How to find more RSS followers for your blog
May0
I came across this video on a good old fashioned surf this evening. Ever wanted to know the tricks to get more followers? Well apart from generating good content, Darren Rowse from problogger.net explains a few tricks on how to go about this.
Great site Darren – an invaluable resource for bloggers!
How to set up Twitterfeed
May2
At the start of the month I wrote this post as I wanted to better manage my Twitter / Blog postings and bring the two together / Twitterfeed was good, back in the good old days when I was using Blogger. Now, for some reason, The Twitterfeed site occasionally goes down so you might not be able to log into the site and set up you own account. I wanted to revisit this site as this was one of my most popular postings…
Last week I wrote a post on a clever way to upload your blog posts directly to Twitter without having to do it manually. I originally set the system up using RSS feeds – which I outlined here…
I have however, found and even better and much more straightforward way of doing this – by using Twitterfeed.
Twitterfeed in essence scans your blog at regular intervals (hourly or daily) and then, in a similar fashion to RSS, uploads a Tweet + tiny url of the post embedded within – leaving you to go off and do something else.
It’s a very easy system to set up (put it this way, I managed to do it while having one eye on The Two Towers on the tube) and before you know it, you’ll be tweeting remotely like the best of them!
There are two things to watch out for however:
1. The Twitterfeed home page, found here, is very temperamental and occasional doesn’t work
2. It will make life so much easier if you have your Open ID to hand before you start the process (I had to go away and then set one up halfway through the Twitterfeed set up)
So there you have it – Twitterfeed, a really effective way of merging your blogging and twitter worlds.
Any questions, give me a shout – you can follow me on Twitter through the link on the left
How to blog safely at work
Mar0
We’ve all been there. How can you manage to write a great post while still at work? I wasn’t aware of this up until yesterday but there is a great facility within Office 2008 that will allow you not only to draft your next post but publish it to your own blog through MS Word.
Obviously I can in no way condone this sort of behaviour but I honestly didn’t realise that you could write copy for you blog and post it directly through Word 2007.
Might have to give it a go someday…
How To Blog Through Word 2007
Authenticity, and getting it wrong!
Dec0
I learnt an important lesson in the etiquette, if not the rules of blogging this week. With the majority of us have day jobs outside of blogging (unless you’re one of the lucky few who make this a full time profession), you may have often come up against the following issue:
What to do when your day job crosses over with your blogger life and you want to seed responses?
In my case, while working for Geronimo on a web build project for the migraine product Imigran Recovery, thought it would be a good idea to post a link to the site through my Twitter account. Within minutes of my post, EaonP (also on Twitter and who I work with at Geronimo) emailed me saying that I needed to be open and honest with my postings.
Therefore, I have learnt a valuable lesson in authenticity and in effect, learnt how not to do something. As a blogging newbie, it seems to me to be quite a rare thing to read a post where someone is telling you how NOT to do something.
Not being authentic could therefore be seen as being the darkside of blogging, where you could start generating chatter and interest in a marketing campaign, which increases awareness of your pesonal blog and the business objectives of the brand you are working for. However just because you can, does this mean you should?
Learning from my mistakes, I would say no, you shouldn’t.
What about you – have you ever come up against this issue? I can’t believe it’s just happened to me…
Ultimate Blogging guide
Nov0
Cracking article over on the the copyblogger site. What would be the top things to remember when drafting copy of your blog, website or even just the day job!
Rather than copy and paste all of the tips, I’ve listed the edited highlights below.
- Put the reader first
- Organise your thoughts
- Use short paragraphs
- Use short sentance
- Use short words
- Be specific
- Write in a conversational style
- Be clear
For the full article on the site, you can view it here