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Shameless Self Promotion with Social Media

Recently I've been getting a lot of questions from co-workers and friends about Facebook & Twitter and other social media and how it can be used to promote their websites and online business. I work in the media business and the newspapers are looking to grow readership and ultimately drive traffic to their websites. In these lean times people are also looking for ways to self promote in non traditional methods and emerging trends without spending any money. Here are some basic social media sites and tips to driving traffic and readership on your website: 1. Start a Blog - In the fast paced world of micro-blogging, traditional blogs are still a relevant form of social media. Blogs that inform and help people are worth reading. And Opinion based witting is perhaps the most popular form of blogging today. With everything you do you should try and keep you Blog on topic and with a general purpose. Of course with Blogging the hardest thing is to keep it going, so set some re

Microblogs for the Month of June 2009

RT @ starbulletin : Amazon cuts ties with Hawaii http://tinyurl.com/m5ckc7 1:38 PM Jun 30th from TweetDeck Seems like the Shaw @ home phone network is having "network difficulties" in Victoria "at this time" 11:36 AM Jun 30th from TweetDeck I just turned Civilization (MEGAPLEX), 2008 By Marco Brambilla into the coolest screen saver - http://bit.ly/13gOMz 11:28 AM Jun 30th from TweetDeck Running #fx35 on my macbook, seems like it browses faster... 11:21 AM Jun 30th from TweetDeck Looks like hosting provider Rackspace is backup 4:37 PM Jun 29th from web Victoria will be the first police department in North America to use body-mounted surveillance cameras - http://bit.ly/OWo51 3:47 PM Jun 29th from TweetDeck One trippy elevator ride - http://bit.ly/BUhoF 3:10 PM Jun 29th from TweetDeck RT @ wired : How to photograph random people on the street: http://is.gd/1eMAh 3:10 PM Jun 26th from TweetDeck RT @ paulbalcerak : RT @ GregMit