November 2009
Beginner
244 pages
3h 37m
English
Content preview from The Social Media Marketing Book
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Digg
Digg (see Figure 6-7) is the most popular social news site and the standard by which all others are measured. It is the most well-known site of its kind, and although it has made great strides to include nongeeky news, its core users are now and always have been twentysomething male techies. When a story reaches the Digg front page, it appears at the top of a chronological list and is pushed farther down the page as newer stories are promoted. Because Digg is so active, a story will appear on the front page for only a few hours.
Digg's negative voting comes in the form of buries. The number of negative votes is not shown, and the exact weight of a down vote compared to an up vote is unknown. The site is home to a boogeyman of sorts in the mythical "bury brigade," a supposedly organized group of users who bury any stories they don't like. Common targets are those that support organizations or topics disliked by the community, such as Microsoft or marketing.
Figure 6-8. Submitting a link to Digg is fast and easy.
If your content is not standard geek fare, you can still get on the front page of Digg by spinning your content with a technical angle. If your business is house painting, you can write an article about the 10 best ways to paint the Digg logo on the side of a building; if you sell furniture, try collecting pictures of geeky office fixtures. Be cautious with this tactic, as ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access
More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.