I’ve been in a very good mood the past couple of days. Extremely good, actually. Part of the reason is that my work and online contributions have been noticed and recognized as of late, which always makes me happy.
Brand-Yourself
My interview for Brand-Yourself went live today. If you have any questions about what I am trying to do with this blog and my work I suggest you check it out. Katharine Hoffmann asked me a lot of great, insightful questions that really got me thinking about the angle of my business and what I hope to accomplish in the future. Thanks goes to her and the site for choosing to interview me.
Brazen Careerist
An article I recently wrote for Make Use Of was featured on Brazen Careerist, which was a pleasant surprise. I put a lot of time and effort into my tech articles on that site and it’s great to be able to reach a new audience every now-and-again. The article covered the Top 5 Location-Based Alternatives to Foursquare. It did okay on Make Use Of, but its popularity came from the devoted users on Twitter and Brazen, to which I thank you all.
There From Here
Lastly, Chanelle Schneider (founder of #GenYChat) was nice enough to feature me in her post: Stop with the Generation Y Stereotypes! The post talks about how not all Gen Y’ers are lazy bums who leech off of their parents, and it goes on to cite examples of members of Gen Y who would make good employees. Thank you, Chanelle, for including me in such great company!
Conclusion
Being featured (and recognized) is awesome. Everyone likes to be noticed every once in a while, especially in the online world, where you might be just a small fish in a gi-nourmous pond. So, if you ever come across someone’s work and you really like it, show some appreciation. You don’t have to write a blog post about them, but you could at least leave them a nice comment or @reply on Twitter.
If you have any thoughts on this subject I’d love to hear about them in the comment section below!
Chris Brogan mentioned that his list of Twitter tips could be shared so long as it was attributed back to his blog (here you go Chris), so why wouldn’t I post it?
If you want to become a Twitter power user, you need to read this list. Let me know what you think in the comment section!
Now that I’ve successfully redesigned the site (How you like my CSS skills??), it’s time to get back to the basics, and that includes creating juicy content. As always, if you have any suggestions or comments on the blog, hit me up!
I’ve been extremely busy lately, which is why I haven’t been able to write up any blog posts, but here’s a video I think you’ll like. If you’re not familiar with Twitter search and how it can help your brand management , watch this video.
You can use Twitter search to follow keywords that have to do with your business or brand. This will help you find new and interesting people you can follow, as well as give you a forum to answer any questions or inform people about your brand or product.
I’m going to cover the importance of Twitter search (and related tools!) more in-depth later on, but this should be a good starting point. Look for more posts in the coming week!
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post called My Twitter Dilemma where I talked about how I wasn’t able to really enjoy Twitter because of all the spam and garbage followers I had. Well, I’m happy to say that after my little experiment I have cut that down to zero and I now have a list of people I actually care about and can communicate with. Allow me to share with you exactly how I did this.
Follow Engagers
The first thing I did was unfollow everyone on my list, which was nearly 50,000 “tweeple”. I accomplished this with a website I found here. Once I unfollowed everyone, thousands of accounts started unfollowing me instantly. Of course these were not actual followers at all–they were bots. Real people can’t do what I witnessed, they just can’t.
I decided that to enrich my Twitter experience I would need to find and follow the people I could best describe as engagers.
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