"2. The less obvious one is to put your best content into the view of those who are yet to subscribe to your blog - particularly first time visitors (who are crucial to target if your objective is to build the number of subscribers to your blog). Let me share a few ways you can do this." - Jeroen De Miranda via Bookmarklet
"As a result - one of the most effective strategies for creating anticipation on a blog is to put your best content in front of those visiting your blog - show them what you can do and let the quality of that work speak for itself." - Jeroen De Miranda via Bookmarklet
"People will subscribe to your blog if they think that it will enhance their lives in some way in the foreseeable future." - another great blogging tip! - Jeroen De Miranda via Bookmarklet
"They even developed a tongue-in-cheek popularity equation for their list posts:
The” + (Number) + “Most” + (Over the top adjective) + (Subject) + Of All Time (Synonyms like “in History” or “Ever” will also be accepted) = Popularity" - Jeroen De Miranda via Bookmarklet
"According to research agency Gartner, the combination of SOA and Web 2.0 technologies represents one of the fastest-growing segments of the IT industry, with the worldwide market for SOA, Web services and Web 2.0 predicted to grow to more than US$142 billion by 2011." - Jeroen De Miranda via Bookmarklet
"Leverage the power of the passionate customer and that customer will contribute their energy and their reputation in building the buzz and extending the reach of the company to their own friends in their social circles. Understanding this and empowering this is core in order for Enterprises to be successful in their outbound social media efforts." - Jeroen De Miranda via Bookmarklet
"1. Add social bookmark links to your most important web pages and/or blog posts to improve sharing." - great tip! just added this to my top blog posts. - Jeroen De Miranda via Bookmarklet
@chrisbrogan is relentless in the creation of usable compelling content. I love his stuff and hate that I'm not half as productive. - Barry Reicherter via twhirl
i love the last part of #47 "be a good citizen." for me, that is the essence of what builds trust with anyone trying to promote a product. - mike
Wow! Outstanding list Chris, thanks - Keith Childs
"However, that's not to say they don't have their concerns. They are wary of one thing in particular: 79% are concerned about the risks of unsanctioned use of these tools by employees. Like we mentioned before, "tech populism" occurs when employees go behind I.T.'s back to provision their own tools from the ones freely available on the web. This opens up a whole new way to jeopardize sensitive company data." - Jeroen De Miranda via Bookmarklet
"Well, in this case, customers are saying, "no thanks". It no longer feels inevitable and XP looks just fine as a stop-gap. Cloud computing feels more inevitable. The browser is all that matters, maybe Silverlight, Gears and other ways to tie the PC to the cloud. So Firefox goes from strength to strength, Apple is on a roll and Google Apps get taken seriously." - Jeroen De Miranda via Bookmarklet
"Not surprisingly, some partners have been leery of turning their established customer relationships over to Microsoft. Many have built lucrative businesses around hosting Exchange, SQL Server and other Microsoft software and didn’t expect they, as Microsoft “partners,” would have to compete with Microsoft head-to-head in providing hosted services to small- to mid-size businesses (SMBs)." - Jeroen De Miranda via Bookmarklet
"For Microsoft resellers that had been fearing Microsoft would drop the bottom out of the hosted-services business with its Microsoft Online services offerings, their nightmares were realized on July 8. Microsoft is planning to sell Microsoft-hosted Exchange and SharePoint for $3 per user per month." - Jeroen De Miranda via Bookmarklet
"10 Blogging Tips
April 25, 2008
Briefly, some tips:
1. Write to be helpful.
2. Be brief.
3. Tell a story.
4. Connect others, if appropriate.
5. Share. Often.
6. Don’t overthink it. (It’s a blog, not a dissertation.)
7. But be thoughtful.
8. Don’t be mean.
9. Publish often enough to build a relationship.
10. But be mindful of your audience’s time." - Jeroen De Miranda via Bookmarklet
I have now two different accounts on twetter: one is for the italians and the other one is for the english tweets. Managing both of them is easy with twitterfox, since it allows you multiple accounts management. Anyway I am using tweetter less each day, and I find much more interesting conversations here on FF. But I don't have an interface for managing multiple accounts on FF and I mainly post english comments. - Marcello Del Bono
I like the two account approach. I tend to unsubscribe from people I can't understand, unfortunately. - Hao Chen
thanks Marcello, your "one account for language" approach is really interesting - Marco Castellani
Yes, that's way the two accounts. But I would need an easy FF interface allowing multiple accounts - Marcello Del Bono
Interesting point. My native tongue is Swedish. With such a 'small' language I've never thought about it before and never met any fellow Swede in Twitter either. The two-accounts on TwitterFox looks like a good idea though. - Rebkin
I just created another Twitter/Tumblr/Friendfeed/Blog in Spanish and keep the two separate... Twhirl allows me to monitor both painlessly - Jorge Escobar
Ok, you can guess now... I am also posting on two different blogs: one is for the italian language http://blog.delbono.eu and the other one is for the english edition http://marcello.delbono.eu . That's still an experiment, since it's quite a time consuming approach... - Marcello Del Bono
Marcello you're right, the point is exactly that managing a different "presence" for each language turns out quite time consuming.. - Marco Castellani
Marco, unfortunatley that's absolutely true, I am still experimenting with finding a good balance point. - Marcello Del Bono
Me too (I'm spanish)!! And I decided to create two twitter accounts, one to talk with 'real life friends' from Spain, and another to chat all over the world with people in English... - Alex Barredo
most of my online contributions are in English; only sometimes I do make some Dutch tweets - Jeroen De Miranda
Well, I played for some times with the idea of "different platform - different language"; for example, english for jaiku and italian for twitter. But I'm not so convinced of this approach, at the time writing.. - Marco Castellani
Yeah It happened to me, that's why I'm only using tweeter in english, and like Marco C. said and I agree "That managing a different "presence" for each language turns out quite time consuming" - George The Writer
@Marco, Jaiku was even STARTED by a Swede and a Finn.. - Rebkin
I use both English and my native language (French), depending on the nature of the message I post. If it's something general, like "I'm at home, eating a doughnut", I will usually post it in English. If I answer to a French speaking user, I will usually post in French. I don't really mind mixing both languages on the same account, since it's worked pretty well so far. - Brome
“interesting to see that I get hits on my blog http://jeroendemiranda.wordpre... , on search terms that are inside the Twitter widget displayed on my blog”
A post could contain information about what a room is about or other pertinent information that an administrator wants at the top of the stream. - Mark Trapp
Mark, it turns out that there are at least two other discussions of this (not counting the discussion in the lastfmfeeds room itself), one of which I haven't even read yet. I'll hunt 'em up and link 'em together. - Ontario Emperor
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Monday, April 28, 2008
PR 2.0: Putting the Public Back in Public Relations" - bought this book yesterday, will read it the next week. I am curious, as Brian Solis is one of the leading persons on Social Media; and he is writing the foreword. - Jeroen De Miranda via Bookmarklet
"Social Media is About Social Science and Not Technology" - first time I read about an explicid link between Social Science and Social Media - that is a very helpful approach for me! - Jeroen De Miranda via Bookmarklet
"The Essential Guide to Social Media is a "quick start" overview of how to listen and participate in social media and new media marketing." - Jeroen De Miranda via Bookmarklet
"We all purport to be social media experts these days, yet most of us are truly students. Many of us overlook some of the most rudimentary elements that define and inspire the socialization of content, especially the social sciences involved with observing the culture, behavior, and conversations within online societies." - Jeroen De Miranda via Bookmarklet
"It all starts with listening.
Fellow Intel Insider Tom Foremski captured it well, "I like the calculated risks that Intel is taking by involving some of the top names in the blogosphere and not imposing any restrictions on what we write abou" - Jeroen De Miranda via Bookmarklet
