The Antisocial Network

An explanation of social networks and how they’ve been misnamed and misused and how to change that. Also a guide of how to maintain and grow multiple social networks.

How To Use Hootsuite to Schedule Tweets

Scheduling tweets is a good way to market prior posts with the addition of different titles and or keywords as well as hashtags. Many times when you write a post people have a number of keyword searches that they use to arrive on your page. Even using due diligence when researching keywords it’s often hard to determine what keyword phrase or grouping will trigger the most viewers. By retweeing prior posts you can get them in front of the eyes of your followers that may have missed it before. Not only that, but you can and should try different keyphrases in order to generate more targeted traffic.

How To Update Your Facebook Fanpage Status Automatically Using RSS Graffiti

Updating your Facebook fan page is a great way of promoting new blog posts. If you post often or have multiple blog authors this can get to be a cumbersome and repetitive task. In the past, I used Twitterfeed to update my social networks. Due to a api error this has proven to be a dodgy process at best. So in the interest of automating status updates once again I have found rss graffiti to be a great fit. So let’s get started.

20 Social Media Resources For Bloggers

Happy Monday everybody. I thought I’d start the week off by posting my last 20, “social-media”, links. In the list below there are a lot of good tips and resources such as.

• Tips for getting more relevant followers on Twitter
• Facebook widget resources
• FBML and Facebook marketing
• Business directories on Twitter

The Difference Between TweetDeck, HootSuite And Seesmic

Being a social media specialist I manage a huge number social networks for a large number of companies. It can be a lot to keep track of after a while with all the options out there. Shortly after I lost count of all the profiles I was maintaining it became painfully obvious that I needed a program for keeping track of the social identities. With all the options out there it can be confusing to know which program to use so I put together this review to help point out the pros and cons of each.

Great Big List of Social Media Development Tips

One of my many job titles where I work is Social Media Director. I’ve been maintaining all of the social networks for our many company websites. 12 sites with at the least 3 social networking accounts attached. You do the math. Over the past couple years I’ve picked up on some really great tips and tricks from across the web. The list below is not only filled with useful plug-ins and software downloads, but also many great social networking communities and top gurus in the field.

Hootsuite Is Sweet! Aprils Fools, No Seriously It’s Worth Checking Out

I was using Tweetdeck to manage my social networks, but I recently set up my account at Hootsuite and am really liking it. It has more social networks integrated into it than Tweetdeck does. Not only does it have support for Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, and Ping.fm it also includes Wordpress, Four Square, Myspace and even a custom rss feed option.

How To Drive Traffic To Your Website Using Facebook Fan Pages

Are you on Facebook? Sure you are and who isn’t these days so why not take advantage of this bit of demographic info to drive new visitors to your website. This is a fairly simple process, but due to the fact that Facebook is constantly changing how their site works it can be a bit confusing so I’ll do a quick run down here and then show you how to automatically populate your fan page with content from your website.

Use Tweetdeck To Maintain And Follow Your Social Networks

Tweetdeck is a program for following and contributing to social networks. In particular Twitter (obviously), Facebook, LinkedIn and Myspace. Not only can you follow all of these accounts, but you can follow multiple versions of these accounts.