After a few years of honing and balancing my various social media profiles and blogs, here’s how I have the information flowing. This doesn’t represent every last thing I put on the web, but it does cover the tools I use regularly.
Filed in autobio, social media, web
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Also tagged delicious, facebook, flickr, friendfeed, seo, social media, social networks, tumblr, twitter, wordpress
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What better place to learn about social media best practices than from social media? Most of what I know about the subject I learned from my Delicious network and Twitter feed. I collect the most noteworthy items under my Socialmedia tag on Delicious.
Filed in social media, web
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Also tagged copywriting, facebook, internet, marketing, networks, pr, self promotion, social media, social networks, twitter
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If anyone comes to me wanting a web site, I try to convince them they should have a blog, specifically, a WordPress blog. I’m doing several web sites for clients that use WordPress. The more I work with this platform, the more I come to love it. WordPress is free, hacker-friendly and supported by an [...]
Thursday, January 14, 2010
If you want to get your web page noticed but don’t want to spend a lot of money on advertising, your best bet is search engine optimization, or SEO. As of this writing, that mostly means understanding how Google ranks search hits, and adapting your web presence accordingly. Historically, search engine results were ranked based [...]
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Whenever somebody comes to me and wants a web site, I suggest that I set them up with a blog instead. Even better, I suggest they start using a variety of blogs and blog-like platforms. If you have a web presence of any kind for any reason, you need to be able to update it [...]
Filed in social media, web
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Also tagged blogger, delicious, facebook, flickr, friendfeed, google, internet, iphone, merlin mann, posterous, pr, seo, social media, spam, tagging, tumblr, twitter, wordpress, writing
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Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Anna watched me Twitter over my shoulder for a while, and then announced: “I get it. It’s a video game where you compete for attention from strangers on the internet.” She’s completely correct. Having a web presence is a real-world immersive internet game where the scoreboard is your stats page or follower list. Like any [...]
Filed in autobio, hardware, software, web
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Also tagged attention, civilization, recursion, simcity, social media, social networks, stats, twitter, video games, wordpress
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Tuesday, December 9, 2008
I’m a jazz guy. I like improvising in front of an audience. I like publishing a post while it’s still only a third finished. It keeps the fire lit under me to get the rest written. I was looking for a blog platform congenial to this method of working. Then I read a PC Magazine [...]
Sunday, November 16, 2008
The most practically useful thing on the whole entire social web is Delicious. Its original point was to store your web browser bookmarks online. That’s reason enough to use it. But the real value of Delicious is how it connects the thoughts in your head to the thoughts in the heads of innumerable internet strangers. [...]
