Can’t see the video in your reader or email? Watch it on the blog. This video walks you through how to install a plugin for WordPress 2.7 (self-hosted) that displays your Twitter posts (called “tweets”) in your blog’s sidebar. I’m not doing this at the moment on Remarkablogger, as you can see, but I will…
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The Beginner’s Guide to Twitter
This is a guest post by Deanna de Bara from Sugarrae.com. As a relative “newbie” to the social networking scene (I sporadically use facebook and myspace, but thats about it), I was interested to try Twitter, a social networking and micro blogging site that has recently become popular with internet enthusiasts. The program began as…
Why the Bleeding Edge of Social Media is Important for Tech Bloggers
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…
How Social Media Helps Grow Your Blog
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…
New Round of Winning Numbers: 40, 2, 21, 56
Since I announced this promotion and had two drawings, I’ve had two winners. That means there are four spots left, and I just drew new numbers! If you have my business card from SOBCon 08 and one of the numbers in the headline is on the back, you have won an hour of free phone…
How to Use Twhirl, a Twitter Desktop Program
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…
Video Tutorial: Basics of How to Use Twitter
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…
Eight Mistakes Bloggers Make While Using Twitter
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…
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…
The Secret to Success on Twitter is the Same as Blogging
I’m going to tell you the secret to success on Twitter: it’s the same secret to success in blogging, which I find interesting, because successful bloggers almost to the person are also successful on Twitter (they have many followers and get a lot of value from it). The problem people are having is that they…
Everybody Wants Convenient Explanations, Screw That, Just Do it!
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication, and it’s a way to automatically receive updates from news sources you subscribe to using special software called a reader. Twitter is a micro-blogging platform that limits posts to 140 characters, but allows for replies and direct messages. Each post is an answer to the question “What are you…
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…
Tweet Me, Baby!
Okay, so now I’m on Twitter. I’m weird in some ways. For some things, I’m an early adopter and for other things, I wait and see. I think I’ve waited long enough on Twitter. If you want to follow me on Twitter, here’s my profile: http://twitter.com/remarkablogger. See ya on the tweet-side!