Listorious: Discover the Best Twitter Lists ASH-10 » Could local blogs save local businesses? I am a freelancer, working predominantly in the culture industries in Birmingham, UK. I spread my attention over three main areas: 1) My artistic practice, documented at great length at art-pete.com. 2) Photo School, the business umbrella for my photography teaching and photo walks. 3) Other income generation, such as training and photography, which I gather on this site under the ASH-10 banner. Ideally these areas all inform each other. My art keeps me thinking ahead of the curve, my teaching forces me to understand things clearly, and the paying jobs keeps things viable while offering useful contacts. (Sometimes a paying job involves me making and teaching my art!) This website attempts to give a coherent snapshot of the sort of things I can do for you. I have broken it down into these key areas. Commercial Photography I specialise in ambient documentary photography and pride myself on not getting in the way while capturing moments others might miss.
16 bitchin' commands and shortcuts for Twitter | Blog Back in the day, whenever I was unsure about the meaning of a word, I would leaf through a battered old Oxford English Dictionary. Will Self, although he doesn't know it, probably caused the most indirect wear and tear of all my favourite writers. My trusty tome was subsequently usurped by online dictionaries, but they too – at least for me - were soon been replaced by Google’s rather lovely ‘define:’ command. The ‘define:keyword’ command is surely the quickest way of finding out the meaning or spelling of a word, since Google typically returns a result in less than half a second. Try it. It’s highly useful. I love a shortcut, and regularly make use of a range of keyboard shortcuts on Twitter. Let's skip the basics. Non-search commands Try entering the following commands into the Twitter ‘post’ field, rather than as a search query. GET username WHOIS username A quick way of checking out a user is to use the WHOIS command. FAV username This adds the last tweet by that user to your favourites.
Marketing Tips For Your Hyperlocal Blog Stats, stats, stats. Most bloggers are obsessed with their individual blog stats. Market your blog and the stats will come. That sounds very similar to Kevin Costner in Field Of Dreams. Of course we all know the stat numbers are not stupid but very important to our efforts. Do any of you ride motorcycles? One of the things they teach you is when entering a curve in the road, is to look ahead and pick a spot ahead of you in the curve in which you want to arrive. Marketing your blog and your stats go hand in hand. Here are some of my recommendations to you to market your hyperlocal blog. Business cards. Early on, whenever you publish an article, e-mail it to all of your friends on your personal e-mail contact list. These are just a few of the things I do to market my blog. Be a loudmouth. Copyright 2009 bloggerlens.com Hyperlocal Blogging & Citizen Journalism Back to Top…
How To Display Your Twitter Status in a Unique Design There are stacks of plugins out there that allow you to display your latest tweets on your website or blog. However sometimes, all you want is to quickly and simply display your latest Twitter updates, without wrestling with preset styling, or lengthly settings. Let’s take a look at using Twitter’s good old Javascript approach to pulling out your latest update, and displaying it with a mix of CSS styling. In the olden days, Twitter used a handy Javascript approach to display tweets elsewhere on the web. For some reason this has been replaced by a bunch of ‘goodies’ by Twitter, mostly in the form of widgets. View the demo The Concept Let’s start by fleshing out a concept to gain a good idea of how the updates should be displayed. The HTML Next up the HTML can be written out. The two options to edit are the name of the profile to retrieve the posts from, and the number of tweets the script should display. Viewing the HTML in a browser so far should show that everything is working correctly.
Start An Online Community For Your Street Starting an online community for your street is easier than you think. You know how to find and reach the people. Many residents already speak to each other. And it benefits everyone. Robert Putman, in Bowling Alone, found the single difference between a prosperous region and a defunct one was the level of social capital (bonds between residents). If you want to clean up the litter in your street, don’t grab a broom, build the bonds between members so they wont drop litter on your street. Here’s how… Where to Begin Start simple. Now before you announce your community to the work you want to seed some content, identify early issues and highlight the top opinions. Invite 3 – 5 people on the street to discuss some issues on your community. Growing your Membership Now you need to grow your community membership. Go door to door. Bonding and Developing your community Congratulations. Aim to have as many discussions as possible. Have fun stuff in there too. Then Start The Local Newsletter
HOW TO: Get the Most Out of Twitter #Hashtags One of the most complex features of Twitter for new users to understand is the hashtag, a topic with a hash symbol ("#") at the start to identify it. Twitter hashtags like #followfriday help spread information on Twitter while also helping to organize it. The hashtag is a favorite tool of conferences and event organizers, but it's also a way for Twitter users to organize themselves: if everyone agrees to append a certain hashtag to tweets about a topic, it becomes easier to find that topic in search, and more likely the topic will appear in Twitter's Trending Topics. So how do you disseminate and make sense of all this hashtag madness? By going through the art of the hashtag step-by-step, of course. This short guide details how to identify, track, use, and organize hashtags in an efficient and useful way. Have a tip to share on hashtags or a unique way you utilize them? 1. So what's the most efficient way to figure out those nasty hashtags? What the Trend? 2. 3. 4.
10 SEO Copywriting Tips for Hyperlocal Bloggers - A 5 Part Series Maybe it was just this week that you first heard the term hyperlocal blogging and wondered exactly what it meant and whether it could help you to promote your local business. Maybe you’re a small business owner who has been lugging around a bit of unspoken guilt about the fact that when everyone else seemed to jump on the blogging bandwagon a few years ago, you got left behind. You were too busy, you thought it would be a passing fad, you didn’t see how devoting time to the idea could benefit your company. Maybe you’re a web designer or an SEO and are struggling to find ways to help your client, the local plumber, gain more relevant visibility on a truly appropriate local level. If so, then take it from me that NOW is the time for all good local business owners to come to the aid of their communities by embracing the hyperlocal blog and its brilliant potential as business promotion tool. 10 Copywriting Tips For The Hyperlocal Blog 1.
Visualization of Twitter Networks « Laika’s MedLibLog Twitter is a free social messaging utility for staying connected in real-time. It has become my major social networking and information tool. There are many Twitter Tools and API’s around. Many can be regarded as gadgets, nice to use, once, twice, thrice and ….then to forget. to find tweeple and tweets (people and messages) in a certain area. how much time did you spent on twitter? Some of these tools are just for fun, others (the last 3 for instance) tell you something about somebody’s twitter network or tweets. I like this tool very much, because it visualizes the network of your relevant contacts and their contacts. I’m automatically in the center. A list of your 10 closest “friends” is also shown. Finally you can make a map of conversations. This tool looks really awesome. In this respect it is interesting that according Danielle of the Health Informaticist: Gives me a bit uncomfortable feeling. HATTIP: @drval ( Like this: Like Loading...