A new "hot" feature added to BizSugar in the last couple of weeks allows users who vote content to our front page more visibility as opinion leaders helping to make our site even more social.
Here's how. Now when you vote stories to the front page of the BizSugar small business news and information community, you and other community members will see your account name in orange following the phrase "Made hot by..." and followed by the …
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This week we’re announcing another new tweak to improve the quality of small business news and information readers can find everyday on BizSugar.com.
A new algorithm has been added to our Website to flag sites or accounts that are voted to the “hot” list an inordinate number of times during a short time interval.
The new algorithm has been installed to prevent attempts to “game” the system to push content repeatedly onto …
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Those visiting BizSugar.com the last two days may have noticed a cleaner look under "recently submitted" stories thanks to a new system that holds new content for moderation.
For regular contributors who have submitted links before to BizSugar, you may not notice much of a change.
Except that the super cool content you always find here is, well, super cooler thanks to the lack of annoying spam and other inappropriate material sometimes …
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Social media sites like BizSugar.com and others are amazingly powerful tools helping to gain visibility for your business, product, service or topic. But first it is important to know the basics of being a good social media citizen. Here are 10 dos and don'ts to be sure you give your social media community as much value as it gives you.
1. Do vote on articles other than your own submissions. This probably sounds obvious, but votes like …
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Get your copy of the new SugarTone ebook now available free online.
For those who might be unaware, the SugarTone contest, a collaboration between BizSugar.com and our friends at Bloggertone, the business blogging community, attempted to collect and rank contributions from the collective communities of BizSugar and Bloggertone providing the top contributors, as ranked by our community, prizes for their participation from our wonderful …
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