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A Blog is a Better Social Media Hub Than Twitter

Socialized

If you’re relying on Twitter as your social media hub, you’re limiting your potential for impact and influence. Twitter is excellent for distribution , but if you’re going to communicate original ideas, you’ll need a blog (or something similar). He converses everywhere.). Scoble is an exception.

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Mastering the Art of Listening: A Blogger’s Guide to Success

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The people we tend to be drawn to in real life are people who pause in conversation to let you have a say, people who ask questions about you, people who have a genuine interest in what you’ve got to say. More and more useful tools are being set up for Twitter to help monitor what people are saying about your industry.

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Conversion Optimization: Our New Series

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Of all the topics that bloggers ask me about, conversion optimization is among those at the top of the list. All of us have conversion goals of some sort. Some of the blogger’s most common conversion goals include: grow signups to an email subscription list. attract Facebook fans and Twitter followers.

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Blogosphere Trends + Being Opinionated

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Man alive, I hate bringing you a list of blogosphere trends that includes both Lindsay Lohan and Jersey Shore—not to mention Sarah Palin. One advantage of sharing your viewpoints is that it opens the door to the opinions of your readers and provides a venue for productive conversations. You can find her on Twitter @kimber_regator.

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Blogosphere Trends + Unicorns

ProBlogger

Kindle – “ Don’t Really Care About Touch Screens or Color ” from Conversational Reading uses a combination of first and second person. That choice, along with phrases such as “I wonder how many readers out there are like me…” establishes a conversational tone. You can find her on Twitter @kimber_regator. Share This.

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Tweet After Death: How to Use Social Media to Live Forever

Waxing UnLyrical

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. But staying part of the conversation— building relationships like a living person does —is the part that seems clever to me. Tweeting after death. . Our messaging.

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

Waxing UnLyrical

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. But staying part of the conversation— building relationships like a living person does —is the part that seems clever to me. Tweeting after death. . Our messaging.