Sep 14

It’s been a long time since our last update, we’ll explain more about our recent Nokia partnership very very soon. In the meantime if you have a business and would like a free (worth £60) NFC enabled sticker that will help send your offline visitors to your Facebook page where they can like it by simply tapping their mobile phone against it, do email me kevin{@}fuelmyblog.com – I will program the sticker with your business Facebook page address and you’ll be part of a groundbreaking trial we are running with Nokia :)

Nielsen just announced their latest ‘Social Media Report’ – it makes for some really interesting reading, the key points were as follows:-

1. Social networks and blogs continue to dominate Americans time online and now account for nearly a quarter of total time spent on the internet

2. Nearly 4 in 5 active internet users visit social networks and blogs

3. 41% of blogger users have a household income of over $75k

4. Close to 40% of social media users access social media content from their social media phone

5. 25% of Wordpress visitors have a bachelor’s degree

6. 53% of active adult social network users follow a brand

7. 32% of active adult social network users follows a celebrity

If 53% of adult social network users follow a brand, apart from awareness, what benefits are the brands getting by being followed, I’d like to see more written about actual sales – do any of you have any experiences you’d like to share in the comments?

Thanks for story tip off go to Gordon at The Wall

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Jun 03

As announced by Techcrunch back in February, Mybloglog has now been switched off. Google Mybloglog and you’ll see it no longer appears, the SEO boys and girls at Yahoo have been busy..So make sure you take off your mybloglog widgets as they no longer work. The following sad Alexa shot says it all..

UPDATE ON FUELMYBLOG:-
We have over 40,000 great bloggers on fuelmyblog, we still manually go over every single new member joining to ensure zero porn or spammers get in. At the end of 2010 we were fortunate enough to be invited to be part of the UK Trade & Investment Global Entrepreneur Program, this has led to ongoing discussions with UK Ministers (cabinet level), the Dubai Government and Abu Dhabi Government.

We’ve some major announcements coming up as we are partnering with one of the worlds leading websites – that will mean a lot more services and products to review, and we think fuelmyblog could prove to be far more than just an alternative to mybloglog.

Please help us spread the word – tweets, blog posts etc, are all so very welcome!

Hiring:
We are looking for writers that can help advise bloggers and businesses on this blog (paid) if this could be you, please email info(@)fuelmyblog.com with some examples of help articles you’ve written and what you’d expect to be paid per article, how many per week etc.

We’ll soon be hiring more permanent people to help us with our heavy admin load – we’ll announce it on this blog in the coming month or so, please keep subscribed.

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May 06

Not often do we come up with no-brainers..this is one.

Freetricity PLC are looking to work with bloggers to raise awareness on their brand and will fit £15 000 worth of solar installation for free in return for a blog post about your experience of living with free green electricity!

We have agreed a special promo code “FMB” that you can use when you sign up here this will ensure qualifying users are fast-tracked. This is an incredible opportunity for the right blogger, note that only a small % of houses will qualify, for example you have to have a south facing roof in southern England but as you go through the process you will be told if your house qualifies or not.

What more can we say, go sign up and see if you qualify :)

If you do qualify, leave a comment and let everyone know what happens next!

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Apr 26

Guest Post by Barney Samson from The Global Poverty Project

That’s exactly what the Live Below the Line campaign is asking people to do this May, and we want to give you the chance to join in and blog about it.

£1 a day is the UK equivalent of the extreme poverty line – below which some 1.4 billion on our planet live every day.

Having been around extreme poverty in Africa, I honestly thought that I knew what it meant to live in extreme poverty. I’d seen it in the rural communities of Swaziland and through the times of hyper-inflation in Zimbabwe.

Given all of this, I have to admit I didn’t think I would gain anything personally from the experience. But, the thing that surprised me the most during those 5 days was that I was suddenly overwhelmed with a real sense of understanding. Five days of having so many choices removed from my life. Having to sit and think about how I could eat from £5, making tough decisions: do I buy two oranges or some slices of bread? It was like a light bulb went on, and to my complete surprise I suddenly felt like I wanted to call some of my friends in Swaziland and Zimbabwe and tell them that I actually get it now.

That’s why we’re so excited to share the opportunity to Live Below the Line with the Fuelmyblog community – to put the challenge out to you to spend a day or five on just £1 a day, and get the word out there about it.

We would love for bloggers like you to be taking part in the challenge and writing about it – take a look at www.livebelowtheline.org.uk/partners/fuelmyblog for more info and to sign up!

As an added incentive, the writers of our favourite 3 blog posts about Live Below the Line in the next week will be invited to interview Lord Jack McConnell and Baroness Anne Jenkin about the campaign and then come to a special event at the House of Lords on 4th May to meet them.

Leave a comment if you have any questions, Kevin and Sylvie have agreed to take part and hopefully they’ll be blogging about it too!

Disclosure: Fuelmyblog is not being paid for this post, we support the campaign and will be taking part

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