Category Archives: Social networks

Has Blogging Changed You?

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Blogging connects people from all parts of the world. A single connection can change a person’s life in wonderful ways.  Blogging has the potential to change your life or someone else’s life. Contact leads to communication. Communication expands our knowledge and leads to relationship building. Building relationships with people from different cultures influences thoughts and actions and results in creative collaboration. Blogging can even lead to your dream blogging job finding you. Continue reading →

Twitter Customizing Who-to-Follow

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twitter bird iconIn contrast with Web companies such Google Inc and Facebook Inc whose business models rely heavily on collecting user data, Twitter will officially support “Do Not Track”. Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari browsers include a “Do Not Track” option that sends a line of code to websites indicating the user does not want to be tracked.  Google will implement a “Do Not Track” feature in its Chrome browser later this year. Continue reading →

WordPress.com Sharing Buttons

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red question mark WordPress.com bloggers can enable social networking sharing buttons that appear below their posts on their blogs. I originally enabled Official buttons on this page > Settings > Sharing  to appear on my Front Page, Archive Pages, and Search Results as well as on Posts and Pages. I have now chosen to enable display only on Posts and Pages. Continue reading →

Tweets do affect Google rankings

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Felicity Crouch reports: Using our own award-winning Twitter petition site; Twitition.com we conducted a study into the effect of tweets on rankings in Google (no other search engines were used for this study). In the biggest study of its kind, we have found that there is strong correlation between the amount of tweets about a URL, and its Google ranking. This is the biggest study of tweets conducted anywhere in the world, and we think it’s produced some really interesting results. via Revolutionary study: We prove that tweets do affect rankings | B3Labs | Branded3.
A tip of the hat to Tim Grice re: The Tweets vs. Rankings Test by Branded3

Selling You on Facebook – WSJ.com

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Some of the most widely used apps on Facebook—the games, quizzes and sharing services that define the social-networking site and give it such appeal—are gathering volumes of personal information.  A Wall Street Journal examination of 100 of the most popular Facebook apps found that some seek the email addresses, current location and sexual preference, among other details, not only of app users but also of their Facebook friends. via Selling You on Facebook – WSJ.com.