A good video that isunder 5 minutes long, and explains a load about social media and how to make a mark on it.
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/alexis_ohanian_how_to_make_a_splash_in_social_media.html
The video features Alexis, one of the founders of reddit, and he talks about the Greenpeace whale naming vote. That they backed.
There are 2 messages that Alexis mentions:

Let go, don’t be afraid to [...]

14
Dec

Six Revisions have posted an artile looking at how to optimise your wordpress website to get more traffic from Google. If you have a wordpress website or want to know more about SEO and what is involved then the article is worth a read.
Here are the main points that the article makes.
1) Make sure that the [...]

Google has started offering real time search results for searches. If you try searching for “Copenhagen”, then you will find a search box like the image below that updates with the latest web results, comments and posts about the Copenhagen summit.

The results box is updated every couple of seconds with new results from Twitter or [...]

03
Dec
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A good article on what are the primary ranking factors for websites is here http://www.davechaffey.com/blog/seo/update-to-seomoz-seo-ranking-factors/ The sumary was that the following percentages were what was though the search engines placed most weight on:
24% Trust / Authority of domain name
22% Link popularity of specific page
20% Anchor text of external links
15% On page keyword use
7% Traffic and [...]

I am working on the SEO for a site about Irish fine art prints called perquisites. We have changed the website to have a faster loading front page and changed the title and meta tags to reflect what the website is about. Working with different projects is always interesting and it will be interesting to [...]