Flickr Marketing

Chris Burdge | Blogging, Social Media | August 25, 2010
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Flickr Marketing

Flickr, which is owned by Yahoo!, is one of the most popular photo storage and sharing sites on the web. It’s free, easy to use & offers a variety of methods for sorting, categorizing and tagging images. People can comment on and rate pictures, and photos can be made private or only viewable by friends and [...]

Size Doesn’t Matter! It’s What You Do For Your Followers…

Chris Burdge | Blogging, Social Media, Strategy | July 30, 2010
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Size Doesn’t Matter! It’s What You Do For Your Followers…

…it’s so true. This video with Seth Godin is chalk full simple wisdom. You don’t need thousands of friends or followers.
What you do need is a “tribe”.
An authentic tribe of friends, colleagues and customers that you have something in common with, can converse with and share relevant, useful information and stories with.
Don’t waste your time [...]

Social Media and Human Resources

Chris Burdge | Blogging, Miscellaneous, Social Media | June 18, 2010
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Social Media and Human Resources

In doing research for an upcoming talk I’m doing about Linkedin, I uncovered some juicy insights and tips that I wanted to share with you.
Employers Use Social Media to Screen Candidates
According to a June 2009 CareerBuilder survey Forty-five percent of employers reported using social networking sites to screen potential employees. Eleven percent of employers [...]

Video Blogging Made Easy

Chris Burdge | Blogging, Miscellaneous | March 17, 2010
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Video Blogging Made Easy

Have you seen a video blog and wondered how difficult it would be to create, or if it might be an effective way to portray your business? Well it’s not that difficult or expensive to do and indeed it is a great way to communicate with your target audience. This short video blog reviews the [...]

Using Trackback Kung Fu to Promote Your Blog

Chris Whiteley | Blogging | March 3, 2010
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Using Trackback Kung Fu to Promote Your Blog

Have you ever wondered what the major purpose of Trackbacks were. When I first started blogging it took some real explaining as to what they were and what there real purpose was. I still really am not to sure what they are all about.
Most of the time I get a lot of trackbacks from spam [...]

9 Industries That Could Benefit from Implementing a Blog

Chris Whiteley | Blogging | March 2, 2010
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9 Industries That Could Benefit from Implementing a Blog

I dug up some old sales copy about Wordpress and blogging which was written last year but never used on the our site. This snippet here separates a few industries and offers a few suggestions on how you can be use a blog to promote your product or service.
Read through the list and if [...]