Hat Tip to Darren Rowse, his commentors and Chris Brogan
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I’d like to publicly thank Darren Rowse, his commentors and his guest poster Chris Brogan for the article How I Use Twitter to Promote My Blog.
I’ve been following Darren now since I got into pro blogging; super super resources the man has to offer. I especially like his ‘Featured Post’ layout, and decided to implement that on my site - finished it this morning.
As a guest blogger on Darren’s site, Chris wrote:
…Instead of telling your Twitter audience that you’ve published a new post, ask them their opinion on the core topic you’ve covered. “Do you think banner ads are dead?” followed by a link to your site is much more appealing than posting to Twitter, “Banner Ads Are Not Dead.” Asking a question engages your Twitter followers and solicits their experience.…MORE…
I’ve turned off my auto-twitter posting on some of my blogs so I can manually do that.
Unfortunately, I cannot find the reference now, so I cannot directly link to it, but I believe I also read one commenter on Darren’s site who described how they increased their readership by actively encouraging people to submit questions. I figured that’s a super idea, and dashed off that somewhat blatant button you see in my second column.
Thus, thanks to Darren, his readers and Chris - I really benefitted from what I read.
ThankYouVeryMuch!
Owlbert
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2 Comments, Comment or Ping
Graham Smith
You know the upshot about all this Twitter stuff?
FriendFeed. Don’t know if you are following this site but it’s simply awesome and it offers readers and followers to actually COMMENT back on your twitter twitterings.
If you check out my front page now, you’ll see on the side bar a ’subtle’ logo for friendfeed. Here if you sign up you basically get all my ‘lifestream’ feeds in one place: Flickr, Tumblr, Pownce, facebook, TWITTER, blog, RSS etc etc. Theres about 30 or so actually services you can link up, covers most of the major and not so major players.
This really is making Twitter super cool, with this ability for people to actually comment back direct on your twitterings (should they want to).
I previously had what you had, a FOLLOW ME TWITTER logo, but now replaced it with FriendFeed. It’s nice and tidy and actually saves your readers from having to balance numerous feeds from you.
I DON”T WORK FOR FRIEND FEED!!! ;0)
Anyway, just a thought. Doing a post on my discoveries and experience of it later this week.
PS: Have ordered the 1st series of McGyver…
Graham Smith’s last blog post..The real risk of Blog Burnout - Enforced Post Writing.
Mar 26th, 2008
Owlbert
Hi Graham,
Thanks for the idea! Just signed up for Friendfeed myself and am looking forward to incorporating it within my work.
Best wishes,
Barbara
Mar 26th, 2008
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