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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Last night I was talking with NowSourcing. He has an experiment going on where he’s taking social media “to the streets.” For the next 10 weeks, he wants to start meeting the people that he’s interacted with, bringing a [...]

Staples are the things that people are going to look for and what will keep people coming back to you. If you do well at those, you will have fans.

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An online multi-player game that I enjoy playing shows this whenever anyone asks the standard asl (age, sex, location) question. The game, Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates, is one of the social networks I am involved in online.

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Thanks to a friend who noticed I was getting too caught up in being at the top of the list, and called me on it, I seriously cut back on my SU activity for a while, and when I came back to StumbleUpon, I noticed I was having fun with it again, instead of stressing about always finding good articles to post.

So, here are my top 5 reasons you might not want to push to be Top Stumbler:

Yesterday, Vince Bank, who subscribes to Guy Kawasaki’s tweets on Twitter, complained that Guy was “over-promoting his Truemors site” which prompted Dr. Mani, a friend whose blogs I really enjoy (and learn a lot from), to ask this question, “What is Twitter to You?”

I know it’s easy to click on the place you’re from on SU and find others from the same place, but I can’t help thinking there are times when it might be nice to see a quick list of 100 people from a certain area (200 if you separate the list by men and women) and even more, the total number of people in the area who use SU.

Here is a rather neat idea that I’d never thought of before. Did you know that you can set up your StumbleUpon page on Technorati? When you sign up on Technorati, they ask you to insert a piece of code into one of your blog posts…and then after the blog is set up, you can remove it (which is nice when you find that a website you thumbed up two days ago isn’t available anymore).

I love reading all the different blogs about using StumbleUpon. By and large, most of them are written by business bloggers, people who hope to, or are already making a living by blogging. Some of these business people LOVE StumbleUpon. They think it’s the best thing since white bread. Others say they can’t see what the fuss is about. They’re getting the hits, but that’s it.

I’ve been using Adblock for so long that I don’t even think about it anymore. In fact, the only reason I’m talking about it now is that I’ve been studying the various types of web ads for a project I’m working on. So, I started talking to some friends who use Adsense and various other types of insta-ads on their sites.

While I was talking to them, I discovered something. Several were getting StumbleUpon traffic, but very little of the traffic was turning into sales. It wasn’t until one friend asked me to look at his site and tell me what I thought, that I started to realize what the problem was. I couldn’t see an ad on the whole site. Not one. Checking back over the other sites, I noticed the same “problem.” No ads.