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Social Media Sharing Options on the Blog

February 15th, 2010 No comments

like a blog post? Do you think your friends or colleagues will enjoy it too but you don’t want to be too intrusive?

DzineClub Blog now has Social Media Buttons that help you quickly share the blog or its contents to social media easily. Here are the list of social networks supported and a brief explanation of what they are.

The sharing buttons appear on the left bottom of the browser and you can click on any button to share what is on the page.

Supported Networks

Newsvine:
Newsvine is a news portal updated by users. In their own words, it is an instant reflection of what the world is talking about at any given moment.
http://www.newsvine.com

StumbleUpon:
StumbleUpon helps users discover and share great websites. They deliver high-quality pages matched to a user’s personal preference, which have been explicitly recommended by the user’s friends or one of their 8 million+ websurfers with shared interests.
http://www.stumbleupon.com

Digg:
Digg is a user driven social content website. Users submit content and other users “Digg” the content that they like best. These most “dugg” content make way to the front page for all the visitors to see.
http://www.digg.com

Delicious:
Delicious is a social bookmarking website. Delicious allows you to store your bookmarks online and synchronize/access them from different computers. You can tag your bookmarks to make it easier to sort and find and you can pass them on to your friends.
http://www.delicious.com

Linkedin:
Linkedin is a professional social networking site, that allows professionals to network with each other. Make mostly for professionals, it allows you to add more contacts, join groups, connect with other professionals, look for jobs etc.
http://www.linkedin.com

MySpace:
MySpace is One of the world’s leading social networking website. It was the most popular social networking site from mid 2006 to early 2008 when facebook took over.  
http://www.myspace.com

reddit:
reddit is a social news website where users post links to content on the Internet. Other users then vote up or down on the links causing them to promote to the front page or bury down the archives.
http://www.reddit.com

Technorati:
Technorati is a search engine for blogs.
http://www.technorati.com

Facebook:
Facebook is the largest social networking website. Users can connect with friends, send messages, share media, update their profiles and interact with each others status and contents.
http://www.facebook.com

Twitter:
Twitter is a social microblogging service. Twitter enables quick mass communication to groups and users. Twitter is based around tweets (messages that are 140 characters or less) and users can follow other users to receive their tweets and stay informed.
http://www.twitter.com

RSS Feed:
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a format used to publish frequently updated content such as blogs, news, audio etc. An RSS document contains full or partial text plus metadata information such as author, date of publishing etc. This enables readers to subscribe to these feeds and get updated content without having to go to the source.

How to set up your twitter Account

October 25th, 2009 No comments

Step 1:

Go to www.twitter.com and click on the green Sign up now button

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Enter your Full Name, Username and Email. Also put in a password and the words displayed on the box and Click on “Create my Account”. When you create your username, please make it business specific, that way it will be easier for other tweeters to search for you and follow you.

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Twitter will allow you to import your Gmail, Yahoo or AOL address book and invite friends to follow you

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You can skip this step if you like. ( If you would like to import your contacts, click on the service, put in your email and password and you’ll be given a list of contacts to invite. )it

Finally twitter will automatically put in recommendations for you to follow. Feel free to uncheck the ones you would not like to follow. Surprisingly “Jeremy Piven” is on the list. Leave him :)

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Click Finish and you are all set. To put a new tweet, just put it in the “what are you doing box”. They are limited to 140 characters. To follow other tweeters go to their page. Such as Dzineclub (http://www.twitter.com/dzineclub) and click on Follow. That means that you will get more updates from Dzineclub in your twitter account.

The last stage is to then promote your twitter account via your website/email marketing/business cards etc.

Happy Tweeting!!

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