Sunday, December 30, 2012

Google: if you want to save #googlepluscommunities...

Google: if you want to save #googlepluscommunities  you will need to make them something that gets people talking:  

1. Let us use communities to see whom, of the members, is online and available - as we can with those we have added to gtalk.  Show this in a right-side column,[communityname] members available now.  Naturally, community members could opt-out of letting other members see their online status.

2. "Events" within communities - what were you thinking...?  The only thing we can do is create an event from the community page.  What I want to do, and others say they would too, is post the link to an event within communities where it would be relevant.

#googleplusimprovements   #ux  

Saturday, December 29, 2012

Dave Nordella on building a relevant community with RiteTag


I do love seeing the social media tool that I founded on such a prominent site.  Dave wrote Relevant – introducing RiteTag, just published today on the Empower Network, and it is a very detailed article, indeed.  


"Aspiring writers need to berelevant do so that they can build a community.  You can make your blogrelevant to the audience that you choose to attract by using RiteTag."

See it here: http://www.empowernetwork.com/makingmoney4doctors/blog/relevant-introducing-ritetag/

Thanks , glad you like what RiteTag does for you so far.  Please note that it may take ordering a couple reports before you get results that help. This is because for some terms, there simply is little to know hashtagging done with those terms.

What's more, I welcome you and your readers to connect with me in Google+ http://iplus.im/saul and let me show you how to get things done - for your specific needs - with RiteTag.  Reach beyond your followers - it's there at the top of #RiteTag.  Let me prove that our new social media tool and smart-tagging can do that like nothing else.



Monday, December 24, 2012

#RiteTag for #indie #webshows

 I would like to extend to everyone who is up for  - of web shows, original anime series, web series, musical content, and other creative stuff that you need to get seen.
I would like to help by showing you how you can always be reaching beyond your followers.
I want to do two  with you all, in one, I’ll show you what can be done with a brand new,  tool, RiteTag, for getting tags that will reach more than the ones you know – but still, not be .
In the first hangout, the quickie RiteTag stuff I want to show you all would take like fifteen minutes to show you all:
1. Save your usually-used social networks in the account page.  Takes seconds, save you time forever, can be changed anytime.
2. Back on the Reports page, use that query box to give a word (or a couple) to search, and toggle on/off the social networks for which you want  information.  Order your report.  Rinse and repeat a couple times.
3. Let’s peruse the Public Library at the bottom of the Reports page.  Yes, it’s still good and ugly, unorganized.  I’m starting to think that  should really, really do something about that.  From a public report that strikes your fancy, or the one that I ordered for , for     (get with that yet?),  and  entitled #webseries or the one I got started for  that’s digging away at *Stockholm* (but we’ll need to do better at pointing RiteTag towards tags right for your show, Goldie), we’ll do what you can do anytime, to optimize reach of your own stuff, with tags that go the distance.
4. Got a blog or something like it?  Let me show you how you can also curate and aggregate content – from your own accounts, partners’, and your competitors (got none, right? same here.) – and save it to your Collections.  That stuff makes for easy curated Blog posts, with proper and easy attribution to original content creators (of course!), as I show in http://osakabentures.com/2012/11/ritetag-collections-for-blogging/and http://osakabentures.com/2012/11/user-experience-ritetag-collection/
We’ll get you ordering reports, and then, a day… a week (whatever) later, we can look at what you can do with your reports, such as:
1. Study the context in very recent updates, tweets, etc. that contain tags you don’t know – to understand if they are likely to be right for your content.
2. Look at who, what and when tags are shared, and how many times.  After all, if a tag is actually *in play* (well-used), its likely people are watching.  And we want you in front of those watching – especially if they are not following you yet.
3. Once you know which you will be using again and again, get your tags, tap, tap, tap-style, and save ‘em for later – in #tagsets.
4. That same tap-tap-tap (tick-boxes next to tags in any report) to save tags to your clipboard and use them anywhere immediately.
5. You can use reports that are gathering data once they have some data (percentages will show), but get reports out of your queue when they reach 100%.  A button opens under reports at 100%: move them to the Public Library so all  can have at them, or, for those that you are keeping miscellaneous *black ops* marketing purposes, send those to your Private Library.  They’ll show on your Reports page – but only to you.
*All this explained above can be done in this early iteration of RiteTag.  We’re totally free while in beta, and there will always be plenty you can do with RiteTag – for free.  Ordering reports seem like a thing to do?  I’d do plenty now – while that is free.
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About Saul Fleischman
Working with social web apps developers on getting things made: my role tends to be functionality ideation, user experience, and also, marketing communications and community development.

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

RiteTag grows up: social sharing, open-access reports, curation, and a dashboard


A busy two weeks it has been, and we are pleased to announce… 


Pavel Houžva is now a partner!


He is paying it forward by revving up the backend development progress, allowing us to roll out features faster than ever.  Here’s what’s new in what we intend to build into the most powerful, multi-networkhashtags discovery and optimization social media tool, RiteTag:
Order Reports, use them when they have some percentage of completion, and when they reach 100%, save them to either “Private” (no one sees them but you) or “Public library.  The process looks like this:

In your Report Queue, after ordering reports, you will see them picking up data over time.  When they reach 100%, the “Move to a library” button will appear on the cover page of the Report.  I like to first, click on the report, see what it tells me, and decide which library to save it to (or even delete it, if the tags associated with my query term are actually not of use).

 Choose which library to save the report to based on whether you are willing to have it seen and shared outside RiteTag – since Public Reports are shareable.  Even those not signed in – or even registered – for RiteTag can view and use Public Reports:

To be able to share my Angellist hashtags report, I will click on “Public Library” so I can share it, and also, it will appear in searches of Reports in RiteTag.

Where do I find my Reports, and also the Public Reports created by other RiteTaggers?

On your Reports page, you see your Queue, with Reports taking on data over time.  Below that, your Private Library.  Just below that, all Public Reports that you have created.  At the bottom, our favorite reports appear in the Featured section: 

RiteTaggers can now share content from any network to Twitter, Google+, or Facebook.

“Save” has been working for weeks, allowing us to curate and aggregate content in RiteTag Collections – that you define and refine, with content from multiple networks and from multiple Reports, Public or Private.  The Share button allow me to share a fully-editable update discovered in the content tab from any tag, any network in a Report.  For starters, we can share to Facebook, Twitter, and Google+:
 

Finally, a trick question: If we can provide  way to let you share any RiteTag-discovered content to Facebook, why don’t we make Facebook one of the networks to search for tags related to a query, when ordering a report?

Also, what else do you want RiteTag to do for you?  We do live for feedback.

About Saul Fleischman
Working with social web apps developers on getting things made: my role tends to be functionality ideation, user experience, and also, marketing communications and community development.

Saturday, December 1, 2012

For everyone who is up for #crossplatform #crosspromotions

I would like to extend to everyone who is up for #crossplatform   #crosspromotions - of web shows, original anime series, web serie like +Generic Girl comedy series musical content, and other creative stuff that you need to get seen.

I would like to help by showing you how you can always be reaching beyond your followers.

I want to do two  #hangouts  with you all, in one, I'll show you what can be done with a brand new, #privatebeta  tool, RiteTag, for getting tags that will reach more than the ones you know - but still, not be #tagspam .  

In the first hangout, the quickie RiteTag stuff I want to show you all would take like fifteen minutes to show you all:
1. Save your usually-used social networks in the account page.  Takes seconds, save you time forever, can be changed anytime.
2. Back on the Reports page, use that query box to give a word (or a couple) to search, and toggle on/off the social networks for which you want #hashtags information.  Order your report.  Rinse and repeat a couple times.
3. Let's peruse the Public Library at the bottom of the Reports page.  Yes, it's still good and ugly, unorganized.  I'm starting to think that +Michal Hudeček should really, really do something about that.  From a public report that strikes your fancy, or the one that I ordered for +Victor Solis, for #twitter   #googleplus   #instagram   #vimeo (get with that yet?), #deviantart  and #flickr  entitled #webseries or the one I got started for +Goldie Chan that's digging away at Stockholm (but we'll need to do better at pointing RiteTag towards tags right for your show, Goldie), we'll do what you can do anytime, to optimize reach of your own stuff, with tags that go the distance.  
4. Got a blog or something like it?  Let me show you how you can also curate and aggregate content - from your own accounts, partners', and your competitors (got none, right? same here.) - and save it to your Collections.  That stuff makes for easy curated Blog posts, with proper and easy attribution to original content creators (of course!), as I show in http://osakabentures.com/2012/11/ritetag-collections-for-blogging/ and http://osakabentures.com/2012/11/user-experience-ritetag-collection/

We'll get you ordering reports, and then, a day... a week (whatever) later, we can look at what you can do with your reports, such as:
1. Study the context in very recent updates, tweets, etc. that contain tags you don't know - to understand if they are likely to be right for your content.
2. Look at who, what and when tags are shared, and how many times.  After all, if a tag is actually in play (well-used), its likely people are watching.  And we want you in front of those watching - especially if they are not following you yet.
3. Once you know which you will be using again and again, get your tags, tap, tap, tap-style, and save 'em for later - in #tagsets.
4. That same tap-tap-tap (tick-boxes next to tags in any report) to save tags to your clipboard and use them anywhere immediately.
5. You can use reports that are gathering data once they have some data (percentages will show), but get reports out of your queue when they reach 100%.  A button opens under reports at 100%: move them to the Public Library so all#ritetaggers  can have at them, or, for those that you are keeping miscellaneousblack ops marketing purposes, send those to your Private Library.  They'll show on your Reports page - but only to you.

*All this explained above can be done in this early iteration of RiteTag.  We're totally free while in beta, and there will always be plenty you can do with RT for free.  Ordering reports seem like a thing to do?  I'd do plenty now - while that is free.