Think Visibility

March 7, 2009 — Tim Nash

Tim is down at Think Visibility today, blowing things up and pretending he is a mad scientist but in reality is simply “white coat bloke” however he has promised to add more content and his presentation notes including how bucket analogy for page rank to his blog Think Visibility 2009

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StumbleUpon presentation

September 20, 2008 — Tim Nash

Yikes we have a blog…
Just thought I would point people over to my own site where I have put up some notes regarding a presentation I did last night. Stumble Rocks!

You never know we might actually post on Venture Skills Blog again…

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Social Media Logo Images

March 4, 2008 — Tim Nash

A while ago I discussed on Collective Thoughts some of the techniques for getting your site into News syndication services like Google News. One of the main area’s I looked at was images since then a few things have changed but the importance of good images and their uses have not.

What’s a logo image?

A logo image is the initial image in a post often it takes the form of a banner or image to determine category. It’s this image that is being picked up by Social Media sites for use, before going into specifics lets take a few examples;

My Own
Category Logos:
social Media Statssocial Media Journalism logo
Banners:
StumbleUpon Grave yard
people I sleep with
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StumbleUpon Graveyard

February 8, 2008 — Tim Nash

Stumble Graveyard
A few things will kill a stumble, sending no traffic and sending the page to a quiet death. I present for your horror the StumbleUpon Graveyard and how posts are dragged down to its bowels, I will even provide tips to avoid such a fate.. Read the rest of this entry »

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Social search is all about trust

January 28, 2008 — Tim Nash

When StumbleUpon started integrating there results into Googles they effectively changed the way I search. If I’m presented with 10 results I am now more likely to click through to a site with a StumbleUpon review and in particular if it has a friends review.
I have an inbuilt trust of stumblers even if they are strangers over Google strange that!
Given the choice I value a Stumblers opinion more then any ranking factors
The problem of course when that trust is abused, If I do a search for credit cards I’m presented with 3 stumbleupon reviews on the front page. Now I have to ask myself are credit cards sites really interesting enough to warrant a thumbs up? Even if it’s the best deal? particularly if they have just one stumble? Read the rest of this entry »

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Embrace your potential stop hiding in SEOs shadow

January 15, 2008 — Tim Nash

This is a plea to all those who would consider themselves Social Media Optimisers, Linkbaiters and Copywriters and perhaps maybe even those who consider themselves SEOs.
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Are Social Users Different?

January 13, 2008 — Tim Nash

Social media Stats
Social Media users are becoming the stable bread and butter users of many blogs and professional link baiter’s but few people understand how diverse (or not) these groups are recently we have been putting our efforts into looking at not only how they interact with our sites but how social media users differ from “normal” traffic.
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Mullet vs Mulldina or just use a domain?

January 9, 2008 — Tim Nash

It’s the question that has been keeping you awake at night, do you go for the full on Mullet or just the appearance of a Mullet with the Mulldina?
I know your problem I to have had the same sleepless nights and the answer is to use both in your social media campaign.
Please note no 80s TV idol was harmed during the writing of this post!
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How to track Social Media Users with Google Analytics

December 22, 2007 — Tim Nash

Social media Stats
One of the questions we are often asked is how we track various social media sites users and their interaction with sites the answer is in a variety of ways but here is just one of the techniques we use with Google Analytics. Read the rest of this entry »

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Stage 1 of our move

December 14, 2007 — Tim Nash

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