Swayy – Great Content Discovery Tool For Your Buffer Schedule

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I apologize but this post is no longer relevant and/or out of date. SimilarWeb has acquired Swayy. I wish Swayy could have somehow partnered with Buffer but I guess that wasn’t in the cards. This post will be kept online for archival reasons and may or may not be updated one day. I invite you to our Home Page for the most recent and best articles we offer. Thank you, Brian

If you’re a Buffer addict, like I recently became, you’re continuously looking for great content to schedule for your followers. This post showcases one of the best free online tools I know of for discovering great content – Swayy. Swayy will help you discover amazing content to consume and curate (share). This is the first of at least a two part series on Content Discovery – The tools and techniques for finding and sharing great content.

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My Latest Niche Blog And The First Steps I Took

Just me with something to say:
I’ve setup three blogs for family members in the last month and I thought I’d take you through the early steps I took getting the latest one started. It’s just a simple blog I made for my wife where she’ll show animal videos she liked called Amazing Animal Watch. Some newer bloggers might find value in the basic steps we take to soft-launch a blog.

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Build Influence By Sharing Quality Content With Zite

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I’m going to show you how to stay engaged with your social media followers, build your influence as an expert and stay on top of your niche – all by sharing quality content with a free little phone app called Zite. I’m going to offer a couple of tips on content sharing and expand on a post last week that helped with a little social share automation. [Read more…]

Help Create An International Blogging Image For Anyone To Use

image -Blogging SymbolUPDATE: 12 Jan. 2014 – I’m so excited to announce the launch or FreeBlogImage.com where we are giving the blogging community the Brand New Universal Blogging Image.

This is a call out to all bloggers for your help in finding an international blogging image or graphic that anyone can use to represent blogs and blogging – a blogging symbol. We have the standard image for many things like the RSS feeds and it would be nice to have a royalty free image that anyone can use for blogging. The image could be used to build on for any post, avatar, or icon. [Read more…]

YouTube To Push One Channel Layout

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One ChannelFor all of you Youtubers who have put off setting up your One Channel layout get ready to do it anyway. YouTube has announced that ALL YouTube channels will get the “new” layout on June 5, 2013.

You may as well embrace the new layout and get your channel art and trailer made now. It will save you the rush of doing it once your channel gets changes by YouTube. It really isn’t that hard or that terrible.

The one channel layout looks so much cleaner that viewers can actually find what videos they want to watch rather than being distracted by a background or mess of random videos. [Read more…]