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We’ve already covered StumbleUpon in our series on Social Bookmarking. Now we are heading to one of my favorites for bookmarking: Delicious. I have to admit, I was completely turned off to this site by all the dots: del.icio.us. I couldn’t wrap my mind around it so I didn’t even want to figure out what [...]

This week we are exploring social bookmarking. Social bookmarking is a great way to keep track online of sites you like and a great way to drive traffic to your site. The first social bookmarking site we’ll look at is StumbleUpon. This site is fascinating and rather addicting. Here’s how it works You sign up [...]

I was recently introduced to the term social bookmarking. As I’ve explored the networks associated with social bookmarking I’ve become a huge fan! Since social bookmarking has unique characteristics which differ from social networking, I thought it would be valuable to define social bookmarking and spend a few posts discussing social bookmarking sites individually. What [...]

Here’s a quick overview of social networking. This video is a couple years old so we now have Twitter in the limelight while MySpace has lost popularity blog promotion. Prior to watching this video, I hadn’t considered how our social network’s potential is hidden in real life. For me, my local community is an important [...]

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Some mom bloggers are struggling with a fear that they’ve sold out. They started their blogs to share their lives and encourage other moms.  They didn’t really have any long range plans, they were just having a good time – making friends and oftentimes making a difference. Over the last year or two we’ve seen [...]

Darren Rowse recently posted a “revolutionary” idea in niche blogging. He was interviewing a successful blogger when that blogger let slip he was part of a secret blogging alliance. Intrigued, Darren was able to pull 13 things these bloggers did together and for each other to help promote their blogs and increase not only traffic, [...]

You’ve probably seen a picture or image on the web and may have noticed it was .gif format. GIF stands for Graphics Interchange Format, which basically means it is a compressed image file format. The reason .gif is used more widely on the web is because the file size is smaller than a .jpg file [...]

As a blogger we are part of an online community. Since blogging is a social act, we often extend our social activity outside of our blog and venture into other communities like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and niche specific forums or communities. As we visit each place, networking and building relationships with readers and fellow bloggers, [...]

And benefit from it! A while back Twitter parties hit their peak of popularity and then were criticized by severely for a variety of reasons. Namely that Twitter parties increase the number of conversations during a set time thus “polluting” the Twitter stream with irrelevant content. Another gripe is that Twitter parties promote brands in [...]

I found this terrific video that explains social media using a simple allegory. It’s a great introduction to Social Media and will serve as a solid foundation for exploring this topic more in depth. How do you participate in social media? Do you blog, podcast or vlog? Do you provide feedback? Do you use feedback [...]

Taking the plunge into the Twitterverse can be a little intimidating, not to mention a bit overwhelming. By following these 5 steps when setting up your Twitter account, you’ll get started on the right foot and be one step closer to developing a strong presence on Twitter. By the way, the first four are what [...]

Hello, Profitable Mommy Blogging readers. My name is Amber Passey and I am Kelly’s newest intern for this blog. I have spent the last year learning the ins and outs of using social media to promote my blog and look forward to sharing exciting and effective tips with you over the next ten weeks. A [...]