#Blogchat Topic For Tonight is Using Your Blog as a Networking Tool, Co-Hosted by Dave Delaney. Authorship. 5 Best FeedBurner Alternatives For Your WordPress Blog. In late May 2011 Google announced that they would be shutting down the Feedburner API on Oct. 20, 2012. Google has not announced that it will close down the FeedBurner service, although their recent shudown of the FeedBurner Twitter account has given many cause for concern.
We’re signing off from this account. Thanks for being a loyal follower of @feedburner over the years! — FeedBurner (@FeedBurner) July 26, 2012 What’s this all about?! If the FeedBurner service isn’t going anywhere, why would they deactivate its Twitter account? What does this mean for your WordPress site? Many WordPress plugins make use of the Feedburner API to publicly display Feedburner stats, interact with FeedBurner feeds, services and stored analytics.
Why do I need a feed burning service? Great question! Though FeedBurner has long been the go-to service for burning your blog’s feed, it’s not the only option available. Feedblitz Feedblitz is a commercial service that handles RSS feeds and email marketing. Feedcat. My 5 Favorite Wordpress Plugins. Tomorrow night (Sunday) we’ll be chatting about our favorite blog plugins at #Blogchat. The discussion will start at 8pm Central, and if you’ve never joined #Blogchat, here’s what it’s all about. To prep for that discussion, I wanted to share with y’all my five favorite WordPress plugins. These are for the WordPress.org or Self-Hosted blogs. You can find these by going to the Plugins section of your WordPress dashboard and searching for them. 5 – Comment Luv. 4 – Akismet. 3 – Sociable. 2 – Popular Posts. 1 – Comment Redirect. So that’s my 5 favorite WordPress plugins. UPDATE: Here’s the transcript to tonight’s #Blogchat if you missed it, a ton of great info and suggestions on blog plugins, thanks to everyone that came!
How to Increase Participation in Your Twitter Chat or Any Online Community. Interaction and participation. It’s something many community sites and managers struggle with and focus on increasing. Engagement is the lifeblood of many online communities, and yet, so many struggle to reach that ‘critical mass’ of participants. When #Blogchat started in early 2009, participation wasn’t an issue. Even in those 1st few weeks where we’d only have a few hundred tweets, there was plenty of engagement. If you think about it, you see this in a lot of online communities, especially knowledge-based ones.
What started happening is that I would talk to people that follow #Blogchat, and when they told me they lurked, I would invite them to participate. ”#Blogchat is so much better when more people participate so we can all learn from each other!” I hated hearing that. That’s not to say that smart people can’t and shouldn’t participate, but I wanted to communicate to everyone that they should feel comfortable participating. 1 – Encourage involvement from lurkers. Blog. The Introvert's Guide Series. NOW AN AMAZON BEST SELLING eBOOK AND HOT NEW RELEASE! Featured On Huffington Post and Harvard Business Review!
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Give yourself permission to be more successful than you ever thought possible! Let’s Connect at Blog World Expo Plus a Live #Blogchat Update! Blog World Expo is only 20 days away! Can you believe it’s almost here? I am knee-deep in getting prepped for my first trip to Blog World, and I wanted to touch base with y’all on a couple of key areas: First, we have nailed down all the details on the LIVE #Blogchat! It will happen on November the 5th, a Saturday, at 3:30pm. Live #Blogchat will be located in Room 150A. Now, as for the topic….we asked y’all to pick from one of 5 possible Live #Blogchat topics over at the Blog World Expo blog. So here’s the LIVE #Blogchat at Blog World Expo skinny: When: November 5th (Saturday) at 3:30 pm Where: Room 150-A, Los Angeles Convention Center Topic: How do you create a strategy for your blog?
Registration: NOPE! I cannot wait to see y’all at the Live #Blogchat! Now, the second reason for this post is to let you know how we can connect at Blog World Expo. Besides catching up with old and new friends at Blog World, I am going to actually be doing some business there as well. That’s it! The three blogs we’ll be reviewing tonight at #Blogchat are… Thanks again to everyone that submitted their blogs for review.
Here’s the three that we’ll be reviewing, starting at 8:00 PM Central, Sunday (the 21st). 1 – Campfire Song Thanks to Lindseyfor submitting her blog, we’ll review it from 8:00-8:20 PM Central: Here’s Lindsey’s feedback for us: “I blog at I’m targeting women in the 25-35 age range, probably with kids. (Mommy blogger?) I’m interested in a review of 1. post titles 2. effectiveness of a blog on WP.com vs. 3. info/widgets (i.e. sharing buttons) etc. that I should remove or add to enhance the look and usefulness of my blog” Also, please follow Lindsey on Twitter. 2 – Patrick’s Place. Here’s Patrick’s feedback for us: “My blog is “Patrick’s Place,” at Also please follow Patrick on Twitter. 3 – Poet on Poetry.
Here’s Sheree’s feedback for us: “I’d like my nonprofit blog reviewed. 1. Thank you for this opportunity. #Blogchat LIVE is coming to Content Marketing World! UPDATE: Thanks to ON24 for being the official sponsor of the Live #Blogchat at Content Marketing World! That’s right! I have been waiting TWO FREAKING MONTHS to share this news, but in September #Blogchat LIVE will be part of this year’s Content Marketing World! You read that right, #Blogchat LIVE is coming to THE Content Marketing event of the year and will be kicking off the event on September the 6th! And have you SEEN the speaker lineup for CMW?!? David Meerman Scott, Jay Baer, Ann Handley, C.C. Now THAT is some heady company! Guys it’s not just #Blogchat LIVE…. It’s not just #Blogchat LIVE during Content Marketing World….. It’s #Blogchat LIVE during Content Marketing World AT THE FREAKING ROCK N ROLL HALL OF FAME!!!!!
Yes you read that right. So the BIG question is how can YOU join us? To make it easy on you, here’s the complete conference agenda in PDF form. And guys when you register make sure you use code BLOGCHAT to get an extra $100 off the price! Pic via Flickr user jcburns. Create or join? Mack Collier on brands and Twitter chats « The Bazaarvoice Social Commerce Blog. On Sunday, July 17th, Bazaarvoice CMO Erin Nelson and I were guests on Mack Collier’s #Blogchat, the most active chat on Twitter. We discussed how to handle negative comments, and you can grab the transcript here. I have always loved #Blogchat, and I knew that it played a huge role in defining what Twitter chats should look like—but the report on that week’s amazing numbers (3.6k tweets, 460 contributors, 16 million impressions, 1.7 million reached) made me want to find out what makes #Blogchat tick, and how companies can participate.
So I asked Mack. Did you have any idea #Blogchat would become what it is today when you started it? What need is it tapping into? Collier: No, it happened completely by accident. I think #Blogchat works because the participation level is so high. Has the scope of the subject matter expanded with audience growth? Honestly it really hasn’t that much. What value should brands see in Twitter chats like yours, and how should they participate? Tags. Sunday’s #Blogchat topic – How to Respond to Negative Comments. The Nerd Connection You Need for Tech and Wordpress. Balticon 47. Wow. What a rush. I’ve got a lot to go over, and I’m not sure how I’m going to do it all. Suffice it to say I had more panels this year than EVAR before. 16 I was listed for. 15 that I actually made. I ended up having to skip the Never Have I Ever panel due to a pre-existing commitment elsewhere. I then got tagged for the WordPress 101 panel that I had not only written up as an idea the year before, but been listed on this year’s online panel pdf, but then been taken off of for some unknown reason.
People I met I’ve been to Balticon every year since I met BrandG in 2008. Some of the highlights of this Balticon include getting married on Thursday [the day before Balticon 47 officially began]. I got to be on several panels with Pamela Gay as well. Another oft seen but ne’er interacted with person was Starla Huchton. P.C. Panels I Sat On Friday was a fairly light day as I only had “Meeting Other Podcasters” in the Derby Room. Saturday was my biggest day for panels. Get your blog reviewed during #Blogchat – June. It’s baaaaaaaack! Last month on a whim, I decided to have a #Blogchat where we all reviewed 3 blogs submitted by #Blogchat regulars. It ended up being a HUGE hit with all of you, so we’re going to make it a monthly feature on the 3rd Sunday of every month! So if you want to submit your blog to be reviewed this coming Sunday (the 19th), please leave a comment to this post with the URL of your blog and exactly what areas you want us to look at.
If you want to know what everyone thinks of the information on your sidebars, let us know that. If you want to know what you should be writing about, tell us who you are trying to connect with. If you want feedback on your post titles, let us know. Please be as specific as possible, if you leave a comment and all you say is ‘I would love to have my blog reviewed, thanks!’ I’ll pick three blogs to be reviewed, and those will be announced on Saturday. Thank You #BlogChat! « Dave Cutler's Blog. I am constantly astounded by the willingness of people I encounter via social media to help a complete stranger without the expectation of personal gain or even asking for reciprocity. Tom Martin, who was both generous with his time and forthcoming with his advice for me, said in a recent blog post that “Giving is the gateway to success.”
If that’s the case (and I believe it to be true), then the kind folks who participate in the #blogchat community are assured of having long and illustrious careers. A little background…. If you’re unfamiliar with #blogchat, I’d highly recommend that you read this “What is #blogchat?” Post by Mack Collier, the founder of the weekly chat. Last week, Mack wrote a blog post covering a new idea for #blogchat, in which people could submit their blog to be reviewed by the group.
The sheer volume of tweets that came through during the 15 minutes assigned to my blog’s review was incredibly overwhelming. So, where do we go from here? You're doing it wrong... UserVoice Blog. Trailblazers for Good. #BlogChat.