7 Unusual Ways to Use StumbleUpon
As I already mentioned I got immediately addicted to StumbleUpon. As I'm a natural born social media poweruser I present to you 7 unusual or unexpected ways in which you can use StumbleUpon. SU is really versatile and I was surprised each time I discovered new features.
Use StumbleUpon as a mail client
Basically you can not only contact your friends on SU but anybody with an email address. Just go to Send to -> New email address and type it in.
As a social network
I do not use social networks extensively. I am on LinkedIn and XING, I tried Pownce to almost no avail. On StumbleUpon I gained many friends quickly. People who are interested in the same stuff or work in the same industry. It took just two weeks and I have 16 friends and 16 fans from all over the world. Here I meet other committed webmasters, social media power users and/or SEOs.
As a Twitter-like microblogging tool
Read this: http://onreact-com.stumbleupon.com/review/12530261/
As you can see you can also add simple blog posts to your SU blog. Just click "Post new blog".
As a search engine
Did you know that you can actually search with SU? You can even add a search input into your StumbleUpon toolbar in the toolbar options.
Tools -> Toolbar Options -> Configuration -> "v" at Show search / tag box
As a discussion forum
Just visit the SEO groups discussion forum to know what I mean:
http://seo.group.stumbleupon.com/forum/
As a match maker
SU will find people that in some way match you, I don't know the exact criteria though. Certainly it's not your profession.
http://onreact-com.stumbleupon.com/matches/
As a search enhancement
Use the StumbleUpon search enhancement and you will see right beside the search results how many stumblers rated a particular page, the more did the more stars you see. Moreover you can see the category in which a page was submitted. It's very useful as you can filter out all this ugly SEO spam ;-) It works in all major search engines like Google, Yahoo or Ask.
You see, StumbleUpon is not just for idly stumbling pages, it's a powerful multifaceted tool. I can't live without it anymore.
hey,buddy,are you interested in write guest posts for my site?
LoL Tad! You are super-addicted to SU. You even point out something that normal SU users won’t notice about! Nice Job. Stumbled!
P.S: Match Maker is interesting. May be I should start hunting now! :D
A match maker you say? Hmmm…not considered the possibility before. I’m now off to find a buxom Swedish wench into SEO…
Wallace: Of course I am! Thank you for asking.
Yeah Ken, I’m kind of lost…
Mike: Maybe I should get a divorce and try SU match making? ;-)
Mike, buxom wench and SEO match? stunning idea. :)
Fresh thinking.
Anything about SU that you don’t like?
As a search engine, StumbleUpon isn’t all that good. In fact, it’s pretty poor.
And I’m not entirely sure using StumbleUpon as a Social Network is unusual. That’s precisely what StumbleUpon is, isn’t it?
Making friends and (hopefully) influencing people is what StumbleUpon makes possible. That’s what keeps me there…
Zak: I’m collecting for the next list ;-)
Wayne: I’m not sure. Many people just stumble and get friends as a side effect I guess.
hey,buddy,are you interested in write guest posts for my site?
Ozel: My Turkish really sucks although I live in an area populated by turks. You can translate something if you want though.
Others already did in Turkye.
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Great post. For some time now I’ve been taking advantage of a few of these features.
I’ve always tried to tag pages as correctly as possible for the rest of the SU community.
How to get StumbleUpon to work in Opera and Safari:
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