Written on June 2nd, 2008 at 12:06 am by Darren Rowse

MU vs NING for Community Building

Blogging Tools and Services, Social Media 29 comments

This is a guest post by Roni of GreenLiteBites. Roni has developed a successful online community, BlogToLose, to support her weight loss blog WeightWatchen.
In 2005, I started a blog to track my weight loss progress after joining Weight Watchers. Initially, the site was a very egocentric attempt to be accountable on my weight […]

Written on May 24th, 2008 at 08:05 pm by Darren Rowse

Come Join us in the ProBlogger Room on FriendFeed

Social Media 18 comments

Most regular readers of ProBlogger will know that I’ve been playing quite heavily with Twitter over the last few months. I’ve found it to be a very fruitful exercise.

Over the last month or two FriendFeed has been another tool that many bloggers are also playing with. I’ve dabbled with it (my FriendFeed Account is here) […]

Written on May 20th, 2008 at 12:05 am by Daniel Scocco

What Are The Unspoken Rules of Social Networks?

Social Media 32 comments

Bruce Simmons asks:
Social Network sites like Digg and StumbleUpon and what not seem to have unspoken rules about who can promote a blog. What I mean to say or ask is: OK, with Digg, one cannot submit their own blog. But Twitter, you can chest thump all day long.
Do have a list of what sites […]

Written on May 17th, 2008 at 02:05 pm by Darren Rowse

Which Social Bookmarking Site Would You Prefer to Hit the Front Page Of?

Reader Questions, Social Media 76 comments

Here’s a question that might provoke some interesting discussion over the weekend:
Which Social Bookmarking Site Would You Prefer to Hit the Front Page Of?
Would you prefer to hit the popular page on Digg, hit StumbleUpon’s buzz page, make it big on Delicious, Mixx or Reddit or is there some other social bookmarking page that you’d […]

Written on May 12th, 2008 at 12:05 am by Darren Rowse

Building Your Twitter Presence Part 3 - TweetBaiting

Social Media 25 comments

Last week in my 5 Tips to Grow Your Twitter Presence post John suggested that an additional strategy to grow your follower numbers in Twitter is to target bigger Twitter users for conversation.
The logic behind this is that if you can get them to reply to you and even have a multiple part conversation with […]

Written on May 9th, 2008 at 05:05 am by Darren Rowse

Building Your Twitter Presence Part 2 - Pre-Prepared Tweets

Social Media 25 comments

Yesterday I wrote 5 tips to help increase your follower numbers on Twitter. Thanks to everyone for your comments and suggestions on the topic.

As I read over the comments I realized that there were a few more things that I’d been learning on how to use Twitter that might be worth sharing. So over the […]

Written on May 8th, 2008 at 12:05 am by Darren Rowse

5 Tips to Grow Your Twitter Presence

Featured Posts, Social Media 73 comments

Since starting to use Twitter more regularly I’ve been asked by quite a few readers for tips on how to grow the numbers of Twitter Followers. Today I’m going to give a few tips on how I’ve grown my own Twitter Follower numbers up over 5500 in the last few months:

1. Leverage Other Profiles
Do you […]

Written on May 4th, 2008 at 12:05 am by Darren Rowse

It Takes a Gathering to Build a Crowd

Blog Promotion, Social Media 36 comments

In this guest post Steven Snell (who writes about social media at Traffikd) examines the topic of generating readership for your blog through social media.

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If you spend much time on social media websites, I’m sure you’ve noticed that you tend to see many of the same websites and blogs on the front page […]

Written on April 24th, 2008 at 05:04 am by Darren Rowse

Tips For Social Media Toddlers

Social Media 8 comments

I don’t do many guest posts on other people’s blogs these days but this week I was asked to do one that I couldn’t resist. Kristen from Social Media Mom asked me to write something on Social Media and being a Dad.

My first thought was that it was all too hard - but I decided […]