Last week one of our clients at Idea codes held a virtual fashion show at their virtual showroom in the online world known as Second Life. Style hive, which is a collaborative shopping community purchased land and built their virtual showroom inside of Second Life several weeks ago. Since then they have populated their space with items that users have bookmarked in the hive.
Social bookmarking is one of the top techniques that you can use to promote your website and build more traffic. If you’re not involved, it’s time to get with the program!
Social bookmarking started for me when I joined a few of the top social bookmarking sites. You may think this is all you need to do to get involved, but trust me – there is more to social bookmarking than simply joining the social bookmarking circles!
The first thing to do is visit a few of the top social bookmarking sites: Digg, del.ici.ous, Furl, and Yahoo, just for example. You can do a Google search for these to find them if you’ve never been there before.
Then, sign up for a free account with each of these. When signing up for an account, you will have the opportunity to select buttons that you can add to the end of each of your blog posts. This will allow readers of your blog to “Digg” your post over at the Digg social bookmarking site.
The logic is quite simple. You need hits and traffic from various origins. By enticing a large group of readers through sharing a simple URL, you are bound to get some traffic from any source and start getting new hits. And if they like it, your hit rate will continuously increase. And so another phenomenon and option for people wanting to do business on the web.
The Bookmarking functions within today browsers are still quite primitive, restricting the user to a private set of bookmarks associated with one browser or PC. Some desktop software has been fully developed to extend this functionality but with limited distribution. Its Concept of bookmarking web pages has been with us since the first web browsers.
We have all heard that social bookmarking is the new marketing tool that everyone can count on. But while we hear this, we fail to realize how it is done. Well actually it is pretty simple, you bookmark a site and a link is pointed towards the site you bookmarked.
Further, you can link directly towards the post itself. So imagine the number of people who bookmark and visit these social sites today and you can imagine the potential visitors that will become traffic to your site. That is how it help drive traffic and even boosts your popularity especially for catchy posts you will be making.
Search engines such as Google, MSN, Yahoo, etc. have noticed that the web is growing at an incredible rate, which is why these search engines have implemented a page rank system, in order to find and sort the best pages according to the content and popularity. While the page rank algorithm used by Google is unknown, most webmasters know the basics of how the system works, again based on popularity links and quality of content.
Internet growth is very noticeable in content based sites, these websites are usually known as article websites or article directories, their main function is to gather as much information as possible from as many authors as are available, this is a great concept, because everyone is an expert on a specific subject and that expertise can be shared with the world through article directories which can receive as much as 5000 articles in a single day.
Being the world’s favorite pastime, shopping was the subject of the next revolution in social bookmarking that has come out as Social shopping. Social shopping is the move by people to control their own shopping trends and sharing them with others who have the same tastes. a combination of the social internet and e-commerce, it is part socializing and part shopping with the trends setting in between. getting to preview stuff you want and need ranking them and publishing your views and opinions on the pros and cons of the products you select.
This has spurred the development of new sites that unlike traditional social networking has product reviews that are by consumers and friends that allows you to develop your personal preferences. Why restrict the Web 2.0 to meeting people and sharing interests, go social shopping and get to know the stuff people are into at the click of the mouse.
In the next posts we would tackle the many sites that are popping up for the said purpose which is hailed to be the next in-thing in the world of internet shopping.
The next in thing is social shopping and ThisNext is one of the sites to go for the in stuff on the web that people are going crazy for. The site has an easy to use interface and layout which is good for people who don’t know much about the web but it does have a lackluster trait of not having too much social networking functions and abilities. It is a good site for product reviews which in today’s cash strapped life, getting the right product is the best way to go shopping. Check out what other people are buying and why they chose the particular product. Get the pro’s and con’s of the same products from friends, family and just about anybody who wants to share their views.
One common user complaint is that there is no function whereby people can look for friends which restricts you to people who already have registered with the. You can sit back and watch what other people are buying and select from some of the hottest items around. You can’t find a price comparison facility though but it is still nice to virtually window watch as others shop in front of your eyes.
The recent death of MJ, the “King of Pop” pointed out a lot of important facts regarding new media, it was indeed faster that traditional news fronts but the time it took to verify and break the news through more established media fronts signified a hidden danger of new media, is it true? Much like the case of the New York Times Reporter who escaped captivity from the Taliban without the world knowing much about it, the speed at which new media breaks news was put to the test for the people behind the scenes who saw publication of the news as a danger withed the information till he escaped and gave the go ahead for it to go mainstream.
People decided it was a mere to dangerous to release information regarding his captivity they prevented it from being published allover the internet in fear of his safety which could have indeed influenced the whole deal, changing the playing field to unknown levels that may have ended his life prematurely.
New media is fast and more than often reliable but hold that publish button and make sure you have all the facts before you do, it can be a life and death situation.
News that the “King of Pop” passed away was so shocking it took CNN sometime to verify the news that the TMZ Blog broke into the world. Such is the reach and power of Social Media and it has indeed taken over the world of media and the world.
It was a shock and a surprise to all, especially to those fans who gobbled up tickets in London for his comeback tour that was supposed to re-launch his career. TMZ broke the news and traditional media offices scrambled to verify the truth as the news spread like wildfire over the social networks and to the rest of the world. This may be one of the signs that New Media is indeed now in the forefront of breaking news, that used to be held by the many tabloids that used to provide us with the hottest news for the day.