As you know I am a big proponent of Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 services such as social networking sites, blogging, video sharing sites, and social bookmarking and tagging sites.

I believe that one of the best ways to get traffic to your blog is to submit individual posts to sites such as StumbleUpon, Technorati and others. Recently I have come across a website called Social Marker that allows you to submit to over 46 of these types of social bookmarking and tagging sites at one time.

They also offer a plug-in for WordPress Blogs and a drag and drop icon for your bookmarks toolbar. I haven’t installed the plug-in yet but plan to do so soon.

Here are four reasons why you should use Socialmarker.com

• It helps you get a lot of backlinks.
• It helps you increase your traffic.
• Your link gets indexed by Google in a matter of minutes.
• Best of all, it’s free!

Technorati Tags: social bookmarking, tagging, social media, socialmarker

The original intent of this blog was to deal with how to increase your business influence through blogging as well as provide resources for blogging. Over the time that Blog Smart Resources has been around we’ve also discussed such things as social networking, Web 2.0 and 3.0, RSS and many other off-shoots of the blogging phenomenon.

This article takes us back to talking about blogging for business. According to an article titled Dealing With the Bad Side of Business Blogging ‘blogs take a while to mature, and along the way, every business blogger will deal with languishing in obscurity, cutting criticism, and a lack of motivation.” This has been certainly true in my case as sometimes I have thought about throwing in the towel when it comes to blogging. Sometimes it seems as if my time is limited and I never get time to write a decent post.

Dealing With the Bad Side of Business Blogging gives three helpful tips with explanations in detail on how to handle these growing pains so that a blog can attract new readers, weather growing pains and improve search engine rankings in order to generate new business.

The first tip is that bloggers should get used to speaking to an empty room. Blogs take a while to get indexed by a search engine and to develop a following. It is suggested that you write about content that is relevant at any time.

Secondly the author of this article suggests that you must develop a thick skin as ultimately you will get “flamed” by people. It is also important to separate careless attacks from thoughtful criticism.

The other thing mentioned in the article and something that I have been very guilty of is not posting for long periods of time. Since you’ve worked hard to develop readership it is important to provide fresh content and generate new ideas for features. If you stop posting too long your new content will stop getting indexed and your rankings will fall. You should post at least three times a week or you will struggle to keep your readers.

Taking notice of these points is important and I will try to take these facts into consideration with dealing with this blog as well as any others that I have.

To read the original article make sure to visit Dealing With the Bad Side of Business Blogging.

Technorati Tags: blogging, business blogging, seo, getting readers

John Merrick & Soren Jordansen have created an amazing new system in my opinion. It is called TweetMyBlog, a new Wordpress Plugin that I have just installed.

Since a great many of us forget to post on Twitter at least on a regular basis there system automatically posts a tweet every single time you update your Wordpress blog and of course those tweets link back to your blog.

There system gets you more people following you at Twitter and those people are only those who would be generally interested in reading your tweets and blog posts.

Another component of their plugin TweetMyBlog is that it ensures that you can get paid for using Twitter both directly and from the massive amounts of extra traffic that you can generate.

Merrick and Jordansen’s plugin is more than just a flashy Twitter plugin for Wordpress. According to them it is a fully fleshed out marketing plan that will put the power of Twitter at your finger tips.

Check out TweetMyBlog today.

Technorati Tags: twitter, tweet my blog, wordpress plugins, web 2.0, make money blogging

Numerous people complain about Twitter’s deficiencies. In fact some people, including M.G. Siegler, may think that microblogging platform Twitter is doomed. Canadian Wikitravel and Certifi.ca founder Evan Prodromou has built an open-source microblogging tool that will allow users an option to instead than Twitter. Siegler, has said, “That’s why I’ve said in the past that the only thing that can kill Twitter is Twitter itself. If the service keeps failing to work, people will leave not out of choice, but out of necessity. I don’t think that’s going to happen because I think Twitter will right its ship before we get to that point.”

Prodromou crafted an open source platform named Laconi.ca and a hub site, Identi.ca, to fight the “walled garden” situation of the Web 2.0 world. One example is: Robert Scoble being kicked off Facebook for running code to port out his numerous contacts.)

According to Prodromou. People can use the Laconi.ca platform to brand their own microblogging for their own site, or as a sub-site. This is where the income will come in eventually; running on a “freemium” model, those who do extensive rebranding of the platform for their own presence or company, or boast hundreds of users, will pay a fee.

Marshall Kirkpatrick of the blog Read Write Web also rants about the neophyte technical specification OpenMicroblogging, which “allows users of one supporting subscription to send and receive messages securely across different microblogging services,” thus guaranteeing improved interoperability.

Prodromou claims that this application has many uses in enterprise, where workers can use — and already are utilizing — microblogging to communicate with each other and update coworkers on project progress or whereabouts.

My thoughts are similar to Seigler’s in that Twitter is the only thing that can destroy Twitter. Personally I have never had a lot of trouble with it and I still believe it is a great tool.

Technorati Tags: twitter, tweet, open microblogging, Robert Scoble, M.G. Siegler, Evan Prodromou, Marshall Kirkpatrick

Grammar has become a serious matter with social networking site Facebook. You should no longer see such statements as “Suzie changed their profile picture.”

If you are a Facebook user who hasn’t specified your gender in your Facebook profile you will be asked to in the coming weeks. That way Facebook doesn’t have to default to “their” or the made up word “themself” as it did in the past.

Not knowing someone’s gender does pose problems with English grammar but even more so as Facebook expands to other languages it creates more problems. This is due to the fact that in other languages there isn’t a gender neutral option available in plural form. People who haven’t indicated their sex have been defaulted to the wrong sex entirely. According to management at Facebook transgendered people and other users who find the male-female distinction limiting will still have the option of removing gender entirely from their profiles.

This isn’t the first time Facebook has dealt with grammar related issues. At first members were limited to what they could say in their “status updates” for their friends, as in “Tom is wasting time on Facebook.” Facebook late last year decided to drop the “is” and allow users to supply their own verb and write updates such as “Tom just wasted time on Facebook.”

These improvements definitely make Facebook more pleasant to work with.

Technorati Tags: grammar, facebook, social networking, status updates

Diyana Alcheva in her blog at www.networkmarketingsmart.com said that Twitter can be categorized as a social networking site, a content sharing site and even a bookmarking site in a way.

She claims that it is a social networking site because it allows you to network and communicate with other people. You can stay in touch with friends by inviting them to follow you. It’s a way for you to stay in touch with some of your busy friends or get to know better some of the people in the social marketing world.

Because Twitter has been called a micro-blogging site it can also be characterized as a content sharing site. Diyana says that “When you provide powerful and valuable information you become recognized as an expert in the field. What does this mean for your network marketing business?”

Twitter can also be called a social bookmarking site because of the following reason:

Many users who are also called “Twitters” would often refer to a website in their “tweets” they just came across that they found valuable.

Diyana goes on to relate how you can integrate Twitter with Facebook and also use Twitter as an Internet broadcasting mechanism.

For Diyana’s full post about using Twitter to build your network marketing business visit http://www.networkmarketingsmart.com

Technorati Tags: diyana alcheva, network marketing, twitter, facebook, mlm

We all think that we know what a blog is yet everyone has a bit different definition. As you may know I subscribe to Google to get notices about news items and items being blogged about. One of those that came across in my email today was about the word blog.

I clicked on the link and came to http://webopedia.com/TERM/B/blog.html where I found What is blog? A Word Definition From the Webopedia Computer Dictionary. Their definition of a blog is as follows:

(n.) Short for Web log, a blog is a Web page that serves as a publicly accessible personal journal for an individual. Typically updated daily, blogs often reflect the personality of the author.

Other forms: Blogger (a person who blogs).

Webopedia lists itself as the number one online encyclopedia dedicated to computer technology.

Do you feel that your blogs reflect your personality. With my own blogs I do believe that they reflect my interests but yet the tone of the particular blog post that I make does not always match my personality. There are much more detailed definitions of a blog yet this is one that is probably the most generally accepted.

Technorati Tags: definition of blog, blog, blogging, blogger, computer technology

As one of the items that I have added to Blog Smart Resources in order to provide both more information and add some profitability to this blog I have added The Newsroom from Voxant.

There are now several videos that have to do with blogging, web 2.0 and social networking. More additions to this page are coming soon.

Technorati Tags: voxant, the newsroom, blogging, social networking, web 2.0, news

As many of you may know I am not only into blogging, social networking and blogging but I am also an avid network marketer. I found a video at YouTube that talks about using Facebook (social networking) to find new contacts for your network marketing business. Here is the video.

Technorati Tags: social networking, facebook, network marketing

What if you could share many of the feeds and links to your social media sites, your blogs, social networking sites and tagging sites as well as video and music sites? That possibility is available through www.friendfeed.com.

This site isn’t brand new;however, it still isn’t as publicized as I believe it should be. They could also improve the site by adding a F.A.Q. section for new users. Instead they assume that each new user will know how to proceed. To the seasoned veteran of using services like this it is very easy to figure out. For those who are newbies to the world of RSS and social bookmarking it may take awhile longer to get used to using it.

Even with the drawback that I mentioned about the site not having a F.A.Q. section I do feel that this is most likely the best online tool for sharing multiple feeds. You can share feeds from such services such as Digg, Google Reader, del.icio.us, StumbleUpon, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, Last.fm, your own personal blogs and much more.

To view my feed and subscribe to it simply visit http://friendfeed.com/kstien1959.

Technorati Tags: rss, sharing, social media, tagging, social bookmarking, social networking, friendfeed