The Social Media Guide

How to Download your Facebook Friend’s Email Addresses

Matthew Tommasi — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:45:29 +0000

It is very easy to download your Facebook address book.. and with it, all your friends email addresses. This can be very useful if you want to import these emails addresses into your email client (Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, Outlook, etc), or another application. It is perfectly legal and very quick! The only prerequisite you need is a Yahoo! [...]

How to Brand your Tweets with Your Website’s URL

Matthew Tommasi — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:55:14 +0000

Have you noticed whenever you send out a tweet, it is branded with the Twitter client you’ve used, to send out that tweet? Whether you use CoTweet, Hootsuite, Seesmic, Tweetdeck, Twitter’s Web interface, a mobile Twitter client, or the hundreds of other Twitter clients.. every time you send out a tweet you are advertising their product.. [...]

How to Earn Money on Twitter

Matthew Tommasi — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:11:30 +0000

Did you know you can get paid to tweet? No? Well you can with Sponsored Tweets. Sponsored Tweets is a Twitter advertising platform that connects advertisers with Tweeters. Advertisers can create sponsored conversations on Twitter.. and Tweeters can earn money for spreading the word. Let me show you how! Sign-up First of all you need to sign-up to Sponsored Tweets.. Allow Sponsored Tweets [...]

The State of the Internet

Matthew Tommasi — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 02:54:39 +0000

The State of the Internet by Jesse Thomas is a great video with some incredible statistics on social media and social networking, email and the Internet. This video highlights the incredible growth of technology that we are all experiencing. When statistics start mentioning things in their trillions.. it really blows your mind! Enjoy. You can follow Jesse on Twitter [...]

52 Google Buzz Tips and Tricks

Matthew Tommasi — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:51:58 +0000

Google Buzz has quickly gained millions of users since it was released on the 9th February 2010. With Google Buzz you can, publish your ideas to the world or to your closest friends it is integrated with Gmail so comments get sent right to your inbox you can see photo friendly thumbnails with each post connect the sites you [...]

How to Stop Image Hotlinking by Counter-Punching with Free Advertising

Matthew Tommasi — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 11:43:26 +0000

As bloggers we take great pride in our work.. spending hours upon hours late into the night bashing away at our keyboards on our latest posts. One of the most satisfying and rewarding things for us is to receive pingbacks from other bloggers linking to our articles. Which is basically a pat on the back saying ‘This [...]

The Facebook Juggernaut

Matthew Tommasi — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:52:32 +0000

Mark Zukerberg the founder and CEO of Facebook recently announced they now have 400 million members.. which puts them behind only China and India based on population. This time last year Facebook had approximately 150 million members. It is only a matter of time before the Facebook juggernaut reaches 1 billion members.. via pingdom.com Finally.. If you liked this post [...]

The New Community Rules: Marketing on the Social Web

Matthew Tommasi — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:05:32 +0000

Don’t you wish some things came with a book or a manual? Fortunately, the world of social media does come with such a book – The New Community Rules: Marketing on the Social Web. The New Community Rules is the book on Social Media and provides an excellent overview on how social web technologies work.. as well [...]