De leukste Belgische Twitter accounts op een rijtje We hadden het eerder al over Twitter, de doodsimpele dienst die toelaat in zeer korte updates aan iedereen (of enkel uw vrienden) te laten weten waar u op dat eigenste moment feitelijk mee bezig bent, via het web, instant messaging of per SMS. We gaan u niet vervelen met een lofzang, maar willen u een aantal Belgische initiatieven leren kennen die u misschien zouden kunnen overwegen om de al te vaak onterecht als nutteloos bestempelde dienst uit te proberen. Het weer @weerman ("elke dag de heetste weerweetjes") @BelgianWeather (door mezelf aangemaakt, Engelstalige updates over het weer in Antwerpen, Brussel, Luik en Gent) Muziek @Radioo (de laatste liedjes die gespeeld werden op Studio Brussel netjes in updates gegoten - Radioo.be lijkt overigens een aankomend initiatief te zijn van webbureau Robarov - met dank aan Pietel voor de referentie) @FMBrussel (hetzelfde als het voorgaande maar voor de radiozender FM Brussel - aangemaakt door Peter Forret) Nieuws @tzine_nl (wat had u gedacht?) Events
101 Steps to Becoming a Better Blogger - lifehack.org I have noticed that the most successful bloggers online have all taken similar steps in becoming great bloggers. After lotsof research and study, I can also tell you that blogging is much more complex than it seems to be on the surface. However, with a bit of effort, I believe anyone can become a successful blogger. Here are 101 steps to becoming a better blogger… 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. Install these plugins to optimize your blog: 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. Top Ways to Monetize Your Blog: 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. Blog Writing Tips: 82. 83. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90. 91. 92. 93. 94. 95. 96. 97. 98. 99. 100. 101. Kim Roach is a productivity junkie who blogs regularly at The Optimized Life.
Riding a road bike and wearing lycra at 6am in the morning, dodging trucks and buses doesn’t make sense to a lot of people. Swimming 40 laps in cold water just to feel alive is often avoided by most because it seems slightly masochistic. Jumping out of planes at 5,000 metres to enjoy a 60 second thrill is only done by a few because for most it is categorized as insanity. As outsiders looking in many activities may seem strange, obscure and to be avoided. Some say it makes sense to pursue these activities because it feels great when you stop and others say it is about the long term benefits. Why Twitter is Misunderstood Twitter is a social media channel that does not make sense for a lot of people. Why be limited to 140 characters when on Facebook or your blog you can write 500 words. So why tweet when you can Facebook? At most dinner parties when discussions turn to social media , Facebook is understood and appreciated but Twitter ends up in the “Why?” A Global Reason To Use Twitter 253inShare
Micro Persuasion: Ten Blogging Hacks The Clip Report: An eBook on the Future of Media In the early 1990s when I began my career in PR there were clip reports. These were physical books that contained press clips. Today my role is to form insights into how the entire overlapped media landscape - the pros, social channels, and corporate content - is rapidly evolving and to help Edelman clients turn these learnings into actionable strategies. Today I am re-launching my Tumblr site with a new name, a new focus and a new format. It all kicks off today with a 15-page installment of The Clip Report. 8 tips hoe je meer kwalitatief goede Twitter volgers krijgt Wie meer wil doen met Twitter dan gezellig keuvelen met totaal onbekenden besteedt waarschijnlijk regelmatig aandacht aan zijn volgers. Wie mij vaker leest weet dat ik niet zoveel geef om véél volgers, maar dat mijns inziens de juiste volgers veel belangrijker is. Maar wat zijn de juiste volgers, en als ik dat al weet, hoe kan ik ze dan vinden en hoe zorg ik dat ze me gaan volgen? Hieronder enkele tips en tools die je daarbij kunnen helpen. Allereerst de gebruikelijke disclaimer, wij proberen je nooit te zeggen hoe iets moet, maar willen je wel helpen bij hoe iets kan. Dat gezegd hebbende: Denk eerst na over wie je als volgers wil! Bovenstaande tips zijn zeer waarschijnlijk niet alle tips die je goede volgers op kunnen leveren.
How I Made the Blog A-List (And You Can To) It's official -- according to Technorati, and to Kineda's cool A-List Bloglebrity tool which uses it, I am now an A-List blogger: Now, that might not be all that interesting to you, except that I'm about to tell you exactly how I did it, and without working at it nearly as hard as Technorati suggests you might have to. Technorati described their authority groupings in last October's State of the Blogosphere: The Very High Authority Group (500 or more blogs linking in the last 6 months) [aka, "The A-List"] In the final group we see what might be considered the blogging elite. Guess what... The Basics - Write well, write often. So there you have it... again, not intended to be a comprehensive list of ways to promote your blog (for that, see our Weblogs Guide's "Building Traffic to Your Blog"), but rather a short list of the specific things I have done that help build links to your blog from other bloggers and increase your authority. Now... let's not stop here.
100 Social media resources and people that you simply have to follow Your Twitter timeline is the main source of information that many of us rely on. There are some great listing tools out there like Wefollow and even Twitter itself is getting better at listing people but to be honest the real gems are the people you know and follow yourself. Our own main way of discovering people has always been by following conversations but we always have that nagging feeling that you are missing lots of great information by simply not having enough time to filter through all the best people to follow. We thought with the new follow button that Twitter introduced a couple of weeks ago that it would be great to make a quality list of 100 people that you can easily add to your Twitter timeline and give it a real injection of social media. These are all the people we follow and are a huge source of the information we get so hopefully you'll find the list useful... Thought Leaders Robert Scoble Latest Blog post Gary Vaynerchuk Latest blog post Jeremiah Owyang Latest blog post
Disruptive Conversations: Design Requirements for a Corporate Blog Portal, v1.0 - what else do you think should be there? I was recently asked by an open source developer working on some blog portal software what attributes I thought a corporate "blog portal" should have. Thinking about what I've seen at and (two that I like) as well as some other work I've been doing, I came up with this list. What do you think of this list? Do you have other ideas? Things that need to be added? (Or deleted?) DESIGN REQUIREMENTS FOR A CORPORATE BLOG PORTAL, version 1.0 The following is a list of requirements for a "blog portal" for a company or organization. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
Infographic Of The Day: 3-D Model Unlocks Secrets Of Twitterverse [Video] | Co.Design Up in the cloud-piercing reaches of the New York Times Building, Jer Thorp is breezing through the particulars of a grand experiment in data visualization, one designed to unpack the mysteries of social media for the Times and, potentially, newspapers everywhere. It’s ambitious stuff. But right now, what the experiment looks like, projected on a screen in the crisp white hallway of the R&D department on the 28th floor, is a giant galaxy of tweeting rabbis. You’ve got @RabbiRuth, @RabbiGoldberg, and @velveteenrabbi (cute) speckled like intergalactic dust around rings that turn the Twitterverse into a stunning 3-D representation. Cascade takes a single social-media event and shows the resulting chain of reactions. This is the work of Project Cascade, and both the mining of the data and the artistic presentation could go a long way toward solving the riddle of how a story goes viral. [Cascade in action, for a story on paring down your material possessions]