It would help if I didn’t have so many blogs on the go :)

Was really having fun over at 360, but it started taking pages over an hour, *AN HOUR*, to load.. Personal feeds now keep that profile at least semi-fresh..

Yeah, I think Technorati very much belongs here.. Could be mistaken, but think my first “burst” in traffic came from there..

Signed:

The Queen of One Figure Blogging.. :))

I also use Technorati to keep track of who’s linking back to me and I try to visit a handful of new blogs listed on there each week.

Haven’t cracked that one yet, but will use some of the rainy days we’re looking to have this week to learn more. This post’s many links and tips will be revisited a lot.

Why do I want to find people from my schooldays? Or university? Let alone letting the whole work organisation see what i’m up to socially

Perhaps I need a guide

In fact slashcot is the way I found ProBlogger in the first place. Although I am not a regular there, and certainly feel (perhaps wrongly) that I am nowhere near as acerbic and cynical as the average “slashdotter” I did come to ProBlogger the very first time in order to check out what I was _sure_ was a scam …. “six-figure bloggin” … of course it wasn’t and I’ve become a big Darren fan as well as a (tiny) problogger myself based on that first visit … so “social sites” can certainly influence both blogs and lives.

Social network mostly created to build relationship, If relationship estabilish, we can start marketing. That what we call permission based marketing. This is much more polite than spam.

Like many others posted above. They seem to fall into categories on their own after awhile of using them without having to sort it all out up front.

What some of the A-list bloggers have said is true. You need to blog for yourself, and if the Digg/Reddit/etc. demographic doesn’t really represent the kind of long time audience you think you’ll draw, it’s probably wise then not to spend a lot of time on those type of networks.

I *just* joined MyBlogLog. I was leery of it because of the spam horror stories, but it seems many of those problems have been resolved recently, so I decided to try it. The jury’s still out for me on it. I’m getting some traffic, finding some interesting new sites, but haven’t met anyone yet (that’s my responsibility, I know :) and it does still seem a little spammy.

I don’t use MySpace or FaceBook. I was briefly a Friendster user and had a rather lousy experience with it. I think that kind of soured me on the general social networks.

In the post you’ve mentioned only six–were you aware that there are at least 130 of them that are very active and worthwhile?

But I try to get all the information at one place, so popurls.com really saves me a lot of time.

Using social bookmarking sites lets me come accross new ideas and stories I can write about so it definitely helps me in generating ideas.

I usually allow myself half an hour every morning to go through the sites and then later after work to catch up on the day’s activities but it amounts to one and half hours at the max

It’s still mainly used for keeping up with my friends and old work colleagues, though I do increasingly have links with other bloggers. I personally think Facebook is really going to take off in the coming year, as it has new features added to it, and yet feels more professional and ’slick’ than MySpace.

Though the groups aren’t as advanced as a dedicated forum, they’re easy to use and so it means people are more keen to interact with one another. I also leave all my web links and basic information globally available so anyone can see it. I know a few other bloggers are using it to experiment driving traffic to their sites. Because I have a lot of personal friends on it, and it’s not anonymous, it also keeps me in check about being ‘real’ and not spamming (not that I do anyway!) links. If people are interested, they’ll visit, if not, fine.

And on that note, the link above takes you to my Facebook profile :)