An online acquaintance of mine sent me a personal email, courteously asking if I would mind digging his post.
Here was my reply to him:
I don’t mind at all. Dugg. You know, I received all manner of automated shouts and whatnot today and I ignored every one of them. I dugg yours because you don’t bug [...]
Do you blog about technology? Feel like a drop in the ocean? I don’t blame you, it’s a pretty crowded field. One way to stand out is to live at the bleeding edge of social media. Sure, having a huge profile on Digg is great, but participating in the latest social media fad might be [...]
Social media helps grow your blog in several important ways. With all the social media hoopla (and in some cases, backlash), I wanted to write a clear explanation for you about the relationship between social media and blogging. If you’ve just recently discovered blogging, and are still puzzled by social media, this post is for [...]
Note: You may want to watch this at full screen. Click on the 4 arrows in the player’s upper right corner.
Twhirl is a rockin’ desktop program for Twitter, the part micro-blog/part chat web service started by the guys who created Blogger. Twitter is taking the blogosphere by storm, but using it over the web is [...]
You’ll want to watch this one full-screen — click the arrows at the upper right of the video.
I’ve had some interesting conversations with clients and others who are having a difficult time really understanding how to use Twitter–even some basic things like what is all the stuff on the screen.
I realized there’s some assumed [...]
Sorry
Sorry, but I didn’t Stumble your post, even though you asked nicely and you’re my friend. Why didn’t I? After all, it was a great post about overcoming addiction.
Sorry, but I didn’t Digg your post, even though normally I would do so. But I didn’t touch your Digg submission, which was a news article about [...]
This is a guest post by AJ Vaynerchuk. Go visit his blog when you’re done reading it and show the man some love!
Twitter can be a great tool for keeping up with friends, hearing the latest news, and self-promotion. There are a ton of “big-name” bloggers using twitter, but not all of them are optimizing [...]
Twitter is like sex. You can read all the stuff (or look at it) about sex all you want, but if you’ve never had it, you simply have no idea what it’s like.
And once you’ve had sex, you know you could never hope to really explain it to someone else. You will sound like a [...]
Note: somehow the wrong video wound up on Viddler compared to YouTube when I first posted this. This is now the correct video.
I think blogging is a form of social media. When The Cluetrain Manifesto first came out, one of its most important and enduring tenets was: markets are conversations. We use that phrase all [...]
March 21, 2008 – 11:33 am
Twitter must be reaching some kind of critical mass–or at least it seems that way to me. Perhaps that’s because I’ve jumped in with both feet. But I get the impression that a lot of bloggers are blogging about Twitter, lately. Some of them love it, and can’t live without it, and some folks aren’t [...]
September 29, 2007 – 3:55 am
Zuggu.com is a new social story submission and voting site based on the Pligg platform. It’s for pro bloggers and online money makers. I interviewed Zuggu’s creator, Ariel, about Zuggu.com and its future.
September 13, 2007 – 6:15 am
I’ve been guest-blogging! Here’s a list of recent guest posts from blogs around the web.
August 22, 2007 – 5:15 am
Where should you spend your valuable time online in order to attract new, highly qualified visitors to your blog? Three main places: authority blogs, second degree blogs, and forums. What is highly qualified traffic? What are second degree blogs? Read to find out how to increase blog traffic.
The fourth key to better blogging is social engagement. Active social engagement is the difference between a blogger talking to herself in her own echo chamber with few visitors and commentors, and a blogger participating in lively discussions with many visitors and a gratifying number of comments on each post.
My own efforts at social engagement [...]
Better blogging with Michael Martine’s Comment and Trackback policy.
August 12, 2006 – 8:54 am
I’m catching up on Yaro Starak’s Entrepreneur’s Journey podcast this Saturday morning, sipping my coffee, hanging out in my bathrobe (not that you really needed to know that), and just generally doing some weekend chilling. I’m looking at my Bloglines feeds (Bloglines does a great job with podcasts, embedding little flash audio players in the [...]
A response to a comment on another blog about the changing face of business vis a vis technology, specifically, how blogs are changing marketing and advertising.
