If you’ve not gotten involved at Zibbet’s Community Hub yet, there’s no time like the present to introduce yourself and your shop so that you can begin to enjoy the benefits of participation in Zibbet’s own social networking site. While you can read ZCH posts without logging in, in order to add comments you’ll need to open an account. Please refer to the SOZ article, Zibbet’s Community Hub, for ‘how to’ instructions for opening your (more…)
Promoting our work online can seem like a daunting task. There’s so much great competition out there and being seen sometimes looks impossible. But don’t despair! Everyday new websites seem to be popping up offering opportunities for promotion. Wanelo is one of those sites. Wanelo, which is a combination of the words ‘want’, ‘need’ and ‘love’, is a fun place to post links to your own items as well as (more…)
Are you looking for a new online spot to share your interests and promote your Zibbet friends? Pinterest may be just that spot. Pinterest is an online pin board where you can share images of things that you find online that are of interest to you. You can also upload images from your computer and ‘repin’ images from other Pinterest boards.
When you ‘pin’ an image from another website, the (more…)
According to the results of a survey by Forrester Research Inc. and cited by InternetRetailer.com (2009), “Baby boomers are more likely to consume than create online social content.” The survey revealed that 66% of those surveyed aged 43-52 and 62% of those aged 53-63 reported reading blogs, listening to podcasts, reading online forums and customer ratings, and watching user-generated (more…)
Last week you learned how to rearrange the components on your Zibbet’s Community Hub page. In addition to displaying your Zibbet shop URL and other text information on your page, you can also include photographs, videos and an RSS feed. There is even a place to add widgets, or applications, to further customize your individual space in the Community. Let’s take a look now at how to add things other than text and links (more…)
