This week’s #blogchat focused on engagement – comments got all the cred. I suppose we shouldn’t be surprised – comments are great. They exist on your platform, they’re relatively long-form compared to some other reactions (like tweets and Facebook comments), but it felt like the really big, high caliber blog engagement actions were missing. What [...]
#TEDxMB un-Wrap-Up
February 16, 2011 By 2 Comments
I had the extreme honour of being part of the Modern Earth Tweet Team covering TEDx Manitoba yesterday – Susan Hurrell and I spent 12 hours yesterday with our dueling laptops doing the platform journalism on Twitter for the event. Susan Hurrell and Ian M Rountree – Modern Earth Web Design Tweet Team – TEDxManitoba But, I [...]
Notes From #blogchat – Open Mic Night September
September 26, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Every month, three hundred of the world’s best twitterites gather on TweetChat, their favorite twitter clients and other places, for the regularly scheduled insanity we call #blogchat Open Mic Night! Here we go! As always, Open Mic night is one of the best nights for newbies to get into #blogchat, mostly because the first ten [...]
Notes From #blogchat – Who Are You Writing For?
September 13, 2010 By 4 Comments
Audience? What audience? I thought blogging was self-indulgent – or. Right. That was livejournal in the late nineties. Now, blogging has almost risen simultaneously to both science and artform – and, of course, the question always comes up when you confront either of these methodologies: who are you serving, by doing this work? Yourself? Or [...]
Notes From #blogchat – Sidebar Special!
August 22, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Tonight’s #blogchat was set on managing and maximizing sidebars! Personal note; no one’s appreciated my fun ajax-based sidebar at all – I may end up removing it after all. Link of the Week – The 5 Types of Blogs – Which One Suits You Best? (Ink Rebels) Mack Collier made a good point about sidebars: [...]
Notes From #blogchat – Guest Host Chris Brogan
August 15, 2010 By 4 Comments
Tonight’s #blogchat had Chris Brogan on as guest host – and Mack Collier thankfully prefixed the chat with a post explaining the flow. Thanks for that, Mack – as you said, #blogchat certainly can get batshit-crazy-fast, and no one expected tonight to be any different. For the uninitiated – here is Mack’s exegesis of #blogchat. [...]
Editorial Calendars – SEO for Bloggers Part 3
July 21, 2010 By 3 Comments
One of the big mistakes neophyte bloggers make is diving in full bore and establishing a five-to-ten posts per week schedule, expounding on everything they know without holding back. While this is certainly a good way to get noticed fast – some people just love having more and more in their readers – unless you’re ready to keep pace, it’s a trap. Falling into the daily post oubliette means, in many cases, that as soon as you lose one day, you lose stride entirely.
Notes From #blogchat – Co-Host @ShannonPaul
Tonight’s #blogchat featured Shannon Paul, from the Very Official Blog, and Michigan Blue Cross Blue Shield. The topic was responding to comments on a company blog. This is a pretty touchy subject – I know many new corporate bloggers feel as though the comments are the bane of their existence, or that it should be [...]