Tag "Social Networking"
For Bloggers, Who Will Be the Next Digg?
Social Media, Social Networking It wasn’t that long ago that, for bloggers and other Webmasters, being on the front page of Digg was something of a Holy Grail. It meant an instant tidal wave of traffic, a lot of great publicity and, of course, major bragging rights. However, Digg’s traffic, since the launch of the “New Digg” in August has waned. Though it is certainly still a traffic powerhouse, it’s no longer end goal for bloggers and webmasters, ...
Continue reading5 Ways Twitter Can Actually Be Useful… For Anyone
Social Networking Though most people who use Twitter enjoy it and think it’s a great service, it has gotten something of a bad rap for, supposedly, being useless and frivolous. When people do talk about putting Twitter to use, they’re usually discussing it solely from the standpoint of self-promotion or social news marketing. This has, unfortunately, kept many people away from Twitter who would benefit from it. Many who are otherwise very active in ...
Continue reading5 Blogging Activities Perfect for Summer
Blogging For many blogs, summer is the slow season. People are on vacation, schools are out, dorms are empty and most sites see a noticeable drop in traffic until the cooler weather comes. So what is a blogger to do with this time? Even if one’s site isn’t outright dead or quiet, it’s often much less active and that can create a case of summer blues, where bloggers feel as if they’re putting in the hours but not seeing the results ...
Continue reading5 Steps to Write a Link Bait Post
Writing The term “link bait” or “Digg bait” is sometimes used in a negative light, meant to indicate a type of post that is meant to pander to a lower element than most blog posts. But while this can be true and often times is, it is also not always the case. What the term “link bait” actually means is that the post is the type of work others will want to link to. The types of content people want to link to is as ...
Continue readingHow do You “Subscribe” to a Site?
Blogging Before we begin, a very quick thought exercise: What do you think of when I say “Subscribe To This Blog”? The reason I ask is simple. When I first started blogging heavily, “subscribing” to a site meant simply one thing, taking the RSS feed of a site and reading it in an RSS reader. It might have been a software RSS reader or a Web-based one, such as Google Reader, but the process was the same. The only exception was a ...
Continue readingShould Bloggers Ditch Facebook?
Social Networking Many blogs, including this one, integrate Facebook into their site in one of many ways. From buttons that allow you to share stories via the service, the ability to use Facebook login to post comments or even dedicated pages for the blog. Facebook offers many ways to build their product into your blog and many bloggers have snapped it up. However, privacy concerns over Facebook are now becoming legion. The EFF has reported on the slow shift away ...
Continue readingBuild Rapport with Rapportive
Personal, Productivity, Social Networking I get a ton of e-mail from many different people. Keeping everyone straight can be difficult and those are just the people I know personally. I have a contact form on my blog and occasionally get people contacting me and asking me to try things, blog about things and for help. I don’t know these folks most of the time. However, I’ve discovered a great tool to help me identify people who are contacting me. The tool is called ...
Continue readingWill Bloggers Adopt Google Buzz
Social Media When Google announced Google Buzz earlier this week, it kicked off a heated debate as to how great (or useless) it was. Though some have lauded it and others have outrighted panned it, most of the conversation has been somewhere in between, basically believing it to be a neat product with a lot of potential, but no Twitter or Facebook killer. But a big driving force behind social networking sites, like Facebook and Twitter, as well as social ...
Continue readingService I’m Thankful For: Diigo
Links There aren’t many tech products I would consider myself dedicated to. I change browsers at least weekly, keep at least one Mac, one Windows machine and one Linux PC around at all times and a two-year cell phone commitment can seem like a prison sentence by month six. I’m also not the kind of guy who gives glowing reviews, everything is usually tempered with a mix of good and bad, an attempt to find balance and deeper understanding. ...
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The Dangers of Integrating Your Blog w/ Facebook
Social Networking For bloggers, Facebook has provided an unprecedented way for us to connect with out readers. Not only does it give us a chance to be where our readers are naturally, but it is much more personal than email newsletters, RSS subscriptions, etc. Best of all, it gives our readers an excellent chance to share and spread our content, something that’s much more difficult over other means. However, integrating a blog with Facebook, especially when ...
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