Cartoon: The Joy of Friends on Empire Avenue

The Joy of Friends on Empire Avenue

My friends have no problem just telling me.

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Three Steps to Building Your Social Brand

In this video for the Social Branding Network, William Pitcher discusses Three Steps to Building Your Social Brand.

These are as follows:

  1. Going to your audience.
  2. Building rapport.
  3. Issuing a call to action with value.
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Cartoon: The Inevitable Future of Empire Avenue

If it has happened on Facebook, it is only a matter of time.

Inevitable Future on Empire Avenue

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New Empire Avenue Feature: Full-Text Search

Early Sunday morning Eastern Time (e)DUPS announced on Twitter that a new search feature was live on the Empire Avenue site.  The lookup allows you to search for any word in a full-text format.  All linked content such as Twitter and Facebook is searched.  Impressively, in testing it, it seems to look at the full RSS content of blog posts.  Dups says profile biographies are also indexed, but their inclusion is upcoming..  Search for info in status updates, names and tickers was confirmed.  Of course, interests, brands and hashtags are also included.

Next, refining your searches.   Continue reading

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Cartoon: Friender or Gamer on Empire Avenue?

Friender or Gamer on Empire Avenue

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Using Facebook Lists to Target Content at Specific Groups

William Pitcher of the Empire Building Network discusses how to use Facebook lists to send different information to different groups of people in Facebook.

This technique is useful for sharing different information with personal friends and social media contacts such as those from sites like Empire Avenue.

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Cartoon: Just When I Thought I Was Out…

Giving Up on Empire Avenue

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Cartoon: The Empire Avenue Catch 22

Empire Avenue Catch 22

This one hits way too close to home  ;-)

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Finding Great Flickr Content

The Empire Building Network has previously discussed the challenges of content discovery on the site.  The Empire Avenue development team is working hard and recent additions such as listing top influencers by interest are only the beginning.

Next, Flickr Rankings.   Continue reading

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We Be YouTubin’!

Corey Tyhurst (e)COREYT discusses the trials and trivilations of creating a video post versus a written blog post in his foray into the wonderful world of YouTube thanks to Empire Avenue.

You can find his YouTube channel here if you’d like to subscribe. :)

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