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Monday’s 5 Social Media Must-Reads

Firebelly

Twitter’s Fly Redesign Aims To Be Faster, Simpler. By Laurie Segall When co-founder Jack Dorsey returned to Twitter earlier this year, he announced that his top priority would be to improve the service’s user experience. How to Increase Participation in Your Twitter Chat or Any Online Community.

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Blogosphere Trends + Using Infographics

ProBlogger

Check for Creative Commons License information (see the CC logo at the bottom of this infographic on the 2012 GOP candidates ) or other licensing information and if an embed code featuring a link back to the source is provided, as it is here, be sure to use it. This map of Twitter activity during a recent U.S.

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Tweet After Death: How to Use Social Media to Live Forever [Redux]

Waxing UnLyrical

Ed: This post originally ran on June 4, 2012. To make it as easy as possible, here it is in steps: #1: Get Hootsuite and Twitter set up. #2: 3: Live out the rest of your life and let Twitter do the rest. Twitter Google+ LinkedIn Tweet After Death: How to Use Social Media to Live Forever [Redux]. Tweeting after death.

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5 Essential Qualities of Growing Your Blog Quickly in a Crowded Niche

Kikolani

This is a guest post by Marcus Sheridan , recently named one of the Top 10 Social Media Bloggers of 2012 by Social Media Examiner. 7 Reasons Why Having a Twitter Feed in Your Sidebar is a Really Dumb Idea. If you've enjoyed this post, be sure to follow Kristi on Twitter , Facebook , and Google+ ! We all want our blogs to grow.

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Google Reader Alternatives: 3 Web Based RSS Readers to Manage Your Subscriptions

Kikolani

Then I rename each subscription with the blog’s main Twitter handle. Plus, when I’m ready to periodically purge my RSS feeds, I can look at the Twitter handles and figure out quickly whether I have engaged with them or not. At the bottom, you can also see results from the blogosphere.

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Bloggers to Watch in 2017

ProBlogger

The blogosphere has changed so much over the past decade. I curated Bloggers To Watch column here on Problogger for four years and it is phenomenal how much has changed since I wrote my last post in 2012. He is a prolific writer and content curator and shares so many useful resources via his Twitter account. Don’t be.

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7 Strategies for Growing Community on Your Blog

ProBlogger

Check out the top 20 posts on ProBlogger in 2012 and notice that over 50% of the most read posts that year had personal words in their titles. Since 2005 there have been many such projects run around the blogosphere. In 2012 Nester saw over 1200 bloggers run 31 Days Challenges over the month of October (just a few pictured below)!