• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content

CHRIS BROGAN

Strategic and Executive Leadership Advisory Services

  • ABOUT
  • SPEAKING
  • STORIES
  • NEWSLETTER
You are here: Home / Social Media / Five Things I Like About Social Media Explorer

Five Things I Like About Social Media Explorer

chrisbrogan · September 4, 2010 ·

Social Media Explorer

Beyond the content, there are a lot of things I like about Jason Falls’s Social Media Explorer. First, I like his very thin header bar. It gives me lots more “top of the fold” for his site. I like his choice of navigation at the top. (That’s number one.)

The Top Right

top right I like the top right area where Jason makes it clear that he’d love to further connect and extend the relationship. The entire sidebar is full of awesome like this, but right at the very top, Jason does a great job of showing us that he wants to get in touch.
I really like the custom graphics and the layout he chose, too. It does a lot to tie together the look and feel of the site.

The Category Thing

I really like a recent design choice of Jason’s to put categories front and center on his blog:
categories

Watch for me to incorporate something like this into my next blog design, because I’m so enamored of how Jason did it. It’s so much smarter than just linear blog content. That’s the kind of thinking that he puts behind giving us consistent effort, and because it’s displayed like this, it’s even easier to find the good stuff.

The Video Thing

Jason speaks

Jason has cleverly put a video box right on the front page. It draws you in faster. It tells you that he’s available to speak and ready to go. I think it’s another smart move.

Good Ad Placement

affiliate ads

Jason is an affiliate for some good products and he promotes these on his primary page. I like his “front and center but below the fold” placement, as it says, “I like these products and think they’re helpful, but my content comes first.” It’s a nice statement.

Content Obviously Matters

Jason’s content is spot on. I’m not working around that. Instead, I’m pointing out how his design elements really do a lot to support the environment around his content. Jason’s been around for a bit, and he’s doing lots of interesting stuff. His blog shows the results of that.

The Exercise Overall

What you might do (besides get into Jason’s blog) is do what I did by visiting and thinking through how some of the blogs you like do what they do. Get in there, look everything over, and see what is useful to you. Determine what might work for you, and what you could do differently for your audience.
It’s a good one to practice.

Share this:

  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)

Related

Social Media


CHRIS BROGAN MEDIA

The easiest way to contact me is through email. That’s me. Not some assistant. Me. How’s that?

[email protected]

WORK

  • Appfire
  • Speaking
  • Advisory

PROJECTS

  • Owner Group
  • Backpack Show
  • Zero Formula

CONNECT

  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn
  • YouTube

© 2022 Chris Brogan Media

Privacy Policy · Site Credit