Browser size revisited

In a previous post, we looked at the optimum “blog real estate”: the surface of your blog which is visible on a visitor’s browser window. I mentioned that, according to the statistics from 350,000 visitors my main blog, 91% was using a monitor width of 1,024 pixels or more. Based on that, I suggested you [...]

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RSS to Twitter: The Big Boys Have Arrived

I have posted before about how you can capitalize on your Twitter social community to increase traffic onto your blog. Regularly tweeting the new posts on your blog is the secret. I tweet a few thousand posts per month, accounting for over 100,000+ visits on my aggregator blogs. What tools are on the market to [...]

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Posterous as an alternative for TwitPic

One of the great many things one can use Twitter for, is to share pictures “on-the-fly” with your social community: From about anywhere in the world, I can take a picture with my mobile phone and within seconds post it on Twitter, for all my followers to see. The most popular picture-posting tool is Twitpic. [...]

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Yahoo Pipes: More down than up.

Yahoo Pipes is a free Internet service by Yahoo, which allows you to aggregate and manipulate RSS feeds. I use them extensively for several of my aggregation sites like Humanitarian News and AidNews, to name a few. Recently, Yahoo Pipes silently went from “Beta” to “Production”, a migration which was only noticed as the word [...]

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Blogging for nonprofit in real life: ICTKM’s knowledge sharing blog

Once upon a time, wandering through the forest of nonprofit blogs, I stumbled upon a blog, managed by a team based here in Rome. Over the past years, I got to know most of the people involved, as a bunch of great individuals, driven by enthusiasm and passion about their cause: the ICT-KM team at [...]

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Twitter drives traffic to your blog. But how much?

I wrote before on how to use Twitter to drive traffic to your blog. I also published a short case study about the influence Twitter-generated traffic had onto my blogs. Most of the evidence of Twitter-to-Blog traffic was circumstantial though: Google Analytics only tracks referral site traffic. As More and more people use a desktop [...]

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Do Nonprofits Embrace Social Media?

Social Impact conducted an interesting survey of 200 nonprofit executives to explore how their organizations are using social media and the value they derive from these efforts. They summarized their key results as: 88% percent of nonprofits are widely experimenting with social media, but only half (51%) are active users. 79% are uncertain of how [...]

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What if Microsoft had invented Twitter?

Courtesy Geek and Poke

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Two social media and web development jobs at the UN

Hey, social media and “web people” out there, here are two opportunities you might be interested in: UNEP, The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the United Nations system’s agency addressing environmental issues at the global and regional level. Its mandate is to coordinate the development of environmental policy consensus by keeping the global environment [...]

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How to promote your blogposts

“Content is King” is one of the most important slogans for serious bloggers: No matter how well you promote your blog, if your content – what and how your write – is mediocre, people might discover your blog, but won’t come back. Good, original content is key. It also works the other way round: you [...]

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A significant help menu

Source unknow. Other than The Beatles…

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