- December 30th, 2009
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justinparks has posted a new entry on: Social Media Consultant
Another one from Joost de Valk, this little plugin is great if your site’s theme doesn’t have breadcrumbs installed. Not sure what breadcrumbs are? Yoast describes them as : Breadcrumbs…
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justinparks has posted a new entry on: Social Media Consultant
A great little plugin from Joost de Valk for measuring and monitoring the amount of “work” you do on your blog during the month. Small and unobtrusive, it’s a handy little applicatio…
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- December 29th, 2009
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justinparks has posted a new entry on: Social Media Consultant
Apture is a lovely, smooth little plugin that integrates itself as a button onto the post WYSIWYG editor. Admittedly, it’s a bit of an aesthetic plugin rather than adding any SEO, blog loading t…
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- December 27th, 2009
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justinparks has posted a new entry on: Social Media Consultant
For the maintenance and control of spam comments, this plugin is essential for any blog. Without Askimet, you’ll probably find yourself spending the better part of your day clicking “Delet…
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- December 26th, 2009
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justinparks has posted a new entry on: Social Media Consultant
The wordpress 404 notifier might sound a bit weird, but it’s very, very useful. As your blog develops, you may decide that the original way it was created needs to be adapted. So, you change s…
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- December 20th, 2009
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justinparks has posted a new entry on: Social Media Consultant
A lesson in socially driven economics has been in play over the last several weeks and for those that missed it I think its time to have a look at how it began and what it lead up to and what exactly…
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- December 16th, 2009
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justinparks has posted a new entry on: Social Media Consultant
Sometimes I just cannot resist playing with a new site. Mentionmap is a rather cool method for seeing where exactly you have been mentioned recently in the social sphere while simultaneously showing…
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- December 1st, 2009
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justinparks has posted a new entry on: Social Media Consultant
I got passed this video today from a friend who knows the industry I work in and after watching this they thought of me. Be warned, it has some pretty heavy language in there but unfortunately I can c…
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justinparks has posted a new entry on: Social Media Consultant
I got passed this video today from a friend who knows the industry I work in and after watching this they thought of me. Be warned, it has some pretty heavy language in there but unfortunately I can c…
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justinparks has posted a new entry on: Social Media Consultant
I have been waiting for this update to Tweetdeck since the announcement by Twitter of the changes to ReTweets and the development of the Twitter Lists. I wasn’t sure how it would be handled by T…
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justinparks has posted a new entry on: Social Media Consultant
I have been waiting for this update to Tweetdeck since the announcement by Twitter of the changes to ReTweets and the development of the Twitter Lists. I wasn’t sure how it would be handled by T…
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- November 24th, 2009
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justinparks has posted a new entry on: Social Media Consultant
Im not sure what’s happening but I just realised that Google Social search, which was only available in labs previously but which was turned off and made unavailable after one month has suddenly…
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justinparks has posted a new entry on: Social Media Consultant
Im not sure what’s happening but I just realised that Google Social search, which was only available in labs previously but which was turned off and made unavailable after one month has suddenly…
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justinparks has posted a new entry on: Social Media Consultant
Its not often you see something and just think “That was a bloody brilliant idea” but IKEA have really come up thrumps with this one. Kidnapping Photos Ikea decided to utilise the existing…
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justinparks has posted a new entry on: Social Media Consultant
Its not often you see something and just think “That was a bloody brilliant idea” but IKEA have really come up thrumps with this one. Kidnapping Photos Ikea decided to utilise the existing…
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- November 19th, 2009
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justinparks has posted a new entry on: Social Media Consultant
“Its only a Theory” is one of those shows that I enjoy when I catch it on the BBC because the format is smart and witty at the same time. Hosted by Andy Hamilton, Reginald D. Hunter (sort…
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justinparks has posted a new entry on: Social Media Consultant
“Its only a Theory” is one of those shows that I enjoy when I catch it on the BBC because the format is smart and witty at the same time. Hosted by Andy Hamilton, Reginald D. Hunter (sort…
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- November 11th, 2009
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justinparks has posted a new entry on: Social Media Consultant
I see a lot of information, everyday, about social media, its new features, the tools, the apps, the software, the systems and of course the potential and I definitely enjoy reading it and seeing peop…
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justinparks has posted a new entry on: Social Media Consultant
I see a lot of information, everyday, about social media, its new features, the tools, the apps, the software, the systems and of course the potential and I definitely enjoy reading it and seeing peop…
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- November 5th, 2009
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justinparks has posted a new entry on: Social Media Consultant
Its a fine balance to achieve Angie and I think far to many people ignore two specific points you mention: - Optimizing Content For Your Target Audience - Optimizing Content For The Company So many pe…
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justinparks has posted a new entry on: Social Media Consultant
Its a fine balance to achieve Angie and I think far to many people ignore two specific points you mention: - Optimizing Content For Your Target Audience - Optimizing Content For The Company So many pe…
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justinparks has posted a new entry on: Social Media Consultant
Seems Google local business center is offering two new options on your personal business listing admin panel. The first obvious change is the inclusion of local business analytics reporting showing im…
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justinparks has posted a new entry on: Social Media Consultant
Seems Google local business center is offering two new options on your personal business listing admin panel. The first obvious change is the inclusion of local business analytics reporting showing im…
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- November 3rd, 2009
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justinparks has posted a new entry on: Social Media Consultant
So that’s the lot (for the moment) except… There where a “few” other networks and sits that I didnt have enough badges, buttons or icons for so I decided, rather than letting t…
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justinparks has posted a new entry on: Social Media Consultant
So that’s the lot (for the moment) except… There where a “few” other networks and sits that I didnt have enough badges, buttons or icons for so I decided, rather than letting t…
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- November 2nd, 2009
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justinparks has posted a new entry on: Social Media Consultant
If you haven’t heard of youtube… no, I’m not even going to say it, of course you have heard of it. We all know Youtube. On line video, uploaded all around the world and about every…
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justinparks has posted a new entry on: Social Media Consultant
If you haven’t heard of youtube… no, I’m not even going to say it, of course you have heard of it. We all know Youtube. On line video, uploaded all around the world and about every…
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justinparks has posted a new entry on: Social Media Consultant
Good old Yahoo! Love it or hate it, its still there and being used by a good proportion of internet surfers for results although nothing close to google, and is still expanding and developing in its…
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- November 1st, 2009
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justinparks has posted a new entry on: Social Media Consultant
Ahhh Wordpress. My favourite system, CMS or blogging software on the net. Simple to install, versatile, powerful (when its done right) and with a library of plugins that stretches from here to the m…
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- October 29th, 2009
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justinparks has posted a new entry on: Social Media Consultant
I love Vimeo. Something like Youtube but different Vimeo has a really smooth and cool interface and I find that the content on there is usually of a pretty high quality, or at least, interesting eno…
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- October 28th, 2009
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justinparks has posted a new entry on: Social Media Consultant
Im not gonna explain twitter, no way. If your here looking for buttons then you know what it is! The range of buttons and icons in social media available for twitter is simply astounding. Here are a f…
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- October 27th, 2009
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justinparks has posted a new entry on: Social Media Consultant
Technorati is considered a search engine for blogs and started as such back in November 2002. The name Technorati is a combination of the words technology and literati, giving the impression of techno…
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justinparks has posted a new entry on: Social Media Consultant
Back to the social bookmarking sites. StumbleUpon is profile orientated, social bookmarking site and it allows us to rate and categorise websites on the public profile and uses social networking amo…
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justinparks has posted a new entry on: Social Media Consultant
Skype has been around for a long time now, 5 or 6 years and its bloody brilliant. I still shake my head and wonder what people are doing when they tell me they dont use Skype simply because it can sav…
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- October 26th, 2009
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justinparks has posted a new entry on: Social Media Consultant
RSS, what would we do without it. Standing, for “Really Simple Syndication” is become the standard method over the last few years, to allow the information on blogs and websites to publi…
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justinparks has posted a new entry on: Social Media Consultant
Reddit is a social news website on which users can post links to content on the Internet. Other users may then vote the posted links up or down, causing them to become more or less prominent on the re…
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- October 24th, 2009
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justinparks has posted a new entry on: Social Media Consultant
Myspace, one of the original social networking sites was incredibly popular with the younger generation. Its tailing of now as Facebook and twitter take more of the markets attention but still quite…
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- October 23rd, 2009
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justinparks has posted a new entry on: Social Media Consultant
Never really used Mixx myself but for those that do, thought I would hit this up. In case you didnt know, Mixx is a user-driven social media web site that serves to help users submit or find content b…
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justinparks has posted a new entry on: Social Media Consultant
Linkedin, the well known and well used social networking site for professionals. LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking site founded in December 2002 and launched in May 2003[1] mainly used…
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- October 22nd, 2009
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justinparks has posted a new entry on: Social Media Consultant
If your into social media and music and your NOT using www.Last.fm, then your missing out! Last.fm is a UK-based Internet radio and music community website, founded in 2002. It claims over 30 million…
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justinparks has posted a new entry on: Social Media Consultant
Right, Your not getting a description of Google, theres no way im writing some stuff about the most recognised search engine on the planet to satisfy any misguided cravings for irrelevant (and common)…
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- October 21st, 2009
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justinparks has posted a new entry on: Social Media Consultant
Well, Gmail time. Do I really have to go into an explanation of Gmail and what it is?… ok ok. Gmail is Googles free email accounts service. Its got massive storage, its easy to use and it do…
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justinparks has posted a new entry on: Social Media Consultant
Flickr is Yahoos contribution to the world of photo galleries and images based on the backbone of creating and sharing images iwhtin the flickr community. Incredibly popular, vast and varied it works…
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- October 20th, 2009
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justinparks has posted a new entry on: Social Media Consultant
Feedburner is a well known service for managing and maintaining your sites RSS feed and email subscription options. It started out as an independent system but was bought out by Google and integrated…
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justinparks has posted a new entry on: Social Media Consultant
Time for some FaceBook icons, badges and buttons then. As Im sure you all know Facebook is one of , if not the largest, social networking site in the world, and its still growing. Few rememebr, but…
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- October 19th, 2009
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justinparks has posted a new entry on: Social Media Consultant
So time for some of the digg icons, badges, buttons and badges in this series of social media buttons. Digg is one of the social bookmarking sites, similar to delicious in concept but not quite the sa…
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justinparks has posted a new entry on: Social Media Consultant
Time for a selection of designfloat buttons and badges and icons. Designfloat is a site, much in the style of digg or stumbleupon, that is almost exclusively centred on the design industry for graphic…
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- October 18th, 2009
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justinparks has posted a new entry on: Social Media Consultant
Looking for some cool Delicious Icons badges or buttons? Well so was I, here are some different Delicious buttons and icons for you to use. Click any of the images to enlarge it then right click and s…
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justinparks has posted a new entry on: Social Media Consultant
The first in the series is a collection of Blogger icons, badges and follow me buttons. Check out more Social Media Icons Badges and Buttons. Source: credits for the sites and…
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justinparks has posted a new entry on: Social Media Consultant
The list of icon sets I pulled together had to be created by someone so here they are in all their glory, the reference and credit list of the original creators, artists and sites. I had trouble try…
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