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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Spare a thought for the outcasts

October 20, 2007 — Tim Nash

Moodle VLE
I have had my hands full working on a Moodle an open source Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) site this is not the first time I have worked with Moodle but I never had to attempt to optimise a moodle site before merely administrate it.
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Happy Birthday to us!

October 7, 2007 — Tim Nash

The Venture Skills blog made it’s first post one year today, the post stamps are incorrect by the way I was fiddling with them when testing the posts but this is the opening lines…
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Centralising your social world

October 7, 2007 — Tim Nash

Using Send To as a information centre

Most of you will be familiar with the Stumbleupon toolbar and in particular with the send to button we have discussed its uses before and when I first reviewed it considered it a fantastic tool to start a stumble however since then the “send to” has become devalued.
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More questions then answers

September 21, 2007 — Tim Nash

My attempt at showing a working model for stumbleupon mathematics certainly got (is getting) a lot of attention with several questions being asked I thought I would at least try to answer some of them and pass some more generic comments.

If you haven’t read the stumbleupon mathematics post then this will not make much sense but to recap the proposed “simplistic big model”

(Initial stumbler audience /# domain) + ((% stumbler audience /# domain)+ organic bonus – nonfriend) – (((% stumbler audience + organic bonus) + N
http://ventureskills.wordpress.com/2007/09/19/stumbleupon-mathematics-for-stumblers/

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Stumbleupon mathematics for stumblers

September 19, 2007 — Tim Nash

Give it a Sphinn | Or a Stumbleupon thumbs

What follows is my understanding of the stumbleupon algorithm it is based on some pretty extensive testing using several volunteers however it has been incredibly simplified to make it easier to understand. We may be totally wrong so just a heads up but I hope this will at least give you some idea of what your thumb up is doing. I have also written up a few questions and answers to help people understand what I’m trying to do.
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Top 5 Stumble spam

August 24, 2007 — Tim Nash

It was inevitable that stumble spam was going to happen, but the amount I have recently received is bordering on the ridiculous the reason for my sudden increase I think is two fold I went past my 1000 up thumb and I also went through the 150 fan/friend mark.
So here is my top 5 Stumble spam problems…
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Organic Stumbling Tip

July 14, 2007 — Tim Nash

UPDATE: Don’t use this feature! – since this article things have changed see Centralising your Social World for more details

Have you noticed when all your friends stumble your post it seems like they have little or no effect? Well it appears that Stumbleupon Algorithm treats artificial stumbles differently by artificial I mean stumbles that don’t have the Toolbar as their referrer. The solution is to use the “send to” option to your friends, they will then arrive via the toolbar and when they thumb up the site it will appear as an organic stumble with all its juice…
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Mini Sites or Large Sites?

July 10, 2007 — Tim Nash

We got a question from a concerned reader…

I have a question for you is it better to develop 1 large site or several smaller ones?
I’m preparing to develop a new ecommerce site with nearly 500 products should I create several sites?

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Got a question?

June 10, 2007 — Tim Nash

Question mark
Do you have a question, perhaps you been trawling the forums, and your question has gone unanswered, maybe your not sure how to word your question or your afraid you would be laughed at?

We want to help and will be running a weekly column where we will try to get you the answer, and if we don’t know the answer we will try and find it for you. So what sorts of questions can or will we answer?
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