Posts Tagged ‘community’
5 Ways To Bring The Social Media To Your Blog
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Here is a question a lot of new bloggers struggle with: how do you drive traffic to a blog? New bloggers are often less patient than the more experienced ones, but the question is very valid. Without traffic, you are not going to get the exposure you deserve for your work, and you are not going to be able to properly monetize your blog. It’d be hard to stay motivated if you work hard on your content only to see others who have much lower quality content get all the exposure and traffic you are not getting. But traffic may be nearer than you think. The social media is a great place to start if you want to significantly improve the amount of eyeballs that visit your pages. Websites such as Digg, Twitter, Reddit, and StumbleUpon are all very effective traffic drivers in their own ways, so you do want to make sure your content is being shared on those networks.
You can always add your content to the top social networking sites by yourself. But a better way to approach this is by giving your audience the tools it needs to spread the word about your content. You’d be surprised how effective this tactic can be. With that in mind, here are 5 methods to bring the social media to your blog:
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Hire or Get Hired With TalentTrove
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Everyone has a talent. We may come from different backgrounds but we all have something that we are passionate about a talent to build upon. These tough economic times have made people think about ways to utilize their talents to pursue their dream careers. But you don’t have to be on America’s Got Talent to showcase your talent these days. Social network sites such as Talent Trove let you express yourself and share your talent with the world and get hired in the process.
TalentTrove is one of those social communities that is more than just about meeting people and making random contacts. It’s about giving the artists and those who deserve a break a shot at making it big. The site is built to let you share your talents with the world and learn new things that can help push you to the next level. Talent can go only so far if you don’t nurture it and pick up new ways to better utilize it. TalentTrove allows you to do just that.
Whether you’ve got talent or looking for talent for your small or big business, with TalentTrove you have access to the work of a community that is full of talent. The resources available in this community can help you hone your skills and take your talent to the next level. If you are looking to hire a journalist or a TV model, TalentTrove provides you with the tools you need to identify candidates for your project and select those who fit your plans.
The community is growing but I am very interested to learn more about those already sharing their work and talent in this community. It’s always good to know that there are businesses out there that aspire to give others a shot at making the best of their talents. TalentTrove certainly sets the bar high.
Are you on TalentTrove?
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How To Build a Real Community Around Your Blog?
One major difference between a good dynamic content site and a good blog is the community factor. A blog allows readers to interact with you and share their thoughts. That’s the major difference between a good Web 1.0 site and Web 2.0 site. The truth is building a real community around your blog is a big challenge. What do I mean by real community?
A real community is one that keeps people coming back to your site and interact with you and other users. Some folks run blogs that get occassional blogs from readers who get to their sites via Google and other search engines, but if you can’t retain these guys, you do not have a real community.
When there is a challenge, there is an opportunity. It’s nice to get people to your blog consistently via RSS, but you want their comments and their interaction. The truth is, the blog architecture allows many-to-many forms of communication, but most blogs use a glorified one-to-many form of communication. You write a blog post and then you allow others to communicate with you. But you want them to engage with each other with or without you being a part of the discussion. If your niche is narrow enough, you can start a social network or forum around your blog.
Create Your Own Community:
You can always use services such as Ning, Pligg or KickApps to design mini social networks in your niche. What I like about these solutions is that they are free and you can customize them to duplicate your blog’s experience in your social community as well. For example, if you are running a tennis blog, think about how engaging your own social tennis network would be. Of course, tennis is now a very overcrowded market with many social networks. The true promise of Web 2.0 is many-to-many user engagement, and that’s the best way to empower users and make them want to come back to you and your community for more. That’s what I believe is the future of blogging. You can have the best content in the world on your blog, but unless you can create a sense of community around your blog, you cannot expect to make it big time in the blogging world. Thankfully, there are many free tools that you can use, so there is no excuse not to do it.
Do you have a social network to complement your blog? In your opinion, what are the challenges and the opportunities of creating a real community around your blog?
