Wednesday, 5 March 2008

11 tips for harnessing the power of the web

Spencer's last set of top 10 tips went down a storm…so here are 11 more top tips to end the financial year and to get you thinking...

1. Join Spencer and the presidential candidates, sign up to Twitter and blog your status on the fly - check out Hillary Clinton's Twitter.

2. Get an RSS reader for your mobile (if you haven’t already) - start with Newsgator.

3. Yahoo Pipes - it’s a powerful composition tool to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from the web.

4. Make a long URL short use http://www.tinyurl.com/.

5. Set-up an open id at ClaimID. Lots of social sites are moving to a single login driven by Google.

6. Make your website an authority. Build rich unique content around your business’ website and syndicate it by adding RSS and post to/share with links http://tinyurl.com/22ejr7.

7. Get a Business Social Media strategy - to communicate to your team, customers and prospects email Spencer for more info…

8. Social Networking in Plain English - thanks to Toby at Digital Parents for spotting this one!

9. Getting a social bookmark site such as del.icio.us is a great starting point, install the “add” icons on your browser!

10. Get a business blog and link it from your website try Blogger or Wordpress – better still get Bluhalo to integrate it!

11. Aggregate all your contacts and social media sites through http://www.plaxo.com/.

If you want any of this explaining in more detail or want to find out more about how Bluhalo can help your business, drop me an email or contact us online.

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