Posts Tagged ‘linkedin’
Su.pr – StumbleUpon’s URL shortener
Su.pr (aka Super) is StumbleUpon‘s URL shortener, and my shortener of choice.. which I will explain why in just a bit. URL shortening services shrink normal URLs into a link that is, well.. shorter! For example, using Su.pr I can shrink the following URL: http://thesocialmediaguide.com.au/2009/09/04/removed-from-friends-list-facebook/ into, http://su.pr/1Nrvzg .. which saves a lot space especially [...]
Add a Vanity URL to Your Facebook Page
Recently Facebook allowed its users to claim their own vanity URL for their personal Facebook profiles.. I claimed mine. If you don’t already know a vanity URL is a domain name of your choosing, that points to your Facebook profile. By default everyone’s Facebook profile URL is a long string of random characters, eg [...]
2 Ways to Improve your Email Signature
Email is still one of the leading channels of communication. However, our email signature is often under utilised when exposing and promoting our other brands, websites, networks and identities. Most of our email signatures display our company’s URL and contact details such as address, phone, fax, etc. Here are two ways to improve your [...]
Social Media Revolution
Is social media a fad? Or is it the biggest shift since the Industrial Revolution? Great video on social media by Socialnomics.
The Twitter Guide Book
“Twitter is a social network used by millions of people, and thousands more are signing up every day to send short messages to groups of friends. But where’s the user manual for Twitter? Where do new Twitter users go to learn about Tweeting, retweets, hashtags and customizing your Twitter profile? Where do you go [...]
Find Out When Someone De-Friends You on Facebook
Want to be able to know which of your ‘friends‘ has de-friended you on Facebook? “Yes” I hear you say? This guide will show you how. Facebook Friends Checker is a Greasemonkey script that regularly checks your Facebook friends to check whether anyone has removed you from their friends. When the script detects that [...]
The Social Media Glossary
The A to Z glossary of common social media terms. A A-List bloggers: A-List bloggers are the blogging elite with heaps of daily blog posts and zillions of links to their blogs Above the fold: Refers to the section of a web page that is visible to a visitor without the need to scroll [...]
6 Ways to Filter Information
Knowing how to filter out the noise when searching for information on the internet can really make a difference. Filtering out information that you you don’t want, can help you find exactly what you are looking for. Often knowing what you don’t want when performing a search can sometimes be more effective than knowing [...]










