Dec
28
I’ve been a member of a number of social networking sites for quite a while. I’ve been Digging, Stumbling, Sphinning, and Bookmarking just like everybody else. However, unlike some of you, I’ve not been extremely active within any of these social communities. Sure, I visit a few of them several times a week, but I hardly ever take the time to network or submit interesting articles that I run across when browsing or going through my feed reader.
I plan to change all that and take a more active role in at least a few of these communities. Social media has changed the way people interact and communicate and I think it’s about time I got involved.
Here are links to my profiles on several of the more popular sites. If you take the time to add me as a friend, I will certainly reciprocate.
- BlogCatalog
- BloggingZoom
- del.icio.us
- Digg
- Facebook (I forgot I even joined here and fail to see any value what so ever.)
- Mixx (Just joined.)
- MyBlogLog
- Sphinn
- StumbleUpon
- Twitter (Still don’t really get the fascination but I’m trying…)
If you know of others that I should be checking out feel free to mention them here. Also, feel free to post your contacts and profiles below in the comment section, so that other readers will be able to add you as a friend as well.
Popularity: 16% [?]
I’d also add reddit (especially great if you have the habit of bashing politicians) and propeller to the list, definitely worth joining.
Alan Johnson
Added you to del.icio.us as garyr_h and stumbleupon as garyh84
reddit friends aren’t really needed, propeller seems to be a whole different beast compared to everything else as well.
StumbleUpon buddy!
If you want regular free traffic every day, EntreCard.
If you want an avalanche of readers, to really make a spike on Alexa then Stumble Upon is the most successful for me.
But what I do is to not only stumble my own pages I think readers will like, I also stumble pages within my niche of Japan bloggers – primarily those who link back to me.
Every time I stumble my own page, I get 200-500 visitors. Every time I stumble a friends page, they get 200-500 visitors AND I get 5-20 visitors!
But the question is, will YOU be my friend?
David,
I added you at del.icio.us, Digg and Mixx.
added you to the ones I use ^_^
Bumpzee and LinkedIn. But frankly the social network sites still don’t seem that valuable to me. I keep using several and they can be worthwhile but the hype is overblown.
Having an actual homepage for yourself is the best thing I think – and you can have links to your current social network sites if you like. For bloggers a about me page on the blog is great.
You’ve been added
– mine are here:
del.icio.us
StumbleUpon
MyBlogLog
BlogCatalog
Twitter
Facebook
BloggingZoom
Hmmm! Not sure if that last comment went through. Might have had too many links. Anyway, I’ve added you, David, and you can find all my links here: http://www.squidoo.com/sharonhurleyhall
Gary, propeller is actually very similar to digg and can bring in a fair deal of traffic (not to mention that making the frontpage there is not nearly as challenging as with digg).
Alan Johnson
Joined all them
I’ve added you on several and I already had you on stumbleupon
Great idea, I’ll have to post mine soon
here my sites, see we are friends in a few already, maybe u like join my others…
http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/members/yeepage
http://digg.com/users/yeepage
http://yeepage.stumbleupon.com
http://del.icio.us/yeepage
http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/members/yeepage/
http://www.technorati.com/people/technorati/yeepage/
http://sphinn.com/user/view/profile/yeepage
http://www.mixx.com/users/yeepage37
http://twitter.com/yeepage
http://www.blogcatalog.com/user/yeepage
Out of the lot, I’ve had the best results with SU (even though I’ve made the digg frontpage this month as well) and sphinn definitely seems interesting as far as influential readership is concerned.
Alan Johnson
Added you as friend on MyblogLog …
Added you on sphinn.
Could you tell me what you think about http://www.web2logs.com
I want to promote it from January so I could use some feedback on it.
Thanks,
maichi
I’m still working my way through some of these but I’ll get everybody added sometime today…
Pownce is definitely worth checking out it’s like Twitter on steroids, you can find me there as sciencebase
db
Hi David, I added you on Stumbleupon a while ago but I’ll add you in the others. I’ll come back and post after I do that.
Hi David, just catching up with my feeds and read this so I added you to my SU, Mixx and BlogCatalog. I also added you to my Technorati fav’es, I’m surprised that hasn’t been mentioned yet.
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Nice
I love increase my network …Will add u asap
Good post mate