Here are additional 3 advices for you guys.

Don’t be greedy

The old saying that “the more you want something, the more it eludes you” is true!

Don’t waste others’ time – tweeting too much in too short a time means you are posting bad content whitch means people who follow you need more time to get trough the clutter (their streams). Consequently they’ll stop listening and following you.

Following too many people in hopes that some will follow back and build your follower numbers is bad too. People will spot you sooner or later so don’t even bother with that. Progress slow and with confidence.

Add images and/or video to your content

Did you noticed that all viral content is done with multimedia – images and video. And it’s easy. Find images on Flickr.com, Google Image Search (or some other service) and add them to your content. The same goes with videos (services are youtube.com, vimeo.com etc.). I’d suggest Zemanta.com whitch can do these things for you and save you some time.

Try niche social media sites

Don’t just focus on the big general subject sites like Digg and StumbleUpon! There is a lot of opportunity in niche social media sites and some local ones if you are a local business.

Here’s a great list of these type of sites. These sites won’t send as much as traffic as the big general subject sites, but the quality of their traffic is often much higher. You’ll get a higher percentage of repeat visitors, a lower bounce rate, and more time spent on your site because of the more targeted traffic.

Also, it’s easier to network with the power users because of the smaller user base.

Related articles on other sites

• StumbleUpon Gets More Specific (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
• 4 Ways to Increase Your Traffic With StumbleUpon (kissmetrics.com)

How much do you know about your great-grandparents? In most cases, the answer to that question is “Not much.” But that’s something that will be forever changed as a result of the hundreds of thousands of pieces of digital content the average person will produce in his or her lifetime.

Many of us have a social media presence — a virtual personality made up of status updates, tweets and connections, stored in the cloud. Adam Ostrow asks a big question: What happens to that personality after you’ve died? Could it … live on?

What do you think?

Here are another 3 things you should pay attention to in creating social media strategy/plan

Befriend power (niche) users

These users regularly submit great content that gets popular fast within their followers base and spreads fast.

Check out the popular content in your niche and see who is submitting them. Try to get on their radar by voting for their stuff, sending them interesting links, linking to their site (if they have one), guest post on their blog, interview them etc. Just “help” them in some way. But be carefull. Don’t be obnoxious else you’ll be left with opositte effect!

Once you’ve developed a relationship with them, you can send them your best stuff and ask them to submit it if they like it – ask for little help. They tend to return the favour from before.

Create great content

If you’ll start observing which content is spreading and whitch doesn’t you’ll fast reallize that the first one is pretty comprehensive. For blog that means that post covered a subject with depth. And it was longer than your(or mine) average post.

This doesn’t mean that you should stop writing shouts (that gets your blog/website blinking) but that you should every now and then (regularly) publish longer, in-depth posts that stand out from the crowd of your typical 2oo-5oo word posts. People tend to bookmark them, share them more and come back to them (for reference).

Use share buttons at the end of each blog post

Widgets are a great way to encourage your visitors to submit your content to social media sites. Visitors may like a post but without the prompting of a submission button, they won’t think to submit your content.

I suggest you have all the ordinary services included.

Related articles on other sites

• Social Media and Blogging Weekly Round-Up {09.03.11} (savvyblogging.net)
• Discover Which Influencers Are Tweeting Your Content [Free Tool] (hubspot.com)
• How to Grow Inbound Links With Guest Blogging Opportunities [@InboundNow #34] (hubspot.com)

This kind of characters just work, what can I say. They are cute and loveable. Here it is, maybe for idea or two.

Don’t be Angry

How often do you see people saying something out of anger on Twitter of Facebook and you just know they will regret it? If you are feeling angry go for a walk or find a punching bag and leave Social Network out of it.

Don’t be Envy

If you’re turning green with envy over how well others are doing on Twitter or Facebook learn from them – don’t attack them. Be smarter and outsmart them.

Don’t be Lazy

Social network has “social” in there for a reason. It’s meant for people and dialog. You shouldn’t auto-tweet too much and you should engage (respond to questions and/or thank others’ kindness etc.) Lazy folks are spotted fast and as a result their valued communities leave them (or they don’t even build one with value in the first place)

It was in Boston WordPress meetup. Guys demoed their systems so worth watching if you want to know more about pros and cons of each one of them.

Hey there, glad you’r back. I’m in transition phase here and few links to images are broken etc. I’ll get them fixed asap, don’t worry.
After all, content is what matters, right. Happy reading.

Image via Wikipedia

And as Paco Underhill has written, make the aisles of your store wide enough that shoppers can browse without getting their butts brushed by other shoppers. (author: Seth’s Godin)

I think we can train ourselves to associate certain places with certain outcomes. There’s a reason they built those cathedrals and why you are conforatble working in certain corner at home instead of some other – think for the moment.

This article is sum of the things a good social site should have. It’s from my yestarday post with Joels video. You can watch that here.

1. Voting: Copied from Reddit, via Digg, voting allows people to vote up answers they think are good. Stack Overflow tweaked its voting algorithm, giving the person who asked the question special power to select one answer as the official answer that will rise to the top regardless of what the community voted. The second answer, of course is always the highest ranked community answer.
2. Tags: Tags allow users to specify perspective.
3. Editing: Taking a page out of Wikipedia, Stack Overflow allows users to edit both questions and answers; so answers could get better, rather than becoming “this frozen artifact on the Internet until the end of time,” which is typical of most forum threads.
4. Badges: Reward users with badges. Over time, the badges show credibility.
5. Karma: People are willing to do for free what they’re not willing to do for small amounts of money according to Spolsky and by offering karma, Stack Overflow encourages its users to do more. More Karma equals more privileges on the site.
6. Pre-search: Once you begin typing your question, Stack Overflow’s pre-search will do a quick search to see whether the question has been asked before and display the result for easy access and to prevent duplication issues.
7. Google is UI: Stack Overflow was built around the assumption that people will go to Google which will send them to the right page. Each URL has the name of the question; each URL is permanent and clean, Metatags, sitemaps; anything and everything was done to ensure Stack Overflow’s pages looked “reasonable to search engines.”
8. Performance: Ensuring answers are provided super fast was imperative.
9. Critical Mass: It’s imperative to have critical mass on day one; to ensure people are available to answer questions.

Anything missing?

As we move from the era of computing into the era of the Internet, we no longer need to worry about computer-human interaction. What we do have to think about (in the era of social networking) is human to human interaction! You have to think as an anthropologist does.

In anthropology it’s very clear that the environment that you create influences people and how they behave. People will come into the environment and behave according to what you built in certain subtle ways; ways that you probably didn’t think about.

Enjoy the presentation it’s worth (a must if you are socal app developer/architect/planner) watching it!

Did Joel left something behind you think should be there in the soup? – lets discuss it.