Twitter in Actions

Twitter is a tool that allows you to quickly communicate and share news with your friends and within the Twitter community. For example, if you manage a music Web site, you can use Twitter to break news about concerts and entertainment gossip. To promote yourself or your Web site, you can simply include a tag at the end of each message such as “Brought to you by X.com.”

You can send any of your friends a private message using Twitter. To send a friend a text message, click Message from the Twitter profile page or simply click Direct Messages and choose the recipient from the drop-down box. If you want to send a private message from your phone, use the following command: D + username + message. Note that a person’s username and screen name may be different. To ensure that your private message is sent to the proper person, you can verify the accuracy of the person’s username by going to her profile page and looking at the URL at the top of the page. The username follows thewww.twitter.com domain: for example, www.twitter.com/kingpepper.

Twitter

A very powerful and increasingly popular way to communicate with friends and clients, build buzz, and generate prospective business leads is through micro-blogging. Micro-blogging is a form of blogging that allows you to write brief text updates, usually less than 200 characters, and publish them, either to be viewed by anyone or by a restricted group you choose. Micro-blogging is a form of social networking that enables you to keep your followers up-to-date with what you are doing at any given time of the day.
The most widely used micro-blogging network is Twitter. Twitter, located at www.twitter.com, is a free social networking service that allows you to micro-blog by sending short “updates” of 140 characters or less to others via a text message from your mobile phone, by typing a message from the Twitter site, or by using instant messaging from Jabber or Google Talk.

Keep in mind that when you sign up for Twitter via the Twitter Web site, your communication settings are automatically set to public. By keeping your communication settings to public, your updates automatically go to both your friends and to the public timeline, which is automatically posted and updated for public viewing every four minutes to the Twitter Web site. If you intend to use Twitter to build buzz about your business or generate traffic to your Web site, keep the public settings.
One of the ways you can use Twitter to generate Web site traffic and buzz is by sharing daily deals, special offers, or exciting product news with your readers. If you have an  e-commerce Web site, you may want to send out a message each morning announcing your top-selling products. For example, “Yesterday we sold over 1,000 red widgets. We have less than that left in inventory, so order now to guarantee shipment.”

MyBlogLog Tricls

Adding a MyBlogLog widget to your Web site allows you to collect statistics about your Web site, including where your Web site visitors came from, what pages your visitors viewed, and what links the visitors clicked while on your page. Your Web site statistics are available through your MyBlogLog account page and can be retrieved based on any specified time frame. Although not a comprehensive Web site statistics program, the MyBlogLog widget provides you with meaningful data that you can use to better understand your visitors.
People can leave you public or private messages on your profile page, and you can leave public or private messages for others. Messages include your avatar, screen name, and a link back to your profile page. Leaving messages is a good strategy for encouraging others to visit your profile page and learn more about the Web sites you author.
Your profile page includes a feature that allows you to see the most recent members of the MyBlogLog community to visit the page. You should add as a contact any MyBlogLog members that visit your profile page, and you should also return the favor by visiting their profile pages.

Mybloglog

MyBlogLog, located at www.mybloglog.com, is a popular social networking service that includes a popular Web widget that you can install on your blog or content Web site. The MyBlogLog widget shows your visitors the most recent MyBlogLog members
who have visited your Web site, including each member’s avatar and screen name. The MyBlogLog community represents an eclectic group of individuals that are
interested in finding new Web sites. You can use the MyBlogLog widget and community to increase traffic to your Web site and build buzz around your Web site content.
In addition to displaying the MyBlogLog widget on your Web site, your MyBlogLog membership consists of a profile page that is made publicly available on MyBlogLog.com. Your MyBlogLog profile page can include lists of the Web sites you own and blogs you  author, and a personal or business profile that you can use to actively build contacts from the MyBlogLog community. One of the keys to success using MyBlogLog to build buzz and generate traffic to your Web site is by adding as many relevant contacts to your profile page as possible. The more contacts you have, the more likely it is that your contacts will visit your profile page on a regular basis and learn more about you and your Web site. One way to actively build contacts on a regular bas is to add the MyBlogLog widget to your Web site.
Whenever a MyBlogLog user who is not a contact visits your Web site, you should immediately add that person as a contact. Another approach to building contacts is to
visit other Web sites that display the MyBlogLog widget because the Web site owner is likely to see your avatar and screen name and add you as a contact.

StumbleVideo

StumbleUpon has an online video service called StumbleVideo that can provide a large amount of traffic to your videos. StumbleVideo shows users online videos based upon user preferences along with popularity as determined by votes from other members of the StumbleUpon community.
Unlike StumbleUpon, StumbleVideo does not require registration, and you are not required to download the StumbleUpon toolbar to watch videos. Instead, you simply go to the video.stumbleupon.com Web site, select a video, and then click the Stumble button whenever you want to watch another video. StumbleVideo offers users several useful features including the ability to search for other popular videos and to share videos with friends via e-mail.
You do not submit videos to StumbleVideo. Instead, StumbleVideo gets videos from sources such as YouTube, Metacafe, MySpace TV, Google Video, and other popular video sites. Therefore, if you want to get into StumbleVideo, upload your video to one of the sites listed above. StumbleVideo is a great source for you to generate ideas for creating your own videos that you can submit to the popular video Web sites, as well as host on your own Web site.

StumbleUpon

StumbleUpon is a peer and social networking technology that includes a toolbar that you install in your Web browser; you can use this toolbar to discover and rate Web pages, videos, photos, and news articles. The StumbleUpon service also allows you to submit your own Web pages, videos, photos, and news articles, all of which can help you generate buzz and traffic, and build backlinks to your Web site. As an Internet user you surf the Web and encounter countless Web sites throughout the day that you like and dislike. By installing and using the StumbleUpon toolbar, you can vote for Web sites you like and dislike simply by clicking the Thumbs Up button on the toolbar when you are on a Web site you like, and clicking the Thumbs Down button when you see a Web site you dislike.

In addition to voting on Web sites you come across on your own, the StumbleUpon toolbar allows you to randomly visit other Web sites by clicking the Stumble button. When you click the Stumble button, the StumbleUpon algorithm displays Web sites that you may find interesting based upon your personal interests and previous voting behavior. The Stumble button allows you to find cool Web sites and vote on whether you like them or not.
The key to generating buzz, traffic, and links from StumbleUpon is to make sure that your content is submitted and available to other StumbleUpon users. You may want to have other people submit your content so that you can vote positively on it and not come across to other StumbleUpon users as partial. The best kind of content to submit to StumbleUpon is entertaining, informative, or unique.