Author Archive for Adam Fuhrer
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The Three C’s of Strong Social News ProfilesJan 22 2008 | Social Networks |
The three C’s of a strong social news profile are content, consistency and contacts. If you follow these tips, your success on social news sites will become that much easier.
Reliable Sources. Make sure the blogs and news sources you’re submitting from are reliable and have quality information. Make sure they aren’t sending false information to the readers. And if you see that they might be trying to game social news websites don’t submit their content.
General viewpoint. Find a viewpoint in which the majority of the users will have interest in, or even care about. Take a look at the top submissions for the day. Those are basically the stories which most people have interest in. If you don’t find stories for all audiences, the users will either bury your story, or it will just be left unnoticed. Try thinking from a global standpoint. Does your town hockey championship really effect people half way across the world?
1 Comment » - Posted in Social Networks by Adam Fuhrer
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Digg The Candidates in 2008!Nov 28 2007 | Social Networks |
Digg recently added a new section to their site called “Digg The Candidates.” What this section basically lets you do is digg which U.S. presidential candidate you think should win the 2008 elections.
You have the ability to support as many candidates as you want but friending someone from both parties makes really no sense at all (you can un-friend them too.) While this page might not be as accurate as some of the polls, it does give a good sense of what candidates diggers support and which they think should lead our country.
The candidates are divided into two lists based on the party they are running for. They are ranked on the amount of people who have added them as friends. And under their names it shows the last story they have made a favorite.
5 Comments » - Posted in Social Networks by Adam Fuhrer
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6 Ways to Build a Stronger Social News Profile TodayOct 15 2007 | Social Networks |
Here is a list of tips and tricks that can help you become more successful (and get your stories on the homepage) on social news website.
Submit frequently
Submitting stories on a regular basis can only be a good thing when you’re submitting quality submissions. There is obviously a better chance of your stories making the homepage when you have submitted over five or six a day (rather than maybe one or two.)
Network of friends
When first getting started on a social network you will need to add friends (and lots of them.) First, make sure you like and enjoy what the person is submitting. Second, take a look at how many friends they have. If they don’t have any friends, chances are they won’t add you (meaning he/she won’t be able to see the stories you post.) Find someone who already has a network of friends (make sure that person votes for his/her friends submissions.)
3 Comments » - Posted in Social Networks by Adam Fuhrer
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Understanding the Communities within RedditOct 09 2007 | Social Networks |
Reddit is known best for its wide variety of links submitted to the main site, which allow you to directly click to a new story or picture. Well, there is more to reddit than just thousands of links covering numerous different points of interest. Once you dig deeper down into what reddit has to offer, you will find 8 different communities (also know as a subreddits). Each of these communities consist of a different topic (Politics and Programming are two of the more popular ones) and are there for people who would prefer to only see content that matches those topics. Understanding the subcultures within reddit is an important part of understanding how to be successful on reddit as a whole.
These different subreddits are located on the top right-hand side of reddit.
Clicking on a community will bring up its own reddit page with only links consisting of that topic (each having their own unique alien logo ;)).
1 Comment » - Posted in Social Networks by Adam Fuhrer
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How to use the “Shout” feature on DiggOct 06 2007 | Social Networks |
Recently, Digg added many new “social” features to the site. Including more personalized profile pages and the ability to shout your friends a cool story or just a short message. This quick post will be looking into the “shouts” feature on digg and how to get the most out of it.
Shout a story
Say you’ve got a story you submitted to digg and you think one of your friends on digg will really like it. Clicking the share button (located under each story) will bring up a screen with all of your digg friends. From there you can pick and choose which users you want to shout the story to.
Those users will then get a notification in their incoming shouts section on their profile page indicating someone has shouted a story to them. But remember, don’t over shout your friends with all of your submission, that is obviously not a good idea 
3 Comments » - Posted in Social Networks by Adam Fuhrer
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A Beginner’s Guide to RSS and Google Reader |
What is RSS?
An RSS Reader is a simple and easy way to read your favorite news site or blogs. Instead of going out to these site to read the most recent stories or posts, the newest stuff comes to you, all in one simple page. Even more convenient is having a Reader which is online, reaching it from any place in the world.
In my eyes Google Reader is one of the best online RSS Readers on the web. For the first time user, just getting used to the whole RSS thing, this post will talk about: a) How to subscribe to a feed b) view your feeds c) the cool features built into Google Reader and d) just some nifty little tricks you can use while you’re at it. Remember, being a master of your RSS feeds is also a very important way to build up and maintain powerful social media accounts 
9 Comments » - Posted in Blogging, Tutorial by Adam Fuhrer
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6 Things That Work Right Now on RedditOct 01 2007 | Social Networks |
A few weeks ago Chris did a post on Search Engine Land about 6 Content Types That Work on Digg so I decided to follow that up with a quick post about what works on Reddit.
Submitting a story to Reddit is easy, although finding a story that enough people will vote for and like, might be hard. Here is a list a of 6 things that can increase the chances of your story becoming popular.
1. Pictures
If the picture is funny, amusing, interesting or just plain stupid, you would be sure to get tons up votes. How ironic… redditors up voting pictures (but it really does work!).
2. Politics
U.S. politics obviously works best on Reddit (and bashing Bush is always a plus). 57.22% of redditors live in the U.S.
3. Interesting Articles
6 Comments » - Posted in Social Networks by Adam Fuhrer
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4 Cool Features Reddit Has (That Digg Doesn’t)Sep 25 2007 | Social Networks |
The top two social news website, Reddit and Digg have their differences. Even though Digg is more popular, Reddit might have the edge right now due to these four cool features (you might not have known were even there).
What’s Hot Now
Reddit’s main page is a lot different from Digg’s. Reddit’s main page stories are all current stories based on the amount of points it has and the time it was submitted. So, if you submitted a story first thing in the morning and throughout the day it only received 10 points, the chances of it being on the main page at night is very slim, but if the story has 100 point it’s a whole different story. Once your story on Digg reaches the homepage, that story can be moved off the homepage within a couple of hours, due to the ongoing stories reaching the same page as yours. It would be great to see a section on Digg for “what’s hot now.”
