The Conversation Prism v3

http://theconversationprism.com has been updated again to reflect the landscape of social media

Amplify’d from www.theconversationprism.com

See more at www.theconversationprism.com

See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/clf9

via Amplify.com

Posted via email from

Best Social Media Plugins and Widgets for your Wordpress website | Courtney Engle

Staking your own claim online is vital.  Telling your friends, clients, and customers about your address is great, but what else can you do to turn up in search engines and get new traffic to your website?  Making your website friendly for visitors to share using their social media channels is great.  Here’s my list of plugins and widgets for your WordPress site.

Essential WordPress plugins for social media:

1. Sexy Bookmarks – Adds customizable buttons to the end of your posts (including RSS feed) to enable sharing on nearly all sites.
2. Sharebar – Floats left of posts and/or pages to enable sharing to Twitter, Facebook, Digg, StumbleUpon, and more
3. Facebook Like - Inserts the “Like” button to the beginning of posts and/or pages to enable Liking a post on Facebook
4. Disqus - Allows commenters on your site to post using their Facebook, Twitter, and more.  Also allows links to their comments to be posted to their social media accounts.
5. WP Greet Box - Welcomes visitors based upon which social media website led them to your site and asks them to subscribe to your RSS
6. Wibiya – Adds a footer to your website to enable Facebook Fan Page, Twitter, Flickr albums, Youtube Channels, and much more

Social media widgets to add to your site:

1. Facebook badge - connect others to your personal profile in Facebook
2. Facebook Fan Page Widget – adds “likers” to your fan page from within your website
3. Twitter Profile – show your recent tweets
4. Twitter Faves – show off the tweets you favorite
5. Twitter Lists – show off tweets by those you have in a list in your Twitter account
6. Retaggr’s “Click To Add Me” button – shows ALL your social media profiles and allows others to connect with you on them
7. Friendfeed activity widget – even if the site is a ghost-town, showing a preview of all your online activity in one box is simple

Related articles

• Sharebar: Add Floating Social Buttons To WordPress (wpjedi.com)
• 5 Essential WordPress Plugins for Small Businesses (readwriteweb.com)

---

Want to connect further? Find me online: Google Profile & Online Activity
Want WordPress and Social Media training? GFYD Member - Go For Your Dream
Have a tech question? (hardware, software, & web) Ask Courtney for help
Need official work done? Contact Courtney

via courtneyengle.com

Posted via email from

Facebook Groups Overhauled to function as Lists | Courtney Engle

Facebook overhauled Groups to function in place of Lists.  Only 5% of users were using the Lists feature to organize their connections.  To remedy this solution, Facebook has reworked the Groups feature.  By logging in to Groups, you can add anyone you want to the group you create. A quick rundown of the new features:

• Group Chat
• Group Notices
• Shared docs
• Limited icons reflecting your group

Facebook Groups Demo:

This has strong potential to quickly become spammy, but also can be great when handled appropriately. I like the idea of using this with social friends primarily, and to create networking opportunities.  Avoid adding others to groups just as a way to socialize with them.  The next area of mind-numbing but needed organization is to remove ourselves from groups that we’ve been added to unnecessarily.  Within moments of the new groups, I noticed several of my connections being added to public lists in a rather spammy fashion. See: The Ugly Side Of The New Facebook Groups

• Opt-out
• Can’t hide group chat
• Confusion vs pages and lists

Here’s step-by-step how to create a group: “How To: Create your new group on Facebook”

I quickly did a demo of how to create a group.  I can see this becoming useful for my weekly get-togethers with friends:

Other Social Media news:

• Facebook Overhauls Groups, A Social Solution To Create “A Pristine Graph” (techcrunch.com)
• New Facebook Groups Designed to Change the Way You Use Facebook (mashable.com)
• Facebook Announces More Control Over Your Profile & Friend Groups [News] (makeuseof.com)
• Facebook Introduces Private Groups, Allows Export Of Personal Data (searchengineland.com)

---

Want to connect further? Find me online: Google Profile & Online Activity
Want WordPress and Social Media training? GFYD Member - Go For Your Dream
Have a tech question? (hardware, software, & web) Ask Courtney for help
Need official work done? Contact Courtney

•  
•  
•  
•  
•  
•  
•  
•  
•  
•  
•  
•  

Related posts:

1. Tweetdeck Groups to Twitter Lists Having used Tweetdeck for nearly a year, I’ve invested much...
2. Facebook went down : Your website is your home-base, not social media channels The inevitable has happened, last week Facebook went down.  For...
3. Youtube connects with your Facebook Friends Youtube's newest blog post indicates that now it connects our...
4. Formulists organizes your Twitter Lists Organizing those you follow in Twitter into lists makes it...
5. Google Buzz Reviewed After two days of using Google Buzz, here's my own...

via courtneyengle.com

Posted via email from Courtney Engle

Map of Online Communities 2010

via xkcd.com

Posted via email from Courtney Engle