Posts Tagged ‘Twitter’
Social Follow: Social Media Buttons For Your Profiles
Wouldn’t it be nice if you could just write your blog posts and rely on your readers to spread the word about it on top social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook and connect with you on those sites? You can always use your blog to promote your social media profiles. In order to do that you will need to have proper call to actions on your blog to make sure your visitors do what you need them to do. If your content is top notch, people will have no problem connecting with you and following you. But don’t expect them to go out of their ways to do it. That’s why you need social media buttons on your blog. Social Follow is a simple service that lets you create your social media buttons and add them to your blog to give your visitors an easy way to connect with you on Twitter, Facebook, and other top social networking websites.
You can think of Social Follow as a profile aggregator. All you have to do is provide the service with your accounts information, and the service does the rest. Whether you are on only a few social networking sites or have presence on a dozen of them, Social Follow makes it easy to add them all to your blog fast. Read more »
Jotabl: Add a Twitter Shoutbox To Your Blog
Bring Twitter to your website is one of the best ways to get more traffic. One way to do that is by adding your content to Twitter from time to time. Of course, if you can get people to re-tweet your posts, your traffic is only going to grow. But there is more to Twitter than just sharing your posts on it. You can also use it to solidify your existing community and build new relationships. Jotabl is one example of a service that lets you do just that. It’s designed to help you integrate a shout-box on your website. Your visitors can use the box to give you instant feedback or share their thoughts about your posts on Twitter.
The process is pretty simple. You’ll have to have a Twitter account to take advantage of this service, but you won’t have to post to Twitter when you post an update to the shoutbox. When you are creating your shoutbox, you can filter swear words just to keep the trolls at bay.
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:
Digg Digg: one of the best social media plugins for Wordpress platform. It’s very flexible and designed to enable your readers to add your content to their favorite networks fast. Read more »
Talk & Tweet Like a Pro with Twalkin
Twitter is a great place to connect with other folks, expand your network, and catch up with your current and former colleagues. We have seen many services that go beyond what Twitter has to offer and allow you to add your video and audio to Twitter as well. Twalkin is an innovative service that brings it all together. The service is designed to allow you to talk to your Twitter followers, make big announcements on Twitter, or have a private chat with your Twitter friends. You will need to have a phone and a Twitter account to get started, but that shouldn’t be a problem.
Creating a Twalk couldn’t be any easier. All you have to do is log in with your Twitter account and add a Twalk. Here is where things get interesting. You not only get to define how many people can join you in your Twalk session, you can also define specific people who you would like to be a part of your session.
Once you have filled out the information required to create your own Twalk, you are all set. The system will handle the rest for you. Your fans are provided with a phone number and a pin number to join you online.
You can also use Twalk in conjunction with your iPhone to connect with your followers and hold online sessions more easily. All in all, a very exciting service that could come in handy if you are into developing stronger relationship with your Twitter followers.
5 Free Tools To Schedule Tweets Ahead of Time
I am personally not a big fan of automating Twitter tasks. Not the ones that don’t need to be automated (e.g. adding friends, tweeting, …). But sometimes, you’ll need to wait before you can tweet something. Sometimes, you are going to be away for a few weeks, but you don’t want your Twitter account to become stagnant. Whatever the case, having a tool that would allow you to schedule your tweets ahead of time could come in handy. There are plenty of paid tools that allow you to schedule your tweets for the future and even fully automate your Twitter accounts. While you don’t want to rely on these tools heavily, it’s nice to have them when you need them.
If you are looking for free tools to schedule tweets ahead of time, here are 5 free Twitter tools that could come in handy:
Hootsuite: the best Twitter management tool on the market hands down. I may be a bit biased here, considering that I have been using it for months. But I can tell you that as long as you don’t want to spam Twitter, Hootsuite has everything you need to manage your Twitter accounts more effectively.
Socialoomph: also known as Twitter Later. This service allows you to automate your welcome messages, schedule tweets in the future, and vet your followers at the same time. The premium version has even more flexibility to offer but you are not obligated to pay up to use this service.
Twitter Feed: another service that I have been using for months. It’s designed to help you connect your blog to Twitter. If you schedule future blog posts, this is a great tool to take advantage of to let your followers know about it. Read more »
Promote Your Social Media Profiles with Hi.Im
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I don’t know about you, but I have hundreds of profiles online. Sure, we all are about our Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, and Friendfeed profiles. But there are plenty of smaller web 2.0 communities that are worth being a part of. If you keep building online profiles, managing and promoting all these accounts could become extremely difficult. Hi, I’m is a cool service that intends to help you organize your online profiles and promote them all from one place.
Here is how Hi, I’m works. All you have to do is create your account and add your social media profiles to it. The service will create your very own URL for you and displays the sites that you have linked with your Hi.Im account on your exclusive page.
There are plenty of services to choose from, and you’ll have a lot of options when it comes to optimizing your Hi, I’m page. You can also change your page’s appearance from the back-end. Here is how your profile would look like (I have not added my picture or all my links as this is just a demo page): Read more »
Share Screencasts on Twitter with Screenr
Being active on Twitter goes beyond talking about what you have had for lunch or what article you are currently leading. Sometimes you want to demonstrate something to your followers, and there is no better way to do it that making a screencast. If you have the right software, you can go about doing that easily. But you are still going to have to upload your screencast and share the URL on Twitter afterward. With Screenr, you won’t have to worry about any of that. Screenr is a cool Twitter tool that lets you take instant screencasts and share them with your Twitter users fast. No hassle, no extra steps to take.
The whole process is pretty simple. Once you connect Screenr to your Twitter account, you can move the screencast window around and click record to start your screencast. Once you are done with your screencast, you can just write a description for it and have it published on Twitter.
Sharing a screencast on Twitter couldn’t be any easier. Screenr takes the pain out of the process and makes creating simple screencasts and sharing them with others a piece of cake. Great for short demonstrations.
How To Build Your Blog Assets: Twitter – Part I
I don’t have to tell you that Twitter is one of the best communities to be a part of and contribute to. In fact, it’s one of the best ways to drive traffic to a blog as long as you know what you are doing. I have seen plenty of bloggers that link their Twitter account to their blogs and automate the whole process without even trying to formulate a strategy to take advantage of their presence on Twitter. It’s nice to keep your followers in mind when you post a new blog post, but there is more to Twittering than just posting your own content and automating things.
It’s one thing to have a lot of followers on Twitter. It’s another to have a relationship going with your followers. You can’t do that by posting a few tweets here and there without adding too much value. You need to have a real strategy on how you intend to provide value to your Twitter followers and solidify your relationship with them. With that in mind, here are a few things to keep in mind when formulating a Twitter strategy for a blog:
- Content Strategy: the content you provide on Twitter needs to be useful and provide some value to your followers. The content doesn’t need to be yours. You can retweet content that you deem useful. Just make sure you don’t retweet something that is not representative of your brand or doesn’t provide any value to your followers. Remember, your followers are not there to waste time (most of them anyway). But the content you share on Twitter shouldn’t be only yours. You are not the center of the universe, so give credit to others who work hard on their content.
- Networking: don’t hesitate connect to people who matter in your niche. The good thing about Twitter is the fact that you can get connected to the most famous people in the world (or in your niche). Learn from others and when possible work on meeting people offline. Read more »
Find the Most Popular Tweets with dailyRT
How do you define a tweet as being popular? There are many ways to look at it. Quality and quantity of retweets do matter. Currently, there are not too many services that focus on the quality of retweets (retweets that are made by highly influential users as opposed to those made by low influence users). But if you are looking to find the hottest tweets on Twitter (based on the # of retweets), you should look no further than dailyRT.
dailyRT is a straight forward service that lets you find out which tweets are getting love from the community. The service not only lets you find out the hottest tweets, but it also shows you live tweets that may be going hot. And of course, you can go through profiles and track trends on dailyRT as well.
What I like about this service that it makes it so painless to retweet stories that you like. So you essentially have to click on one button to get the job done. Read more »
Track Twitter Lists with Listiti Alerts
If you have been online for a while, you have probably heard of Google Alerts. It’s a cool service that lets you keep track of the latest news and developments in the online world through your specific keyword phrases. So let’s say you want to find out what people are saying about Apple products. Google Alerts goes to work for you and send your e-mail the latest updates. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could do the same with Twitter Lists? Now you can thanks to Listiti. Listiti is designed to enable you to keep track of the latest updates within a Twitter lists. All you have to do is define the list, the keyword phrase you want to track, and your e-mail address.
What I like about Listiti is not only the fact that it makes tracking Twitter Lists content much easier, but it can help you promote your own lists to your visitors. Here is how you can pass your own lists to the service via a URL:
http://listiti.com/YourTwitterAccount/YourListName
Listiti will automatically fill out the form for your visitors, so all they will have to do is enter their keyword and e-mail address to get informed. The system is pretty flexible and gets the job done. Best of all, it’s offered for free. If you are still using e-mail to keep track of things (I don’t), Listiti is a very handy service you should try.
