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

ProBlogger

Let me explore a few ways that a blogger should consider ‘listening’: Listen to the culture of the blogosphere This is one for those yet to start blogging (and it should also be applied to those getting into new social media tools like Twitter, Facebook etc).

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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). A blog is less dominated by spam than Twitter.

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The latest on Facebook (Quick Links)

SocialFish

For this first one, there are a bunch of stories floating around the blogosphere lately about Facebook (so what else is new) but this time specifically about marketing techniques. How Facebook Decides What To Put In Your News Feed – These 10 Secrets Reveal All. Peruse at your leisure. Business Insider).

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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. There are stories here and there of feeds automatically updating by retweeting on automated settings. 2: Use Hootsuite to schedule messages far into the future. #3:

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

Kikolani

I follow a lot of blogs and various RSS feeds. 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. 242 subscriptions to be exact.

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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. There are stories here and there of feeds automatically updating by retweeting on automated settings. 2: Use Hootsuite to schedule messages far into the future. #3:

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With the New Design, Twitter Kills RSS, Literally

Stay N' Alive

The blogosphere is abuzz lately about the latest trend: “RSS is Dead,&# everyone says. For instance, even on my own Google Reader shares, you can get them right on my @jesseslinks Twitter stream if you don’t ever want to touch Google Reader (yet I’m still using Google Reader to provide those to you).

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