Social networking

Looking to promote your blog on social bookmarking sites?

One thing you need to know is to find which site will work best for you. In this post, I have discussed which social bookmarking site is best for your blog.

The Death of Conversation

by Doug Cloud on March 23, 2010 · 7 comments

Now just to let you know this post has zilch to do with design. More appropriately, it has to do with the art of communication – a lost art, or so it seems. Something I have noticed over the last few years is how people’s attention spans have dwindled along with the manner in which [...]

Twitter Me This, Twitter Me That…

by Doug Cloud on March 16, 2010 · 11 comments

I started my design blog in May of 2007 with more than a little trepidation. Although I read other people’s blogs regularly, both at home and at work, I was never interested in blogging myself. To be honest, I’m not a very sociable person, and the thought of coming up with a blog post on [...]

“Grab My Button” is a good tool for promotion! Readers grab your custom image to show support and you get additional traffic. In the tutorial: Grab My Button, Promote My Blog , we learned to create a scroll box to hold the html code for your blog image and link. In this tutorial, we will [...]

You have heard about Mommy bloggers, Daddy bloggers, Teen bloggers, and Pro bloggers. Yet, I can bet you have never heard about “Sleepy” Bloggers! I can bet because this is a shiny new term given by me! Let’s leave these terms and talk about what you are here for, “Sleepy” Bloggers. Who are “Sleepy” Bloggers? [...]

UPDATE: After moving to Thesis theme, we no longer use this method for social bookmarking, but it can still work for you. Social Bookmarks are must have for any blog. They let readers share the posts which brings traffic and new readers. There are lot of plugins that add social bookmarks to WordPress but having [...]

I’m sure you’ve seen the default images that seem to gobble up your avatar picture when you leave comments on some blogs. The biggest monster lately is the big blue Gravatar. Why does that happen and what is it costing you in terms of branding and promotion?  This post talks about how your avatar image [...]

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It’s All About Working The Net

by Andrea C. on January 19, 2009 · 3 comments

Much like the real estate world has its three word mantra of location, location, location, the blogging world has a three word mantra of its own: networking, networking, networking.