social media

DeSmogBlog was honored by TIME magazine as one of theThe Best Blogs of 2011. The list compiles the top 25 blogs from across the internet. DeSmogBlog.com is the only Canadian blog on the list. [+]

Bloomberg's Businessweek has a great article looking at the rush by corporate America to hire directors of social media. [+]

And there are over 1.4 billion email users worldwide - unfortunately 81% of emails are spam .

Just some of the many factoids in this great video by Jesse Thomas on the state of the internet: [+]

I get this question a lot and in light of my latest blogging tip on producing your own online video, I thought I would do a simple walk-through of how to post a Youtube video on your blog. While this tutorial uses a Wordpress blog and Youtube, it's the same process for pretty much every type of blog software and embeddable videos.

It's really simple to embed Youtube video on your blog.

1. You need to copy the "embed code" from the Youtube video you want to post. Here's where you find that:

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An "internet meme" is defined as something that spreads quickly on the internet. [+]

Written by Kevin Grandia

Did your mom ever warn you to "watch out what you wish for, because you might just get it"?

If she did, she was unknowingly a social media marketing genius, because your mom's warning speaks to a big issue that I see time and time again. To see it in action go to the homepage of Digg.com right now,  click on any of the stories in the "popular" section and see what happens.  When I did, a couple of the stories kicked back and error code or a "this server has timed out" message.

The reas0n these webpages are not going to the story is because being on the front page of Digg.com and many of the other social media news sites, blogs and forums can send a crushing amount of traffic in a very short amount of time. Here's what that can look like, I took this from a recent traffic spike we had on one of the sites we manage, EnergyBoom. com when a story went on the homepage of Reddit.com:

If we were not prepared, that spike (sending about 100 pageviews a second at one point) would have completely crashed our servers and all that work that had gone into writing a compelling story would have been a complete waste of time. [+]

Here's what's hot in social media and online marketing that has us buzzing here at Hoggan this week. [+]

Written by Kevin Grandia

Unless you're super-famous or already have a large built-in audience, the first year or so of blogging can be a pretty tough slog. [+]

Let's get right into what our Social Media team here at Hoggan is reading/thinking/talking about right now. [+]

Written by Kevin Grandia [+]