Don’t lose your opportunities to increase your blog or RSS feed.

These five ways to reach your Blog or RSS may help you:

1. Take the opportunity to read for your feed in Feedburner.com. They offer different strategies to burn it.

2. Give some alternative ways to the readers for them to subscribe your feed. Offer them choices. You may use Feedburner tools just like email subscriptions and for AddtoAny.com subscription buttons is available.

3. You can add your feed at feed directories as many as you can then don’t hesitate to post it again to other directories. You can claim your blog at Technorati.com. You may find more lists on toprankblog blog directories.

4. Social networking sites may help you to import your feed. Facebook import your RSS through your profile and they offer facebook pages to import your feeds through applications. Just like linkedin also offers you to post your feed in your profile. Hootsuite.com is a tool that may help you to use twitter for importing of your feeds.

5. You may create your lifestream or social page to help you advertise your feeds and RSS. Do your accounts like friendfeed or you may also start a page just like squidoo. Be creative enough to import your feed through your account and you can also put there some information about it or even your social web accounts.

The above ways will surely make your RSS feed more increase and improve be sure to follow this with your social web accounts.

Google voice has now been the latest fad not only on the computer industry but also to the telephone and mobile industry. With google voice you can be reach in ALL your phones either you got a phone in the office or house, or anywhere or even in your mobile phone by just using one single number. It is a feature that would give the user an easier way of managing phone calls. The new application named google voice teaches your phone new tricks.

Google vice features:

• Voice Mail transcripts. It may sound so simple but it is actually not. For it changes form to another. As you receive a voice mail the service will immediately transcribe or changes it into a text messages. Thus, you can read your voice mail.
• Inbox Google Mail transcription. As soon as you receive your voicemail you will be alerted by receiving an email on your google account. This email is already a text message of your voice mail. Thus you will get an idea of the message that you had receive.
• Voice Mail is transformed into a text message and thus send to your phone. So, you can actually read your voice mail.
• You can save voice mail as long as you like or you may even start some important ones.
• Or you may search through them easily like in an email messages.
• Personalized voice greeting can also be done. So you may say, “Be calling to you mom” or Out of the country to those you do not like to communicate.
• You can listen to your voice mail two ways either on the computer or the phone in no particular order.

Have you used and tried google voice already? Though it is only available in the US now; google users around the world is waiting for it to expand worldwide.

With microblogging becoming an easy social media tool to communicate people worldwide, a study conducted by a very refutable group showed an increasing trend as more and more travel websites were recorded to have rapid tweets every day.

It showed that at least 52 percent of users are now tweeting from four to 10 times each day. The study also reported government officials, managing directors, hotel owners and commercial directors now understand that using social media tools to promote products and services online is very effective.

The website owners belonging to the travel industry can easily forge connections to their clients worldwide because of the many techniques now using the worldwide web.

In fact, of the 90 twitter users who were included in the study and were personally interviewed by Andy Jarosz – a writer who owns the travel website 501 Places – reported that the twitter hubby has already started six months ago and it became a very addicting
habit.

Jarosz said the online travel community is now using the power of Twitter to communicate with friends, relatives and business associates, as well as to promote their products and services.

The exponential growth of Twitter in 2009, Jarosz said, was seen by the online travel community as a big boost to the travel business all over the world.

Jarosz survey was very reliable as those respondents were the business owners themselves such as overseas suppliers, tour operators in the UK areas, including half of the respondents working in travel business in paid roles.

The survey has also discovered that at least 62 percent of people who traveled internationally, have been traveling thrice or more annually. It also said that 60 percent have been using Twitter to connect with hoteliers, local suppliers and companies involve in travel business. Of this, at least 28.8 percent revealed they made reservations after contacting clients online via Twitter.
Based on conversations made on Twitter, the travel marketers online were able to make good persuasions and closed a travel package.

StumbleUpon.com has just released a private beta for their own URL shortener called Su.pr.

Su.pr is a new beta site started by StumbleUpon that allows you to shorten URL’s with advanced stumbleupon features added to the post. Although it is in private beta, StumbleUpon is releasing key codes on their Twitter page. If you follow them and spend some time checking up, they post new codes every once in a while to join. If you take a look at the control panel it seems very straightforward. You can share your links on Twitter or Facebook, and also add a small message with your shortened URL. There are also live tracking from you links which include how many clicks, stumbles, and followers through the links.

If you are into online business, one of the main goal for working so hard is to drive traffic into your site. So here’s for you to try and see if it works.

Check it out yourself and see if there would be any changes in your traffic.

I came across this article about Facebook’s recently deceased user profiles being ‘preserve’ (my term actually) by the Facebook social network site. They termed it as memorializing the recently deceased. This “memorializing” feature was inspired when Facebook was still on its early stage and was composed of a 40 man team. Imagine the bonding between these team mates and suddenly one of them died…according to the article I read, right after the team mate’s death the whole team met up and one of the talks came on the memorializing of such good friend through keeping his Facebook profile yet with some changes.

Here are the changes:

* You won’t find the friends name on the suggested names list when you suggest a certain application in the social network.
* Other one is the profile can not be accessed anymore and thus hidden to any search except when you are a confirmed friend.
* Confidential data is erased.
* The profile is protected by hackers through locking it in all log-ins.
* And of course only friends can visit and post on this “deceased friend” profile page.
* Memorializing a friend means telling each other of the good things the person has done when he was still alive.

But how about the ‘pranksters’ who will memorialize still the living friends?

ANSWER: Facebook staff will be asking proofs like a link to a news announcing the death of a person or perhaps a scanned legal documents that proves the person’s death.

I never thought of the impact of commemorating or memorializing a friend death (did I say this sentence right?) until a priest explain it to us. He says that human beings are indeed a sacred creature and has angels that guard us. As soon as we die, this angel will report all the good things that your friends will share with each other. That is why in some wake, ‘memorializing’ a recently deceased friend is important so that the deceased person angels has good things to say to the Heaven’s gate keeper and thus allow passage for the dead. Either this is true or not. This idea gives an explanation why there is such thing as memorializing.

Now my question: Will Facebook Save Your Soul when you die?

At this time of high-technology and fast paced era, sometimes memorializing a recently deceased, in a city wherein almost everybody is not a friend but a passing acquaintance is of no use. But this recently deceased person has families worldwide and FACEBOOK is there only connection. Thus, memorializing still happen but with a DIFFERENT MEDIUM- facebook page and walls.

Will this count?
Will the angels still go up there and tell the Heaven’s gatekeeper that hey, “so and so has made a good impact with other people”.

And the proof? Hey, heaven gate keeper look at the Facebook page maaaan!

Nowadays, CommonGate is one of the popular open network sites which allow people to create meaningful friends or connections and to contribute relevant information or contents. In this social networking site, they offer lots of interests such as Movies, Music, Gaming, Sports, Arts and many more. They also allow the users to create, explore and organize all in just one place.

What you get in CommonGate?

* You can create a personal profile page.

* Can connect, share photos and create galleries to share to your friends.

* You can IM your friends in Commongate.

* You can embed videos, can blog, can vote and can leave comment as well.

* You can also Bookmarks (One way to promote) your favorite blogs or favorite post.

Url shortening is now popular hand in hand with microblogging services. The computer savvy would definitely have no problems in the maneuvering of these URL shortening sites. Let us take a look of some user friendly URL shortenings sites. There are 11 URL shortening sites being compared by Lee Odden on his article and I tired all of these and tried to come up with something that is easier for me to use for the microblogging services like twitter. I found is.gd, tweetburner and budurl a little bit confusing to use especially that I am always in a hurry to shorten a url but once you get used to these sites you find it easy to use them. But tinyURL, cligs, zima, bitly, snipurl.com, poprl.com,ad.vu, tr.im, the easiest to use for neophytes. tiny url though is much more closer to the hearts of the many new users for you do not have to sign up to get a short url.

I use so many url shortening in my daily promotion and it helps a lots when you know several. for marketing purposes, these url shortening sites give you different ways of posting one url. Thus, you can promote one url several times with different url short cuts. The different url short cuts will hinder the monotonous look of your profile. What are the uses of the url shortening besides those I mentioned?

Here are the top 10 for the month of September 2009:

1. Fotki.com – It talks about the latest social networking site that allows you to bookmark and photo share. It is one of the popular web 2.0 applications nowadays.

2. Twittorati: The Latest Trend in Blogging – In this post, you will know of how twittorati works.

3. Some Ways on Valuing your Network – Most of us, don’t know the importance of different social networking that we have such as facebook, myspace and even friendster. In this post, you will know some ways that might help you on valuing your network.

4. Skype changes heading to wrong directions, says social media analyst – Does it mean something wrong with skype?

5. Reasons of Facebook’s downfall in East Asian countries – I know that facebook is very popular especially here in Philippines. While reading this article, I found out that in East Asian Countries it is indefinable.

6. Michael Jackson’s This Is It Documentary Trailer Can Now Be Viewed on MySpace – The King of Pop is still the one even though he is dead.

7. Whats with Kayne West and Taylor Swift in Youtube – Youtube is popular on uploading videos. And here are some of the videos that you might watch.

8. Social Media Tools that Benefits Web Users – Here are some of the list of social media tools that you might use for the upcoming future.

9. What is Life in the Social Network World? – In this blog post, you will know the importance of having social network in your life.

10. Social News Site for Beginners – Checkout some of the news site.

Facebook has something up on their sleeve and it was not only one but more and more news and updates to come up. I just could not believe that this famous social network has maintained to catch on the limelight. It seems that every minute there is something new to read about Facebook.

The first perhaps is the new feature of facebook using ‘@’ tag. This tag feature confused me a bit when I received around more than 20 emails saying that my friends or my network in Facebook tags my photo. Thus, I thought someone is bugging me. And to my surprise I received almost a dozens few tag everyday.

If tag surprises me, the idea that facebook is dieting blows my head off. Yes, Facebook is on diet thus it launched their sister company Facebook Lite. that is to say to share the success with Twitter.

It is very obvious in fact that Facebook seems like twittering now. It is borrowing almost all the features that twitter has. From tag to the mircoblogging feature it has. The Facebook lite makers is still finding ways on how to incorporate this to Facebook.

The blog posts which are hot in the month of July 2009

1. Top Ten Most Influential Social Networking Sites (PR0) – This would talk about the influential social sites. We already used some of the sites that are listed such as myspace, facebook and even friendster.

2. Facebook: The Social Networking Giant’s Demographic is Aging (PR0) – The popular social networking site. It also talked about the progress of the site.

3. Naymz, Another Scam or Spam? (PR0) – An analysis article about a social network named Naymz. Read it and judge it.

4. How to avoid the virus Koobface to protect social networking sites (PR0) – This article would talk about on how to avoid this Virus.

5. Michael Jackson memorial live steam at Facebook and Myspace (PR0) – Live stream of Michael Jackson’s death.

6. Social Networking Sites Mostly Used (PR0) – This article would talk about the social networking sites that are popular or used everyday.

7. The best website for unemployed (unranked) – Are you affected of global crisis? If yes, this article would help you. You can check out the site that can be used by the unemployed.

8. The Facebook User’s Privacy Investigation (unranked) – They conducted an investigation on it.

9. How to be “social” in Social Media? (unranked) – Want to get a good reputation on your social media sites? This article will assist you.

10. Top 5 Ways to Create a Group in Twitter (Unranked) – Twitter is one of the popular microblogging sites. This would be one way to communicate with your online friends. Groups in twitter are also available.