10 Awesome Tweets From My Followers in April

Wish you could have someone sift through brilliant tweets related to social media on Twitter without having to lift your finger? Look no further my friend. My fingers just got a good work out.

Congrats to my followers and thank you for your great tweets. Keep them coming!

1. How to gain influence on Twitter? Focus – http://bit.ly/foTBfu #cnn #fb @mogulette

2. Flight of the Conchords – Business Time http://bit.ly/eLi27B @socialmedialogo: killer tweets for learning about social media. This post is not directly related to social media, but is way too fun to pass up = lets get you laughing!

3. Birthday Wish: Use Your Influence To Make Meaningful Change. http://ping.fm/3h472 @Georgina_Lester

4. Bufferapp seems to be the latest talked about twitter tool http://adf.ly/1GMQk @sfihomebizz

5. Small Biz Twitter Tips: http://nowskip.to/h1l9rr @DezFutak

6. Top 100 Social Media, Internet Marketing & SEO Blogs – 2011 … http://bit.ly/dHLgyg @TinaSymone

7. Understanding the Power of ReTweets (RT’s) | ploked.com – http://bit.ly/dbeZpa @ploked

8. A place to see/share all those creative Facebook campaigns. http://ow.ly/4GGdb @theadliber

9. Amazing restoration photos from 76-year-old Photoshop Master in China http://bit.ly/mTka8j @RodHarlan. In a word: wow!

10. Finding the balance between personal and professional on Twitter http://t.co/cHniAmZ @markschaefer

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Social Media for Journalists: A game you can’t risk not to play.

Courtesy of my perceptive guest blogger: Pablo Rodriguez Laurta

At this point in time, after the Wikileaks story came up, it would be disingenuous not to recognize the sheer importance that social media has swiftly gained in a matter of just a couple of years when it comes to the spread of news. Since it may strike some as obvious, not many are knowledgeable about the facts behind this phenomenon.

At least eight percent of Americans tweet on a daily basis. Among other things they share links to news, being the sharing of information the third activity by volume of twits on Twitter. A whole 12% of Twitterers share news links on a daily basis, with 55% distributing news links on occasion. This data comes from results of the latest survey by the Pew Internet, covering a wide sample and reflecting a growing trend: media and journalism are now open to the audience and participate actively in the social flow of information.

The debate on the impact of Twitter and Facebook on information is useless. The reality is that this impact increases every day, but not only does it increase, but it mutates in quality as well.

The impact of social media makes those journalists who participate more in the social flow, organically more notorious. In the midst of the mainstream media within which I happen to work, Facebook ranges between 4 and 8% of the income traffic. Twitter is still between 1 and 3%. The difference of users is huge and the effect of the “Like” button in Facebook is now dominant.

In conclusion, if you are a journalist and looking forward to expand your notoriety and influence in media, participation in the social media flow of information will be essential. For agencies and newspapers, the flow of their news into social media should be your number one priority, since the sheer volume of links shared is a game you can’t risk not to play.

Dear reader, how do you think the role of journalists have changed because of the social media revolution?

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Six Efficient Ways to Create Backlinks to Your Blog

Courtesy of my talented guest blogger: Tracy Tay

There are many different aspects to running a successful blog. The most vital of all is getting backlinks. A backlink is a link on a web log pointing it back to the main owner’s URL. These backlinks have become a point of source to getting targeted traffic and more importantly in getting popularity to the target site.

The following six efficient measures can be adopted to create backlinks to your blog:

1. Blog Commenting
One of the best possible tactics you can go about growing back links is to seek out blogs inside your niche and put quality comments and at the same time you can embed your blog URL linked with your name you use at the comment.

2. Guest Posts
Guest Posts create backlinks and you don’t simply need to stay up for a website to allow you with the chance to post, rather you can offer them a unique post for their blog. The theme is that, while you write a guest post for a blog, somewhere on that post you may obtain a backlink to your blog, which again ultimately helps you in getting traffic.

Guest posts, if put on a very popular site, increases the chances of Google evaluating your Backlinks and giving your web URL a boost in terms of page rank.

3. Article Writing
Article writing is very effective in backlink creation. The main benefit of writing articles for article directories is that you can come with backlinks on your article to your website, so the more articles you post on other sites the more backlinks you will create.

4. Forums
One other wonderful means of producing backlinks is to become an energetic member within your niche communities. Generally, for every area of interest there’s at the least one forum and also you can often put-up your blog URL in along with your signature when you submit on a forum. When posting threads on forums, take it for granted, the more attention-grabbing your web log remark or forum post is the more probability is that you will get attention and get individuals who will click on and reach to your site.

5. Social Bookmarking and Social Networking
Probably the very best ways one can generate backlinks is that whenever you post a new post in your blog, announce it by means of social medium. This is where social bookmarking comes into existence. That may imply submitting it to digg, or stumblupon or tweeting it on twitter. However it is very simple to publish to a social networking website too. You need to create a presence through talking constructively about your website and throwing one post after another.

6. RSS
Another nice and quite simple way of generating backlinks links is to make use of your RSS feed. There are a few websites which allow you to post your RSS feed to them like feedage, feedbite, feedbase and Technorati to name just a few. These websites are continuously being updated via this kind of RSS feeds method and as a result they get a lot of attention from the search engines.

Dear reader, what are some additional ways of creating backlinks to your blog?