acquire as many “friends” as possible and then proceed to Twitter, poke, spam the bulletins and walls, and give gifts until they have alienated nearly all of the members and branded themselves as a nuisance, or gotten banned from the network. It’s just social media spam and it’s rampant. Using social networks to intentionally manipulate and misrepresent might yield some short-term gain, but will do long-term damage to your brand. Any gains soon disappear as members or the network administrators catch on to your game.
It’s rare that I get a message from Netscape, StumbleUpon, MyBlogLog, Entrecard and other networks that isn’t a pitch for something without so much as an introduction. This isn’t a very effective way to use social networking sites for the long term benefit of your company or brand. While there are no well defined social networking rules, using common sense will go a long way in using social media to your benefit. Read the rest of this entry »
There’s a new kid in town … Mixx.com, a Digg-like site that has all of the features of Digg but less of the headache. If you’ve been an active Digger, chances are you’ve gotten at least one Digg account banned. The admins of Digg are quite trigger happy when it comes to the ban button. It is against their terms of service to even submit a page that has affiliate links on it and they use this rule selectively to ban people who are submitting their own affiliate sites rather than the original article or video. By selectively, I mean .. well, it just depends on who you are, I guess. Try to find one article that makes the front page that isn’t hawking something and you will be hard pressed to find one. For instance, the new top story right now is hawking Ambien CR and is on the front page with only 37 Diggs … but I’m on my 3rd Digg account for submitting interesting articles from my blogs … go figure. Read the rest of this entry »
Add to Any is a new blog bookmarking service … just the one button does it all. Allows your visitors to bookmark your site to the bookmarking service of their choice. Takes up a lot less space than having many bookmarking buttons.
Found this site while reading someone’s blog. Kickapps is a community-building application that provides social media on demand for your website. It’s completely customizable or you can go with a default style and have it fully functioning in minutes. Did I mention that it is free to sign up and build your community?
User-Generated Video & Social Networking
A KickApps-enabled website provides your visitors with a complete rich media community experience. Users are invited to upload media and create their very own “personal space” directly at your site. Site visitors are provided with easy to use media management tools to manage their personal space. Similarly, your site administrator is provided an array of easy-to-use media management and administrative tools to ensure that only appropriate content makes it on to your website. Protect your brand with KickApps.
Upload and Deliver Video, Audio & Photos
- Members can upload videos, photos, and audio
- All common media formats are transcoded and displayed in a custom Flash viewer
- No 3rd party player or client-side software required
- Strategically integrate your user-generated content alongside content produced by your editorial staff
- Present your media at your website (and all over the Internet!) in a wide variety of customizable, viral Widgets
Your Site Visitors Create Their Own “Personal Space”
Visitors select a username and password (or use their existing site ID) to join your site’s community. User profiles contain all of the popular social networking features, including:
- Biography and personal questions. As defined by your webmaster.
- Videos, Photos and Audio. Upload, share, tag, and save favorites.
- Blogs. Video, audio, or plain text.
- RSS feeds. Your feeds and new ones added by your members
- Guest books. Members can leave and receive messages
- Friends. Link to other community members, invite others to join
Visitors Never Leave Your Site
KickApps is a “white-label” application service provider (ASP). The KickApps platform is hosted completely by us, but branded completely to your website. All elements precisely match your website’s look and feel. Your logo, your banner, your links, your brand!
- User-Generated Content
- Videos
- Photos
- Audio
- Video & Text Blogs
- Social Networking
- Profiles
- Guestbooks
- Friends
- Tagging
- Viral Traffic
- Video drops
- Widget drops
- Email & invite friends
Log in to the Affiliate Center and deploy your community right now.
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