I would have to say that I did enjoy keeping a blog. I have only kept a blog in another class so this experience is relatively new to me. Having a place to sort, store and report information on a selected topic proves to be practical and useful. The component of other bloggers being able to comment and to provide feedback gives you the sense of the quality of information that you have been reporting on a blog.
I have learned how to post videos and images when blogging. Also, I felt that searching for information, as it pertains to my topic of social bookmarking, I retained a lot of information on the topic before I decided on my post for the week. Obviously, I also learned about a plethora of topics that were featured on other blogs. This is a very different way to learn, I feel that you learn indirectly as most of the time you just enjoy creating and commenting on blogs but in the end you are obtaining knowledge on various topics and issues.
As an educator, I now believe that blogging is a very good learning device that could be incorporated into most classes. It gives students the autonomy to find information on their own to help them understand course material better, especially if the conventional ways of teaching are not effective for them. Some areas that I will look to improve on with regards to blogging would be to make my background a little more pleaseing to the eye, I probably should have provided more videos and pictures too now that I look back on it.
Monday, December 13, 2010
Monday, December 6, 2010
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Social bookmarking video
I have been meaning to post this short video about SB. It is just a complete breakdown of how SB works in simple terms.
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
3 Simple Ways to Maximize Your Social Bookmarking Experience
There are three major considerations that you must account for in order to use social bookmarking successfully:
http://corinzander.com/articles/usion-social-bookmarking-for-traffic
First and foremost, your title is important. A great article can be ruined by a bland title that doesn’t grab the reader’s attention and draw them to the content. It is an unfortunate fact that a lot of well-written content is never seen, due to the simple fact that the title was unappealing. If your title catches a persons attention, they will be drawn to continuing to see what the article has to offer. It is also vital that your article is about an interesting topic. As the writer, you must not only attract interested readers, but also keep them reading your article. The whole article’s outline should contain some valuable content that is real and effective.
Its also important that your summary is not too wordy and provides an easy read. People are busy and this will help ensure that they read through the entire piece. Make sure that the information on your site itself relates back to the headline and the summary you created. Your article must also be supported by the information on your website. That will help increase loyal readership. And to accomplish this, you have to have well-written, informative content.
For social networking to be effective, the proper strategies need to be used.
You need to begin by bookmarking your own pages. Simply visit all of the bookmarking websites that you can, and open accounts there. Due to the huge number of bookmarking sites that are available, there’s really no limit for marketing with this particular method. But it’s good to have lots of bookmarks all over the web, on various sites. If you don’t want to put your own name out there so much, ask family, friends and even co-workers to bookmark your page to drive up your ranking. It all comes back to leveraging what you’ve already got. You also want to become a valued member of the social networking community. This means socializing and bookmarking other people pages. It is common for most of these social networking sites to provide the ability to associate with other members and share your bookmarks with friends that you can add on the site. It is vital that you are seen as a quality member and take the time to bookmark, comment, and tag other people’s bookmarks. All in all, social bookmarking can prove to be an effective way to drive targeted traffic to your website, if you use the right techniques and make sure you take care of the content, which has to be informative and bookmark worthy.
http://corinzander.com/articles/usion-social-bookmarking-for-traffic
First and foremost, your title is important. A great article can be ruined by a bland title that doesn’t grab the reader’s attention and draw them to the content. It is an unfortunate fact that a lot of well-written content is never seen, due to the simple fact that the title was unappealing. If your title catches a persons attention, they will be drawn to continuing to see what the article has to offer. It is also vital that your article is about an interesting topic. As the writer, you must not only attract interested readers, but also keep them reading your article. The whole article’s outline should contain some valuable content that is real and effective.
Its also important that your summary is not too wordy and provides an easy read. People are busy and this will help ensure that they read through the entire piece. Make sure that the information on your site itself relates back to the headline and the summary you created. Your article must also be supported by the information on your website. That will help increase loyal readership. And to accomplish this, you have to have well-written, informative content.
For social networking to be effective, the proper strategies need to be used.
You need to begin by bookmarking your own pages. Simply visit all of the bookmarking websites that you can, and open accounts there. Due to the huge number of bookmarking sites that are available, there’s really no limit for marketing with this particular method. But it’s good to have lots of bookmarks all over the web, on various sites. If you don’t want to put your own name out there so much, ask family, friends and even co-workers to bookmark your page to drive up your ranking. It all comes back to leveraging what you’ve already got. You also want to become a valued member of the social networking community. This means socializing and bookmarking other people pages. It is common for most of these social networking sites to provide the ability to associate with other members and share your bookmarks with friends that you can add on the site. It is vital that you are seen as a quality member and take the time to bookmark, comment, and tag other people’s bookmarks. All in all, social bookmarking can prove to be an effective way to drive targeted traffic to your website, if you use the right techniques and make sure you take care of the content, which has to be informative and bookmark worthy.
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
A Social Bookmarking alternative to Digg, Delicious, etc. for images
Visualize.us – social bookmarking for your favorite images
Written on February 25, 2010 by Chris Miller in Site Reviews
http://blog.thesocialnetworker.com/index.php/2010/02/25/visualize-us-social-bookmarking-for-images/
I ran across Vi.sualize.us a while ago in beta but never took the time to get involved in what the tool had to offer. I found a need for it today and went back to exploring what services it could offer me. You integrate Vi.sialize.us into Firefox as an extension, or a bookmark button for other browsers. You can also paste in an image link if you want to go the very manual route. Once that portion is done, you are ready to use the service.
The idea is to bookmark and share favorite pictures you find across the web, not just blog postings and web pages as usual. Usually the images themselves are the important part of the page.Some bookmarking services off the ability to snip part of the webpage, or you could always right click and open just the image. But that leaves a nasty URL behind and limited context for the image. Vi.sualize.us adds tagging, liking, comments and sharing to the pictures you find.
They have navigation for your images, most recent and the most popular on the site. They offer tags to watch and the most used overall. RSS feeds exist for public, personal and individual picture images. So enough of the UI description, how about the experience.
Sharing an image on the site was limited, no Twitter integration, but did have Facebook, StumbleUpon, Digg and email. You can like any image on the site and keep it private or share it to your stream. The original source of the picture is always accredited right below te picture with a link to the posting it was found. This is great for the creator or owner of the images and source verification for copyright. I also noticed that they built in a filter, with the default of on for safe images. I presume unsafe means NSFW.The images on the site itself ran the entire spectrum from signs to abstract. I found the most benefit in tagging and grabbing images for use in future postings, links or other production as the copyright or Creative Commons rights would allow. I can now quickly save and tag images instead of goofy bookmarks and searches, shrinking down my time to find and share.I will run it for a while and see how often I go back. That becomes the thermometer for any new tool. If I fold it into my daily workflow, I will add the image feed to m normal social streams.
Written on February 25, 2010 by Chris Miller in Site Reviews
http://blog.thesocialnetworker.com/index.php/2010/02/25/visualize-us-social-bookmarking-for-images/
I ran across Vi.sualize.us a while ago in beta but never took the time to get involved in what the tool had to offer. I found a need for it today and went back to exploring what services it could offer me. You integrate Vi.sialize.us into Firefox as an extension, or a bookmark button for other browsers. You can also paste in an image link if you want to go the very manual route. Once that portion is done, you are ready to use the service.
The idea is to bookmark and share favorite pictures you find across the web, not just blog postings and web pages as usual. Usually the images themselves are the important part of the page.Some bookmarking services off the ability to snip part of the webpage, or you could always right click and open just the image. But that leaves a nasty URL behind and limited context for the image. Vi.sualize.us adds tagging, liking, comments and sharing to the pictures you find.
They have navigation for your images, most recent and the most popular on the site. They offer tags to watch and the most used overall. RSS feeds exist for public, personal and individual picture images. So enough of the UI description, how about the experience.
Sharing an image on the site was limited, no Twitter integration, but did have Facebook, StumbleUpon, Digg and email. You can like any image on the site and keep it private or share it to your stream. The original source of the picture is always accredited right below te picture with a link to the posting it was found. This is great for the creator or owner of the images and source verification for copyright. I also noticed that they built in a filter, with the default of on for safe images. I presume unsafe means NSFW.The images on the site itself ran the entire spectrum from signs to abstract. I found the most benefit in tagging and grabbing images for use in future postings, links or other production as the copyright or Creative Commons rights would allow. I can now quickly save and tag images instead of goofy bookmarks and searches, shrinking down my time to find and share.I will run it for a while and see how often I go back. That becomes the thermometer for any new tool. If I fold it into my daily workflow, I will add the image feed to m normal social streams.
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Bookmarking Demon Reaches its Objectives Effectively: A Brief Press Release
http://seerpress.com/bookmarking-demon-reaches-its-objectives-effectively/11561/
New York, NY – November 1, 2010
Bookmarking Demon is a social bookmarking automation software. It makes social bookmarking easier and helps to increase affiliate commissions, adsense profits and product sales. The software helps you to save time on social bookmarking.
Version 5 of Bookmarking Demon is already available on the market. Using the version, you will be able to use a proxy tester for checking whether your proxies are revealing your real IP address; use proxy server functions to bookmark your site; utilize multi posting feature; implement Anti-Bot mechanism to support Submission Throttling; randomly bookmark your rssfeeds; create multiple projects for different campaigns etc.
It is hard to believe how flexible and easy it is to use Bookmarking Demon. Once you purchase the program you will start reaping the fruits. Celeste, one of the users of Bookmarking Demon, says: “Wanted to leave some feedback for you. I’m so happy to report that the BMD4 works GREAT on vista. I gave it a test run today and played with each of the options that are currently available for it, and I’m loving it! I admit I was worried, since BMD3 didn’t run on my computer. But I’m very, very happy I waited for BMD4 to come out! Thank you, thank you, thank you, for a great product! This is going to make social seo go much faster and give me more time to work on other factors, like article writing
http://seerpress.com/bookmarking-demon-reaches-its-objectives-effectively/11561/
New York, NY – November 1, 2010
Bookmarking Demon is a social bookmarking automation software. It makes social bookmarking easier and helps to increase affiliate commissions, adsense profits and product sales. The software helps you to save time on social bookmarking.
Version 5 of Bookmarking Demon is already available on the market. Using the version, you will be able to use a proxy tester for checking whether your proxies are revealing your real IP address; use proxy server functions to bookmark your site; utilize multi posting feature; implement Anti-Bot mechanism to support Submission Throttling; randomly bookmark your rssfeeds; create multiple projects for different campaigns etc.
It is hard to believe how flexible and easy it is to use Bookmarking Demon. Once you purchase the program you will start reaping the fruits. Celeste, one of the users of Bookmarking Demon, says: “Wanted to leave some feedback for you. I’m so happy to report that the BMD4 works GREAT on vista. I gave it a test run today and played with each of the options that are currently available for it, and I’m loving it! I admit I was worried, since BMD3 didn’t run on my computer. But I’m very, very happy I waited for BMD4 to come out! Thank you, thank you, thank you, for a great product! This is going to make social seo go much faster and give me more time to work on other factors, like article writing
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Top 3 Auto Social Bookmarking Sites
http://www.blackhatsoftware.net/bookmarking/auto-social-bookmarking-software-tools-compared/
Here are the top 3 Auto Social Bookmarking Software Tools:
1. Bookmarking Demon = Bookmarking Demon has continued to evolve and grow. Now with Version 5 the list of features is long and all inclusive. The number #1 reason why Bookmarking
Demon is Number #1 is because it litterally does everything you want a Social Bookmarking Software to do. It will Create an unlimited number of Accounts with the Top Social Bookmarking sites and you can create an unlimited number of Profiles which allows you to submit the same site to different accounts over and over. It will Spider your site and then you can pick and choose what Pages to Submit as opposed to typing in each and every URL, Title, and Description. Then it will submit to all the top services, but you can also Spider and add an unlimited number of Scuttle and Scuttle Plus Social Bookmarking sites to the services you submit to. The best reason of all to buy this product is because it is now on Version 5 and continues to be the single best supported program of it’s kind on the web. A very all inclusive program, Bookmarking Demon is the #1 choice for Automated Social Bookmarking. Enough Said.
2. SocialBot = SocialBot has a lot of the same features as Bookmarking Demon, but it is simpler and does not have the auto account creation feature quite as automated as Bookmarking Demon does. It submits to 88 top tier Social Bookmarking and Scuttle Plus sites and also allows you to add as many Scuttle Sites to it as you want.
3. Social Marker = There is nothing special about Social Marker. It is an online tool which will submit any site you want to 48 of the most popular Social Bookmarking sites. The best thing about it is it is Free. It doesn’t have any advanced features, but every now and then a Free Submission on someone else’s account doesn’t hurt.
Here are the top 3 Auto Social Bookmarking Software Tools:
1. Bookmarking Demon = Bookmarking Demon has continued to evolve and grow. Now with Version 5 the list of features is long and all inclusive. The number #1 reason why Bookmarking
Demon is Number #1 is because it litterally does everything you want a Social Bookmarking Software to do. It will Create an unlimited number of Accounts with the Top Social Bookmarking sites and you can create an unlimited number of Profiles which allows you to submit the same site to different accounts over and over. It will Spider your site and then you can pick and choose what Pages to Submit as opposed to typing in each and every URL, Title, and Description. Then it will submit to all the top services, but you can also Spider and add an unlimited number of Scuttle and Scuttle Plus Social Bookmarking sites to the services you submit to. The best reason of all to buy this product is because it is now on Version 5 and continues to be the single best supported program of it’s kind on the web. A very all inclusive program, Bookmarking Demon is the #1 choice for Automated Social Bookmarking. Enough Said.
2. SocialBot = SocialBot has a lot of the same features as Bookmarking Demon, but it is simpler and does not have the auto account creation feature quite as automated as Bookmarking Demon does. It submits to 88 top tier Social Bookmarking and Scuttle Plus sites and also allows you to add as many Scuttle Sites to it as you want.
3. Social Marker = There is nothing special about Social Marker. It is an online tool which will submit any site you want to 48 of the most popular Social Bookmarking sites. The best thing about it is it is Free. It doesn’t have any advanced features, but every now and then a Free Submission on someone else’s account doesn’t hurt.
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