Lessons in Twitter Hygiene from Clo Willaerts is a handy dandy quick guide to help you avoid initial easy-to-make mistakes. Gotta love the hype cycle concept too.
For example, I did subscribe to a bot (daylife_feed) and, though it initially satisfied my news jones, the original news sources - the journalists, pundits, commentators and bloggers - are on Twitter, so you don't need an aggregator. If you *do* want to isolate a keyword or phrase for, say, your company, daylife_feed is good for that. Of course, so is search.twitter.com.
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Something off the wall
Here is a link to "Made Up Words in the Simpsons," cataloguing and explaining such immortal terms as craptacular, Dorkus malorkus, cromulent and crisatunity.
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Measuring Online Influence
This is a great article by Micah Baldwin on how you can discern whether someone is viewed as an expert by an online community - and, by extension, how you can develop your personal brand.
"In terms of measuring online influence, the stronger the personal brand, the more influence one wields online. The most important component of online influence is trust. Trust is defined as creating a consistent expectation that a person will always act in your best interest when given information."
"In terms of measuring online influence, the stronger the personal brand, the more influence one wields online. The most important component of online influence is trust. Trust is defined as creating a consistent expectation that a person will always act in your best interest when given information."
Real-time search using Twitter and Google
http://mt-hacks.com/tag/twitter/
This guy at Movable Type Hacks has some intriguing plugins. To search the five most recent tweets on a topic, he created a GreaseMonkey script. YOu have to get the plugin for Firefox. but it's an interesting concept, as is the overarching question of whether Twitter is a threat to Google, and, if so, how.
If the link above does not work, use http://mt-hacks.com.
This guy at Movable Type Hacks has some intriguing plugins. To search the five most recent tweets on a topic, he created a GreaseMonkey script. YOu have to get the plugin for Firefox. but it's an interesting concept, as is the overarching question of whether Twitter is a threat to Google, and, if so, how.
If the link above does not work, use http://mt-hacks.com.
Sunday, March 1, 2009
How to grow your blog to the next level with SEO
How to grow your blog to the next level with SEO
Nice common sense article by Darren Rouse about what to do to promote your blog once you're out of stealth mode. (I'm just bookmarking this for later review.)
Nice common sense article by Darren Rouse about what to do to promote your blog once you're out of stealth mode. (I'm just bookmarking this for later review.)
Friday, February 27, 2009
24/7 Wall St. Ranks the Most Valuable Blogs
24/7 Wall St. chose the 25 most valuable blogs, based on a pretty loose set of criteria.
The most interesting thing about this? The Perez Hilton site is worth an estimated $32 million. For writing campy tripe and drawing on pictures with his white markers, Mario Lavandeira apparently earns nearly $9 million a year in advertising revenue. He's a hard-working guy with a definite, tireless talent for self-promotion - don't get me wrong. Just WOW, though.
So, what else pops out? Well, we apparently like gossip, politics, technology & gadgets, sports and financial information - in various combinations. There is some support for the notion that people tend to gravitate to like-minded people. Sugar is for girls and young women. Wowowow is for women over 40. The Huffington Post and DailyKos are largely appealing to those who are politically center-left or simply left. However, gadget geeks and investment folks are all ages, genders, locations and political affiliations, so we're still engaging in diverse interaction on a lot of topics.
I was surprised at the popularity of the women's sites. I also think women fuel the popularity of the gossip sites - purely because most of my friends who are interested in pop culture are female. So women are a force to consider now, which is amazing considering how scarce they were when I got started in this online business 15 or more years ago.
News is of interest to folks, but via Drudge or HuffPo, not CNN, MSNBC or Fox. Or, they want topic-specific news they find at SB Nation (sports), mashable and TechCrunch (technology), or the Alley Insider sites (Silicon Alley, Greensheet, and so on).
Last, site traffic seems to be on the upswing for many of these sites. So, even if advertising prices drop, I am willing to bet that readership numbers will continue to increase for well-written blogs and sites centered on those core topics - gossip, politics, technology & gadgets, sports and financial information. MAybe I'll go sign up for Google's AdSense and dip my toe in.
The most interesting thing about this? The Perez Hilton site is worth an estimated $32 million. For writing campy tripe and drawing on pictures with his white markers, Mario Lavandeira apparently earns nearly $9 million a year in advertising revenue. He's a hard-working guy with a definite, tireless talent for self-promotion - don't get me wrong. Just WOW, though.
So, what else pops out? Well, we apparently like gossip, politics, technology & gadgets, sports and financial information - in various combinations. There is some support for the notion that people tend to gravitate to like-minded people. Sugar is for girls and young women. Wowowow is for women over 40. The Huffington Post and DailyKos are largely appealing to those who are politically center-left or simply left. However, gadget geeks and investment folks are all ages, genders, locations and political affiliations, so we're still engaging in diverse interaction on a lot of topics.
I was surprised at the popularity of the women's sites. I also think women fuel the popularity of the gossip sites - purely because most of my friends who are interested in pop culture are female. So women are a force to consider now, which is amazing considering how scarce they were when I got started in this online business 15 or more years ago.
News is of interest to folks, but via Drudge or HuffPo, not CNN, MSNBC or Fox. Or, they want topic-specific news they find at SB Nation (sports), mashable and TechCrunch (technology), or the Alley Insider sites (Silicon Alley, Greensheet, and so on).
Last, site traffic seems to be on the upswing for many of these sites. So, even if advertising prices drop, I am willing to bet that readership numbers will continue to increase for well-written blogs and sites centered on those core topics - gossip, politics, technology & gadgets, sports and financial information. MAybe I'll go sign up for Google's AdSense and dip my toe in.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Mashable offers up job hunt sites
Okay, I love mashable.com. If you're reading this, I highly recommend you bookmark them, follow them, add them to whatever RSS service you use. They consistently post useful information about current technologies, websites, and the online zeitgeist. Lots of user-generated content, so if you're a savvy tech guru, it's also a great place to post an article lots of people will see.
Their latest offering? several things that can help anyone looking around for work.
Top ten social networking sites to help find a job
Career toolbox: 100+ sites
Their latest offering? several things that can help anyone looking around for work.
Top ten social networking sites to help find a job
Career toolbox: 100+ sites
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