Written on July 22nd, 2008 at 02:07 pm by Darren Rowse
Social Media Love-In: Phase 2 Coming Soon
Wow - when I posted an invitation this morning for ProBlogger readers to promote their social media profiles on this post I didn’t know what would happen - but I suspected it would be fun.
It’s been almost 9 hours since the post went live and over 280 readers have participated and I’m getting emails and tweets from people saying that they have had more people follow/befriend them today than they’ve ever had before (update: Lara just told me that she started getting friend requests minutes after adding hers).
The Next Phase of the ProBlogger Social Media Love-In
In another 15 hours from now (24 hours after the post went live) I’m going to close the comments section on the previous post. It’s not that I don’t want this to continue - but it’s going to enable me (or rather my good friend Lara from Anubis Marketing) to make this ‘Love-In’ even more useful.
You see Lara is going to spend tomorrow compiling everyone’s submissions into lists of the different social media sites so that instead of everyone having to trawl through every comment looking for the social media services that they use you’ll be able to quickly add everyone from your services quickly from the one list.
We’ll start with Twitter (it seems to be the most popular) and make a page with just all your Twitter profiles and go from there through the other services.
This means that we’ll end up with a directory of social media accounts from ProBlogger readers.
Why the Love-In?
As I said in the launch post for this Social Media Love-In - my hope is that this will help the ProBlogger community to grow and make it’s network stronger and more useful. While you’re all blogging on a lot of different topics - you’re all bloggers and the potential for you to help one another grow your blogs is quite massive.
You won’t find everyone that you add from these lists helpful - but hopefully they’ll give you a head start in finding other bloggers like you who are interested in putting themselves out there to connect.
What comes from it is really up to you and how you choose to use the compilations of profiles that we collate over the coming days.
So Add Your Profiles
As I write this you have less than 15 hours to add your profiles to the launch post (not this post). The comments on that post will be closed at 5am tomorrow (Melbourne time) to enable Lara to get the lists together. Depending upon how this goes we may have a 2nd round of submissions - but there’s no guarantees so add your profiles to make sure you’re included.
Just make sure you use the words ’social media’ in your comment or we can’t guarantee it won’t get sucked into our spam filters.
Thanks to everyone for participating - it’s been a lot of fun already and I’m looking forward to seeing where this takes us.
Update: Okay, comments are closed on the other post. I’m working hard at compiling everything into lists, and we’ll update you soon on how that’s working out! Thanks everyone! - Lara
67 Responses to “Social Media Love-In: Phase 2 Coming Soon”
Ryan
July 22nd, 2008 2:37 pm
Awesome! I can’t wait!
Louis Liem
July 22nd, 2008 2:38 pm
Wow! I’ve just got home from World Youth Day and there’s a chance to boost my profile. Prays work :)
Mr.Gadget - Arnold Aranez
July 22nd, 2008 2:52 pm
Pimp me!
Bugsy
July 22nd, 2008 2:59 pm
Sweet idea. It will be very cool to scan everyone’s profiles by the networks, that way we can find the ones we use most. Well done, Darren.
Four20
July 22nd, 2008 3:02 pm
nice one Darren. . .I saw what you did there
Timothy Neilen
July 22nd, 2008 3:10 pm
I’m pretty sure that Twitter will be the main one, and Digg / YouTube won’t be too far behind.
Ed Shaz/ NextInstinct
July 22nd, 2008 3:12 pm
Excellent Darren,
You’ve really done so much for the online community.
Good on ya
Blessings,
Ed
PS- Again, Good Health to you and your Family.
Amit Bhawani
July 22nd, 2008 3:19 pm
Waiting for the same, true its hard to add individually each of 280 commentors one by one :)
Muhammad Siyab
July 22nd, 2008 3:27 pm
me too waiting for the list…
Syed Balkhi
July 22nd, 2008 4:05 pm
waiting for the new post
Love Poems
July 22nd, 2008 4:18 pm
Because of the interaction involved, social media marketing (SMM) can take more time than search optimization (SEO) does. Love Poems
Lucy
July 22nd, 2008 7:35 pm
Great idea - that’ll make it much easier to find people
Barbara Ling, Virtual Coach
July 22nd, 2008 9:01 pm
Excellent idea!
One suggestion - if you’re going to make this list accessible online, use the ‘target=_blank’ tag for the twitter links.
That way, your blog won’t be smooshed by folks clicking over, clicking back, clicking over, clicking back, etc.etc.etc.etc.
I always use this technique when networking via twitter - it makes the response times much faster.
Data points, Barbara
Ryan @ Smarter Wealth
July 22nd, 2008 9:06 pm
Well I actually haven’t started using social media to market my blog…but I will start within the next 15 hours so I can get my name on the list
Laura
July 22nd, 2008 9:12 pm
I’m excited! I met a bunch of people yesterday and I hope to meet some more.
Lara Kulpa
July 22nd, 2008 9:12 pm
Thanks, Barbara… I’m the world’s biggest “blank” advocate, no worries!
Pamir | Reiki Help Blog
July 22nd, 2008 9:16 pm
Yes Twitter, Digg & Plurk in that order. Thanks all who’ve linked with me. Please give me some time to go through all the alerts I received. And Lara’s compilations will make it easier for me to initiate some linkage. :)
Chris
July 22nd, 2008 11:10 pm
It’s a great idea and I’ve already made new friends from that post :)
Pepperjam the Missing Link for eBay Partner Network
July 22nd, 2008 11:29 pm
This was a great and fun idea Darren!! Social Media is always great for website promotion but this makes it even better.
Thanks for taking the time Darren,
JR
Brian Bufalo
July 22nd, 2008 11:38 pm
I have had more networking offers because of this than any thing else I’ve ever done online. Thank you everyone for your add’s and thank you ProBlogger for making this happen! Great idea!
L@spillingbuckets
July 22nd, 2008 11:52 pm
Great idea. I’ve already made friends and I was one of the last ones to post. ;)
Lara Kulpa
July 23rd, 2008 12:03 am
Update: Okay, we’re nearing 600 entries… I’m sorry, Barbara, but I’ve changed my mind. LOL
Here’s a tip though: If you press the ‘CTRL’ key when clicking, the links should open in new tabs (if using FireFox or an updated, tabbed IE). This goes for any site, and you can actually click right through 10 or 50 and just have them all open in new tabs.
I’m sorry if that doesn’t work for you, but given the amount of compiling going on here, with the amount of posts, I need to be as time efficient as possible. *shrug*
Muhammad Siyab
July 23rd, 2008 12:06 am
Lara - that’s a very time-efficient option, and I’m already using it to open about 50 social media links at once from the launch post!
Bryn Youngblut
July 23rd, 2008 12:10 am
Excellent idea Darren, thanks.
MizFit
July 23rd, 2008 12:23 am
very cool!
Dante Explorer
July 23rd, 2008 12:25 am
Hey Darren,
Thanks 4 your hard work, you’ve really helped a lot of us jump start our pages. Dave
Lara Fabans
July 23rd, 2008 12:52 am
If Lara wants help doing the compiling, this Lara is available to assist. :-)
Kris
July 23rd, 2008 12:58 am
Hey Darren,
Thank you both for providing this!
And Lara thanks for compiling it, that’ll make things easier. I added a few people before I had to go to sleep, but want to follow more.
John Hoff - eVentureBiz
July 23rd, 2008 1:05 am
This is a really cool idea. I think I got mine in just in time. Thanks for the opportunity to grow my blog. I really do appreciate it.
theaardvark
July 23rd, 2008 1:57 am
Lara,
If you compile the list in a HTML editor like HTMLKit, or even in word, you could add the target=”_blank” using a search & replace so that you don’t have to do it all manually.
Lara Kulpa
July 23rd, 2008 2:05 am
@ theaardvark - Thanks for the suggestion, but it’s actually absolutely fastest when I can simply copy from the comments page in WordPress and paste right into the post. I don’t want to deal with the required cleanup of using MS Word, and I’m too much of a hand-coder when it comes to using editors. I’d want to make it more perfect that way. With 600+ comments, there’s just no time for me to be a perfectionist. ;)
Seriously, it’s actually quite easy for you guys to just hold down the “CTRL” key (at least on PC’s, I’m not aware of what key you press on a mac to do this) and open new tabs with each click. Or have your browser settings set to open links in a new tab.
I apologize that I can’t accommodate for each individual preference, but at least I offered up a tip that would make it easy on everyone! :) I get to copy/paste with lightning speed, and you guys get to open the links just as quickly if not moreso… we all win this way!
Lara Kulpa
July 23rd, 2008 2:07 am
@ Lara Fabans - Thank you for the offer! I’ll let you know if and when my left hand cramps up! ;)
Mixedbrains
July 23rd, 2008 2:50 am
@Laura
You can use linky in firefox to open up to 100 links at a time.
if you need help with anything let me know
SuperCrushed
July 23rd, 2008 2:58 am
This is pretty awesome! New to the site, like what I see.
Bob Angus
July 23rd, 2008 4:18 am
Great response and I can also testify that my new friend requests have had a big jump.
I am also taking this opportunity to group my friends in terms of the content I share. Just like creating blog a blog post with a specific reader in mind, I would like to do blogging-specific tweets just for bloggers. That way all my new Problogger friends can hopefully enjoy great info that my affiliate marketing friends would otherwise glance over… and visa versa.
Alexandra Popovic
July 23rd, 2008 5:36 am
Way to go Darren! You’ve probably started a new blog craze and catchphrase “Hi - I’m from Problogger’s Social Media Love-in - let’s connect!”
Can’t wait to find out where this experiment takes us all!
Alex
;)
Mixedbrains
July 23rd, 2008 5:52 am
Also @Laura,
I have the complete list saved in a spreadsheet.
I can sort them by site or by user. Email me if you need anything.
Jill
July 23rd, 2008 6:35 am
One thing that is cool about this love in is that it isn’t just one-on-one connections. I just realized this when I added Ed Healy on FriendFeed and noticed that he had amongst his subscribers several other of my new contacts. That’s when I understood that we are becoming a community; a group of interconnected people with common interests. Quite a few of us are already connected on several sites which helps to connect everyone to everyone else. This is a pretty powerful little experimen.
Steve Nimmons
July 23rd, 2008 7:34 am
Excellent, consolidation is a great idea. I was going to suggest a linkedin or facebook group, but I’m glad there will be an element of ‘post-processing’ to maximise utility of the ‘experiment’. Keep the love coming :-)
Reginald
July 23rd, 2008 8:23 am
What are the negative impacts of creating a social media profile?
Lara Kulpa
July 23rd, 2008 8:45 am
Hey gang, the lists are on the way… we’re going to release one list a day, starting with Twitter.
Eric
July 23rd, 2008 9:25 am
The idea is so cool… I have been having a blast meeting new people.
Kari
July 23rd, 2008 10:25 am
It just gets better and better! Good idea and grouping the different social media sites like that!
Lara Kulpa
July 23rd, 2008 11:14 am
Sorry everyone, please don’t publish your social media stuff here on this post… we had it open on the other post for 24 hours, and closed it for a reason. (It got over 700 responses!) I will not be including lists placed on this post, and I will not be checking the spam filters…
It’s entirely possible that Darren will open it up again in a few months or something, but as of about 3pm NY, USA time, submissions were closed. That doesn’t mean you can post them here… sorry.
mixedbrains
July 23rd, 2008 2:45 pm
Just some advice too. Prob better not to add 400 people your digg profile all at once. :)
Peter
July 23rd, 2008 3:01 pm
looking forward to round 2. Round 1 was great for my subscriber numbers and followers on various social media.. Thanks darren!
Tom Laine
July 23rd, 2008 8:53 pm
Oh, what a shame, I missed this one while on holiday… Should always keep the laptop with me I guess. I hope you guys decide to open a new one soon to give us late-Nates a chance to participate. Anyway, a great idea indeed! More of these please!
Regards,
Tom Laine
greven
July 23rd, 2008 10:12 pm
This was really a good idea. :) Nice initiative Darren.
Codrut Turcanu I Remarkable Blogging dot Com
July 23rd, 2008 10:35 pm
Awesome!
I’ll definitely go for it.
blogversary
July 24th, 2008 12:18 am
bummer, is the launch post closed? I really wanted to be part of it.
Can you make a tiny exception?
Chris Guthrie
July 24th, 2008 1:10 am
Yes the post is closed. Darren -> can I offer one suggestion?
Change the image on your blog to say comments closed when your comments are closed :(
I thought I still had a chance.
Syed Balkhi
July 24th, 2008 2:38 am
Darren, I have been doing alot of link love recently..
For a month I am deciding to give free reviews to my readers blog.
http://www.balkhis.com/random-blurbs/balkhis-reader-love-continues-get-your-blog-reviewed-for-free/
Once or twice a week, I will be reviewing my readers.
Free text links are also being given away to people who ask me questions.
Tom
July 24th, 2008 3:56 am
This was a cool idea. Looking forward to the list.
Lara Kulpa
July 24th, 2008 4:55 am
@ Chris Guthrie - I’m not sure what you mean… Once I closed the comments on that post it was pretty clear that we weren’t accepting more comments on that post, and I added an “update” at the end of it, and an update to this one.
I realize that it’s frustrating that we only had it open for 24 hours, but the point of my spending the time to create the categorized lists after the fact is so that everyone, including the people who missed out on listing their links, can click through and add others in as easy and simplified a way as we could possibly make it.
Chip
July 24th, 2008 6:03 am
That’s great. I’m looking forward to your phase 2 article.
theMatrix777
July 24th, 2008 9:22 am
I spent all that time getting the email ready only to hit submit and the message said it was closed.
That was 1:30 pm Las Vegas, Nevada time (pacific time zone).
When I look at the time I got the newsletter and the date/time on the post about this to the time I tried to submit, it was not 24 hours.
Are you going to do another?
Mixedbrains
July 24th, 2008 9:48 am
Ahh… We killed Twitter. hahahahaha I mean .uh. oops
Diana L Guerrero
July 24th, 2008 10:35 am
It sure was frustrating to be on a secured system when the offer was open…couldn’t post. Problogger is flagged as “suspicious” so just came to see how things went–looking forward to seeing the results and hopefully I can jump in next time!
aishaladon
July 24th, 2008 6:46 pm
Oh fooey, I missed all the love, I was late reading the RSS feeds. Question, what do you guys get out of all the love you are spreading around ?
Im a new blogger, and a few people visit, I know many on social networking sites, but people dont comment.
I guess I should start my posts with a question and see if that works.
I have the probloggers book and it has really helped
thanks
C K
July 25th, 2008 3:15 am
Argh, have missed ‘the boat’! Is there any chance that the list will be extended?
Lara Kulpa
July 25th, 2008 3:22 am
Okay gang - The 24 hour thing was from the time the post went live on the site to the time I closed the comments.
What I think you guys are failing to take advantage of here is the list in and of itself. Who says you have to be ON the list in order to take advantage of the nearly 700 who are? Take the initiative and go start adding those people, rather than sit back and prefer to have people adding you.
I’m not sure if Darren’s going to open it up again or not (or when, for that matter), but the bottom line is that rather than complaining, why don’t you just take action how you can? I’m still working on lists and we’ll be releasing them as soon as they’re done, so just start adding people, people!
Tucson Bass Player
July 25th, 2008 5:46 am
Man have I missed the boat on The Social Sites networking! What’s new though! LOL
Alexis
July 25th, 2008 6:25 am
I just read the part about this section also being closed to that :( I hope it opens back up soon!
Jenn
July 25th, 2008 7:36 am
I missed the boat, too! Hope you can have another one of this for us who weren’t able to join.
Anyway, I am a fairly new Twitter user, I am hoping you guys could follow me HERE. Of course I will follow you, too!
Vlad
July 25th, 2008 9:14 am
Looks like I missed a good party lol. Any word on second round of submissions?
Lara Kulpa
July 25th, 2008 9:31 am
If we do, it won’t be for a while, gang… this is a LOT of work. I’m sure Darren will post and let you guys know if and when another Love In happens.
Kelly
July 26th, 2008 5:23 am
I second the question from someone above - what to do now with all our new “love”? How do we turn this into more readers?
Should we add EVERYONE? Or only those that look interesting to us?
Thanks,
Kelly
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