Posts Tagged ‘Mr. Linky’

BHAH may be done for 2010, but that doesn’t mean you can’t finish your bloghopping journey! Had a blast, and hope to see you again:)

It’s time for ROLL CALL!

If you are interested in participating in the Blogher@Home 2010 bloghop, sign in below!

This is one of the many ways you’ll be able to connect with new people during the upcoming weekend.

Saturday, between the hours of 5pm EST/4pm CST and 8pm EST/7pm CST we will be doing a live bloghop! We’re hoping to visit as many blogs as we can during that time frame, but this list will be up even after this weekend.

We encourage you to take the time to read and comment on each other’s blogs! Like I said, it’s a great way to connect with new people, and to expand your circle of friends!

I’m looking forward to the BlogHop this Saturday:) See you there!

Nearly every blogger out there has experienced writer’s block. Sometimes you have so  many ideas that you can’t get them down on paper(so to speak) fast enough.

Other times, it feels like you’re struggling just to come up with your first sentence.

What I want to know is what you do when you have a bad case of writer’s block. Do you have any tips or tricks to shake loose an idea? Do you simply give yourself permission not to write? How do you handle it?

I want you to go forth and think on it, then share your thoughts in a post, and on Friday, come back and add a direct link to your post.

See you then!

So it’s Friday! Our assignment this week was a brief introduction of you and/or your blog. Bonus points for linking to your favorite posts. And there is still plenty of time to play along! Just write, publish and come back here to link up!

Be sure to check out the other links along the way; this is a great chance to get to know the people you’ll be partying with at BHAH10:)

Dearest friends,

As much as I love to run my mouth (and trust me, I do!), I’m running out of things to tell you about myself. So I’m going to cheat and take the easy way out give you the opportunity to get to know each other! Yay!

This is how it will work, I’m going to give you a question, and a few days to write up a post. You’ll write said post, answer the question, come back here on Friday, and add your link to the Mr. Linky we’ll have set up.

This first question is both an easy one, and a hard one. Easy because you won’t have to write a ton. Hard because it involves self-promotion, and I know that for some of us, that’s anything but easy!

So for our very first question, your job is to Introduce Yourself!

Yes, I really am taking the easy way out! But what I’d like for you to do, is just give a short introduction to yourself and your blog. Tell us what you are about. For bonus points, link us to a few of your favorite posts that you’ve written, either on your site or elsewhere. Remember to come back Friday to add your link, and to check out what other attendees have written!

I’m really looking forward to getting to know you guys before this August. I think it will make BHAH10 just that much more fun!

Lots of love,

Hello, and welcome to Twitter 101, with your resident unqualified social! media! guru! Be sure to pay attention, as I am assigning homework at the end. ;)

So a few posts back, we looked briefly at joining twitter, and of course, you all rushed out and signed up immediately, right? Let me have my delusions, people!

And then your resident social! media! guru! left you hanging. *ahem* Moving on….

Now that you have a twitter account, you’re kind of wondering what the bloody heck you should be doing with it, no?

What should you be writing, or “tweeting”? Should you be promoting your own blog, and how often is it okay to link to it? Who do you follow? How do you GET followed? Who is @BJBritney and why does she keep offering to send you naked pictures?

All of these are very compelling questions. Let’s start with what you should be tweeting:

Anything you want.

TaDa! You may leave tips in the jar there.

What? Not helpful enough? *sigh* Alright. FINE….

Yes, you can say anything you want, and you should ABSOLUTELY be yourself! That being said, you might want to keep a few thoughts and uses in mind.

1)Think Before You Type Everything you say is at least semi-public

You can lock your twitter stream, so that only approved people can read your tweets. But you can’t control who those approved people might e-mail or tell your tweet to, make sense?

2) Be Original ReTweeting is awesome and annoying

Awesome in that it’s a good tool to spread a link or message that you really enjoyed. But if the vast majority of tweets coming from you are just things that other people already said? You’re going to see followers start to jump ship. Why follow you when they could just follow the people who said it in the first place?

3)Promote Your Writing/Store/Project, but you don’t need to do it 20 times in one hour.

Twitter is a great way to alert your readers (or buyers) that you have posted new stuff. But if you flood their twit-stream with your links, you risk annoying the heck out of them. Which is the opposite of what you wanted to do, right? Personally, I try to limit my linking to 2-3x per item. I aim for AM, PM, and then either one late night, or one the next day.

4)Seeking/Giving Support Twitter has been a virtual support network for many going through a hard time. To be honest, for me, this is one of the biggest draws.

It may seem silly now, but after using twitter for awhile, and connecting with people over it, you’ll find yourself tweeting about your craptastic day, and getting teary-eyed from the virtual hugs and supportive-ness being sent your way. And you, in turn, will see a frustrated tweet from someone, and have this urge to reach through your computer and make them feel better. It’s mind-blowing.

5)Don’t Take It To Personally If someone doesn’t reply to you, it’s likely not because they hate you ever-so-much, it’s more likely they’re busy, or missed your tweet.

As strange as it may seems, I have actually seen people complain that some big name blogger and/or celeb didn’t respond to their tweet. Never mind that the person is question has approximately 200,000 people following them, and @-ing them at any given time…

Okay, I think that’s enough to think about for today. If you have any questions about twitter that you’d like to see answered eventually, or any tips/hints you’d like to add, please leave them in the comments.

In the meantime, you see that Mr. Linky below? That’s for your homework assignment. I want to hear what/why/how you use twitter. Do you use it for keeping track of friends? Promoting your own projects? Is it your support network? Go write it down, post it and then come back and link up so we can see what you’re using twitter for!