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Venture Skills is a New Media company based in the UK, their blog is a mix of Drupal, Reputation management and Search engine marketing and optimisation. The primary contributor is Tim Nash who is the co-founder of Venture Skills.
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StumbleUpon presentation
Yikes we have a blog… Just thought I would point people over to my own site where I have put up some notes regarding a presentation I did last night. Stumble Rocks! You never know we might actually post on Venture Skills Blog again… S...
Social Media Logo Images
A while ago I discussed on Collective Thoughts some of the techniques for getting your site into News syndication services like Google News. One of the main area’s I looked at was images since then a few things have changed but the importance o...
StumbleUpon Graveyard
A few things will kill a stumble, sending no traffic and sending the page to a quiet death. I present for your horror the StumbleUpon Graveyard and how posts are dragged down to its bowels, I will even provide tips to avoid such a fate.. Reviews do h...
Social search is all about trust
When StumbleUpon started integrating there results into Googles they effectively changed the way I search. If I’m presented with 10 results I am now more likely to click through to a site with a StumbleUpon review and in particular if it has a frie...
Are Social Users Different?
Social Media users are becoming the stable bread and butter users of many blogs and professional link baiter’s but few people understand how diverse (or not) these groups are recently we have been putting our efforts into looking at not only ho...
Does social begging work?
Mailing lists, IM groups stumble me stumble you forum posts, do any of these schemes to maximise social media traffic actually work? Well lets find out… How we do the tests Myself and a team of caring slaves (researchers) pour over logs provided to...
Running a stumble viral marketing campaign
I think Stumbleupon has fantastic potential in its revenue generation the idea of sending users paid for targeted pages is probably one of the least intrusive methods of advertising about, most paid for stumbles are no more noticeable to the user the...
Stumblers give people a second chance to impress!
In the course of an up and coming research we have been monitoring click locations of social users, the results will not surprise if you stop and think, but a massive amount of on page clicks by stumblers are located: Hmmm right under the stumble bu...
Happy Birthday to us!
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… This Blog has been set up to record how we have gone abo...
Centralising your social world
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...
More questions then answers
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...
Stumbleupon mathematics for stumblers
Give it a Sphinn | Or a 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 to...
Top 5 Stumble spam
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/fri...
Stumbling Voyeur the return
Welcome to another edition of the almost seedy Stumbling Voyeur a dirty dark look at the stumbling habits of the rich and famous, but due to legal reasons we couldn’t post so you will have to make do with some of most well known bloggers as bef...
Organic Stumbling Tip
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...
What do I and the Top Diggers and Stumblers have in common?
If you are serious about social networking (and not just studying it like me!) Then you need friends and do you know what all 100 Top Stumblers and 98/100 Top Diggers have in common? That's right they all use an avatar picture… An avatar imag...
Stumbleupon vs Digg - Page layouts
Like our Previous Stumbleupon vs Digg article this is based on statistics gathered from various sources, including clients, ourselves and friends and just about any one we could beg. However unlike our previous piece we had a much smaller data set as...
