Social Media Profiling

Social media profiles are one of the top things other community users will evaluate you on. On sites like Digg, other users can tell a lot about you, and your intentions, just by what they see in your profile.

How To Create Compelling Social Media Profiles gives a quick overview of what you should consider when building your profile and participating in social media communities.

If you are going to participate in social media then you have to take your profile seriously. Other users will, and they can make their decision to friend you, or avoid you, based on your profile.

January 29, 2008 | Filed Under Social Media, Tips | 1 Comment 

Diggers Shout Loud Enough… Jay Adelson and Kevin Rose Respond

Quite a few posts went to the front page of Digg today, talking about the recent changes in Digg algorithm which caused the required votes to reach the front page to increase dramatically.

A session of the Drill Down was arranged to invite digg users into a chat to discuss their concerns and issues with the recent changes at Digg. The conversation lasted about 2 hours, and ended with the majority of top users agreeing to leave digg for a period of 4 to 5 days and possibly forever if Digg did not respond to their concerns.

Just as the conversation was about to come to an end Jay Adelson and Kevin Rose jumped into the chat room and announced they were open and willing to discuss our concerns. After a few tests to determine it was really Kevin, which including him having to favorite and digg a submission about a Duck Hunt Painting, and some time downloading skype, Kevin and Jay joined the Drill Down.

I have to say I was very impressed with the way they handled the situation and the respect they showed us. They were truly interested in answering our questions and listening to our concerns.
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January 24, 2008 | Filed Under Digg, Social Media | 1 Comment 

200 Diggs 1 Voice: Diggers Had Enough!

Many top digg users helped push an article to the front page of digg tonight, that discussed the changes Digg made this week to the number of votes it takes for a story to be promoted to the front page.

“Digg has pretty much taken a crap in a cup, and asked everyone, including even the top diggers, to partake in the offering. It now takes (barring a miracle, or a massive, collective pre-planned quick-strike diggfest), around 200 diggs to go popular, which leaves many (including me) to wonder… is Digg TRYING to drive away users, and if so, why?”

At 5:12 pm PST, about 7 1/2 hours after Babblin5 submitted the post “Two Diggs One Cup” made it to the front page of digg. It took 156 diggs with 33 comments for the article to make it, something it would have taken less than 100 to do a week ago.

There was a time when about 30 to 40 diggs on any given story would be promoted to the front page of Digg. That time has obviously come and gone, as we have seen an increase in the number of diggs it takes to reach the front page.

For some users, it now can take upward of 200 diggs.
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January 23, 2008 | Filed Under Digg, Social Media | 56 Comments 

Do You Reddit in 1337?

We posted about how Reddit launched their new beta custom subreddits program, but there was an additional change made to Reddit that we didn’t mention, but will now.

In the same blog post on Reddit’s blog, Spez announced:

“We also added language translation support. “

If you go into the Preferences for your Reddit account, you will see a new option to select your preferred language.

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January 22, 2008 | Filed Under Reddit, Social Media | 1 Comment 

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