This month, as we share tips and advice on working custom made graphics into your Hubs, we encourage you to share cool sketches, drawings, graphs, graphics, and other illustrations you have included in your work to provide our community with some inspiration. Here’s how to join in: On Facebook: Visit our Facebook page and select…
Read MoreA Hubber’s Guide to Facebook
Last week we published a new Learning Center guide sharing tips on using Twitter in a way that can benefit one’s Hubs and general online brand. This week, our focus turns to Facebook. This second installment in a series of four guides to using social media as Hubber (which cover Twitter, Facebook, Google+, and Pinterest)…
Read MoreSeparating Business and Personal Lives Online
Many online writers use social media channels such as Facebook and Twitter to promote their writing, but doing so is not as simple as you might expect. If you combine business and pleasure online, you run the risk of alienating your audiences. By sharing personal information with people who are only interested in your writing, you run…
Read MoreFrom Bigfoot Sightings to the Best Beef Chili
One of the things I love most about HubPages is the fascinating and varied expertise of everyone in our community. North Carolina Hubber crazyhorsesghost serves as a great example – he is both an excellent cook and an expert in the paranormal. Yesterday crazyhorsesghost published a Hub about a Big Foot sighting he had on…
Read MoreLisa New England Gets Props from a Real Housewife of New York!
It is not every day that a television celebrity recognizes your work, but Lisa New England could tell you that it still does happen! A couple days back, Jill Zarin, a Real Housewife of New York, posted a link to Lisa’s Hub on the show’s finale, pointing out that a lot of hurtful or misinformed things…
Read MoreHubPages on Facebook
If you are like me, participation and interaction on a social network like Facebook can be confusing at times. So, I thought I’d mention a few things about HubPages on Facebook. It’s a great way to be a part of the HubPages community when you aren’t on the site. By following us on our Facebook…
Read MoreSharing Hubs on Facebook
So, Simone and I were chatting today about how people share their Hubs on Facebook. After perusing a couple of examples and pouring over some statistics, we came up with a few tips to consider when thinking about how to apply social media (ie facebook) to Hubs. 1. When you see Hubs written by others that you think are…
Read MoreHubPages’ New Facebook Recommendations Feature
As part of our continued effort to improve your experience on the site as both a reader and writer, we’ve just added a feature that allows you to see what your Facebook friends have been liking and sharing on HubPages. “So… what is it?” you ask, “And is it shiny? Or made of chocolate?” In…
Read MoreGet Ready for the Richest Display Ad Units on the Web
HubPages is always ahead of the curve, so it should come as no surprise that we’re about to roll out one of the coolest, niftiest, most interactive ads on the web. Check out the unit! This display ad was created as part of an advertising partnership with ClickTurn, an online leader in dynamic display advertising.…
Read MoreFacebook connect and Tweet this now available on hubs!
With all the buzz going around social media and how websites are using Facebook connect and Twitter to help their users be more pro-active and social, we here at Hubpages HQ decided to jump on the bandwagon. So we’re glad to announce a subset of Facebook connect and Twitter functionality integration into your Hubpages hubs…
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