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Blogging

Social Mentions And Twitter Trackbacks Taking Up Space

You may have seen some of the following solutions installed on some of your favorite blogs:

Ubervu
BackType
TweetBacks
Disqus
ChatCatcher
IntenseDebate

The idea is to bring all comments about your posts into the posts themselves in an effort to centralize the conversation. This seems like a great idea until you put it into practice.
The main problem with most, if not all, [...]

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Do We Even Need FeedBurner Anymore?

by Jon Bishop on June 25, 2009

Goodbye FeedBurner

I’ve been thinking a lot about FeedBurner’s new changes where it includes FriendFeed subscribers in its total subscriber count. Unless FeedBurner removes this new feature, subscriber stats may be flawed forever. I don’t want to bore you with all the reasons why this is a bad idea, so instead I’m just going to say I [...]

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27 Excellent Free Social Media Icons Sets

by Jon Bishop on June 18, 2009

In a previous post I talked about how to increase the viral potential of your content with more actionable bookmarking and sharing buttons. Now here is a list of cool custom bookmarking and sharing buttons you can use on your blog that are sure to attract more bookmarks and shares.
Social Icons hand drawned

Polaroid icon set

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Better Social Bookmarking and Sharing Buttons

One of the first things most people do with their new blogs is install some sort of plugin to help facilitate the sharing of their posts. Thoughts of Twitter obsessively retweeting your content begin to float through your mind and let’s not forget the ridiculous amount of traffic you’re gonna be getting from Digg.
The truth [...]

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7 Awesome Twitter Plugins for Wordpress

by Jon Bishop on March 13, 2009

TweetSuite
TweetSuite is an excellent plugin developed by ’social & viral marketing scientist’ Dan Zarrella. It started off as a plugin that returned all ReTweets of a post and has turned into a complete Twitter/Wordpress solution.
Features include:

Server-side (no-JS or remote calls) TweetBacks
ReTweet-This buttons for each TweetBack
A digg-like Tweet-This Button
Automatic Tweeting of new posts
A Most-Tweeted Widget
A Recently-Tweeted [...]

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Woah! I Can’t Read Your Wordpress Blog

by Jon Bishop on March 11, 2009

Photo by Editor B
I’ve made this mistake in the past and it may have cost me a few readers. People get trigger happy with their plugins and readers can’t get to the content.
You need to remember that the content is the main reason someone might be reading your blog at any one point in time. [...]

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Why Your Social Media Strategy Isn’t Working

by Jon Bishop on February 5, 2009

Wondering why you’re not seeing any results from your marketing efforts in social media? Probably because you are doing it wrong. Here are a few things you can try doing differently.
Twitter
I feel like Twitter is the easiest one to do right and somehow so many people do it wrong.
First you have your spray and prayers. [...]

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