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Using Google Reader to Share Your Blogs

Posted on 17 August 2009 by Ronald Allan Marva, Affiliate

For users familiar with Google Reader, you would be delighted to know that there are now new features that would facilitate the task of sharing contents posts through a variety of social media, blogging, and bookmarking websites. Specifically, the “Send To” feature will let you simultaneously send all of your shared items to the services you select such as Facebook, Twitter, Blogger, or Digg. Your shared information will automatically be sent to those services fastracking the process... Read more »

Free $100 Credit for Facebook Ads

Posted on 13 August 2009 by Ronald Allan Marva, Affiliate

You may have noticed several advertisements running on Facebook... and wondering if you can run your own advertisement there. With 250 million active users, I am sure you can find a suitable demographics and keywords to target there.Basically, an ad credit would let you advertise your business with social ads on Facebook. You can customize your message, add images—even track results and success. You'll need to be a member of Facebook to use the ad credit, and have or set up a Facebook adve... Read more »

Getting Started on Social Marketing

Posted on 19 July 2009 by Ronald Allan Marva, Affiliate

I recently read a good social media article from Jun Loayza who is the co-founder of Viralogy and social marketing director for SEOP. On it was outlined actionable tips to social marketing success. I find a lot of sense on his advice to those who want to venture in Social Marketing and i felt compelled to share them on this blog. So here goes....Mr. Loayza pointed out five (5) actionable tips to achieve success in your social marketing campaigns. So here is a summary for you:Tip #1: Be persisten... Read more »

Content is still king

Posted on 14 April 2009 by Ronald Allan Marva, Affiliate

There are reports that the Cyberspace is getting crowded! Well there is no where to go for cyberspace but over-population. And, as more people get accustomed to life with internet, there would be more heightened activities in website development particularly in blogging and social networking. With this case of cyber-overcrowding comes the question of how do you get your website noticed. Its been said time and time again that the most important thing when it comes to making a successful site is g... Read more »

Media Tracker: Are you into it?

Posted on 16 March 2009 by Ronald Allan Marva, Affiliate

There had been talk that social media had been evolving to become a new form of email. I think I subscribe to this line of thought and believe that technology is headed to this direction at least for the next 2 years. I am a living testament to this reality as I am prone to send message across by setting my user status on various social media as method of choice for keeping my contacts in-the-know.For those who had read my earlier blog on the rise of Twitter messaging - which is now used to send... Read more »

Plurk.com - Twitter with a twist

Posted on 17 June 2008 by William Lau, Affiliate

Introducing Plurk, a Twitter like app with a twist. The difference here is that your posts are displayed in a comprehensive timeline, along with your friends' posts. Of course, there are filters if you want to view posts from selected friends or groups.Each post comes with an emotive tag such as , , , to describe what you're doing or thinking. You can also search and filter posts based on these tags. Like Twitter, each post is limited to 140 characters.You may also embed Youtube videos and ... Read more »

RSS 2.0 vs. Atom 1.0 - Which is the better syndication format?

Posted on 08 April 2008 by William Lau, Affiliate

  Syndication is BIG nowadays. And let's face it, most of us can't live without it. So the question is, which is the better feed format? Atom 1.0 or RSS 2.0? Although there are several other formats out there (actually previous versions), to make it simple, we shall compare the two most common formats. In the beginning, there was only RSS, short for Real Simple Syndication. Today, the acronym is synonymous with web syndication as we know it. RSS 2.0 came along and was widel... Read more »

101 Wordpress Plugins That You May Not Have

Posted on 07 April 2008 by Adrian Rosulescu, Affiliate

1. Akismet - Akismet is a spam filter for your comments. It does a great job and blocks nearly 100% of the spam comments here at One Man’s Goal. 2. WP Database Back-up - I recommend that everyone back-up their blog’s at least once a month. With this plug-in it couldn’t be easier to do this. If you get hacked, have server issues, or just botch something when you are trying to customize, all of your data is easily recovered. 3. Permalink Redirect - Did you start your blog with ... Read more »

Blogging With No Budget? Use Blogger

Posted on 26 March 2008 by William Lau, Affiliate

There are hundreds, if not thousands of blog services out there, each with its pros and cons.Oh sure, Wordpress is great, but the free version won't let you customize your page, let alone serve ads. And hosting is going to cost you.Other services are free, but there will be some compromise. Restricted access to make changes, unwanted ads (that will not contribute to your coffers), and ugly logos that make your blog look amaturish and just like everyone else's.Here's why Blogger is still the be... Read more »

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