How To Read and Share More Efficiently From Your iPad: Mr. Reader and Buffer Team Up
April 2, 2012 
16 comments Tweet Buffer
Today, I’ll have to let you in on a little secret. Despite a lot of great people who have suggested many times to start using RSS feeds, I never got around to do it.
Yet, a few weeks back it happened. Why? A gorgeous iPad app for RSS reading called Mr. Reader, has freshly added Buffer support for sharing of articles.
It was the kick-off of a lot of app integrations lying ahead for Buffer in the coming weeks. And having Mr.Reader as one of the first ones couldn’t be any more amazing:
@LeoWid 
This is a guestpost by Simon Blackley (@simonblackley) of communications agency ESN. More about Simon at the end of the post.
News, ideas and pictures of dogs wearing sunglasses spread around the planet with unprecedented speed. I found that we enrich our online networks by finding, selecting, combining and contextualising content that will be of value to them.
In doing so, we build our own social brands.
But we have lives, too! – jobs, families and strange hobbies. Without a streamlined curation workflow it’d be impossible to fit everything in.
Here, I’ll describe the way I use free tools for personal content curation. The process has four stages – collection, storage, output, analysis.
A word of warning: I’m a PC and Android user. (As a matter of fact, I’m The Android User.) If you’re an iPerson, the same principles apply, but the tools will be different.
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This a guest post from Amanda DiSilvestro, content writer at Resource Nation. More about Amanda at the bottom of the post.
Most bloggers would jump at the chance to let a tool help them create a better blog in less time. As it turns out, an online tool known as Zemanta will do just that. This plugin will actually look at the content you upload for your blog and will then analyze the context.
I’ve had some great results with Zemanta in the past. The tool will use language processing algorithms to “read” the content, and then it will offer a few things to help you enhance the article for readers and search engines alike. This all happens in real time, and the best part: It’s free.
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7 Ways I Accidentally Got Twitter Followers (and 7 Ways You Can on Purpose!)
March 20, 2012 55 comments Tweet Buffer
This is a guest post by Mandy Kilinskis from Quality Logo Products. More about her at the bottom of the post.
Just like you, I read all of those blog posts about how to increase your Twitter followers. And while these articles all contain great, actionable advice, I definitely acquired a lot of my Twitter followers by accident.
Seriously.
So without further ado, let me share with you how I accidentally started acquiring Twitter followers, and how you can adapt these methods to start getting followers on purpose.
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5 Great Ways To Use Foursquare To Get More Business
March 15, 2012 7 comments Tweet Buffer
This is a guestpost by Matt Hamilton, great blogger and Social Media enthusiast at Near Coast Media. Mor about him at the bottom of the post.
It’s nothing new any more and I’m sure you have heard. At over 15 million users, Foursquare has recently grown up from nice gimmick to powerful business tool.
In short, it is a smart phone location based app that allows you to ‘check in’ to businesses that you are visiting. The app shares these updates with your friends and awards special merit badges. This fun social app for consumers is also a powerful business tool to grow brand awareness and profits.
I dug into Foursquare a lot recently and wanted to find out which great ways there are to use it for businesses:
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The Complete Guide to Getting More Social Traffic To Your Blog With Digg Digg
March 6, 2012 134 comments Tweet Buffer
Over 200 million Tweets are put out every day, together with over 4 billion items posted on Facebook.
One of the most important things for our work here at Buffer was always to help you share more efficiently and with higher impact on Twitter, Facebook and elsewhere.
So as of today, I’m super excited to share that we have added Digg Digg as a new core product to help you be more awesome on Social Media. This is a big step towards changing how we share content on Social Media
Digg Digg is one of the most popular sharing plugins for WordPress blogs with over 330,000 downloads to date. It adds a nice floating bar to your blog, just like you can see on the left here. It also gives you lots of other options to add sharing buttons to your site.
Download the plugin here: Digg Digg by Buffer
@LeoWid
New Facebook Page Timeline: The 7 Essential Things You Need To Know
March 5, 2012 20 comments Tweet Buffer
This is a guest post by Gregory Ciotti from Sparringmind, a contributing Buffer Blog columnist. More about him at the bottom of the post.
The new Facebook timeline has been creating quite a stir recently, and all the more so ever since Facebook started rolling out the previews for the new timeline for fan pages.
This will inevitably lead to a ton of posts on the subject, but in true social media fashion, too much time is going to be spent on the details rather than discussing what matters.
Luckily, here on the Buffer blog we’re all about cutting through the fluff, so today I want to talk about the 7 major elements & things you need to know in order to rock the new timeline layout for pages.
Gregory Ciotti
▂ ▃ ▅ ▆ █ HOW TO Add Cool Symbols Like These To Your Tweets ♬♡►♪☺♫
March 1, 2012 17 comments Tweet Buffer
Lots of people like to add things like ♥✩♬♡►♪☺♫ to their tweets for fun, but did you know adding symbols can make your tweets shorter and easier to read too?
Or that there are over 109,000 symbols available? Or that the Wall Street Journal uses symbols to add bar charts to its tweets?
Of course, if you’re mainly into the fun side, symbols can also let you write ǝpısdn uʍop or even black out those ██████ words (now that @SamuelLJackson has joined Twitter). But there’s a lot more you can do with symbols than just start a pie fight:
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Dave
How To Add The Pinterest Pin It Button To Your Blog And Let People Pin Posts With Pictures
February 28, 2012 41 comments Tweet Buffer
Oh yes, it really seems as if Pinterest is going to take over the Social Media world, with all the recent craze that has been created around it. Every 60 seconds, there are over 1000 new visitors, which are flooding the service, revealed a recent infographic.
And frankly, I can’t blame anyone for it. The beautiful boards and new approach to a newsstream, just makes it incredibly easy to browse through the different collections for ages.
With the “Pin it” button, websites also have a great opportunity to get more exposure from Pinterest very easily. One of the issues, that a lot of people have identified, is that it doesn’t work well for choosing any picture off your page that also goes through to Pinterest.
@LeoWid
Every 60 Seconds 175,000 Tweets Are Sent [INFOGRAPHIC]
February 27, 2012 2 comments Tweet Buffer
If you think about what you can do in 60 seconds in your life, it is probably not very much. Yet, if we look at all people using Social Media for just 60 seconds, the amount of messages being sent is quite incredible.
For example, every 60 seconds, there are over 700,000 messages being delivered on Facebook, 2,000 000 videos are being watched and 175,000 Tweets are sent on Twitter. Funnily enough, I bet, not all of those will be tweeted at optimal times. What I also found interesting is that this means over 250 million Tweets are now posted daily, up from 200 million in January.
This is especially crazy as it doesn’t seem to stop, even if other networks are added to the mix. Pinterest alone, who recently entered the Social Networking scene, sees over 1000 new visitors every second.
@LeoWid
