Written on June 25th, 2008 at 06:06 am by Darren Rowse

How To Promote Other People’s Content and Drive Traffic to Your Own Blog

Blog Promotion, Social Media 45 comments

Much has been written on the topic of how to utilize social bookmarking and networking sites to promote your own blog posts. Submitting your posts to sites like Digg, StumbleUpon and Reddit - posting about your posts on Twitter and Plurk….

All of these techniques can work to drive significant traffic to your blog - […]

Written on June 14th, 2008 at 12:06 am by Darren Rowse

The Main Difference Between Twitter and Plurk (to me)

Social Media 57 comments

Over the last week I’ve been experimenting with a social messaging/micro blogging service called Plurk. Over the last week I’ve seen many comparisons between it and Twitter - but wanted to show one of the main differences that I’ve observed:
To illustrate let me show you a ‘tweet’ and a ‘plurk’ message that I posted an […]

Written on June 6th, 2008 at 11:06 pm by Darren Rowse

Top 10 Plurk Users Statistics - What’s the Karma Algorithm

Social Media 21 comments

As a quick followup to my last post on my experimentation with Plurk I thought I’d do a quick analysis of the top 10 Plurk Users (as currently rated on the Interesting page). They are rated there on a basis of their ‘Karma’. There’s no explicit definition of the way that they calculate Karma except:
“Your […]

Written on June 6th, 2008 at 10:06 pm by Darren Rowse

Add a ProBlogger Tab to Your FriendFeed

Social Media 3 comments

If you are a FriendFeed user AND you like ProBlogger - you might want to check out a greasemonkey script for Firefox users that Duncan created that puts a ProBlogger tab to the top right hand corner of your FriendFeed page.

It means you can view ProBlogger from within FriendFeed - like this (click to enlarge):

He’s […]

Written on June 6th, 2008 at 09:06 am by Darren Rowse

Playing with Plurk

Social Media 80 comments

Just a very quick post to let readers know that I’m playing with Plurk (another micro blogging/life streaming tool that is a little like Twitter).

At first I only intended to grab my names (problogger and darrenrowse) and use them as placeholders but I’m now starting to find it a really interesting medium. It takes the […]

Written on June 6th, 2008 at 12:06 am by Darren Rowse

Twitter is a Complete Waste of Time!

Social Media 73 comments

Every time I’ve written about Twitter (or FriendFeed or most other social media) I see comments left saying ‘Twitter is a waste of time’.
My response is simple - yes it is.

Twitter is a waste of time…. unless you use it in a way that isn’t.

Twitter can be a waste of time just like blogging can […]

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

MU vs NING for Community Building

Blogging Tools and Services, Social Media 30 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 […]