Everyone once and a while you see something that really makes you think. For me, that started today when I was starting to write a post on StumbleUpon and I came upon a great called the "Hands on Symphony" which is all about encouraging people to become aware of CPR by doing something totally different - making music with your web browser.
One effective strategy when putting together your blog posts is to incorporate what is "hot right now" on the internet and while I know that YouTube has always had a way to sort views by "Most Viewed/Comment/Shared" it appears that the second largest search engine (that's right - YouTube is #2 right behind Google) has also started to roll out a few updates on how to find content that is popular right now.
Recently I was approached by a representative of a company called Thumbtack telling me that one of my core spaces (social media marketing) is getting a number of requests from their network. Thumbtack has a very interesting business model in a fairly competitive space - their log line reads:
"Find and book trustworthy local services"Here is a rough review of their space along with some key considerations you should be employing when evaluating a service like this:
Small business owners have some very unique challenges when it comes digital identity management. In particular there is always the need to establish a proper balance between what you are doing online versus how you manage the rest of your business.
Here are five very focused ideas to help a small business owner with their digital identity.
When I logged on to Twitter this evening there was a pop-up over my Twitter account notifying me that they have rolled out a new photo sharing opportunity.
FourSquare, a leading social check-in service has just come out with a pretty big announcement that they are allowing any business or brand to create their own check in page. Up until now the only way to create a check in page for your business has been to go through the team at FourSquare.
If you are getting ready to come out with a new product or service, conversion is a huge factor - how you present your offer will have a big impact
Today I had a very nice surprise as one of my tweets inspired someone whom I respect a great deal to write a blog post on their site.
#pleasestop I seem to be attracting a run of new followers who are young attractive and who have no profile descriptions...less than a minute ago via web 
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David Gadarian
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Hidden among all those great nuggets from "the Summer of Google" has been this new service that I found by accident, and I can't even get back to called "What do you love?" which I guess can best be desribed as a search engine mahsup. It really is one of those things that you have to see to understand but this is a highly visual approach to search.
The past few months have been a real exciting time for social sharing! The big players are all working hard to get your love, and with the increased heat, the value proposition has been climbing up. One piece of the puzzle that can be a challenge is the ability to place your social sharing buttons on both your single posts and your blog page and still have those buttons tracks the number of shares. In this post I will outline how to do it along with providing some of the code for social sharing buttons on your WordPress site. Social sharing buttons are a great way to encourage your readers to not only share your content, but these buttons can also work as great signals to your readers by providing "social proof" for each post, which in turn should encourage more of your site visitors to read your posts.
The Social Sharing Buttons Below Our Titles on Gadarian Digital