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Micro-Blogging with Google: Create a Buzz!

Micro-Blogging With Google

Google has introduced it’s service Buzz to rival the success of Twitter, adding new ways of sharing content online.

Advantages:

Integrates with GMail: you can respond to Buzz from your GMail Inbox
Multi-media content loads fast
Integrates with Twitter, Picasa, Flickr, and more
Integrates with your Google Profile (to follow The HOB on Google and see an example of how Buzz integrates with it: here’s our Profile )

Video

View this video to see what Google has to say about it’s new service Buzz:

2010: 04/27
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Science Of The Retweet

The Science Of The Retweet!

Twitter: how difficult can it be?

It seems easy enough: write a few words and automatically your message is spread around the world. Guess again: the seamingly simple activity of micro-blogging is now the subject of a science that reveals it’s surprisingly complicated nature.

If you’re not a scientist and are looking for a quick way to be (re)tweeted about: add a blog post such as this one to The HOB.Biz! It will automatically reach an audience on Twitter and elsewhere.

If you’re serious about starting a viral hype using Twitter, consider some of these findings that social scientist Dan Zarella deduced from analyzing millions of tweets and retweets!

Some surprising findings:

-Only one to two percent of Tweets are retweeted

-It matters which URL Shortener you use

-There are words you should and words you shouldn’t use (see lists below)

-Retweeted messages tend to contain a link (3:1 ratio compared to non-retweeted)

-Messages sent on mondays and fridays are more likely to be retweeted (time of day also matters)

Yesterday’s URL Shorteners

Some URL Shorteners are hot, others are not:

Graph 1: Popularity Of URL Shorteners (in relation to retweets)

Source: Dan Zarella

Widely used URL shortener TinyURL is much less likely to be contained in a retweeted message then newer services bit.ly and ow.ly

Choose Your Words

Success depends in part on the words you use. Succesful words seem to suggest positivity and content, negative words an words associated with spam or everyday boredom are out:

Graph 2: Popularity of words in Retweets
Source: based on Dan Zarella

Presentation:

View the presentation below to learn more about “The Science Of Retweets” and it’s author or read the enclosed whitepaper.

The Science Of ReTweets

View more presentations from Dan Zarrella.

Whitepaper:

The link to the full report:

science-of-retweets.pdf

2010: 04/26
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Managing Your Presence On Many Social Media: A Problem? Not at All!

Social Media too Time-Consuming?

Lately I have seen messages of people on all kinds of networks saying they can’t manage their presence on all those networks anymore and are leaving some of them because they simply can’t manage it anymore. Being an avid networker with a presence on many Social Media I can see how it could be too time-consuming to do so. But personally I feel it is not necessary at all to leave all those networks and I will tell you why:

Five Time-Saving Tools

You can save a lot of time networking if you do it a certain way: the easy way! At The HOB.Biz we have spent a lot of time, money and effort to create the simple tools for you to prevent exactly the feeling experienced by networkers who simply give up on their presence on many networks.

And we will integrate some powerful new features soon to make it even easier.

All the major networks and many lesser known networks can be reached from The HOB.Biz in five important ways that save you time:

1.From the Connect and Share dashboard on the right hand side of your screen

Use the buttons to go to major Social Media and the Share This menu to quickly spread your/our content to different sites on the web.

2.From the My Social Media page (quickly login directly to your accounts on multiple sites)

Use the menu on this page to find and go to hundreds of sites and clubs. You can even login directly to your Ping account for some serious multiposting and use your Seesmic webaccount to organize your Twitteraccounts.

3.From the My Social Media Clubs (follow links and download tools)

From the My Ning Club for example you can navigate to dozens of networks on Ning and from the My Ning page you can login directly to Ning. Or: download a Twitter-Client from the My Twitter Club to save some more time on Twitter by organizing it on your desktop.

4.From the Status Update on your Profile (instantly multipost your message to your Social Media accounts)

If you want to know exactly how: read this discussion

5. From your activity on the site such as blogging and posting video’s (instant multipost to several The HOB.Biz Social Media accounts and RSS Feeds)

Simply being an active member of this community spreads the word about your business at great speed!

But there are many more ways to save time:

-Know who you’re dealing with helps you to gain background info on network partners with the click of amouse
-Search options including Twitter Search help you to find answers quickly

These are just examples from the hundreds of useful pages in The HOB.Biz

So: don’t dis-pare over the loss of access and control to/over your presence on many social networks because it simply isn’t true if you do it The HOB.Biz way!

Just keep doing what you do but make it easy on yourself by using a few simple time-saving tools!