Tag Archive: online social networking

Create an awesome resource, part 1

Do you have an awesome resource? Something on your website that is so unique, remarkable, useful, meaningful or beautiful that people can’t stop talking about it? Screw the professional talk about a “valuable resource”. Do you have a resource on your website that’s spectacular. Fantastic. Magnificent. AWESOME? No? Let’s make one! This will take a…

Website heresy: One article, one idea

When you’re an expert your knowledge on a subject is nuanced, wide-ranging and inclusive. You can combine multiple high-level concepts into even higher concepts; you include knowledge from so many fields and draw so many valid and useful conclusions. You can explain a half-dozen related but different techniques and viewpoints. Resist this temptation. When you…

Website heresy: Social media committment issues

Social media encourages two common and contradictory mistakes. Social media is fun that way. Over-committing to social media You wake up and check your Twitter, check out the new followers and send five replies and seven retweets. Then off to Facebook to respond to 82 comments on your fan page (you get through 20 by…

Website heresy: Connections first, money later

Imagine Mr Moneybags walking down the street. He has so much disposable income in his pockets that his pants are starting to sag a bit and he has dreadful lower back pain. But suddenly! there you are offering to sell him your wares. It doesn’t even matter what they are, he accepts. In fact, in…

3 tips to make your site more social

We interrupt the stream of heresies for a guest post by Mike. Less controversial, but it’s funny and makes a lot of sense. Whether you’ve paid much attention to it…err…scratch that. Whether you’ve jumped into the social media trend or not, one clear fact remains: Social media has taken over the web as we know…