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John Merrick & Soren Jordansen have created an amazing new system in my opinion. It is called TweetMyBlog, a new Wordpress Plugin that I have just installed.

Since a great many of us forget to post on Twitter at least on a regular basis there system automatically posts a tweet every single time you update your Wordpress blog and of course those tweets link back to your blog.

There system gets you more people following you at Twitter and those people are only those who would be generally interested in reading your tweets and blog posts.

Another component of their plugin TweetMyBlog is that it ensures that you can get paid for using Twitter both directly and from the massive amounts of extra traffic that you can generate.

Merrick and Jordansen’s plugin is more than just a flashy Twitter plugin for Wordpress. According to them it is a fully fleshed out marketing plan that will put the power of Twitter at your finger tips.

Check out TweetMyBlog today.

Technorati Tags: twitter, tweet my blog, wordpress plugins, web 2.0, make money blogging

Numerous people complain about Twitter’s deficiencies. In fact some people, including M.G. Siegler, may think that microblogging platform Twitter is doomed. Canadian Wikitravel and Certifi.ca founder Evan Prodromou has built an open-source microblogging tool that will allow users an option to instead than Twitter. Siegler, has said, “That’s why I’ve said in the past that the only thing that can kill Twitter is Twitter itself. If the service keeps failing to work, people will leave not out of choice, but out of necessity. I don’t think that’s going to happen because I think Twitter will right its ship before we get to that point.”

Prodromou crafted an open source platform named Laconi.ca and a hub site, Identi.ca, to fight the “walled garden” situation of the Web 2.0 world. One example is: Robert Scoble being kicked off Facebook for running code to port out his numerous contacts.)

According to Prodromou. People can use the Laconi.ca platform to brand their own microblogging for their own site, or as a sub-site. This is where the income will come in eventually; running on a “freemium” model, those who do extensive rebranding of the platform for their own presence or company, or boast hundreds of users, will pay a fee.

Marshall Kirkpatrick of the blog Read Write Web also rants about the neophyte technical specification OpenMicroblogging, which “allows users of one supporting subscription to send and receive messages securely across different microblogging services,” thus guaranteeing improved interoperability.

Prodromou claims that this application has many uses in enterprise, where workers can use — and already are utilizing — microblogging to communicate with each other and update coworkers on project progress or whereabouts.

My thoughts are similar to Seigler’s in that Twitter is the only thing that can destroy Twitter. Personally I have never had a lot of trouble with it and I still believe it is a great tool.

Technorati Tags: twitter, tweet, open microblogging, Robert Scoble, M.G. Siegler, Evan Prodromou, Marshall Kirkpatrick

Grammar has become a serious matter with social networking site Facebook. You should no longer see such statements as “Suzie changed their profile picture.”

If you are a Facebook user who hasn’t specified your gender in your Facebook profile you will be asked to in the coming weeks. That way Facebook doesn’t have to default to “their” or the made up word “themself” as it did in the past.

Not knowing someone’s gender does pose problems with English grammar but even more so as Facebook expands to other languages it creates more problems. This is due to the fact that in other languages there isn’t a gender neutral option available in plural form. People who haven’t indicated their sex have been defaulted to the wrong sex entirely. According to management at Facebook transgendered people and other users who find the male-female distinction limiting will still have the option of removing gender entirely from their profiles.

This isn’t the first time Facebook has dealt with grammar related issues. At first members were limited to what they could say in their “status updates” for their friends, as in “Tom is wasting time on Facebook.” Facebook late last year decided to drop the “is” and allow users to supply their own verb and write updates such as “Tom just wasted time on Facebook.”

These improvements definitely make Facebook more pleasant to work with.

Technorati Tags: grammar, facebook, social networking, status updates

Not only as publishers of blogs or other websites do we want traffic to our sites we also want to get repeat traffic to those sites. Getting repeat traffic will allow you to build your brand, build a relationship with your visitors, increase their trust in you & have them buy your products.

Mark Flavin in his blog published an article back on June 14th, titled 7 ways to make sure you get repeat traffic to your blog or website. Here are two of the seven ways:

1. Update the pages on your blog or website frequently, and

2. Make sure to include a subscribe button for your RSS feed.

To get the remaining five and to find out more about what Mark Flavin has to say about this go to his article 7 Ways To Get Repeat Traffic To Your Blog or Website.

Technorati Tags: traffic, repeat traffic, blog promotion, blog traffic, branding your site, rss, blogging

Every now and then I like to find a new way to promote blogs so that I can reveal it hear. The latest that I will reveal is BlogShowOff.

BlogShowOff is a dynamic blog directory and blog promotion site where you will find new blogs every hour. Whether you’re looking to promote your own blog or find blogs on various topics, this site is for you.

To find out how to add your blog to the directory visit BlogShowOff.

Technorati Tags: blog promomtion, advertise your blog, blog promoting

Do you have at least a minimal understanding of code? If so you may be able to create your own Wordpress plug-in or plug-ins. I am a firm believer in learning as many skills as you can by the process of self-education. If you want to learn how to create your own Wordpress plug-ins there is a valuable resource page available from the creators of Wordpress.

Just visit Writing a Plugin.

It has links to many plug-in resources, and a link to a page on how to submit and promote your plug-in for other people to use.

Technorati Tags: plugins, plugin, wordpress, wordpress plugins, codes, codex, developers

This is from an email dated May 31, 2008 so it’s a few days old. Are you familiar with such websites as MyBlogLog and BlogCatalog. These are two great sites loosely in my opinion categorized as social networking sites for getting website traffic to your blogs.

Well the news that I received is that BlogCatalog just got a facelift. The owners who took over BlogCatalog a year and a half ago focused on adding features. They have finally finished these updates.

The new features include:
* A new homepage
*New navigation
*New tabs in groups, account settings, dashboard, and user profiles
*Updated blog listing pages and much, much more.

If you are not a member of BlogCatalog simply go to http://www.blogcatalog.com and create an account and then join me as a contact at http://www.blogcatalog.com/user/kstien1959.

Technorati Tags: blogcatalog, blog catalog, blog traffic, social networks, blog promotion

The webmaster of www.detector-pro.com is running a contest until the end of 2008. Each month one lucky winner will receive 1500 Entrecard credits FREE. If you don’t know what Entrecard is then you are missing out on one of the most incredible blog traffic tools available today. Here is how you enter the contest.

How do you enter the contest?

1. Drop your EntreCard (EntreCard is the widget in his side bar, in Featured sites section at www.detector-pro.com. If you don’t have one yet - get one. It is a great way to promote your blog and increase traffic. You earn credits via drops. You can use earned credits to advertise on other great sites on the web).
2. Subscribe to Detector feed. Just go to http://www.detector-pro.com to find out how.
3. Leave a Comment on the post at http://www.detector-pro.com/2008/03/entrecard-contest-win-2000-ec-credits.html. Your site address and Your EC email - (suggestions or recommendation are welcome, no spam please).
4. Write a post about this contest on your site, and include the following code: “Find out new ideas for a new era by reading DetectorPro at http://www.detector-pro.com“.

Once you’ve written about this contest and included the code above, just let the webmaster know by using the email:contact@detector-pro.com, sending your name, your EntreCard email address and the location of your blog.

Every month a winner will be picked at random and receive 1500 EnterCard credits

Technorati Tags: entrecard, detector pro, contests

Recently I have been promoting the idea of using Entrecard as a way to get a great deal of traffic to your blog. Entrecard has just made things even better by allowing people to list and advertise and earn credits from more than just one blog. But this post isn’t even about these great improvements to Entrecard. Rather, it’s about a great website called Free 125 Cards at http://www.free125cards.com.

Entrecard and many other blog related sites like your ad to be 125×125 pixels. Until now you had to pay someone to design your Entrecard banner or go with a very simple and unimpressive background provided by the site. The reason that Free 125 Cards is so great is that you can create 125×125 pixel cards for social media sites such as Entrecard. Other websites are now accepting this 125 x 125 pixel format such as those being used by Project Wonderful.

It’s very simple to use Free 125 Cards. You simply go to their gallery and pick out the background that you would like to use and then after you have chosen the background you click on a button that takes you to a page to personalize the text. You have your choice of several fonts and sizes of text and you can enter each line of text individually and place it where you want it on the background. I must say that I am very impressed with this tool.

Technorati Tags: entrecard, free 125 cards, free125cards.com, advertising, project wonderful

Diyana Alcheva in her blog at www.networkmarketingsmart.com said that Twitter can be categorized as a social networking site, a content sharing site and even a bookmarking site in a way.

She claims that it is a social networking site because it allows you to network and communicate with other people. You can stay in touch with friends by inviting them to follow you. It’s a way for you to stay in touch with some of your busy friends or get to know better some of the people in the social marketing world.

Because Twitter has been called a micro-blogging site it can also be characterized as a content sharing site. Diyana says that “When you provide powerful and valuable information you become recognized as an expert in the field. What does this mean for your network marketing business?”

Twitter can also be called a social bookmarking site because of the following reason:

Many users who are also called “Twitters” would often refer to a website in their “tweets” they just came across that they found valuable.

Diyana goes on to relate how you can integrate Twitter with Facebook and also use Twitter as an Internet broadcasting mechanism.

For Diyana’s full post about using Twitter to build your network marketing business visit http://www.networkmarketingsmart.com

Technorati Tags: diyana alcheva, network marketing, twitter, facebook, mlm