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…
Category Archives: Social Media
Twitter is Like Sex
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…
Is Blogging Another Form of Social Media?
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…
What Twitter Does for Me
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…
Zuggu: Social Voting Site for Pro Bloggers and Online Money Makers
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.
Recent Guest Blogging Links
I’ve been guest-blogging! Here’s a list of recent guest posts from blogs around the web.
Where to Spend Time Online to Build Highly Qualified Traffic
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.
4th Key: Social Engagement – 7 Keys to Better Blogging in 7 Days
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…
Comment and Trackback Policy -
DoFollow Now Active
Better blogging with Michael Martine’s Comment and Trackback policy.
My Face on Technorati – A Pleasant Surprise
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…
Why Business Blogging?
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.
