Archive for July, 2010
Open Mic – #blogchat recap – 07/25/10
The last week of the month, #blogchat is open mic. And, like usual, it got a bit hectic. According to stats, this was one of the top #blogchats ever, and many topics were covered. (PDF transcript) First, some first-time #blogchatters: PreciseAgency christawatson WhiteOakAttic NehalKazim lgfisher Top tweets: ADMAVEN: Timely posts net you the most organic [...]
What Makes for a Successful Tweetchat
A couple of days ago, Mack Collier (@mackcollier) wrote “10 Steps to Creating a Successful Twitter Chat“. Mack is the founder and moderator of #blogchat, a Tweetchat that gets several thousands tweets a week and often has a couple hundred participants. It’s a great way to spend a Sunday evening and runs from 6-7:30ish pm [...]
Group Blogs – #blogchat recap and transcript – 07/11/10
#blogchat this week was co-hosted by the marvelous Ann Handley (@marketingprofs on Twitter). Ann is the Chief Content Officer at MarketingProfs and was on #blogchat to talk about starting and managing a group blog. Company blogs: One of the great topics of conversations at the beginning of the chat was how to get more involvement [...]
Bad Spam
The other day, I received an email from a company who had obviously rented/purchased my name and email address from another list and decided to send me a sales pitch. I get lots of spam every day both in my personal and professional email inboxes, and there’s a couple of reasons why I’m posting about [...]
If You Had to Start Over …
Earlier today, the Influencer Project brought together 60 of the top “influencers” in social media and asked them a question — if you had to start over and build your network from scratch, what’s the most important thing that you would do. Each person had 60 seconds to give their answer on what was most [...]