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  Start-Up Entrepreneurs, Stop Sucking and Start Listening

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  7 days ago in aronado · No authority yet

  Fellow start-up entrepreneurs, let us shout it right now, “FU*K!” Now, a few deep breaths, a few more. OK. Nah, we’re not gonna start drinking yet, we’re gonna reflect & do some thinking. In this post, I just want to talk a little bit about being an entrepreneur, social media, a few people involved in social media and, how it can help your business begin to grow in an organic & amazingly dynamic way.     For starters, here’s the wikipedia entry for entrepreneur: “An entrepreneur is a person who has possession over a new enterprise or venture and assumes full accountability for the inherent risks and the outcome.”    The sticky message for me is “full accountability.” Basically, it is up to you and no one else to make your business successful (period) How bad do you want it?    Entrepreneurs are much like musicians, we are extremely passionate about what we do, and we want everyone to love our “music.” We have a natural tendency to create a product or service, then kinda reach out to everyone (on the freakin’ planet) and ask what they think, “will you join?”, will you try it?”. Now, I am not saying this won’t work, but it just doesn’t freakin work unless you are already known and or respected by the “right” people. So, stop right now! Quit asking people what they think about your damn web app, social networking site, widget, etc. etc. etc.    Let’s get started on your social media agenda and let’s get your BILLION dollar idea off the ground and into some kick ass blogs, and publications like Forbes, Fast Company, Inc., Wired etc.    A little housekeeping real quick: Can you explain your business in 10 words? Why did you start this business? You must be able to spit this out like a sunflower seed! What do you expect to happen with this business? Spit the seed!     Now let’s get your “SM” on!!(if you have done most of these, you NEED to at least check out he “resources!” provided. They will make all your dreams come true! 1. Don’t ask people to “help” you unless they already know, like, & trust you 2. Set up a Facebook account (resource!) http://tinyurl.com/26okdx 3. Create a wordpress.com blog (and start blogging, at least (3) times per week) 4. Get a Twitter.com account (resource!) http://www.lostartofblogging.com/twitter-guide 5. Get involved with other peoples blogs. (must be genuinely interested in their content, read their posts, think, and post comments) *don’t be full of shit! 6. Set up Google reader and read like a mofo! 7. Set up a YouTube account…have fun with it (resource!) http://tinyurl.com/yqdhtf 8. Set up a Flickr account, people want to see you…just do it! 9. Link back to your site, but do not promote yourself, just be present, be a student, and ask questions from the people you want to be like and just be yourself. 10. Drop the EGO right here, right now! Who doesn’t want to be a successful billionaire?! Don’t get all sad and down when others don’t “want to be your friend” or like your business. If your business is well thought out, unique, viable etc. people will be interested. 11. Just stay true to who you are and what you are doing. Get ready to make some changes with your biz because you will be learning from people who have made mistakes for you. Now, these people are in a position to help, and they will help you once they like, know, & trust you! It’s all good…just kick ass!       Since you are brand new let’s stop right here baby! If you start off doing these things you WILL connect with people & you WILL have people ask about your business and you WILL start to build a network of people who care about you because you CARED about them.     I highly recommend you subscribe to these ass kickin guru’s http://garyvaynerchuk.com/ www.ChrisBrogan.com www.Socialmediaexplorer.com http://www.blonde2dot0.com/blog/ http://gregverdino.typepad.com/greg_verdinos_blog/     Ps. If you have a start up & you just want some honest feedback about your “thing” hit me up, I will check it out and give you honest feedback.   Email me at: Aronado@SoNiche.com Skype:Aronado Twitter: Aronado  
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  Twitter for dummies

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  9 days ago in So Close · Authority: 75

  Twitter for dummies Let it be said I’m a bit of an Internet slut. I’ll try anything once. But most of the stuff on the Net is either too complicated, completely pointless, a waste of time or it has a small willy. And my time is too precious to waste on any of the above. There are however, some things that captivate me and keep me interested long enough to keep coming back for more. Blogging is clearly one of them. Thousands of blogs are started every day but many die out after a while. I’ve been blogging almost daily for the last four years. Clearly blogs and blogging works for me. Facebook is another thing I’ve taken a shine too. I am not as addicted as I was in the beginning, but I still love Facebook for its amazing ability to connect me to people I haven’t seen in years and years. It is social networking at its best. (PS If you want to add me as a Facebook friend, you are welcome to do so, but please let me know who you are.) I love Flickr, and I love LinkedIn. MySpace I’ve never really got but perhaps that is because I am Very Old. My latest ‘thing’ is Twitter. Twitter has been around for ages but I’ve only recently ‘got’ Twitter. What is Twitter, you ask? Twitter is micro-blogging, which is a bit like a combination between Facebook and blogging, combined into an RSS / feeder type thingy. Basically, you sign up for Twitter (VERY easy), and then you post updates (like mini blog entries) whenever the mood grabs you. People follow your Twitter stream and you can follow the Twitter stream of people you like. Or don’t like. There is apparently certain etiquette about following someone who is following you, but because people sign up with all sorts of pseudonyms, I have no idea who they are. You can set your updates to private if you are paranoid about that type of thing, but if you are, then you probably shouldn’t sign up for Twitter. So basically, Twitter allows you can keep up with the lives of all the people who interest you in one single page. Now, it sounds very boring, which is what I thought in the beginning. Why on earth would I want to follow the updates of someone’s boring life? And yes, why on earth would you, but Twitter is a lot like blogging: there are some bloody awful, boring blogs out there just as there are some pretty boring Twits / Twitters (still trying to work out the lingo) around. I’d advise against following the boring Twits. But some people are really funny in their updates and it is a great way to keep up with where people are at in a single page. The thing I love about Twitter is that it gives me a single snapshot in to this diverse world of people who interest me, fellow mommy bloggers, geeks, famous people, not so famous people, all updated in one single page. Love it. Sign up for Twitter here. You can follow my stream here. For more on info on Twitter, refer to this excellent article. Happy Twittering! Posted on 04 May 2008 in Blogging Blah Blah |
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  Twitter Trends Upward

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  11 days ago in Dave Serino Blogs · No authority yet

  It has been about a year or so since, Twitter - a micro-blogging platform - has been on the radar. See Wikipedia for additional details – but a quick definition is a basic, a one-sentence micro-blog entry. Now, according to some Hitwise data released earlier this week, Twitter is gaining some notable traction in the web’s 2.0 world. Year on year, Internet visits to Twitter are up eight fold. In addition, the past three months have seen site visits more than double, while traffic continues to climb - up 60% in the past month. It’s obvious people are utilizing this tool, which I’m personally still having some difficulty grasping. So let's set aside my “Twitter Block” and see what people are saying and how travel related organizations are using it. Here are a few takes from industry experts on Twitter: Steve Rubel, Edelman Digital, Micro Persuasion Blog: "It's becoming a front line for customer service. At a minimum, every consumer facing company should be monitoring the chatter. Even better, participating can cut problems off at the pass or even better foster evangelists." Todd Defren, SHIFT Communications, PR Squared Blog: "I can’t emphasize enough how valuable Twitter can be when you need a hand – an idea – or, reactions to an idea. Twitter is an instant focus group, on-call 24/7, and comprised of some of the most brilliant and thoughtful people you’d ever want to meet." Both are very insightful comments. The play I see in Twitter with the travel and tourism industry is the ability to create a buzz, along with reaching additional consumers via another social media distribution outlet. We all know that journalist’s are combing blogs and websites for new story ideas. What a great way to post some teases and see what gets picked up. In terms of reach, one current travel supplier who is currently Twittering happens to be Southwest Airlines. They had some very interesting posts, as you can see in the screen shot to the left. I captured it a few weeks ago. Click on the image to enlarge it and look at the third post. You will see it is a promo for Newport Beach. It is part of an ongoing promotion with Southwest that the CVB is a participating in. If you follow the link in the posting, you will end up on the page below. It is a landing page on the Southwest Airlines site that features flight options, hotels and things to do in Newport Beach. This is part of Southwest’s “Featured Destination” program and another opportunity for consumers to learn more about Newport Beach – this time through Twitter. Although the traffic to Twitter is increasing rapidly, it is still really a very small niche in terms of social media site traffic – it ranked #439 among social networks and forums last week. At this stage, it is worth exploring and learning more about, but I personally wouldn’t begin shuffling resources into Twitter as a marketing tool until it breaks the top 200. And finally, more than you ever to need to know - Twitter: Why It’s So Great And How To Effectively Use It, courtesy of internet entrepreneur, Tibi Puiu at the Lost Art of Blogging.
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  Don’t Be Fooled By April’s Links - This Month In SEO 4/08

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  13 days ago in TheVanBlog | Van SEO Design · Authority: 14

  The first This Month In SEO on the new site. Does it feel any different? The post should look familiar, but the title is new. Some constructive criticism from Lyndon Antcliff after last month’s post is responsible for the change. I guess we should dedicate this month’s links to Lyndon for his suggestions, though it was hard not to dedicate this one to myself for once as April not only is the beginning of a new site for me on a new domain, but it also marks the month of my birth. Maybe we could call it a tie and dedicate things to both Lyndon and myself. As always a number of great posts just didn’t quite fit in here. You can find some of them at my del.icio.us and StumbleUpon profiles. Now on with the show. Social Media As more people sing the praises of social media, more people are asking where the value is. How do you use social media to market yourself and your business? You’d certainly choose a different strategy than if you were marketing directly. And while it may be difficult to measure, the ROI is still there. All in all there are opportunities for small business to succeed using social media. There’s even a natural fit for artists. Direct Marketing vs Social Media Marketing Social Media Networking and ROI: How to Maximize Value and Minimize Cost Social Media Marketing for Small Business Social Media And Artists – A Natural Fit Want to increase the chances your content makes the front page of Digg? Understanding the milestones your post needs to go through to get there might help. No luck with Digg? Maybe it’s time to give Mixx a try. Some think it could be the next Digg. So why doesn’t it have the following it deserves yet? Maybe StumbleUpon is your thing. If so you might want to pay close attention to who you friend. Clean out your closet before SU cleans out you. Of all the profiles on all the social sites on all the internet she visits mine. How do you keep track of everyone you want to follow? It’s time to give FriendFeed a try. But remember you don’t have to be friends with everyone who asks. You do have your rights. 3 Milestones of a Front Page Digg Could Mixx Be the Next Digg? Why Mixx Hasn’t Gotten The Following It Deserves - Yet cleaning out the closet on StumbleUpon How FriendFeed Can Teach You About Your Friends The Social Media Friendship Bill of Rights (and Other Sticky Wickets) Maki has certainly built himself a strong social media profile. What seven essential characteristics of successful profiles did he observe along the way? You’ll need a strong profile if you want to get noticed. It’s hard to be everywhere, but you can be in more places than you think and it’s not illusion. You publish an RSS feed of your blog posts, but are you taking advantage of the RSS feed your social media profiles offer? Those three letters could just improve your success. Building a Popular Social Media Profile: Seven Essential Characteristics The Power Of Being Everywhere Illusion 3 Letters That Can Improve Your Social Media Success Twitter The best way to understand Twitter is simply to use it for awhile, but that’s not stopping people from doing their best to explain the service and tell people why it’s so great or how essential it is as a social tool. Twitter is like sex, it’s a blogging sidekick, it even writes posts for you. Still if you don’t get it yet, just give it a try. Follow me and a few others and see what it’s all about. Joining is really the best way to see the benefits. My Best Explanation of Twitter Twitter: Why It’s So Great And How To Effectively Use It Five Reasons Twitter is an Essential Social Media Tool Twitter is Like Sex Twitter: 8 Reasons Why It’s The Blogger’s New Sidekick Twitter Wrote This Column For Me Twitter isn’t just for marketers. It’s gone mainstream. Presidential candidates and British Parliament are tweeting. So how come the journalist community hasn’t joined in on the fun? Are they afraid someone will trash their reputation? Probably not. Perhaps by year’s end they’ll be just as enamored with the twitterverse as the rest of us and twittering right along. Hopefully the won’t make the eight mistakes some bloggers do. Twitter Has Gone Mainstream For some reason, Twitter hasn’t yet taken the journalist community by storm Did a Twitter User Just Trash Your Online Reputation? Measure Their Influence Twits, Tweeple, Twitterverse & Twitterings Eight Mistakes Bloggers Make While Using Twitter Blogging Should your small business be blogging? The answer of course depends on several factors, but those of us who are blogging would probably lean toward answering yes. If you do take the plunge remember that the first rule is you don’t have to do anything, though there’s plenty you should do. One thing you should do is engage your readers and along those lines you may want to give podcasting a try. Should Your Business Start a Blog? The First Rule of Blogging Engaging Readers A Beginner’s Podcasting Guide: Almost Everything You Need to Know to Start Not all of us can pick up 3,000 subscribers in a few weeks, but that doesn’t mean we can’t try. Maybe you’ll be one of the lucky ones picking up piles of links and comments as your subscriber base grows. A great way to reach new audiences and pick up new readers is by guest blogging for others. Commenting on other blogs in your industry helps too. They’re about more than quick traffic you know. Still there’s a right way and a wrong way to leave comments. 300 Reasons Why I Gained Over 3,000 RSS Subscribers in 10 Weeks How to Get Piles of Links, Subscribers and Comments Guest blogging - A real life case study Rethinking Blog Comments: Much More Than Just A Quick Way to Get Web Traffic How NOT To Leave Blog Comments There’s certainly a lot more to running a successful blog than guest posts and comments. How about a big resource of tips. With links to 60+ articles you’re sure to find something to help improve your blog. 60+ tips not enough? How about an additional one for optimizing your post titles? Is a forum the right addition for your blog? It could be just the thing to keep readers at your site longer. Before you jump right in and add one think about how the code from different sources works together. Applications like WordPress and others may not be as secure as you think. Are they appropriate for SEOs? Matt’s Big Blogging Resource List Blog Marketing Tips #1: How to Optimize Blog Post Titles How to integrate a forum with your wordpress blog Wordpress suitable for SEOs? Design And Development Every time I start a new design I seek a little inspiration, often from css galleries. I’ll also spend time looking through some of the best tutorials to learn a few new tricks. Maybe it’s your contact forms that could use a little more creativity, maybe it’s your footers that could use some out of the box thinking. Maybe it’s your entire blog theme that could use a little guidance on style. Ranking 80 of the Top CSS Galleries April’s Best: This Month in Web Design Web Form Design: Modern Solutions and Creative Ideas Footers In Modern Web Design: Creative Examples and Ideas How to Blog Design Style Guide Your logo isn’t your brand, but it is a visual symbol of your brand and as such might be the most important graphic created for your site. You might want to think how your logo will look as a favicon while you’re creating it. Are you getting tired of seeing the same old RSS icons everywhere? You don’t have to make your visitors feel that way if you opt for something a little off the beaten path. And while you’re working on all those images, perhaps it’s time to get a little more transparent with them. You can get around those pesky browser limitations with a little know how. Logo Design Creation Process from Start to Finish by Expert Graphic Designer - Angela Ferraro-Fanning A Little Favicon Goes a Long, Long Way 60 Great RSS Icons for Your Blog Getting Creative With Transparency in Web Design Don’t forget who you’re designing for, though. It’s not you, it’s your visitors, so make sure your design is usable. Please stop abusing Hx tags and using them as design elements. Take the time to use them properly and both your page and your visitors will be smiling. Treat your other html tags well and use them how they were meant to be used. Pretty soon you’ll start to see the convergence of usability and seo on your site and everyone will be happy. 14 Website Usability Guidelines That Keep them Coming Back for More Web Developers: Please Stop Using the Hx Tag as a Design Element How to Use Hx Tags To Boost Page Performance Guide to Semantic Use of HTML Elements Bundling SEO with Usability - The Convergence of Holistic Search Marketing Link Building Can you define a list of best practices when it comes to link building? Apparently not, as one size really doesn’t fit all. But let’s say you wanted to try. Might you include some thoughts about deep linking and anchor text? Would you include some link development shortcuts? Maybe backlink checkers would make your list or maybe you’d offer up ways to find new links through Google Alerts. Defining Link Building Best Practices Deep Links and The Power of Anchor Text! Link Development Tool Shortcuts for Firefox Backlink Checkers that Actually Help Find New Backlinks With Google Alerts Of course you could skip the whole ninja thing and focus your efforts on developing linkbait even if the name has never been the best. Be careful with your widgets, though. They might get out of hand and if you go so wild that Google defines you as a black hat they may never trust you again. 5 Linkbait Ideas Any Blog Can Use The SEO Industry Needs a New Term for Linkbait Widgetbait Gone Wild Google Thinks YOU Are a Black Hat SEO. Should You Trust Them? SEO Speaking of losing Google’s trust, can you force that on your competition? Are there things you can do to penalize your competition? What if they’ve done it to you. How can you tell if your domain has been banned and shown the door from search results. Then again maybe it’s not your competitors who’ve gotten you in hot water. Would your site pass a manual Google review? How To Penalize Your Competitor’s Site in Google How to Tell if Your Domain is Banned in a Search Engine Will Your Website Pass a Google Review? All this banning talk is depressing. Let’s look at the positive side of things and start improving our situation. The first step is diagnosing the health of your current site. You have to know where you are before you can decide what direction to take to your goal. Your analytics can help in determining what’s working and not working now. Your stats can help you decide if you can compete for competitive keywords or if you still need to work the long tail. And when choosing keywords to target it only makes sense to target the ones people actually use. Why not let Google tell you what those keywords are? Diagnosing The SEO Health Of Your Website Advanced Statistics Tracking for SEO, PPC, and Other Such Insanity Should You Target Competitive Keywords, The Long-Tail or Both? Using Related Search to Find Google’s Most Search Keywords Is your business local? Could people be searching for you in local directories? If so you may want to do a little more than submitting a quick profile and forgetting about it. And why limit yourself to local. There’s no reason you can’t try to dominate your market a few months down the road. A little bit of seo experimenting along the way will help you see what’s working and what’s not. That testing might even suggest some advanced ideas you can put to good use. How to Optimize Local Business Profiles for Free Local Directories 12 Steps to Complete Search Engine Domination - From Zero to Hero in Just 6 Months SEO Experiments Anyone Can Do Four advanced SEO practices An aged domain is often preferable to a new domain. A link from a popular and trusted domain is usually preferable to a link from one not so popular and trusted. Is Microsoft adding another layer of complexity? Might the age of the domains linking to you also affect how well your domain ranks? How about user performance metrics? Has Google confirmed it analyzed queries as part of the ranking signal? And what about duplicate content? Has Yahoo finally figured out how to handle duplicate pages at different URLs? You’ll have to read the patent coverage from Bill and Dave to find out. Do Domain Ages Affect Search Rankings? Query analysis confirmed as Google ranking signal Same-Site Duplicate Pages at Different URLs Business And Marketing Everyone wants their sites to be more valuable. So how do you get more value from your site? You might ask someone who consistently buys sites and find our what he generally looks for. You might also ask that same person what kind of business models he turns to after buying a site. How to Get More Value from Your Site What I Look For When Buying A Website Best Type Of Web Business To Start Best Type Of Web Business To Start (Part Deux) Was your tagline an afterthought? If you’re like me you know they’re important, but aren’t quite sure how to come up with a good one. If you can manage to capture your mission, your promise, and your brand in a few words you might just end up with a tagline that truly works. It’s certainly not the only thing you might change when making over your site. The landing page makeovers are no more, but Roberta has started anew with complete marketing makeovers. The first two debuted this month. How to Create a Rock-Solid Tagline That Truly Works Copywriting Maven’s Creative Plan Marketing Makeover #1 Copywriting Maven’s Marketing Makeover: BookClubClassics.com How well does your copy sell your products and services? Can a simple 3 part formula help you help your copy? Could following 4 essential rules make your copy more persuasive? Maybe the problem isn’t your copy. Could your site be doing one of 50 things to discourage conversions? Perhaps you need to apply one of 7 strategies that have been proven to increase your site’s conversion rate. The 3 Part Formula of Copy that Sells 4 Essential rules to creating persuasive webcopy 50 Ways Your Web Site Is Discouraging Conversions — and How to Fix It 7 Proven Strategies to Double or Triple Your Website Conversion Rate Google doesn’t have its hand in every business…yet. But they sure use their web supremacy to get into as many markets as they can. They’re taking their natural competitive advantage and using it to expand. Don’t be mad at them. Learn from them and see if you can follow their marketing strategy to grow your own business. Google and The Value of Web Supremacy Are You Following Google’s Marketing Strategy? You’ve probably heard that advertising isn’t quite working as hoped for many. You might be struggling to build a site around the advertising model. No worries. Affiliate marketing to the rescue. Instead of serving ads people don’t want, help them find the products they do want. Do you have an affiliate program for your products yet? Yes or no you may find it helpful to discover the advantages and disadvantages of different affiliate management software. And while you’re setting up your affiliate programs and sites take the guesswork out of PPC and follow along with step by step instructions for setting up your campaign. Why Affiliate Marketing Will Save Free Online Content Comparison of Affiliate Management Software Take The Guesswork Out Of PPC Campaign Setup Search Engine News All month long I had been collecting stories about Microhoo or is it Yicrosoft, but let’s face it you already know what’s going on. How could you not. So instead of links how about a quick summary. Microsoft wants to buy Yahoo so they can compete with Google. Yahoo either wants to remain independent or appear like they want to remain independent so Microsoft will raise the price of its offer. Yahoo is working on all sorts of deals with companies like Google and AOL in order to show how much more valuable they are than Steve Ballmer seems to think. Microsoft has never taken ‘no’ very well so they’ve thrown down the gauntlet and insist it’s either sale or hostile takeover. Now that the deadline has passed they seem awfully quiet. Stay tuned next month for more in the sometimes amusing, sometimes annoying search engine acquisition drama. How about quick and useful things from Google and Yahoo? Google is giving small business owners more control over the address that’s displayed in the plus box. They did the right thing in selling Performics and revealed a few secrets about how Google News works. Perhaps the biggest news was that googlebot can now crawl and fill out web forms, which opens up both worries and possibilities for SEOs. And Udi Manber offered an interesting interview to Popular Mechanics. Local Business Center upgrade now allows Plus Box control Selling Performics Search Marketing Psst…secrets of Google News exposed! Google Now Fills Out Forms & Crawls Results Google Now Crawling Content Behind Forms 20 (Rare) Questions for Google Search Guru Udi Manber Yahoo is becoming more open revealing details of it’s new ad system while it tests selling Google’s ads. They’re looking to improve social search and unifying profiles across social properties. It may lead to a new sticky, viral, and friendly Yahoo. Yahoo Reveals Details of Its New Ad Sales System Yahoo to improve social searching through trusted networks Yahoo Integrating Facebook Style Social Map & Unified Profile Pages Across Network The New Yahoo: Sticky, Viral, And Most Of All, Friendly Well I made it through the first round up post on the new site. No weekend in front of us just yet, but hopefully I’ve helped make hump day a little more useful or enjoyable in some way. The good news is the week is more than half over and the coming weekend is closer than the previous one. Thanks again to Lyndon for making some good suggestions after last month’s posts. Hopefully you like the new title idea. Feel free to let me know what you think and make some suggestions for next month. Post from: TheVanBlog | Van SEO Design
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  Twitter, twitter?

  http://kkaczer.wordpress.com/2008/04/24/twitter-twitter/
  19 days ago in KaCZerovo úložiště myšlenek a zážitků · No authority yet

  Jak jsem v poslednĂ­m příspÄ›vku o Teidu.cz psal, mikroblogovĂĄnĂ­ na dennĂ­ bĂĄzi mÄ› moc nebralo a vyuĹžitĂ­ Teidu.cz jsem vidÄ›l jako ideĂĄlnĂ­ masmediĂĄlnĂ­ zdroj pro sdÄ›lovĂĄnĂ­ zĂĄĹžitkĹŻ příbuznĂ˝m například z dovolenĂŠ. NicmĂŠnÄ› na scĂŠnÄ› je samozĹ™ejmÄ› mnohem dĂŠle jinĂĄ vychytanĂĄ sluĹžba a tou je Twitter.com. Jako obvykle jsem “objevil ameriku” jako jeden z poslednĂ­ch a pĹŻvodnÄ› jsem pouze opsal nĂĄpad AT, kterĂ˝ svĹŻj vĂ˝stup z Twittera drcnul na svĹŻj blog, aby udrĹžoval svĂŠ čtenĂĄĹ™e ve stĹ™ehu. ZajĂ­mavĂŠ na tom ovĹĄem je, Ĺže mÄ› tyto krĂĄtkĂŠ ĂştrĹžky komentujĂ­cĂ­ den nebo tĹ™eba momentĂĄlnĂ­ rozpoloĹženĂ­ docela začaly bavit. Nastrkat nÄ›jakĂŠ krĂĄtkĂŠ a ĂşdernĂŠ sdÄ›lenĂ­ do 140 znakĹŻ je mnohdy problĂŠm, ale o to vĂ­c to človÄ›ka nutĂ­ zamyslet se, co vlastnÄ› pouĹĄtĂ­ do svÄ›ta za zprĂĄvu. ZprĂĄvy na Twitter.com lze zasĂ­lat mnoha zpĹŻsoby, pro mÄ› zvlĂĄĹĄĹĽ příjemnĂ˝ zpĹŻsob updatu je pĹ™es gtalk a vyuŞívĂĄm samozĹ™ejmÄ› smsky. To, co mÄ› ale na tomto mikroblogovĂĄnĂ­ zaujalo aĹž na druhĂ˝ pohled, je pomÄ›rnÄ› zajĂ­mavĂĄ interakce s dalĹĄĂ­mi lidmi, kteří tuto sluĹžbu pouŞívajĂ­. Sice bych uvĂ­tal, kdyby ĹĄlo pĹ™es Twittera takĂŠ publikovat fotky (to umĂ­ Teidu.cz), zvlĂĄĹĄĹĽ z MMS, ale i text stačí k tomu, aby človÄ›k nenĂĄpadnÄ› sledoval znĂĄmĂŠ, co se dÄ›je jinde. Stačí si vybranĂŠ lidi pĹ™idat do svĂŠho reĹžimu sledovĂĄnĂ­ (follow) a pak jiĹž vĂĄm na hlavnĂ­ strĂĄnku začnou chodit i jejich příspÄ›vky a vy vĂ­te, co se prĂĄvÄ› dÄ›je u nich. Na kaĹždĂ˝ příspÄ›vek lze i veĹ™ejnÄ› odpovÄ›dÄ›t, kaĹždĂ˝ dalĹĄĂ­ se mĹŻĹže pĹ™idat. DalĹĄĂ­ z moĹžnostĂ­ rozvoje socnetu (moje pĹ™ihlouplĂĄ staĹženina social network) jsou osobnĂ­ zprĂĄvy (direct message) jednotlivĂ˝m uĹživatelĹŻm. DĂ­ky moĹžnosti si nechat zasĂ­lat jakĂ˝koliv update na mobil (ano, i v naĹĄĂ­ banĂĄnovce to funguje) tak lze tĹ™eba transportovat bezplatnĂŠ smsky kamarĂĄdovi. Pro ĹĄetĹ™ivĂŠ to mĹŻĹže bĂ˝t zajĂ­mavĂĄ alternativa. Jen nutno dodat, zvlĂĄĹĄĹĽ pro vyčůranĂŠ ÄŒecháčky, Ĺže je počet sms omezen. MusĂ­m se takĂŠ zmĂ­nit o vzhledu, kterĂŠ lze u titulky upravit, ale stejnÄ› jako v pĹ™edeĹĄlĂŠm případÄ› mÄ› nijak zvlĂĄĹĄĹĽ nezaujal. Co hodnotĂ­m kladnÄ› je rychlĂŠ načítĂĄnĂ­, pĹ™ehlednost a verze i pro mobilnĂ­ prohlĂ­Ĺžeče. A to se hodĂ­. MoĹžnostĂ­ vyuĹžit Twittera je hodnÄ›. KdyĹž se probĂ­rĂĄm tĂŠmatickĂ˝mi člĂĄnky, nalĂŠzĂĄm opravdu skoro neprobĂĄdanou novou oblast. Od pouhĂŠho zaznamenĂĄvĂĄnĂ­ si poznĂĄmek (tzv. tweet), po komunikaci s kamarĂĄdy (kdyĹž človÄ›k nechce pouŞívat ICQ a jinĂŠ protokoly) aĹž tĹ™eba po sledovĂĄnĂ­ zprĂĄv z rĹŻznĂ˝ch webĹŻ, kterĂŠ pouŞívajĂ­ Twitter.com k rychlĂŠmu pĹ™enosu informacĂ­ pro registrovanĂŠ čtenĂĄĹ™e. Jeden z pÄ›knĂ˝ch člĂĄnkĹŻ o moĹžnostech je například tady. mĹŻj mikroblog najdete buď na strĂĄnce tohoto blogu vlevo nahoĹ™e nebo přímo na adrese: http://twitter.com/kaczer
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  Twitter Conversion

  http://gosdot.com/unity/2008/04/23/twitter-conversion/
  20 days ago in Gosdot · Authority: 6

  A few weeks ago I began conducting an experiment to convert web traffic from my most popular blog into followers on Twitter where I promote all my blogs using Twitterfeed. My design blog Goscreative.com on average draws around 200 unique visitors a day with spikes that can jump upwards to 1000 on days when the site is picked up on StumbleUpon, Digg, Good-Tutorials or any number of other sites like those. Because those are all high traffic sites, getting noticed once can turn into residual traffic for months! So my idea was to try to get people who visit my blog to follow me on Twitter where hopefully they will visit my other blogs or become repeat visitors. I started the experiment on April 7th. At that time I had 43 followers on Twitter. Today (just shy of 20 days later) I have 67 followers, a gain of 24 in only 17 days. Using tips gathered from this blog and a redesign of Goscreative.com, I was able to convert some traffic to followers. Of course, just because people are following me on Twitter doesn’t mean they are listening to what I have to say. The point is, of course, the more people who do follow you, the greater the odds that some of them might listen. Perhaps this is also why people are now paying for Twitter accounts. There’s no great secret here, I simply put a few links on my blog to my profile on Twitter. 70% of that sites traffic comes from three extremely popular posts that were written months ago. It averages about 200 uniques a day for the past year. If only 1% of that number (2 people) become Twitter followers each day, then I’ve still successfully increased the exposure of my blogs by just that much. Before I could only dream of a conversion rate like that, but I am apparently already close. A 24 person increase in 17 days isn’t half bad and if that rate remains constant or even grows, I just might reach my goal. So far it’s still too early in the experiment to tell, I’ll post a follow up in a few weeks to let you know the full results. Also, FYI, I follow 125 people on Twitter so my TPI has improved as well (67/125 = 0.53). My Twitter Profile © jon - visit the author for more great content.
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  Why Twitter?

  http://www.my-creativeteam.com/blog/?p=688
  22 days ago in THINKing · Authority: 147

  I’ve just started using Twitter recently and am finding it very useful. (Follow me on Twitter). Here’s a link to a good article that outlines the many reasons you might want to Twitter. A Guide To Twitter: What It Is, How To Use It And Twitter Tools | Lost Art Of Blogging bookmark to:

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