From the monthly archives:

June 2009

Iran and Social Media

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Social Media and the Iran Protests

Iran held their presidential elections on Friday June 12. Late that evening, the current President Ahmadinejad was declared the winner. His rival Mousavi called the results a “charade” and on June 13, thousands of protesters took to the street. That Saturday June 13, I was sitting in Rome, Italy. Thousands of miles away from Tehran. [...]

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Driving traffic from Twitter to your blog: TechCrunch’s example

I posted before about how to use Twitter to drive traffic to your blog, and illustrated the principle with a simple case study. TechCrunch, a hugely popular resource for us webgeeks, just published interesting statistics about the impact of their Tweets onto their main website traffic.

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Understanding the traffic on your blog – Part 1: Traffic Quantity

A serious blog is geared towards its audience. As a serious blogger, it is important you understand your audience, your readers. When I started blogging, I struggled to understand my blog traffic. Simple and free tools like Google Analytics, gave me heaps of figures and graphs, but it took me a while before I could [...]

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5 things to do after creating a new blog

OK, you did it, you created a new blog! You post a few entries on which you sweat for days, give it the best of your best. But what’s next? Here are five basic steps I follow for every new blog I create:

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Understanding the traffic on your blog – Part 2: Traffic Quality

In Part 1 of this series we concentrated on the quantity of your blog visitors. We used a case study based on the 300,000 visitors on The Road to the Horizon, my personal non-profit blog. In Part 2, we will focus on the quality of your traffic: Based on the 7 main groups of traffic [...]

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Understanding the traffic on your blog – Conclusions

Using an actual blog as a case study, we looked at the quantity of the traffic in Part 1 of this series. In Part 2, we zoomed in on the quality of the traffic. In this post, we will summarize our conclusions and practical tips. The bottom line A blog, just like any website, has [...]

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Social media in your organisation

Three interesting slide sets on social media, social enterprise systems and knowledge management. Even though they are made by a commercial company (T-Systems), they provide some interesting visuals and ideas: The Wikipedia Myth – Enterprise 2.0 Knowledge Management

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Top social media sites

TechCrunch posted an excellent overview of the top social media sites based on monthly visitors.

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What is “Social Media”?

I found 10 excellent presentations about Social Media on econsultancy.com. Here is one which gives an excellent all-round introduction into the world of Social Media:

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How to make Twitter work for your blog in 3 easy steps

I previously published a post on how to increase quality traffic on your blog using Twitter. Here is a second simple case study on how Twitter can complement your blog and increase interest for your cause and traffic to your blog. In October 2008, I started several pain vanilla blogs on Tumblr, a simple and [...]

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