Using Social Media to Create Social Change
Social media has overtaken porn as the number one activity on the web. If Facebook were a country, it would be the world’s fourth largest, with over 350 million users.
It took radio 38 years to reach 50 million people; TV 13 years; the internet four years; and the iPod three years. It took Facebook only 9 months to reach 100 million users. (mashable.com)
According to trendsspotting.com, 96 percent of Generation Ys (who now outnumber the baby boomers) have joined an online social network.
A revolution in people power is going on as we speak and for the first time in modern history, we can choose our news instead of having it fed to us by a third party. This has huge implications for creating the kinds of grassroots movements needed to spark widespread social change.
Twitter in Plain English and the KISS principle
The crew over at Commoncraft understand the shift that is going on. We are more and more needing to find trusted sources and people that can save us TIME by filtering out the dross and giving information to us in a simple form.
Twitter represents yet another move towards this ideal state of information filtering. It’s not perfect but with the right tools it can be awesome.
So here, for those people that haven’t had an experience of Twitter is a simple video explanation. And for those that have, perhaps we can soak up some of the easy-to-follow language to incorporate into our online communication.
Why most internet marketers are full of crap
We can't seem to get enough
From the outset I want to say I am probably going to offend some people in this article. I am simply fed up with the lying and pretending that goes on with marketers online.
And I’m not just referring to the little guys either.
Sure there are plenty of them, but it’s some of the big guys that are the biggest promoters of the bull.
See, before I joined the online scene I had been reading material by people like Jay Abraham, Stephen Covey (self-help), Bryce Courtenay, Michael Hewitt-Gleeson, Allan Pease and Michael E Gerber. Oh and an awesome crew based in Brisbane called The Results Corporation.
My association to the word “marketing” was based on things like testing, research, honest appraisal of the current marketplace, asking questions, utilizing untapped resources, and creative ways of finding people that want what you have to offer.
The System Is The Solution – The eMyth with Michael E Gerber
If you are a technician starting a business you will tend to structure it to require your presence for it to work at all. The eMyth is the myth that an entrepreneur starts a business.
“The entrepreneur builds an enterprise; the technician builds a job.”
Most businesses don’t work because the people that start them don’t know what they are doing. They know how to make widgets, or install plumbing or create a website but have no idea how to create a business that works.
Michael E Gerber is the author of the best selling book, The E-Myth. He has been working with small businesses for over 30 years and challenges us to start reviewing the way we think about what we do and what our roles are.
The Social Media Revolution – Are you missing out?
The rate of growth that social media is experiencing on the web is unprecedented. Sure people love to chat and share ideas but few would have predicted the kind of adoption rate that we are seeing at the moment.
Much of it has to do with the growing younger demographic, but it seems more older people are getting into Facebook as a way to connect with family and friends. Prepare to experience a presentation of the new social media revolution!
How to add a Favicon to your WordPress website
What is a Favicon? It’s a small 16×16 pixel icon that shows up in your browser to the left of the web address.
It also helps distinguish your site in your browsers bookmarks and is also used in some social bookmarking sites as well. Here’s how you can easily create the file and make it show up on your website.
The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective Websites
A website is a tool to help you create more life and/or connect with people.
By itself it has no value except as a way to facilitate change or sharing in some way. To the degree that we get clear on ourselves and our purpose we can create a website that succeeds.
This will help you to see your website through the filter of one of the most important self-help programs ever created. Stephen R Covey, the author of The Seven Habits of Effective People, is one of my personal heroes.
By that I mean that he is both humble and deeply inspired to empower and educate people about the things in life that are truly important and constant.
“There are three things in life that are constant. Change, Choice and Principles.”
Stephen R Covey
Uploading and Installing Themes in WordPress
With a few clicks, your whole WordPress site can look totally different. The content remains but is displayed differently thanks to some awesome coding wizardry. Fortunately for us, getting some new layouts for your site is pretty easy.
This will show you how to upload and install a new WP theme that you have downloaded. It also covers how to browse the WordPress.org themes site as well.
Installing Plugins in WordPress
Making use of the huge range of great plugins (essentially add-on code for your website) became wonderfully easy from WordPress 2.7 and onwards.
Here we show you how to quickly and easily find and add plugins to your self-hosted WordPress website.
10 places to get awesome free desktop backgrounds
Getting sick of the standard Windows or Mac desktops?
Well I’ve scoured the internet for you to find the best and most inspiring desktop backgrounds.
Listed in order of excellence:
