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Wordless Wednesday: The Social Network
In Case You Missed It: Becky Chats With Striker Corbin About Social Media
I was so honored to be asked to be a guest on the Striker Corbin Motivational Program on BlogTalkRadio.com. If you don’t know who Striker Corbin is, here is a quick bio:
Often opinionated, sometimes funny, always interesting! Hi everyone and welcome to the Striker Corbin show. I’m Striker Corbin hypnotist, coach, and professional speaker. Each program we’ll show you how to create the reality you desire using your thoughts and emotions. You can be a person who realizes their potential and passion for life. You can bring about change. You were meant to live with happiness and joy. Your life can be rich… it’s time to make it amazing.
In the hour that we had, we spoke about the Save Becky story which led to how I first got involved with Social Media. We discussed Facebook, Twitter and how they work together and I also gave some tips for people tweeting for the first time as a business or on your own page. If you missed the show, you can listen to it in it’s entirety below. I will warn you, I think I said “you know” at least 1,000 times in the hour. You know, I really have to work on that, you know?
Wordless Wednesday: I’m Quitting You, Facebook
No no, I’m not quitting Facebook, at least not yet. But this video is pretty funny:
I Have Tweeted 47,927 times!
OK, not really, but I was very excited when I saw it. For only being on Twitter for a year, that’s not too shabby. According to Mashable, this is a Twitter bug that has been going on for some time:
We’ve e-mailed Twitter and asked them what’s happening. It seems that besides the unusually high number of tweets for certain users, everything else is normal, so there’s no reason to panic just yet.
Update: Twitter user ScepticGeek points out that this problem has been going on for quite some time now, as can be seen from this bug request on Twitter support forums. Don’t expect it to be fixed very soon, though. As Twitter puts it, “this bug is a low priority issue because it does not prevent users from fully using Twitter. We do not expect to have this issue fixed in the immediate future for this reason.”
This bug basically triples your tweet count. So, in reality, I only have around 16,000. Still not too bad for a twaddict.
The Evolution of the Web
This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of LeapFish Inc. All opinions are 100% mine.
When I was turning 13, my parents gave me a choice: A birthday party or a computer. As you may have guessed, I chose the computer. A birthday party lasted 3 hours. A computer would bring me endless moments of fun. My first memory of using the internet was when I turned my new computer on (a PC because my dad convinced me that color was the way to go, even though I really wanted a mac) and heard that little modem dialing noise. I of course, had to check with my mom that she wasn’t going to be getting any calls or making any in the next half hour. Then I loaded up Prodigy and started chatting. Little did I know how using a computer would literally change my life. Over the years, the internet has certainly changed as has our ways of searching it. From Prodigy to AOL to Yahoo to Google to Facebook to Twitter to FriendFeed to Bing. It seems every time you get used to a new site, the next new thing is here. And that next new thing is leapfish. It combines search, news, video, top sites and social media all in real-time. Why is real-time important? Because real-time is NOW. And by the time the other sites have crawled the news, WE have already covered it through social media. What do you think is next in the evolution of the web?
Knoyce…It Really is Better Than Just Nice.
I recently came across a new social networking site called Knoyce. The word Knoyce is based on the word nice, but it implies that something is “better than just nice”. And that it is. Knoyce is a combination of all the great things on all sorts of social media sites.
On Knoyce you can:
- Create a customized background. Choose from over 120 different themes and then customize all the colors
- Create a blog
- Update your status
- Upload music to put on your profile
- Search people by location, school, job
- Join groups to meet others with similar interests (I made one for Twitter and Facebook)
- Play with the hundreds of applications and thrid-party widgets that are available for free
- Access your profiles on Facebook, Myspace, Friendster, FriendFeed, StumbleUpon, Digg and more right from the Knoyce page. (The only site they have not added yet is Twitter, but that’s what TweetDeck is for)
- Group chat and private chat
A lot of these features are available on different social media sites, but none of them are available on one site except for Knoyce. You can check out my profile at http://www.knoyce.com/profile/BeckyKopprasch.
The only problem with Knoyce is its lack of members. At the time of this blog post, Knoyce only has 1,169 members. Get in at the beginning…it’s really a great social networking site! Make a profile today: http://www.knoyce.com
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