Social networking sites to which you should belong
I’m a member of about 11 social networking sites, most of which work in the same way. They also help you get more traffic to your web site or blog if you are a member of them. You might meet some people too.
I’m going to send you to my profile of each of the sites. From there you will be able to jin up as well as see what I’ve done with them. Unabashed self-promotion. What else?
Bloglines is important because you can read other blogs there and put a widget on your blog. Make comments on blogs you read.
Twitter is a simple application mainly for phone contact.
Facebook is a bit different in that you can use many applications there to build up a detailed view of what you have been up to! I’m a bit sick of Facebook and don’t want any more apps!
Flickr is mainly for photos
Squidoo is a place where you can create a web site.
A swicki is a site where you can create as many lens as you like and place the tags on your web site. These lens are on any issue. You can then tag you own web site so it is the first one that the searcher will find for that topic. I get a lot of traffic from these.
Linkedin is more for the professional trying to find old professional colleagues.
Stumbleupon is where you submit sites or blog posts you like so that it is user moderated rather than spidered by a bot. I think we should all use this one a lot more unselfishly unless we want to rely on Google and Yahoo. You should not stumble your own posts
Now ning is my new baby. Here you can add many things: a blog, photos, videos. You can create a group and join groups.
Everyone knows MySpace, but I haven’t bothered developing that one.
Digg is where people submit newsy type stories and like Stumbleupon you should not Digg yourself. I find non-USA sites very difficult to find here. The Australian market is so small that our cyclones are not of interest to the rest of the world.
I haven’t joined the next 2
Workbench is more for the business person.
Mixx is one I don’t know much about. I find I get social networking burn out pretty quickly.
If you join all these and work at them, you should get more traffic to your blog and/or web site. Join me there!
April 15th, 2008 at 1:17 am
I haven’t try to join Digg,Flickr and Workbench as well, i will try it now and i hope it will help me get more traffic to my site..!!
thanks for the info..
good luck and wish it’s all success
April 16th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
Digg is a must
April 16th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
And from one of those Social Sites … keboom! You have been tagged!
Read the rules at http://www.mindovermenopause.com/2008/04/16/mama-mia-its-a-meme/
For a Zodiac Meme.
April 16th, 2008 at 9:45 pm
Oh, Twitter is so much more than phone contacts. It a way to follow people and keep an eye on what they are doing and thinking. Check it out once again.
April 16th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
Owen,
After upgrading, my comment luv now works, but as you said, not the entrecard droppers (See Owen’s site for what that is)
Can you have another look?
April 16th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
Wrong. Comment luv isn’t working.
April 17th, 2008 at 2:39 am
test again
April 17th, 2008 at 2:53 am
[debugon] just testing commentluv for you (noluv) (wp_norm) (using curl)
April 22nd, 2008 at 2:33 pm
Thanks, I enjoy your succint comment summarising each Social. How is your ning doing? It is difficult in general to get critical mass on those without some sort of puller. I’m hoping my local paper covers mine. I had a “mover and shaker” in the community get about 15 people to join, but if it gets covered in the newspaper I should get a few more. I’m told 50 is the critical mass, and it may be more if their average age is older. And I think once I get 50 I will entice them with some teasers, and links to the ning site if they want to finish the article. Mine is called tixrus.ning.com big surprise. I surmise you are probably older than the average blogger because you use the language of Shakespeare almost correctly. (I think technically your tag should be information THAT is difficult to find, but it might be an Australian thing, and anyway you get points because you resisted the temptation to split the infinitive in the title of THIS post) BTW If that is a picture of you on your ning, you look a bit like me…
Colleens last blog post..RSShugger: a clever way to get publicity
April 22nd, 2008 at 3:25 pm
My ning isn’t really moving much at all. I am older than the average blogger but I certainly don’t write as well as I could. As for ‘which’ or ‘that’, it’s not an Australian thing. I was educated to use ‘which’ rather than ‘that’. Most Australians would use ‘that’
The picture in my ning is a little old. But I’ve seen your blog and note your general age. I must got to you ning and join up.