Ning came out with a new app that will make your social network hum like a bee hive — Facebook integration. It will allow your network members at Ning to add their content to Facebook very easily, thus introducing your Ning network to all of their Facebook connections. That could be pretty sweet, especially if your Ning network is very active.
I just added the app to the Blogging4Boomers Ning network, and it’s a breeze. If you’re the Ning administrator, you just log in and go to Manage. You’ll quickly see a Facebook icon, and when you click on it, Facebook comes up. You fill in some basic information and you’re good to go!
A little while back Ning allowed administrators to connect to Twitter, as well.
Tying all of your content together through several social networks can be very powerful. You can Tweet something from your Ning site that invites your Twitter followers, people who may never have known about your social site at Ning, too.
Set up a social site for your niche at Ning. It’s free, and easy, and if your niche is one where there’s a lot of activity, you could come away with a pretty powerful social vehicle for traffic. The Blogging4Boomers Ning site was set up as a kind of forum for my members there, but anyone can join. You can see and join us at http://blogging4boomers.ning.com/
I don’t get it… I mean, really. What’s the deal with Google Buzz? You use it from GMail, which is cool, but how does it differ from Google Wave?
We were all so excited about Wave that we had to apply and wait to get our invitations. Then, as soon as we started to use it, we got tons of issues. Locking mainly, so that if you used it for any kind of meeting, it might kick you out and then, you couldn’t log in again to get back to your stuff. That was totally frustrating.
I’m guessing that Wave is real time as the old IRC chat used to be and Buzz is not. Buzz is more like Twitter. It’s pretty quick, but a stream, not real time chat like Google Talk.
What would we do without Google Talk? To me, that’s one of Google’s best tools. So, think of Wave as Google Talk and pictures and video and Google Buzz like Twitter with pictures and video.
Google Buzz will add a dimension to communicating that Twitter doesn’t have without using a side app… photo and video sharing. Buzz will also allow you to add multiple images and allow your followers to flip through them like Picassa.
I think I’ll use Google Buzz but only for close friends and business friends. Twitter started out that way and it was a lot more fun. You could talk to folks and keep up with them. When you have thousands of followers, it’s almost impossible to get to know many of them very well.
To get to Google Buzz, you need only to head over your GMail account. Though it’s being rolled out to current users slowly, I’m guessing that it won’t be very long before everyone has the capability to participate.
Do you Squidoo? And if you do… Are you a marketer doing Squidoo? If so, you need to know that Squidoo has decided that they don’t like marketers. At least, that’s how it seems to me.
Here’s an email I got yesterday:
Dear Squidoo lensmaster:
During the Summer of 2009 we publicly updated our anti-spam policies to disallow the creation and hosting of certain topics on our site.
==WHY THIS EMAIL?==
You’re getting this email because one or more of your lenses have been determined to be on these SquidDon’t topics. We’re sure you’re a goodguy and doing no harm! But alas, such categories have demonstrated such an overwhelming attraction to spammers or tricksters that we’re not able to support lenses on them at all–even if the quality of the lens is high.
Un-frickin’-believable.
The lenses in question were both Overcome Everything lenses, and they’re just solid content. One is all about list building. It has articles, videos, and I don’t even think there’s a link back to the ListBuilding Club on that lens. The videos have the link in them. But there’s absolutely NOTHING spammy. You can judge for yourself: http://www.squidoo.com/listbuildingwarrior continue reading »
This is something I wrote that Danny made his own:
If you like these videos, Danny’s making one just about every day… Run over to You Tube and subscribe to the OEVideos1 channel! Danny has a way of making some pretty otherwise “dry” material special.
Just set up a free account using your Twitter ID and bingo! They do the rest. They take your followers, the people you follow, and your posts to Twitter and create the newspaper out of them. You don’t really have to do anything but send traffic.
I’m awfully sorry that this blog hasn’t been updated as it should have been this week. I hate when that happens, but my desktop started crapping out on Wednesday and just continued to get worse. If you want to read all about it I added THAT story to my Overcome Everything Blog, which is new. I’ll be writing more about my life as an OE employee and stuff, so if you’d like so see how crazy things REALLY can get online… you’ll want to subscribe to that feed, too.
Anyway, I was over at Feedburner checking this out and I found something new and cool. You can now have Feedburner send your posts to Twitter, just by filling in your Twitter username and password.
I’m hoping it’s more reliable than Twitter Tools, which was hit or miss. Then, I added my feed to my Yahoo Pipe, which I have posting to Twitter every day, and that worked OK, but it wasn’t instant. I’m hoping that Feedburner will be. We’ll see how it works with this post and if I get more subscribers because of it. That would be sweet! continue reading »
