While recently watching the show Diggnation, one of the hosts, Kevin Rose, stated that he has been thinking about redirecting his personal blog to his Twitter page. At this point the other host on the show, Alex, told Kevin he didn’t think the idea was a good one. Alex further explained that Kevin would loose money from the ads which his personal site contains. The debate brought up a good debate, should you give up blogging for Tweeting?
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One of the draw backs of using social media as a means of advertising, is updating the page(s) of the social media sites. A lot of the time, you may be to busy with another work related task, or you may just forget. You could depend on your audience to submit your blog posts to sites such as Digg, or Reddit, but that doesn’t mean that it will happen. Another option, you could pay someone to maintain your social media sites for you. This is however looked down upon by many of the social media members. So, how can you for sure your social media page stays up to date? You could allow plugins to do these tasks for you. Most of the more popular blogging software, like Wordpress, are designed to allow third party plugins, and most communities have a lot of very useful plugins that are free. Here are some plugins for Wordpress that allow you to connect to your blog and your social media pages.
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One of the popular trends on the web right now is social media and/or social networking, and it looks like there is no stopping it in the near future. Sites like Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Reddit are among the many sites which are leading the way with social media, but is there a way for you to use social media to your advantage?
There are a few ways you can take advantage of social media for your blog. Sites such as cracked.com seem to be on Digg’s front page daily, and this success shows. Blogstorm.co.uk recently released a list of 100 sites based on how often they reach Digg’s front page. Cracked.com was ranked 26 on this list, and looking at Alexa’s stats is seems that it maybe a lot of where their visitors are coming from.
For those of you out there who use the Twitter social-networking blogging site, I have specified some more tools that I have come across recently to enhance your Twittering experience:
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Ever since the large social networking site Facebook developed and added a Notes section to their interface, it has gotten a lot of attention from the service’s users–bloggers and non-bloggers alike.
The Notes composition section (pictured above) provides a look much like any other blogging platform’s compositional area, including both a Subject line and a multi-line text area for the content/message.
Notes has become a very popular area on Facebook, where users post quizzes, rants, memes, and so forth. With this premise, the usual FB users engaging in the Notes section would not consider themselves as bloggers, but those who are involved in the blogosphere with other blogs (not associated with FB) tied into their profile do admit to themselves as blogging.
What are your thoughts on Notes on Facebook and how it ties into blogging?
The blogger’s sidekick site: Twitter now has a feature where you can “retweet” a tweet.
For those of you somewhat lost on what Twitter is, it is a social networking site where you state (in 140 characters or less) what you are doing. Making this service a “mini-blog” from a social networking aspect.
Retweeting is when a Twitter user forwards one of their follower’s tweets and publishes it on their feed. An example of this is below:
RT: @KevnBriggs It's definitely cold outside
This method also gives credit to the Twitter user that originally made the Tweet that you are broadcasting.
I just learned about this method a little while ago, and thought I would share it with you.
Happy Blogging!
