Social Networking

3 Ways to Tap into the Power of Social Media

noreply@blogger.com (Bambang) — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 16:37:00 +0000

Over 75% of consumers use social media in some form, so if you're not using it you may be missing out on a big opportunity. Getting involved doesn't have to be complicated. Here are three things you can do to get in the game.

Start a blog.

Blogs are easy to create and easy to maintain - with tools like wordpress or blogspot, you don't even need to consult a webmaster. The key is to create high-quality content that is relevant to your target audience. Keep it consistent and keep it real. Other than that, just have fun with it! Some suggestions for blog posts include:

Industry-specific tips and insights
Special offers or give-aways
Analysis of recent news items
Product tutorials
Humorous anecdotes
Interviews with employees, customers or partners

Start a Facebook page.

Facebook is one of the most popular sites in the world (along with Google). To get started, simply create a Facebook page where you can post updates, link to your blog articles, and receive feedback from your customers. As you post relevant content and interact with customers on your Facebook page, your fan base and your revenue will grow.

Post videos on YouTube.

If a picture is worth a 1,000 words, a video must be worth 1,000 pictures (and 1,000,000 words)! Plus videos get priority in search engine results and allow you to show a little personality. Start with a company overview or a product demonstration and build your video library from there.

Tips for Viral Success For The Online Social Networker

noreply@blogger.com (Bambang) — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 17:15:00 +0000

Are you aware of the importance of viral success? If the term doesn’t mean anything to you, you’d better get on top of learning about your marketing or you’re never going to make it in the world of dog-eat-dog Internet business. Viral marketing is a term that refers to the way that a marketing campaign is picked up and spread around the world, or at least around the Internet, creating success for a business. Like a virus, word about the business spreads. Viral success is a critical component of business success in today’s world, so you should know the strategies for it if you’re hoping to succeed.

Some of the strategies for viral success include:

1. Move People to Feel Deep Emotions

The most important step in viral marketing is to strike up emotions in people. Whether that emotion is:

· Laughter

· Love

· Hate

· Anger

· Excitement

· Compassion

· Deep Interest

· Feeling That Someone is an Idiot (not an emotion but this works)

Stop trying to please everyone with safe content and try get people excited, agitated, or laughing. Get people’s blood pumping and get those Diggs.

Note: Allow people a place to comment to vent their emotions:

When people are feeling emotions, they want to talk about their feelings with other people. Make sure that you have a place for people to make comments on your article. That is why blog software is perfect for viral marketing. Don’t delete negative comments unless they border on abusive.

2. Social Bookmarking and Social Networking

Social bookmarking. Of course! What better way to spread the word about your work than through sites that are specifically designed for users to spread the word about what they like. Make the most of social bookmarking by getting your content on the best, most appropriate, sites on a regular basis through a targeted social bookmarking campaign. If enough people pick up on your content through these tools, you can see viral success just from this alone.

Tip: Take a Multi-faceted Approach.

Even if you do see viral success from social bookmaking, you’ll want to take a multi-faceted approach to your marketing to reach the broadest audience. Some people like to read articles. Others like to watch videos. Still others have their attention caught best by the blogs they subscribe to. Use a multi-faceted approach to reach more people (and then use social bookmarking for all of these things to spread the word further and more quickly).

3. Tap into the Viral Power of Celebrities or Popular Fads

The idea is very simple. Take advantage of the popularity of a celebrity, fad, newsworthy story, or other highly searched keyword. For example, writing an article about Britney Spears has a higher chance of viral success than an article about dog farts. The below tools will help you find out what the most popular searches are for that day, week, month, and year.

· What is popular today from Google Content - http://current.com/topics/76253632_google_current?sort=currentness

· Google Trends - http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends

· Ask.com Top Searches - http://about.ask.com/en/docs/iq/iq.shtml

· Lycos 50 -http://50.lycos.com/

4. Sequels of Successful Content

Many webmasters make the mistake of not trying to take advantage of past successful content launches. If you created an article that was hugely successful then you should try making sequels of that article. You can post a Part II, Part III, etc. with useful tips, tools, or further in depth coverage of the same topic. Some ideas for additional things to add to a topic are:

· Online related resources

· Useful tools

· Real world examples

· Video follow-ups

· Discussions about the comments you received regarding that topic

· Extras or goodies

· Post about other articles on the net with opposite views from you and argue the topic

· Interview someone with experience on the topic who has your view

· Interview someone with experience on the topic who has an opposing view and argue your case

5. Sex Sells

If your target market is male, half naked women will really get you far. Sex is known to sell everything from beer, cigarettes, guns, cars, and everything in between. Although sex has nothing to do with any of these things, it peaks the male viewer’s attention enough to listen to or click through to whatever you are promoting. I don’t use this tactic, but I know that it works.

6. Offer Something Free

Offer people something valuable for free to get people to come to your site. For example, there are plenty of people who are hungry for useful information on specific topics such as “How to Drive Traffic to Your Site” or “How to Start an eBay Business”. When people are desperate for information, it is easy to get them to download a free ebook. If one person reads your ebook and it is helpful to them, they will tell everyone about it. You will soon have a huge number of people coming to your site to download your free ebook. Of course there will also be people who send other people to your ebook. How will those people know about your web site? They will know your url because your will plaster your url all over that ebook so that people who get your ebook from someone else will visit your site. Essentially, it is one huge advertisement for your site…unless your ebook is a piece of junk. Make sure to write valuable content that actually is helpful to readers, or nobody will send it to anyone else or add a link to your site.

7. Video

Video is one of the hottest things on the web today so you should be incorporating it into your site. If you create a video that evokes strong emotions, people will share it and share it faaaaaaaaaaaaaast. That’s the essence of viral success. You will know quickly if your video clip is a success. Make sure that you have plenty of CPU and bandwidth available on your server…or it will crash and crash hard.

What sites should you submit your videos to?

At the minimum you should list your videos on YouTube.com, Google Videos, and Digg.com but there are other alternatives that you should submit them to if you have the time. Here is a list of alternatives to YouTube. I suggest that you take a look at these sites to see which ones are worth while for you. You should also submit your videos to the normal social bookmarking sites as well.

8. Improve Your Content

Don’t have content for content’s sake. There’s been a big push recently to get as much content as possible on websites so that search engines see keywords in that content. But as users get savvier about the web, they are getting increasingly interested in the quality of content. It’s easy for them to just click away if your content isn’t good, so make sure that you’re not sacrificing the content just to get the right tags and quantity of content on the site. No one is going to spread the word about content that is bad.

9. Text (SMS) Messages

People these days love to text one another so give them something short and easy to remember to text to others. Brand yourself with a great phrase that reminds people of who you are and what you do; your own slogan if you will. Make it text-worthy and brief and you’ll see your name cropping up in conversation.

10. Forwarding Emails

According to a study done by MarketingSherpa, the top viral marketing strategy used by B2C companies in the US last year was email forwarding. I find this hard to believe, but I will explain to you what the process of viral email forwarding is:

You have received email forwarding campaigns before. I get them from my Mom, my Dad, My husband’s Grandmother and his Mother, as well as many of my friends. These are emails that have been forwarded from one person to another to another to another and so forth. Usually the ones from my family are emails that say things like “Don’t honk your car horn because there is a murderer out there who will shoot you if you honk your horn”. Do you get those too? I consider forwarded email junk and throw these emails away, that is why I am not the best person to explain email forwarding to you since I hate these campaigns. The great thing about email forwarding campaigns is that they can continue to accelerate as new groups of people are exposed to the campaign.

How Do I get people to forward my email to other people?

· The only way that someone will forward your email to other people is:

· There is a mutual benefit for them to send the email to others.

· Person shares your interests and thinks their friends will be interested as well

· Email has a great deal or free item.

· Upcoming event that they would like to share with others

· Scare tactic (like the above example) – please don’t do this.

11. Use Signatures with Your Sites Info at the Bottom of Every Email

Every email that you send out should contain a signature. A signature is at the end of your emails and should look something like this:

Your Name
Title of Articles
Description of Articles
http://www.yourdomain.com/
name@email.com

You probably won’t get a ton of traffic from this but you never know when someone will see your signature and give you the big break that you have been hoping for. Every little bit helps.

12. Networking on Message Boards, Chat Rooms, and Community Sites

Message boards and chat rooms attract individuals in need of advice. Take advantage of this. Just make sure not to blatantly market your services. This might infuriate people and you could get flamed or kicked out among other things. The way to network in this situation is to be as helpful and knowledgeable as you possibly can. If you are in a graphic design message board and someone is baffled about how to use layers in Photoshop, you could explain the process. You could maybe mention that you use Photoshop daily when running your design business. THEN at the bottom of the page use a signature.

Tip: I suggest searching the forums in your niche for specific articles that you have just written. This way you can say things like, ‘I just wrote about the topic of your question, take a look at this article.” However, you have to be established in that forum for a while before you try that or people will think you are spamming (I know because I run a large forum and I catch people doing this all the time. I don’t mind if they are already established and offer help to people who need it.)

13. Become an Expert in Your Niche Market

There are Question and Answer sites all over the Internet. By offering answers on these questions, your name (and url) will get around quickly. Some Question / Answer sites are:

· AllExperts.com

· Yahoo Answers

· Answers.com

· Experts Exchange

· Wiki Answers

· MyLot

· CareerBuds

There are many more similar sites, and I will most likely link to them in an article later on.

14. "Invite Friends" or "Send Article to Friends" Button

Placing a ‘Send Article to Friends’ button on your articles is always a good idea. Webmasters don’t use these types of buttons as often as they used to because of social bookmarking sites. However, if you have room on your article pages, I suggest that you place both social bookmarking and ‘send article to friend’ buttons. On the front page of your site you should place an ‘Invite Friends’ button. If you have room to place it elsewhere, I suggest that you do that too.

15. Submit Mini Articles to Article Banks

You want original content on your site so that you don’t get busted by Google for duplicate content. However, you still want to get your site’s url out on the net. My suggestion to you is to write great content for your own site and never send these articles out to article banks. My suggestion is to keep those great articles on your own site and write mini-articles to send out to article banks. At the bottom of the article, you can write the url to the full article. If this isn’t allowed, then you should write the full url in your signature. Make sure to utilize the signature with information about your site and list your urls. Think of viral marketing as putting your name on the lips of the people that you want to talk about you. Basically, give them something worth talking about – in the form of good content – and give them a way to do it – through a social bookmarking site – and you’ll see viral success.

Facebook for Web Site Traffic

noreply@blogger.com (Bambang) — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 15:58:00 +0000

Facebook is known as a social networking tool for young people. Even more so than MySpace (which has gained recognition in the business world because of its MySpace music channels and other marketing opportunities), Facebook is considered the playground for people who are looking to trade conversation and keep up with friends. As such, Facebook often gets overlooked by people in the business world who find it to be a waste of their time to gossip with their acquaintances about the latest going on in the world. But despite its use by youngsters as a place for gossip, Facebook can be a great tool for driving traffic to your own site and possible generating additional revenue for yourself.

American Chronicle published an article which looks at eight reasons that businesses should consider using Facebook. There are some good points made here including that Facebook users are active users who are on the site every day, meaning that they’re looking for new information and that new information might as well be content on your site that they can drive traffic towards. Another good point is that the nature of Facebook lends itself well to traffic-driving – it’s a naturally viral hotbed where people are sharing information about their likes and dislikes which means that if they like your content, they’ll let other Facebook users know.

And a point not made in the article but which bears some attention is the fact that Facebook is indeed used by a large number of young people. This is important because it is young people who make up a large percentage of consumers interested in purchasing products and services through the web. Those who have part-time jobs or access to parents’ money spend it on the hottest new things. And if you can reach these people and convince them that what you have is that hottest new thing, they’re going to rush traffic to your site to check it out. Now, of course no one is suggesting that you head to Facebook to con kids into buying your stuff. But all good marketing plans look at their target market and if yours can include youngsters, why not spread the word through a social networking site through Facebook?

Another important thing to know about Facebook is that it offers the ability to import your RSS feed to the site. You should always import your RSS feed to your social networking sites because this increases the number of people who are going to subscribe to it. And of course people who are subscribing to your feed are learning about your new content as its available on the site, driving traffic there not just once but every time that you add fresh content. The point should be made that you can’t make good use of Facebook for traffic if you aren’t regularly updating your site content and making sure that it’s of good quality. But if you’re creating stuff that people are going to want to read, Facebook is one of the many ways that you can let people know that it’s available to them.

Definition of Social Bookmarking

noreply@blogger.com (Bambang) — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 14:31:00 +0000

What is the Definition of Social Bookmarking?

If you don’t yet know what social bookmarking is, you’re missing out on a powerful tool for networking with others online. Think this doesn’t apply to you? Social bookmarking is more than just a way to make some Internet friends and pass some time. It’s the way that websites are getting noticed today which means that it’s the way that your online business or blog makes money. No matter how big or small your website is, social bookmarking can increase the traffic to that site and get people interested in whatever it is that you’re doing. And if you don’t know how to do it, you’re going to get left behind because in the world of Web 2.0, social bookmarking is the common language that everyone is speaking.

But let’s get down to the basics. Social bookmarking takes place inside of particular websites. You join them as a user under whatever name you’d like and you can create a profile there. It sounds a little bit like MySpace or Facebook which is why many people think that they’re just a fun social tool. But true social bookmarking sites are different because they let each user archive information about their favorite web pages. You can create lists of information about where to find your favorite books, read your favorite blogs, or find your favorite locations on a city map.

Other users on the site can access this information, searching it through various methods including topics and tags which you create. So, you might create a whole series of information that you tag with “music” and then users of the social bookmarking site can sort your information by that tag and find all of what you’ve posted under it. This might still sound like a thing for high school kids to do when they’re bored, but it’s actually a powerful tool for directing traffic to certain sites.

What happens is that certain users on any social bookmarking site gain a lot of credibility on the site. This is usually because they post frequently, update their bookmarks regularly and provide people with content that is of interest. People on the site start paying attention to the suggestions made by this powerful user. And they lead their friends and other contacts to what this user is doing, increasing the power of that person’s suggestion. Because of this, you can use social bookmarking skills to gain credibility on the site and then direct people to the things that you want them to site – like your website or blog.

When it comes down to it, social bookmarking is the voice of the masses. This is one of the key characteristics of the Web 2.0 world in which users are generating and directing the content on Internet sites. Anyone with a profile on a social bookmarking site can have some input into what sites people are visiting on the World Wide Web. At a very basic level, social bookmarking can direct you to some interesting and useful information. But at a more complex level, it can be a tool that you use on a regular basis to improve your business and influence the people who use that site.

Use Reddit to get Traffic to your Site

noreply@blogger.com (Bambang) — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 14:20:00 +0000

Reddit is one of the social bookmarking sites that relies heavily on your interaction with the user community on the site. Reddit uses a point system in which users can vote on each post; the posts with the most points get pushed to Reddit’s home page for all to see. But Reddit is even more complex than this basic voting system implies; there are also ways to discuss the posts and to vote on the comments that are left on the posts which can affect their visibility as well. In order to be able to use Reddit to effectively direct traffic to your website, you need to get a handle on the voting system and user interaction that drives this particular social bookmarking tool.

In order to start using Reddit, you simply need to go to the site and register for an account. There are no toolbars to install and no confirmation emails to get you started which makes this a very easy site to sign up with. But once you’ve done that, you need to spend a significant amount of time networking on the site in order to gain popularity on the site and get traffic to head over to your site from there. The first thing that you should do is to begin submitting websites to Reddit. You should submit your website as well as relevant quality pages on your website (particular blog posts for example).

Next, you need to start meeting other Reddit users. This is best done by getting involved in discussions that are going on about other people’s posts. Do a search to find posts that are similar to your own and work your way into the discussions there by leaving comments. Be aware that your comments can be voted down so you don’t just want to spam posts with your own links. You want to leave interesting comments that show that you read the posts on which you are commenting. For this reason, it’s better to get involved in just a few discussions at a time and to contribute well to them.

You should know that Reddit is somewhat specialized in the kind of content that is found there. There are “subreddits” which are kind of like major topics that are of interest to Reddit users. The popularity of these varies depending on the day but top categories usually include programming, science and politics. If your content doesn’t relate to these categories or ones that would be of interest to people who enjoy these categories, you might not be able to get the attention of Reddit users. If that’s the case, you should consider using a different social bookmarking site instead of this one.

However, Reddit does get a fair amount of traffic, so if you have regular or occasional posts on your site or blog that are relevant to Reddit, you should think about using the site. It allows you to get into some interesting discussion which can prompt additional posts that will then be seen by Reddit users. The interaction that’s necessary to make it work can be time-consuming but it can also pay off in high traffic directed to your site.

Digg Notifications and Alerts Tools

noreply@blogger.com (Bambang) — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 14:13:00 +0000

Below you will find listed various tools that will help you get notified and alerted about stories that you want to hear about.

Digg Alerts

It allows you to setup alerts when other DiggAlerts.com members submit stories you’re interested in.

Digg Notify

It’s an application that pops up a small box in the bottom right hand side of your screen. It tells you when your story hits front page. You also have the option of ignoring certain stories.

Digglicious.com

It shows how many digs and how many del.icio.us realtime top stories.

OriginalSignal

It provides an overview of current Digg stories separated by category and chronological order.

DiggNotify Beta

It notifies you every time someone diggs on one of your fifteen stories. It would also show how many diggs the story has received and who dugg it. It provides a button to click and open up the page.

Digg Update

It provides updates when new stories hit the front page of Digg or when your friends Digg a story.

Digg IRC Bot

It reporst newly listed front page stories in IRC. You can also configure the bot to provate message you with current headlings.

Digg Top Stories

It’s a plugin for the Google Desktop Sidebar that displays the ten most recent stories from Digg.

Win at the Digg Game

noreply@blogger.com (Bambang) — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 14:09:00 +0000

How to Win at the Digg Game - Tips by Top Digg Users - How Top Digg Users Get to The Front Page on a Daily Basis

Digg.com is one of the biggest social bookmarking sites currently in use. Because of its popularity, it can be a great site to use for driving traffic to your own website or blog. But because of its popularity, it can also be a difficult social bookmarking site to break into. After all, there are so many people on there throwing up posts that it can be easy to not get noticed on Digg. Still, if you can access the site and use it to your advantage, Digg is a terrific tool for getting more people to see the content that you want them to see. This article is an aggregation of tips from top Diggers themselves.

Here are a large number of tips for using Digg.com for driving traffic to your site.

Create a Catchy and Memorable Name

When you are creating a Digg account, you will benefit from creating a memorable username. I tend to remember users who stole celebrity names and people who have created humorous names. Just remember not to create a spammy name that tells people you are just there to get traffic to your site, such as diggmenowplease.

Build Up Your Digg Profile

One of the articles that I read stated that building up your profile is by far the most important factor that will carry a Diggers success or failure. According to the article on AdityaSpeaks.com, the 5 most important factors for a successful Digg profile are (the most important point is number 3) :

Number of stories submitted.
Number of stories which became popular.
Popularity Ratio which is the percentage of your submitted stories which became popular. Kevin Rose is the only person who has 100% popularity ratio. Means all the stories which he submitting went popular. Well for those who don’t know Kevin Rose is the founder - CEO if Digg.
The number of stories you dugg.
The number of distinct people who viewed your profile.

Brand Yourself by Using an Avatar

People will recognize you by your avatar. Don’t pass on an opportunity to get more people clicking on your stories. Put a face to your name. Try to find an image that is either very funny, very cute, or find a picture of a gorgeous woman. You are trying to get people talking about you and your avatar so take this seriously. Find or create an avatar that matches your personality and one that is either very humorous, super weird, or just really cool. I found a lot of funny avatars and avatar tools…you can see the list on this page.

Diggers Don’t Like When You Digg Your Own Articles

Digg users don’t like it when you submit our own stuff. It is okay to digg your own stories, but you should try to get someone else to submit your stories for you. The submitter should appear to not have any visual connection to you or your sites. If the Digg community finds a connection, you might be blocked or banned.

Use Feeds, News Alerts, and Social Aggregators to Stay Current on Very Current News Topics.

The only way to be the very first to post a news topic, is to stay notified of the news and hot topics online. I you have subscribed to rss feeds, utilize news ticker, use social aggregators, and subscribe to news alerts, then you are probably doing the best that you can. I suggest subscribing to a select few RSS feeds or you will end up being overwhelmed. You can slowly add more RSS feeds in to the mix as time goes on. I suggest also using social aggregators such as PopURLs, DoggDot, NetVibes, or Reddiggulo.us as your start page, or at least visit them often. Another idea is to subscribe to news alerts from top news sites, top news aggregators, and niche sites.

Use Your Stumble Toolbar to Find Cool Sites to Submit to Digg

If you are having problems finding a site or article to submit to Digg, then look no further then your own StumbleUpon tool bar. I find the craziest stuff in StumbleUpon.

Know The Interests of the Digg Crowd

Just like any site or news source, this site has a trend of liking a certain type of article and disliking other types of articles. For example, Diggers don’t tend to like articles about doing better on Digg, but Sphinn users eat it up. On the other hand, Digg users love funny news, news about the iPhone, Digg usability, and Paris Hilton. However, Sphinn users hate stories about Paris Hilton. So what is my point? Don’t submit articles that don’t fit the Digg genre or you will set yourself up to fail.

Choose Your Target Source Sites

Before you are even ready to make your first post, you need to research to find some news sources that are updated frequently, but that you don’t see often on Digg.

Stay Active

Try to get on to Digg at least once a day. Becoming a top user on Digg is a lot of work. You can’t just join, submit a few stories, digg a few posts, and somehow become a top user. Like everything else in life, hard work and determination will get you to where you want to go. Pencil Digg into your busy schedule and try to digg and comment on a few stories.

Digg Stories When They Are New

Keep an eye out for new upcoming stories that you think will go hot and be one of the first people to digg and comment on it. Digging and commenting on new upcoming stories is the way to get noticed. Think about it. After you submit a story, don’t you additively watch that story to see how it is going to fare? Don’t you always notice the first user who comments on your story? Of course you do, because you have been anxiously awaiting a positive comment. Well, other members feel the same way. That is why this tactic works.

Subscribe to Digg’s RSS Feed

Subscribing to Digg’s RSS feed is the best way to stay on top of things in Digg. This also helps you to stay acquainted with the current popular trends.

Submitting a Lot of Stories

In order to get to Digg’s homepage, you need to submit a LOT of stoires. Create a favorites folder and call it something like ‘LinkBait’ … ‘DiggBait’ … ‘Diggables’ or something like this. Place in this folder sites that you will check regularly to see if there is anything worth submitting to Digg. Include the obvious sites, such as ‘Google News‘, ‘Reddit‘, ‘Netscape‘, Mashable, BoingBoing, ArsTechnica, TechCrunch, Technorati Top, and ‘PopURLs‘. But, then also place not so obvious source URLs in this page as well. Submit stories as often as you can and you will start doing well in no time.

Stories From Major News Outlets are Hot

Stories from the major news outlets tend to be the most popular stories.

Diggers Tend to Like Certain Type of Stories

Diggers Tend to Like Informational Top 10 Lists

Also, Diggers tend to be interested in informational articles and stories. So if you see an article that is informational, such as top 10 Tutorials on Building a Light Bulb out of a Piece of Steak or Top List of Free Tutorial Sites. If the story has ‘Top 10′ in it, the article will probably do pretty well. Diggers love lists.

Diggers Tend to Love Useful Web Surfer, Webmaster, or Design Tools

If you find a great useful tool for web users, you should definitely submit it. What is even better? A top ten list of web tools would be even better.

Diggers Tend to Love Controversy and Gossip about Celebrities.

There have been tons of Britney Spears and Paris Hilton posts that were hugely popular on Digg. Both of these ladies are synonymous with ‘Hot’ submissions (at least Paris is). There also have been many hugely controversial political posts as well. Submit something controversial and you are almost definitely going to do well with that post.

Pictures and Videos Do Really Well on Digg

Picture and video diggs do really well on Digg lately. Find a really interesting, funny, or strange picture or video and submit it. You are sure to do well if you pick a good headline for the story.

Statistics in Title and Description Tend to Do Well
Stats in the title and description tend to do well even if you can’t back up the numbers.

Bush Bashing and Fox News Bashing Almost Always Works on Digg

Digg tends to be a very liberal site and most of the users tend to think that Bush is an idiot and that Fox News is spreading blatant lies. Post an article about George Bush, the Bush administration, or Fox News and you are almost guaranteed to go hot with your story.

Commentaries and Opinionated Articles Tend to Do Badly on Digg (Unless it is extremely controversial)

If you want to post commentaries on Digg, be prepared to not get anywhere with your story. However, controversial articles do great.

There are Subcultures and Fan bases on Digg.

There are a lot of clique / fan topics on Digg. There isn’t a list of Digg subculture topics, you just need to find out what these topics are. Some of these topics are Star Wars, Ron Paul, Linux, Wii, and Apple. If you know of more subcultures on Digg, please let me know and I will list them. Almost any good article or news item listed about one of these fan-base topics will do well.

Digg Uses an Algorithm That Not Only Counts Votes.

Many people thing that Digg is run by a small number of people and that new Digg users don’t have a chance to make it to the front page. This isn’t completely true. Yes, it is much harder for a newbie to get on to the front page of Digg, but it has been done. Digg not only counts the number of votes, but it also takes in to account how many friends that Digg user has. Newer users’(those with few friends) votes count more than a user who has a lot of friends. On the other hand, a story that gets a large amount of votes gets shown on the ‘most voted’ page of ‘upcoming‘ stories, which puts it in front of more potential voters more easily.

Try to Time Your Diggs.

Try to time your digg submissions at times when you know that is an active time for your friends. The more friends that you have online, the more likely that they will see your upcoming story and digg it.

Try to Submit Stories on Off Peak Hours.

Another good tip, especially if you don’t have a lot of Digg friends yet, is to submit your stories in the middle of the night when there is little competition. This way your story has some time to get noticed and dugg. Try to time your Diggs for about 7 - 9 AM Eastern time (GMT -4). Use Dugg Analytics to view statistically what time is best for you to submit your articles.

Don’t Submit Your Own Stories Until You Are Able to Get 20 or More Diggs.

Don’t submit your own stories until you are able to get 20 or more Diggs from another site’s story. Also, if you start out using other site’s stories, you build up your karma with other members. Nobody will think that you are using Digg to promote your own stories if you start out submitting other site’s stories. Here is a story called ‘The Dangers of Digg Self-Submission‘.

Don’t Submit Stories to Digg if it is a ReBlog / ReCap of a Larger Story.

This tip seems obvious to me, but it must be said. If you continuously submit already submitted stories, you are in danger of getting your domain and account being banned from Digg. For example, If you use reblog (a software that allows you to use other people’s stories as your blog) then using Digg isn’t for you. You should only be submitting original content. However, if you recap a larger story, but also added commentary and something unique to the story, then it is okay for you to submit that story to Digg. Below, you can see what is stated in Digg’s FAQ. Beware, this doesn’t mean that people don’t break the rules. Yesterday, I saw the same story submitted over and over again about Britney being pregnant with her 3rd child.

Is it a duplicate story if I submit a similar story but from a different source?

That isn’t for us to decide. Sometimes there is a better story from another news outlet. We let our users determine that aspect of duplicate submissions. It is, however, a duplicate story if you submit the same story from the same source.

Digg’s FAQ also says: “We strongly discourage the submission of duplicate stories as it only steals credit from the first submitter.”

Make Sure to Use a Catchy Title for Your Digg Stories.

Unless people find your article’s title interesting, they won’t click on them. Even if your article is just so-so, if you spin the title in a way that makes it sound exciting, you will get people to click through to read your story. Diggitizer is a cool (and funny if you ask me) tool that helps you create a good title for your digg stories. Maybe this tool will help you if you are stuck for a good story title. Some tips are to use the words ‘Cool, Top, Best, New, How, Free, Launch, and First.’ Read this article for writing quality Digg titles … and … Here is a good article on how to write a title for Digg stories.

Also, if you are submitting someone else’s article, it is usually better to create your own catchy title. Probably the author of the article wasn’t creating a title specifically for Diggers. You probably know better what titles work on Digg, so I suggest you create a new title for the Digg post.

Digg Story Descriptions are Very Important Too.

Titles are very important to grab the Digg users in, but please don’t forget about the description. The reader wants to know more before they click on the link to the story. It is acceptable to just copy and paste the first paragraph of the story, but I usually prefer a more to the point approach. I want to know quickly whether or not I am interested, and most Diggers feel the same way. I would suggest highlighting the key points of the story in only one or two sentences.

Place Your Article in a Non Competitive Category.

You might have noticed that some categories move way too fast for your articles (such as Offbeat News) to even have a chance to get Dugg. Try finding a category (that matches your article’s content) that moves a bit slower, such as Technology > Gadgets or Sports > Golf. However, don’t get caught putting your story in a category that doesn’t even match your content or you will find your story buried or even banned.

Content is King … or Maybe Not?

Some of the articles that I read said that content was the most important part of the Digg process. Other articles said that the better the content, the worst the story does. I have found both to be true. It seems like the stupidest stories get to the top sometimes. And I have posted some amazing articles that went unnoticed. It is very frustrating sometimes.

Don’t Submit Every Page of a Multi-Page Story.

Digg users hate when you submit multiple pages from a multi-page story. You might even be banned for spamming. If you find a multiple page story that you want to submit, then find the first page of the story and submit that page to Digg.

Don’t Over Use Keywords.

Don’t overuse keywords in a spammy way. Some people spam Digg with keyword heavy submissions so that they will get traffic from the Digg search engine. Don’t do this, you will get banned anyways.

Don’t Submit a Story that is written in Greek.

Don’t you hate it when people submit stories in Russian or Japanese and all you see are funky characters?Please don’t be one of those people. LOL.

You Have Submitted a Story and Your Story is Listed in Upcoming … Now What?

After you post your story to Digg, your story lands up in the Upcoming section that you posted to. If you posted to Technology > Design, then look for your story in Technology>Design and then click on ‘Upcoming’ in the upper right corner. Watch for your story on the right side bar called ‘Hot in All Topics’ if you are on the front upcoming page or ‘Hot in Design’ if you are on the Technology > Design Upcoming page. When you hit 30 - 40 Diggs, you usually appear on the front page ‘Hot in All Topics’ side bar. When your story disappears off of the ‘Hot in All Topics’ or ‘Hot in Design’ sidebar, it has either gone ‘Popular’ or was buried. DON’T BURY OTHER PEOPLE’S STORIES TO GET YOURS TO THE TOP!!! This silliness will get you banned, not to mention that it is just ethically wrong. However, you can bury articles that you feel are nonsense or that are spammy. When your story is in the hot stage, you should play the upcoming page. Digg good articles, bury bad articles, and comment on as many as you can. This will get more people to digg your article because people notice that you are being active in the community.

Votes Count More the Quicker They Come.

Votes count more when they come in quick succession. Try to get your friends and family members to digg your submissions within a 30 - 60 minute window.

Comment on Articles That You Have Submitted.

After your submitted article starts to get a few Diggs, make a comment on the Digg to get the conversation rolling. Don’t say something like ‘this is the coolest story’. Instead, say something meaningful, interesting, or funny. Continue to comment as more people do to keep the conversation going. This is not only a good way to keep people interested in the submitted story, but it also builds up your credibility, and possible friendships with other Diggers.

Comment AND Digg Stories.

If you have something to say, then say it. If you are a very quiet person, and you don’t ever have anything to say, then this is a problem. You need to force yourself to make comments on stories. The reason that it is important to comment on Digg stories is so that other users start remembering your username and avatar. You want to become branded in everyone’s However, remember that commenting on a story won’t count for anything for the story if you don’t remember to digg it too. Here is a cool tool to track your comments and how many diggs each comment received.

Make Friends, Be Friendly, and Network Away.

Making friends has become the most important strategy to becoming a top user on Digg. Even if you aren’t inherently a social person, you will need to become one to win at the Digg game. On other social networking sites, such as MySpace and Facebook, there’s no easy way to contact Digg members, browse their photo gallery or break the ice first. The way that you make friends on Digg is by looking at member’s statistics, comments, and stories and forming your opinion that way. It takes a bit of getting used to.

Seek Out Top Diggers.

Seek out Digg top diggers and get their attention. Top diggers have put in a lot of work to become top diggers and they demand your respect. Make sure to get on their good side. Make them your friends, digg their submitted stories, and comment on their Digg submissions. You should also visit their blogs and make positive comments and suggestions on their blog. I also suggest placing top diggers on your blogroll to really get their attention. Another good idea is to review their blog in a positive light or interview them. If this top digger is on sites like MyBlogLog, add them to your network. Find out where these users hang out online, such as forums, blogs, communities. Start hanging out in those places as well. You need to then take part in those communities too and make helpful, friendly, and maybe even funny comments and observations. Try as hard as you can to build a relationship with this Digger by building not only your credibility but by trying to show your similarities to that person (not blatantly just in casual conversations). Never ask these users to Digg you as you don’t want them to know that you are looking for Diggs from them. Let your great content speak for itself.

Frequently Check to See Who Has Befriended You.

Frequently check to see who has befriended you. If someone has added you as their friend, check out their profile before adding them as a friend. You can try to add them to see if they Digg your stories, after all, they did just add you as a friend so they might like your content. You can always dump them later if they don’t digg your content.

You Don’t Need All of Those Friends, Do You?

Every once in a while, you need to reduce the number of friends that you have. Yes, it sounds strange, but it is true. Like I said earlier in this article, the more friends you have, the less each vote counts. In other words, if you get 30 votes with only 5 friends, your votes will count more than a person who also gets 30 votes but has 300 friends. You should unfriend people who don’t Digg your content. You should keep top Digg users and people who befriended you, but other than that, I would prune the rest. Use this tool to find out which members are Digging your content. Some of the top users have as little as a few dozen friends, so don’t be afraid to cut down your list of friends a bit. Only 1 out of every 100 Digg users are active participants in the community. You are trying to find the needles in the haystack.

Be Selective When Adding Friends on Digg.

Adding friends is essential to become a successful Digger. Your first instinct may be to add as many friends as you can. Don’t go adding huge numbers of friends though, instead be very selective. Look at members who have digged your past or current stories. Take a look at this member’s Digg stats. Have any of their diggs gone popular? Do they have plenty of submissions? Do they have plenty of comments? If they do, I usually make them friends. You should also make friends with some or all of the top Diggers . One reason for this is so that you can follow their lead. See how they do it…they are obviously doing something right. For example, check out their titles, their descriptions, what types of articles they submit, etc. Use Dugg Analytics to view stats about Digg members. The good news is that once you start hitting the home page of Digg, you won’t need to search for friends anymore, they will come and seek you out. Only 1 out of every 100 Digg users is active in the Digg community. Your job is to find those needles in the haystack. You can even add the #1 Digger, Kevin Rose , or the #1 digger Mr. BabyMan. He has a 100% Popular ratio … he is the only one on Digg who can boast that percentage. What does an ideal friend look like? Take it from Brett Borders on Copy Brighter, your ideal friend does the following …

Checks in and uses the site daily.
Diggs a lot of stories.
Checks for stories that their friends submit and diggs them regularly.
Submits stories that you will enjoy following and voting on.
Doesn’t submit way too many stories.
Doesn’t have 50 zillion friends.

Note: When you add a friend on Digg, you will see their submissions, but they won’t see yours. When you add a friend, you are becoming their fan unless they add you as a friend too. If this user adds you as a friend, then you will both be mutual friends and both of you will see each other’s submissions.

Make Friends with Your Fans.

For the most part, fans are the Digg members who like your Diggs and your submissions. Make friends with the people who are fans of you. After you both have befriended each other, you will both be able to check out each other’s submissions.

Digging Your Friends’ Stories & Your Friend’s Digging Your Stories.

Don’t just blindly Digg all of your friends’ articles. This is very tempting to do since you are a busy person and you have a lot of other things to do. However, you will more than likely get banned if you keep doing this over a period of time. Instead, only click through to the articles that you find interesting or that already have a number of Diggs. Also, take the time to click through to make a meaningful comment (not just - great or liked it).

Don’t shout ‘Digg this’ to all of your friends. Instead build up a report with all of your ‘friends’ or better yet, become actual online friends. Also, if the same people keep digging your stories, you will get caught. Also if your friends digg your stories too quickly, it will appear unnatural and you will get caught.

Superficial Conversation Doesn’t Work.

In order to be successful with Digg, you can’t just send superficial messages to other Digg members and Digg friends. An example of a superficial Digg message is “Digg my stories and I will Digg yours”. Instead try to make a deeper impact on this user. An example of a deeper conversation starter would be “I saw your post on business card design ideas and I really enjoyed it. I am adding you as a friend because I see that you have dugg a lot of stories that I find very useful. Are you a designer too?” Although it might feel like it will take forever to make friends this way, if you want to become successful at this, then try to at least make some friends this way.

Follow and Digg Your Friends’ Content.

After you have added some friends, you will need to stalk them and Digg their content. How do you do this? It is easy, just do the following:

Go to your profile.
Click on the Friends’ Activity tab up top
Now look at the right side bar and click on submissions

Browse through and Digg all of your friend’s stories that you like (don’t leave any of your friend’s out … if you find that you consistently don’t like one of your friend’s stories, then find a more compatible friend.

After you continuously Digg your friend’s stories, they will take notice and reciprocate. If one of your friends doesn’t catch on after a while, maybe they should be on your friend’s list.

Learn How to Have a Tough Skin.

If you are going to be a top Digger, then you will need to grow a tough shell. Some Diggers are very rude and they will personally attack everything you like about yourself. Don’t take everything to heart. These Diggers are either trying to get attention, are trolls, or are just plain mean. Some things that these people say are true though, so try to learn from your past mistakes.

To Be Nice or To Be Rude.

There are several different ways to get attention on Digg, some people prefer to be jerks and some prefer to be nice.

Be Extremely Rude to Get Attention.

I hate this one, but since I am aggregating everything that I found out about Digg, I am going to repeat it for you. I am against this tip, but if you aren’t, then go ahead and try it. Be rude and people will notice you. Beware, some people may block you and then they won’t see any of your stories. Try to create mortal enemies to get even more attention.

Or Don’t Be a Troll - Stop Being Rude.

Trolls are jerks, so don’t be one. It is very frustrating when you work for days on an article and then someone says nasty things about your writing style, the design of your page, or other personal attacks. People will think you are a jerkhole and they will block your user account so that they don’t see your posts at all. You catch more flies with honey, so be sweet. Be nice even when others are being mean and heartless. Maybe Digg members will stop and think twice before burying your story to raise the rank of their own story if they know that you have been kind to them. You never know, it might work.

StumbleUpon and Digg Together Make a Great Team.

Using Digg along with StumbleUpon is a good idea. Add a digg button to the article that you are going to submit to Digg (if it is on your site that is) and then submit the article to Digg and then to StumbleUpon. Hopefully the two together will work to your benefit.

Save Your Site From Going Down with the Digg Effect.

If you are going to try to get a page digged to the front page, you need to worry about The Digg Effect. Simply said, The Digg Effect is when your site crashes from so many Diggers visiting your site at once. The way that your server goes down is that your server gets suddenly hit with a spike of thousands of requests, overloading your server. Read this article for many ideas for Digg proofing your site. Also, if your site cannot handle a popular Digg, then you should consider first mirroring your site. Visit The Coral Content Distribution Network. CoralCDN is a free peer-to-peer content distribution network, comprised of a world-wide network of web proxies and nameservers. It allows a user to run a web site that offers high performance and meets huge demand, and all for free. There is also a possibility that your site’s cache was picked up by DuggMirror, but only if you were listed in popular upcoming stories long enough, and even then it isn’t always a sure thing.

Use Digg Tools to Enhance Your Digg Experience.

Enhance your Digg experience with Digg Tools like Smart Digg Button, Digg Alerter, and the powerful Social Media for Firefox browser tool … and here are more Firefox Digg tools. Use Dugg Analytics to analyze Digg data…it is an amazing tool. Also, you should read this article - 29 Awesome Tools Built on the Digg API.

Don’t Game the System.

Even though there is software and web sites that offer services to allow you to game Digg and other social networking sites, doesn’t mean that it is acceptable. Digg is a community, a place where users can get together to discuss the things that they do and don’t like on the web. Despite the fact that many people on Digg to promote their own online work, Digg is still widely used for the purpose of community and online sharing. People who violate Digg’s community rules will essentially be shunned by Digg members and ultimately banned. Read Subvert and Profit. It is an article about the site Subvert and Profit, a site that games Digg. The premise of the article is that if you use gaming systems, your article might continue to get diggs, but Digg will bury your story anyways. So gaming the system isn’t worth it.

Add a Digg Button / Widget to Your Site.

If your submitting your own content, then you should add a Digg button to all of your articles. Adding a Digg button / widget to all of your articles, gives each of them a higher chance on Digg, and as an added perk, you are helping to increase the number on Digg. Take a look at this page on Digg to find the perfect widget for your site.

Learn From Your Past Mistakes.

If your story was buried or just totally missed by everyone, learn why this happened. Did you submit a lame story? Was your title not enticing enough? Maybe you submitted in the wrong category? Did you submit a story at peak hours when there is way too much interesting stories to compete? Do you need to make more friends? Be honest, is it a lame story? There are some Digg tools to help you find out why you were buried, such as Digg Spy, Digg Alerter and The Bury Brigade Exists. You might be surprised to find out that there were just vindictive webmasters trying to get above you so they worked together to bury your story. This just happened to me yesterday. Also here are some interesting links. Top 50 Buriers in the Bury Brigade .. Digg’s Dark Future and Online Censorship .. Digg’s Failure and When No Moderation Doesn’t Work .. Digg’s Bury System is Being Abused .. An Open Letter to Kevin Rose ..and a post on Diggs blog .. On Buries and Blocking.

Try, Try, and Try Again.

Try posting at least once a day. The only way to succeed is to try until you get it right. And after you get it right, keep doing it right (easier said than done). Your persistence will pay off, I promise you. If you don’t give up, you will find yourself being a top digger. Don’t give up. You will have your up days and your down days.

Sources: Here are the blogs and articles that I found some of this useful information from (also used forums and communities)

11 Tips to Enhance Your Digg User Experience (And Hopefully Bring You Front Page Fame)
White Hat Digging - 3 Tips and Tricks for Understanding and Submitting to Digg
How to Get to Digg’s Front Page

Meta Tag

noreply@blogger.com (Bambang) — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 16:24:00 +0000

Even though Google and other search engines do not use the keywords meta tag, many search engines, including Active Search Results, still do. Active Search Results believes that the keywords meta tag is a good location to include words that you want indexed where those same words are not included with your content.

Three examples for using the keywords meta tag are :

1. To include synonyms of words that are not included in the content of your page. People search on many variations of words and phrases. Sometimes it is hard to include all of the different variations of those words in the content of your page without making your page sound like a keywords page.

2. To place emphasis on certain words. It is not always easy to place your major keywords at the top of your page or in a "h1" tag. Your major keywords might not be introduced until the middle of your page. Using the keywords meta tag, you can add these keywords to inform the search engines that these words are important. Remember two important rules when using this tag: When emphasizing keywords, do not place the same keyword more than two times in the keywords meta tag. This could be considered keyword spamming and can reduce your ranking value. Also, do not place irrelevant keywords in your meta tag. Using irrelevant keywords could get your site band from many search engines.

3. Another use for the keywords meta tag is to add words from different languages. A multi-language site with one language as its default page might want to add words from other languages to attract people speaking languages that are different than the language of the default page.

Situs Jejaring Sosial

noreply@blogger.com (Bambang) — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:44:00 +0000

Dari Wikipedia bahasa Indonesia, ensiklopedia bebas.

Situs jejaring sosial (bahasa Inggris: Social network sites) merupakan sebuah web berbasis pelayanan yang memungkinkan penggunanya untuk membuat profil, melihat list pengguna yang tersedia, serta mengundang atau menerima teman untuk bergabung dalam situs tersebut. Tampilan dasar situs jejaring sosial ini menampilkan halaman profil pengguna, yang di dalamnya terdiri dari identitas diri dan foto pengguna.

Sejarah

Kemunculan situs jejaring sosial ini diawali dari adanya inisiatif untuk menghubungkan orang-orang dari seluruh belahan dunia. Situs jejaring sosial pertama, yaitu Sixdegrees.com mulai muncul pada tahun 1997. Situs ini memiliki aplikasi untuk membuat profil, menambah teman, dan mengirim pesan. Tahun 1999 dan 2000, muncul situs sosial lunarstorm, live journal, Cyword yang berfungsi memperluas informasi secara searah. Tahun 2001, muncul Ryze.com yang berperan untuk memperbesar jejaring bisnis. Tahun 2002, muncul friendster sebagai situs anak muda pertama yang semula disediakan untuk tempat pencarian jodoh. Dalam keanjutannya, friendster ini lebih diminati anak muda untuk saling berkenalan dengan pengguna lain. Tahun 2003, muncul situs sosial interaktif lain menyusul kemunculan friendster, Flick R, You Tube, Myspace. Hingga akhir tahun 2005, friendster dan Myspace merupakan situs jejaring sosial yang paling diminati. Memasuki tahun 2006, penggunaan friendster dan Myspace mulai tergeser dengan adanya facebook. Facebook dengan tampilan yang lebih modern memungkinkan orang untuk berkenalan dan mengakses informasi seluas-luasnya. Tahun 2009, kemunculan Twitter ternyata menambah jumlah situs sosial bagi anak muda. Twitter menggunakan sistem mengikuti - tidak mengikuti (follow-unfollow), dimana kita dapat melihat status terbaru dari orang yang kita ikuti (follow).

Kelebihan

Keberadaan situs jejaring sosial ini memudahkan kita untuk berinteraksi dengan mudah dengan orang-orang dari seluruh belahan dunia dengan biaya yang lebih murah dibandingkan menggunakan telepon. Selain itu, dengan adanya situs jejaring sosial, penyebaran informasi dapat berlangsung secara cepat.

Kelemahan

Kemunculan situs jejaring sosial ini menyebabkan interaksi interpersonal secara tatap muka (face-to-face) cenderung menurun. Orang lebih memilih untuk menggunakan situs jejaring sosial karena lebih praktis. Dilain pihak, kemunculan situs jejaring sosial ini membuat anak muda tidak dapat tidak mengakses internet. Dalam kadar yang berlebihan, situs jejaring sosial ini secara tidak langsung membawa dampak negatif, seperti kecanduan (addiksi) yang berlebihan dan terganggunya privasi seseorang.

Referensi
1. a b c d e f g h i j (en)Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship. Journal of Computer-

    Mediated Communication, 13(1), article 11.
2. a b Setiawan, Dirgayuza. 2008. Gaul Ala Facebook untuk Pemula. Jakarta: Media Kita. Hal 6-9.
3. a b c d (en) Watkins, S.Craig. 2009. The Young and the Digital: What the Migration    to Social Network
    Sites, Games, and Anytime, Anywhere Media Means for Our Future.'UK: Beacon Press.
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    Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 13(1), article 18.
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on Campus: Understanding What Matters in Student Culture. Taylor & Francis. Hal 120-123.
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Hampton Press, Inc. Hal 183.

Jaring Sosial untuk Promosi Blog atau Situs

noreply@blogger.com (Bambang) — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:24:00 +0000

Berikut ini adalah cara-cara menggunakan jaring sosial untuk mempromosikan blog, yang bisa menghasilkan trafic pengunjung dalam jumlah besar untuk blog atau situs anda.

1. Facebook

Facebook menawarkan sejumlah cara untuk mempromosikan situs dan posting blog Anda. Sebagai permulaan, Anda dapat membuat Halaman Facebook untuk diri sendiri atau blog Anda. Jumlah yang tidak terbatas dari fan akan dikirimi update setiap kali Anda memperbarui halaman Anda dengan catatan baru, artikel, foto, dll, dan Anda juga dapat mengirimkan pesan langsung kepada semua orang penggemar Facebook di daftar Anda. Metode lain promosi adalah membangun Jaringan Blog (sekarang disebut NetowrkedBlogs). Hal ini menciptakan sebuah komunitas bagi para pengikut blog Anda, termasuk dinding diskusi dan memperbaharui RSS feed. Sebuah fitur baru untuk NetworkedBlogs adalah penyiaran untuk semua penggemar, tetapi hanya tersedia jika Anda meng-upgrade account Anda dengan $ 4,99. Untuk mempromosikan artikel baru blog Anda, Anda dapat memposting link pada profil Anda, yang muncul pada News Feed teman Anda, dan posting link memperbarui status Anda. Anda juga dapat bergabung dengan kelompok dan posting link di dinding diskusi kelompok.

2. Twitter

Twitter merupakan jaringan sederhana untuk mempromosikan blog Anda. Cukup posting, ngetweet 140 karakter atau kurang dengan link ke artikel baru Anda. Pastikan untuk memasukkan kata kunci utama bagi artikel itu, karena tidak hanya pengikut Anda akan melihat hal itu, tapi orang-orang menggunakan Search Twitter bisa menemukan juga. Gunakan keyword dalam ngetweet Anda. Misalnya, topik yang sedang populer saat ini.

3. StumbleUpon

Ketika anda menerbitkan postingan artikel baru, puisi, atau foto yang ingin dibagi dengan orang lain, gunakan StumbleUpon. Juga gunakan toolbar StumbleUpon di Firefox untuk berbagi postingan dengan semua teman-teman dan fans. Juga ada kelompok-kelompok di StumbleUpon. Jika blog Anda adalah tentang Gmail, kemudian bergabung dengan kelompok itu dan mendapatkan link dari postingan anda sebagai situs terkait, atau menambahkan artikel yang berhubungan dengan halaman diskusi.

4. BlogCatalog

BlogCatalog, adalah jaringan untuk blogger, memiliki beberapa cara untuk mempromosikan blog dan artikel Anda. Setelah Anda mensetup profil maka blog anda ditambahkan ke direktori mereka, Anda dapat mengirim broadcast ke semua teman Anda setiap kali Anda memiliki posting baru, atau sebagai alternatif, Anda dapat mengirim "Digest Mingguan" siaran posting terbaru. Broadcast ini ditampilkan dalam Kontrol Panel teman Anda, dan juga email ke mereka, jadi pastikan untuk menggunakan subyek yang sesuai (sebagai lawan dari "Posting Baru" atau "Blog Update"), karena ini adalah yang akan menjadi perhatian untuk broadcast grabber Anda. Cara lain untuk mempromosikan blog anda pada BlogCatalog termasuk mengikuti diskusi yang berhubungan (seperti Yahoo Answers) dan termasuk jawaban singkat ditambah link ke posting terkait Anda. Juga, Anda dapat bergabung dengan grup terkait dan link posting artikel Anda dalam diskusi kelompok.

5. Myspace

Myspace, walaupun fiturnya kurang friendly dibandingkan dengan Facebook, tetapi masih memiliki komunitas yang besar untuk mencapai target traffic. Metode terbaik untuk digunakan adalah membuat profil dengan fokus pada keyword, dan link ke blog anda di awal bagian About Me. Manfaat di sini adalah profil Myspace tidak muncul dalam pencarian kata kunci Google. Plus teman-teman akan diperbarui setiap kali Anda memperbarui profil Anda. Jadi, ketika Anda mengganti lagu Anda, misalnya, teman akan datang memeriksa profil Anda, dan jika Anda memiliki widget dengan feed RSS untuk situs Anda, mereka mungkin melanjutkan ke situs Anda. Anda juga dapat memposting buletin baru yang akan muncul pada Bulletin Board teman Anda.

6. Plurk

Plurk merupakan salah satu jaringan mirip dengan Twitter dalam arti bahwa anda harus berkomunikasi melalui pesan singkat Anda, lebih kurang 140 karakter frase. Perbedaannya adalah anda juga dapat berbagi video Youtube dan gambar yang akan muncul di suatu plurk anda (bukan hanya link).

7. Digg

Digg memungkinkan anggota untuk berbagi situs melalui voting, atau digging. Metode terbaik untuk berbagi link melalui situs ini bukanlah melakukan pengiriman diri sendiri (self-submissions), tetapi untuk menambahkan tombol Digg atau lencana untuk setiap artikel dan biarkan pembaca Anda mengirimkan cerita Anda.

8. Jaringan Sosial Lainnya

Jumlah traffic yang Anda dapatkan tergantung pada aktivitas dan sejumlah teman di jaringan tersebut. jaringan lain yang dapat digunakan untuk promosi blog melalui ikon di bagian bawah setiap posting termasuk Mixx & Reddit, keduanya mirip dengan Digg, dalam arti bahwa mereka membolehkan voting / rating untuk artikel, Magnolia & Delicious merupakan situs bookmark, dan Technorati. Juga, ada SocialBrowse yang memungkinkan Anda untuk menyimpan halaman melalui plugin Firefox, dan BloggerUnited yang akan posting entri terbaru blog Anda ke situs mereka ketika Anda login ke jaringan.

9. Traffic Exchange

Selain berbagi posting secara langsung melalui jaringan yang disebutkan di atas, ada juga berbagai kelompok di Facebook, BlogCatalog, Yahoo Groups, Tweetworks, dan sebagainya untuk lalu lintas & bursa berlangganan RSS. Jadi ketika Anda memiliki Reddit / dugg / Stumbled / berlangganan artikel mereka atau situs, dan mengirim posting anda atau pertukaran link RSS, cari yang benar-benar Anda sukai.

Catatan :

Saat Anda melakukan promosi blog atau situs, Coba saat jam sibuk, yang umumnya jam kerja Senin sampai Jumat. Mengingat beberapa orang memiliki sejumlah teman dan status update yang terbaik ketika orang paling aktif, karena status update Minggu malam akan hilang setelah semuanya pada hari Senin kembali melakukan aktivitasnya masing-masing.

Membangun komunitas besar pada setiap jaringan tempat Anda bergabung, karena tanpa fans / teman / pengikut, tidak akan ada orang yang akan mempromosikan blog anda.

Anda harus aktif, karena seseorang lebih memperhatikan orang-orang yang namanya muncul setiap hari dalam interaksi mereka.

Membantu orang lain, pastikan untuk menyediakan beberapa jenis manfaat kepada teman-teman online Anda. Membantu artinya bisa dengan mengirimkan tips tentang bagaimana desain ulang website, atau mengirimkan sedikit komentar misalnya "segera sembuh ya" ketika memperbarui status seseorang.

Social Networking

noreply@blogger.com (Bambang) — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:52:00 +0000

(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

Jaringan sosial adalah struktur sosial yang terdiri dari individu (atau organisasi) yang disebut "node", yang terhubung dengan satu atau lebih tipe tertentu saling ketergantungan, seperti persahabatan, kekerabatan, kepentingan bersama, pertukaran keuangan, tidak suka, hubungan seksual, hubungan kepercayaan, pengetahuan atau prestise.

Analisis jaringan sosial atau hubungan sosial dalam hal teori jaringan yang terdiri dari simpul dan ikatan. Node adalah aktor individual dalam jaringan, dan hubungan adalah hubungan antara aktor. Struktur grafik seringkali sangat kompleks.

Ada dapat berbagai jenis hubungan antara node. Penelitian di beberapa bidang akademik telah menunjukkan bahwa jaringan sosial beroperasi pada banyak tingkatan, dari keluarga sampai ke tingkat negara, dan memainkan peran penting dalam menentukan masalah yang dapat dipecahkan, organisasi yang dijalankan, dan tingkat individu-individu yang berhasil dalam mencapai tujuan mereka. Dalam bentuk yang paling sederhana, jaringan sosial adalah peta semua ikatan yang relevan di antara semua node. Jaringan juga dapat digunakan untuk mengukur nilai sosial - bahwa seseorang mendapatkan nilai dari jaringan sosial. Konsep-konsep ini sering ditampilkan dalam diagram jaringan sosial.

Analisa Jaringan Sosial

Analisis jaringan sosial (terkait dengan teori jaringan) telah muncul sebagai salah satu teknik kunci dalam sosiologi modern. Hal ini juga sangat signifikan dalam antropologi, biologi, ilmu komunikasi, ekonomi, geografi, informasi ilmu pengetahuan, studi organisasi, psikologi sosial, dan sosiolinguistik, dan telah menjadi topik yang populer. Orang-orang telah menggunakan ide "jaringan sosial" lebih dari satu abad untuk mengatur hubungan kompleks antara anggota sistem sosial di semua skala, dari interpersonal ke internasional. Pada tahun 1954, JA Barnes mulai menggunakan istilah sistematis untuk menunjukkan pola-pola hubungan, mencakup konsep-konsep tradisional yang digunakan oleh publik dan yang digunakan oleh ilmuwan sosial: kelompok dibatasi (misalnya, suku, keluarga) dan kategori sosial (misalnya, gender, etnis). Para pakar seperti S.D. Berkowitz, Borgatti Stephen, Burt Ronald, Carley Kathleen, Everett Martin, Katherine Faust, Freeman Linton, Granovetter Mark, Knoke David, Krackhardt David, Peter Marsden, Mullins Nicholas, Anatol Rapoport, Stanley Wasserman, Barry Wellman, Douglas R. White, dan Harrison Putih memperluas penggunaan analisis jaringan sosial sistematis. Analisis jaringan sosial kini telah dipindahkan menjadi metafora sugestif untuk pendekatan analitik untuk paradigma, dengan laporan sendiri teoritis, metode, perangkat lunak analisis jaringan sosial, dan peneliti. Alasan analis dari keseluruhan bagian, dari struktur ke hubungan dengan individu; dari perilaku sikap. Mereka biasanya belajar dari seluruh jaringan (juga dikenal sebagai jaringan lengkap), semua hubungan yang mengandung hubungan yang ditentukan dalam populasi tertentu, atau jaringan pribadi (juga dikenal sebagai jaringan egosentris), ikatan yang terdiri dari orang-orang tertentu, seperti "mereka komunitas pribadi". Perbedaan antara seluruh / jaringan lengkap dan pribadi / jaringan egosentris telah sangat bergantung pada bagaimana analis mampu mengumpulkan data. Artinya, bagi kelompok-kelompok seperti perusahaan, sekolah, atau masyarakat keanggotaan, analis itu diharapkan memiliki informasi yang lengkap tentang siapa yang berada di jaringan, semua peserta yang baik ego potensial dan mengubah. Pribadi / studi egosentris yang biasanya dilakukan ketika identitas ego dikenal, tapi tidak mengubah mereka. Studi-studi ini bergantung pada ego untuk memberikan informasi tentang identitas mengubah dan tidak ada harapan bahwa berbagai ego atau set mengubah akan dikaitkan satu sama lain. Sebuah jaringan bola salju mengacu pada gagasan bahwa mengubah identifikasi dalam survei egosentris kemudian menjadi ego diri dan pada gilirannya mampu untuk memberikan perubahan. Walaupun ada batas logistik berat untuk melakukan studi bola salju jaringan, metode untuk memeriksa jaringan hibrid baru-baru ini telah dikembangkan di mana ego di jaringan lengkap dapat dinyatakan tidak terdaftar yang kemudian tersedia untuk semua ego berikutnya untuk melihat. Hibrida pada jaringan mungkin akan berharga untuk memeriksa seluruh jaringan lengkap yang diharapkan termasuk pemain penting di luar mereka yang secara resmi diidentifikasi. Sebagai contoh, karyawan perusahaan sering bekerja dengan konsultan non-perusahaan yang mungkin menjadi bagian dari jaringan yang tidak dapat sepenuhnya ditentukan sebelum pengumpulan data.

Create a Multiboot System for Windows 7

noreply@blogger.com (Bambang) — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 20:37:00 +0000

To add Windows 7 to a system alongside an existing version of Window, you first need to make sure that you have an available partition (or unformatted disk space) separate from the partition that contains the system files for your current Windows installation.

The target partition can be a separate partition on the same physical disk, or it can be on a different hard disk. If your system contains a single disk with a single partition used as drive C, you cannot create a multiboot system unless you add a new disk or use software tools to shrink the existing partition and create a new partition from the free space. (The Windows 7 Disk Management console, Diskmgmt.msc, includes this capability; to shrink partitions on a system running an older Windows version, you’ll need third-party software.) The new partition does not need to be empty; however, it should not contain system files for another Windows installation. Run the setup program, choose the Custom (Advanced) option, and select the disk and partition you want to use for the new installation.

The setup program automatically handles details of adding the newly installed operating system to the Boot Configuration Data (BCD) store. And how do you edit and configure the Boot Configuration Data store? Surprisingly, the only official tool is a command-line utility called Bcdedit. Bcdedit isn’t an interactive program; instead, you perform tasks by appending switches and parameters to the Bcdedit command line. To display the complete syntax for this tool, open an elevated Command Prompt window (using the Run As Administrator option) and type the command bcdedit /? .

For everyday use, most Bcdedit options are esoteric and unnecessary. In fact, the only option that we remember using more than once in the past four years is the command to change the text for each entry in the boot menu. By default, the setup program adds the generic entry “Windows 7” for each installation. If you set up a dual-boot system using two copies of Windows 7 (one for everyday use, one for testing), you’ll be unable to tell which is which, because the menu text will be the same for each. To make the menu more informative, follow these steps:

Start your computer, and choose either entry from the boot menu. After startup completes, make a note of which installation is running.
Click Start, type cmd in the Search box, and press Ctrl+Shift+Enter. Click Yes in the User Account Control box to open an elevated Command Prompt window.
Type the following command: bcdedit /set description "Menu description goes here" (substituting your own description for the placeholder text, and be sure to include the quotation marks). Press Enter.
Restart your computer, and note that the menu description you just entered now appears on the menu. Select the other menu option.
Repeat steps 2 and 3, again adding a menu description to replace the generic text and distinguish this installation from the other one.

A few startup options are still available from the Startup And Recovery dialog box (open the System option in Control Panel, click the Advanced System Settings link in the left pane, and click Settings under the Startup And Recovery heading). As shown below, you can choose which installation is the default operating system (this is where descriptive menu choices come in handy) and how long you want to display the list of operating systems. The default is 30 seconds; we typically set this value to no more than 10 seconds (you can choose any number from 1 through 999). To set the boot menu so that the default operating system starts automatically, clear the Time To Display check box or enter 0 (zero) for its value in seconds. These options write data directly to the Boot Configuration Data store.

The syntax of the Bcdedit command is daunting so you may want to use a graphical editor for the BCD store. A utility called VistaBootPRO (vistabootpro.org) includes the ability to repair the Windows boot loader or uninstall it and return to booting from the Legacy OS Boot Loader (Ntldr.exe). VistaBootPRO also works in Windows XP, so you can boot to either operating system and then adjust boot settings. Another alternative, which is equally powerful, is EasyBCD, from NeoSmart Technologies (w7io.com/0211). Both utilities offer the ability to customize multiboot installations and to repair a damaged boot loader or switch on the fly to the old-style Windows XP boot loader.

So how do you remove Windows 7 (or Windows Vista) from a dual-boot installation and restore the Windows XP boot loader? Insert the Windows 7 DVD and type the following command at a command prompt (substituting the letter of your DVD drive for d):

d:\boot\bootsect.exe /nt52 all

You can now delete all system files from the volume containing the Windows installation you no longer plan to use. For even more effective removal, use the Disk Management console in Windows XP to reformat the drive and start fresh.

From the Microsoft Press book Windows 7 Inside Out by Ed Bott, Carl Siechert, and Craig Stinson.