In my last post, I shared how to get started with the social networking tool StumbleUpon and how to determine if you are stumbling one site (i.e. Disaboom) too much.
Today, I'd like to backtrack a bit and explain what stumbling is about and how to stumble.
Once you join StumbleUpon (it's free) and select a few of your interests from a list of over 500, you install the StumbleUpon toolbar, which looks like this:
The toolbar can be used for discovering interesting webpages. By clicking on the Stumble! button,
the system will serve you a webpage related to one of your interests. Clicking on the Stumble! button again and it will serve you another page...and another...
Using the Stumbling! button today, I discovered:
Warning: Stumbling can be addictive yet quite educational!
When you come across a page you particularly like while stumbling, give it a thumb up!
If you particularly do not like a page, give a thumb down:
However, use the thumb down sparingly, for example, on:
- slow loading pages
- non existent or error laden pages
- ad-heavy pages
- voting pages from other social media
- pop-ups & pop-unders
If you do not have a strong opinion either way, it is best to move onto the next stumble. Save your thumbs up for the best content.
Happy stumbling!
In the next post, I will explain how to submit pages to StumbleUpon.
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