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Social Bookmarking and Baby Boomers-Blog Comment Before Bookmarking

» by Old School June 25th, 2010 at 9:25 am » Comments (5)
This entry is part 5 of 8 in the series Baby Boomers and Social Bookmarking Can You Digg it?

I urge you to use social bookmarking as part of your blogging strategy. However, when you are about to make a comment on a blog, do that first. Comments and bookmarking command separate attention and time.
Follow this little scenario for a few moments.
I just went to the blog of someone who posted a comment on [...]



10 Top Reasons Why Baby Boomers Bloggers SHOULD NOT Use Social Bookmarking

» by Old School June 22nd, 2010 at 12:03 am » Comments (8)
This entry is part 4 of 8 in the series Baby Boomers and Social Bookmarking Can You Digg it?

I have discovered 10 Top Reasons Why Baby Boomers SHOULD NOT even think about using Social Bookmarking. You may disagree with me and that is your blogging boomer right but let me know why. So, here are my reasons:

Blogging Baby Boomers have a hard enough time blogging and posting in social networking sites like Facebook [...]



Social Bookmarking for Baby Boomers-What is BibSonomy?

» by Old School June 21st, 2010 at 12:48 am » Comments (1)
This entry is part 3 of 8 in the series Baby Boomers and Social Bookmarking Can You Digg it?

Now itistime to look at a social bookmarking site called BibSonomy. According to their site description:
BibSonomy is a system for sharing bookmarks and lists of literature. When discovering a bookmark or a publication on the web, you can store it on our server. You can add tags to your post to retrieve it more easily. [...]



Social Bookmarking and Baby Boomers-Do You Have a Share Button?

» by Old School June 20th, 2010 at 8:32 am » Comments (2)
This entry is part 1 of 1 in the series articles for boomers

Do you have a SHARE BUTTON on your blog? Regardless of the blogging platform, most blogs use some kind of SHARE BUTTON for social bookmarking. SHARE buttons enable you to easily bookmark a blog post on various social bookmarking sites.
There are many services that will give you a button for your blog. I am going [...]



Social Bookmarking For Baby Boomers-Digging Deeper into Digg Pt. 5

» by Old School June 19th, 2010 at 12:15 am » Comments (0)
This entry is part 2 of 8 in the series Baby Boomers and Social Bookmarking Can You Digg it?

I shared two applications in Part 4 that will help you get really deep into Digg. But oh, boomer me I made two drastic mistakes. The first mistake is that I repeated misspellings of the word social bookmarking I keep saying socia bookmarketing. So if you see some of the misspellings in older posts please [...]



Social Bookmarking for Baby Boomers-Digging Deeper with Digg Pt.4

» by Old School June 18th, 2010 at 12:23 am » Comments (0)
This entry is part 4 of 8 in the series Baby Boomers and Social Bookmarking Can You Digg it?

When I first started using Digg I would merely sign in to be able to Digg an article I liked. But like most baby boomers reading this post, Sometimes you want to go deeper so it makes sense. You also go deeper so you can see how relevant it is to your blogging.
Here is Wikipedia’s [...]



Baby Boomers and Social Bookmarking Can You Digg it or Do You Stumble? PT.1

» by Old School June 15th, 2010 at 12:10 am » Comments (0)
This entry is part 1 of 8 in the series Baby Boomers and Social Bookmarking Can You Digg it?

A few boomer years ago, when I was computer thinner, I started signing up for social book marketing sites.  Oh, I did a few Diggs and Stumbled on a few things but did not REALLY understand what I was doing.  I DROPPED THE BALL.Now, I want to not only learn more but share with you [...]



Blog Expert Demos Photo Site to Show Use of Social Media

» by Old School October 25th, 2009 at 9:31 pm » Comments (1)

Watch and listen to this Professional Blogger as he uses one of his Photography sites to demonstrate how he uses social media. This is one of the best.

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Baby Boomer Divas Weekend-You Are Invited

» by Old School September 20th, 2009 at 5:38 pm » Comments (0)

October, 17, 2009 is the Baby Boomer Diva Weekend in Raleigh NC on Social Media. View this special invitation.

You just saw a few of the many awesome baby boomer diva’s in this short video. Can you imagine what it will be like to attend power-packed, information satuated and eye opening weekend? You will not only [...]



Social Bookmarking vs Social Networking

» by Old School August 12th, 2008 at 5:40 am » Comments (3)

Social bookmarking is different from social networking. I got a really clear explanation of this recently. Yet, I have subscribed to many sites that belong in both categories and did not have a full grasp of the difference between the two of them.
Ok, this is my explanation:
Both are part of Web 2.0. However, social bookmarking [...]



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