Do you have a twitter account? If you have, what did you usually update in your profile? Twitter has been considered as one of the free micro-blogging service that let any twitter users to disseminate and at the same time read some of the twitter user’s updates. Since the existence of twitter in the world of the internet, it became one of the famous micro-blogging services. However, I have noticed that some of the twitter users are taking advantage of its friendly usage. And I admit, I can consider myself as one of them. If you were one of them, you should have to take into account these dos and don’ts of twitter that I had read, before someone will call you a spammer.

The don’ts

• Don’t keep on talking about your recent company.

• Don’t use bad words when updating your status, readers may find it rude.

• Don’t try to put everything about you which sounds unnecessary.
• Don’t just post a link about your website; this would really sound like spamming.
• If you were just a new twitter user, don’t get rush in following various people when many of them are not following you. Again, this would only show that you were spamming.
• And lastly, don’t ignore those followers who were following you and don’t just ignore their direct messages. If possible respond to them, this would be one of the best ways to build their trust on you.

The dos

• If you already sign up for your twitter account make sure you have a genuine avatar. This would let the other twitter users to easily determine you.
• If you were working in a prestigious company and somebody mentioned your company in their twitter updates follow them and send them a direct message as your compliments.
• If you have a blog, news and among others put it to your twitter update but minimize its usage.
• Put a least one twitter status update a day; don’t post a link in every minute of the day. This could be considered as spamming.
• Think twice before posting your tweets, not clear tweets would end up into a mess.
• And lastly, just enjoy tweeting by following of course its dos and don’ts.

Most of the bloggers nowadays are blogging to make money online. Though some makes blogging as their personal journal or their outlet of their daily activities however, most of the people are doing blogs to earn money out from it. For me, this might be the easiest way to survive from the global economic crisis that we are facing now but it would never be working if you don’t have strategies how to make it presentable and informative as well. That’s if you are going to make money from your blog. One of my workmates gives me some ideas how to make money from my blog, below are some of the tactics she shared which is very useful not only for me but to other bloggers as well.

1. Make the page or templates of your blog presentable. Your blog would be interesting if it also looks presentable to your reader’s eyes. Use templates which make your content still readable. Your blog would be useless if your content is not readable because of the template you used.

2. Choose a niche. This is very important for bloggers. It is better if you have a specific niche for your blog, this would be more searchable from the other internet users or any other bloggers as well.

3. Write interesting content, something that gives ideas for the readers. Such like tips or questions where they can comment and give you ideas in return. This is one ways of gaining more traffic in your blog. Remember, the more traffic you have the more money you get.

4. Explore other blogs and post comments into them as well, bearing the link of your own blog. This would let them visit your blog as well and do a comment also. If you do this often, the more traffic you gain.

5. Update your blog daily. If possible write an interesting topic at least once a day. Putting some pictures after or before your content would also contribute interest in your blog.

…and that is according to a study conducted by Nielsen. Social Networking and blogging overtake email activity in the internet by 2% with 67% and 65 % respectively. The news has created a wildfire effect both on media and internet users especially the marketers and advertisers.

And with these reports and findings a couple of concerns have evolve. The sudden shift of paradigm has a profound effect on advertisers and marketers; and the challenge is how to engage these social network users in a social environment. Reaching consumers in emails has been the trend in selling an idea or products. With the sudden swing of internet activity choice means a more challenging job for advertisers and marketers.

Facebook, the top and most popular social network snatches 3 out of 10 internet users according to Nielsen. And that is two thirds of the internet users. Thus is the major participant in this global phase. Facebook’s design made it a popular choice among its users; it has few advertiser clatters and a clean look.

The top 5 sectors being compared in the Nielsen report are the Search, General Interest Portals & Communities, Software Manufacturers, Member Communities and Email. Notice that Member Communities or Social Network is on the top 4 and has a growth rate twice compared to other sectors. And this sector grows the strongest in the country of Germany with almost 12 % increase in online participation from 39% to 51%.

And to my surprise, social networking is not the niche of the younger generation anymore. The greatest participation came from the age group 35-49 and the statistics is growing. Blogging on the other hand became the niche of 59+ audiences and participants, which practically I could deduce that since people in this age are already retired and visiting other places and thus blog about it.

I found a full copy of the Nielsen Report embedded in this blog.

Facebook is a social networking website introduced last February 4, 2004. A Free access website is privately possessed and operated by Facebook, Incorporated. Clients or users can unite networks prepared by city, office, school, and area to hook up and act together with other community. Citizens or people can also append associates and send them messages, and update their personal profile to notify friends about themselves.

Advantages of Facebook

1. Facebook is social software. Which is the reason why Facebook and Myspace are appealing to adolescence and university students. These students all the time correspond or communicate explicitly concerning their lives, estimation or opinion, interests, and academics. Though the majority of us working with adults are awkward sharing ideas or information in open surroundings, the social feature of Facebook creates fun and its rapidity of learning knowledge.

2. Facebook provides us the chance to choose what you desire to share, and what you don’t need to  impart, and what you desire to impart with chosen associates.

My best friend daughter “friended” me in Facebook. She permitted me to catch a glimpse or see her status and pictures, except she does not allow me to watch what her associates or friends have to say, “Hmmm that makes me speculate”. However, the purpose here is with the aim that she has power over what I observe or see on her profile or space. Similarly, I can manage or control how much ideas or information I share about on my profile and I can restrict assured portions of information to particular associates or friends.

3. The building of Facebook appears over time. Clients or users can make groups and conversation or discussion topics. This assemblage or group can cultivate, or be gone alone to pass away, depending on the clients or users and their involvement.

4. From the young people and university students’ perspectives not utilizing Facebook are “social responsibility or liability”. A few professionals not possess an online presence or attendance can be career liability.

5. Facebook a one-stop shop or supermarket for imparting blogging, media, calendaring, communicating, sharing ideas or information and others. Facebook can provide “Cooperative Extension” abilities or capabilities to work together and construct our networks in a single place by giving one place without difficulty, imparting ideas or information and discuss subject or topics of interest.

6. Facebook brings jointly more than a few online apparatus. Furthermore to being capable to impart ideas or information and pictures, you can append applications few examples are: Flickr ,  del.icio.us, Twitter, your blog, news feeds to your Facebook home.

7. Facebook is mobile phone. Containing Facebook on your mobile maintains you up to date with posts, statuses, and deliberations. These aspects, similar to others are optional.

Consequently the downside of social apparatus or tools, like Facebook and MySpace are imparting too many ideas or information could turn into trouble or problem so impart only what are at ease with sharing. Keep in mind that you can manage what you impart.

A few pronounce that social networking squander or wastes time. “It can be, but it does not have to be”. Furthermore, it does not contain to be seeing as a time waster. Facebook permit us to study from each and every one and construct relationships with each and every one which takes point in time. If everyone running on building relationships, continue or maintains those relationships by ongoing to talk with them, trap or catch up on reports or news about them.

Facebook is an online doings or pastime that will obtain a few times. Through Facebook and other social media sites, we will study or learn about each one of us, discuss or talk about concern or issues and methodologies, and defy each other.

• Enhance the feature of blogs

• Interact with other bloggers

• Broaden readership

• Grow your profile

• Drive or create more traffic to your blogs

Some advantages of Twitter

1. Research Tool: One thing you will like about Twitter is the method used when you’re searching or seeking a post.

• If you require an example? Twitter it; you might obtain some noble one.
• Got query that stuck on your mind? Inquire it to your group or followers to perceive what they think.
• Need to examine a theory? Perform a straw census on your groups.
• The loveliness of Twitter is fast, used by a broad of people, because one hundred forty (140) characters maximum keeps interaction brief, manageable and prolific.

2. Strengthen and expand Your Personal Trademark:

• Whether it is blogging, bookmarking, social networking, genuine life interactions, all of these straws when added can build your own trademark or brand.

In your emails you can find messages from people saying or comments like these:

• I used to look and read you at ProBlogger however had misplaced path until I establish you on Twitter.
• I subscribe your RSS feed on blog but seeing your article or posts on Twitter evoke me to read and study them more.
• I was looking into through somebody else’s Twitters and saw your photo. I established it through your Facebook account.

This kind of remark show that Twitter is more helpful and useful instrument in locating you as blogger in front of the prospective readers.

3. Advertise Content:

• First thing people normally ask me when I tell them I’m one of the user of Twitter is “how much traffic or transfer does it impel back to your blogs?’ I’ve deliberately held off writing concerning Twitter or its significance, or how it coerce or drive traffic until this time in this article because I don’t see any reason that it is the major advantage of the tool, many said it can potentially advertise content and at the same time drive traffic.

• My best friend using an instrument or tool called Twitterfeed just a few weeks ago to obtain headlines and URLs from her blog’s feeds and also to advertise them in her Twitter account. From that moment she had seen at the present over 1350 guests come from Chirp or Twitter to Problogger after this come out in her Twitter feed each time she post:

• Twitter had turn into an option subscription technique for them. Good thing it really roots these readers to examine the blog or the blog itself, in their feed reader – making augment page sight or irreplaceable visitor counts.

4. Widen Spectators – Find Recent Readers:

• Bloggers who are been about for a while in their slot has already achieved the saturation point. Now and then they feel like everybody who will hear concerning them and they can notice a plateau inside their stats. This frequently happens six to twelve (6-12) months into a blog.

• However numerals of Twitter users especially my best friend have inform me that they’ve recently discovered our friend blogs through the use of Tweets and the Tweets of other users. While my friend Google analytics pronounce that twenty-seven (27%) of the guests who have come up to ProBlogger are from Twitter are ‘new’ to my friend blogs. For her that’s about fifteen up to twenty (15-20) new readers for each day through Twitter and more than a year that could be certainly append up and those five to seven thousands (5000 – 7000) new readers may possibly have important impact upon a group of people or community.

5. Networking:

• One more noticeable advantage of Twitter is the aptitude that it provides you to make contacts on a different rank or level with other bloggers and readers. This has opened a few absorbing opportunities to work jointly endorsing other’s content and sharing advice. In additional it has also opened up three four (3-4) chances find new visitor bloggers for each blogs.

6. Discover What Community truly think:

• Other surveillance that I’ve made on Twitter is that group of people have a certain rank of truthfulness and simplicity on Twitter that they sometimes disguise or conceal on their blogs. I’m not certain why this is- however maybe when face up to with saying something in one hundred forty (140) characters they have to narrow piece away a few of the disclaimers and politically correct words and say what they mean.

• Good thing concerning with this is to give or provide you logic of what group of people are really believing or thinking on a topic. This assist you to recognize them on a new rank or level but also aid you to keep you feel on the desires and feelings of your prospective readers.

Mixx - a Social Media bookmarking site with the aim to encourage people, picks up the topic of net-based equality where Digg missing off, however with a feel- good quality spin. I first signed up with Mixx after it’s announce, but being deprived for time, as being engaged in Stumbe Upon.

Though, this previous past few of weeks have seen me spend some excellence moment on Mixx, integrating a humble presence in favor of myself. I was happy to distinguish some recognizable individual on there, which encouraging to everyone.

What is Mixx?

Mixx is a client-driven social media site that provides to assist users, submits or discovers subject by peer’s foundation on curiosity. It bring together social networking and social bookmarking with net syndication, blogging and personalization apparatus.

Mixx in return rewards the users through Karma points, through their helpful activities. It’s an easy social encouragement, if they think being kind has true rewards, and then they should play nice.

In addition with Karma points the Mixx itself honor very vigorous users with particular “Super Mixxer” opportunities, unlocking attribute not accessible to the normal crowd:

“Fantastic Mixxers will include the selection to connect part of content with any additional earlier Mixxed story, picture or video with our connected objects feature. Fantastic Mixxers also have the ability to flag content submitted by themselves and others as Breaking News.”

These are huge added-value thoughts, which more encourage everyone to play kind and help promote a more helpful community.

Features of Mixx that make special

• Associate one linked article with another
• Rearrange your Home page, adding up and removing type.
• If you receive Karma points; you will be awarded by “Super Mixxer” privileges.
• Present stories, highlighting also a picture or a video inside the article itself.
• Connect a story by means of a physical site throughout the earth.
• Present more than one Type.
• Propose to various Groups.

Personally I’m completely pleased with Mixx. If you are a Social Media dealer expecting a front page directory on Mixx to make thousands of visits to your site. But if you desire to discover some large content, Mixx is as superior as anywhere.

It is likely that Mixx possibly will survive with comparatively small spectators. After all, volume isn’t everything! But I obtain the emotion there’s expansion coming, particularly after collaborating with the CNN. Recognizable consumer interfaces and take note Mixx have the entire suitable element for a Social Media achievement story…