Blogging Tips – Compete YouTube Case Study on Using Social Media for Brand Marketing

Compete & Google YouTube have published a report recently in November 2009 on using Social Media for Driving Brand Engagement. Click Here to view the Social Media Case Study.

Although the report is more on how the YouTube homepage can serve as a platform to drive brand engagements through advertisements, there are a few points that we can pick up for our small businesses & individual business blogs.

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Video Profile – James Surowiecki on Turning Point for Social Media

Back in 2005 James Surowiecki made an interesting presentation at TED on the Turning Point of Social Media. Looking back, this was one of the first presentations by James Surowiecki on the evolution & growth of Social Media.

Social media is now very much a part of our daily life. And people seem to spend substantial time on social networking sites like FaceBook & Twitter.

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Book Value – A Lion Called Christian & Example of Viral Video

After having read so much about the viral video on YouTube about Christian the Lion re-uniting with his foster family, I finally bought the book as a birthday gift to my wife.

Here are a few of the videos on YouTube on Christian the Lion:

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Increase Your Blog Income Dramatically – Learn from Best Blogging Gurus & Best Business Plugins

There are several ways to make money online from blogs or websites. I began blogging a year back but I was not sure if it would help me generate significant income. A year later, now, I am earning in four figure dollars a month. And there is still so much room to improve!

I share my experience, what worked for me & what did not & some of the best tips on advertising, on this blog. In this post, I will share some of the resources provided by the established blogging Gurus.

After Twitter Micro Blogging It is Flutter Nano Blogging Now – New Nanoblogging Flutter

My Twitter friend Jay Martin posted the new 26 letters’ nano blogging system Flutter. His estimates are almost correct to say that Flutter cuts down the time to read or write a post to close to a second!

After the great success of Twitter, it was clear someone will think of competeing & the only way to compete with Twitter is changing the number of letters you could type. While Twitter lets you type in 140 characters, Flutter lets you do it with 26 letters!

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Twitter Co-founder Biz Stone Interview on What is Twitter – Video with Stephen Colbert

Here is an interesting interview of Biz Stone, the co-founder of Twitter with Stephen Colbert. It is mostly hilarious, with Stephen starting off with the question that many of us had – How could 140 characters send Twitter to the most popular application?

Biz Stone explains “Twitter provides a new way of messaging”. Stephen points to that fact that neither the concept was new, nor the services were essential. In spite of that, Twitter is an immense success.

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Inspiration From Mistakes – Creative Ideas from Fashion Designer Isaac Mizrahi

Pro Media Blog is all about helping new bloggers to make money on the internet. We share tips & tools that new bloggers can use to earn money from internet business.

It also helps small business & home office professionals gather ideas on new ways to tap the internet’s potential to make a significant earning without having to spend a lot of money.

In fact, we have partnered with Media Cubs to encourage new bloggers to set up free websites & earn money from advertisements.

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Adding Videos to Blog Posts – 5 Popular Video Contents Add Value to Posts

how to engage visitors with videos on blog posts Videos are a great way to add value to your blog posts. Reports on BizJournal shows how food corporations like Whole Food Market added cooking demo videos on their blogs to attract & keep visitors .

While a picture could be a 1000 words, a video could be a million! Videos could complement a post’s content with additional information that could be lost in writing.

If you already have a website, adding a blog to it could multiply your hits & conversions several times in a short period of time.

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Use Videos to Boost Customer Satisfaction – Blogging with Video

how to increase traffic with videos - using youtube effectivelyOnline Videos could change the way visitors look at your blogs & websites. Not only do they add an interesting dimension to the way you convey a message, but it could also make things simple & often personal.

YouTube, the number 1 video hosting website, now have major educational institutes & business organizations, publishing marketing & editorial videos on their custom channels.

While YouTube by itself helps them spread the news, the same videos can be embedded in several other blogs & sites. There are several ways to start with Video Blogging.

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Tribute to Bill Gates – Bill Gate’s last month in Microsoft June 2008

bill gates retiring from microsoft From January 1975, when he & Allen conceptualizes DOS through 2008, Bill Gates has been the founder & evangelist of the world’s largest software manufacturer.

When he announced his step-down in 2000, handing over the decision making responsibilities of Microsoft to Steve Ballmer, it was clear he was heading for a life of a different kind.

In 2006 he formally announced his retirement from Microsoft.

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