Thinks I find along the way
For many years, I've had the goal of developing a system and process that would drive traffic so well that my site would be ranked within the top 100,000 sites in the US. This morning, I reached that goal. Why should you care? Because this is a simple, repeatable process that I can teach anyone to use — comment, call or contact me to learn more…
A lot of social media purists will tell you that you’re the spawn of the devil if you use automation.
To truly use social media properly, you have to “be there” constantly, otherwise you’re just fooling yourself and your connections.
Bullshit.
Maybe to the purists that are on Twitter and Facebook non-stop, and love to tweet just for the sake of getting influence scores up, automation is evil. After all, they’re on there doing their “thing” all the time, so why shouldn’t you be?
Simple.
The people that aren’t on Twitter and Facebook all the time are generally doing other things. You know… like client work. Yes, they’ll jump on and interact, but usually that’s when the other important stuff is done.
So forgive me if I see folks tell me automation is bad. If I’m going to share a blog post anyway by someone that I truly trust to deliver the goods, why do I need to physically be on Twitter to do this when I can send the same post out with something like Triberr or Twitterfeed?
What’s that? Because I’m not being true to social media and its values? Give me a break, please.
Gee, Danny, how do you really feel? Seriously, I agree with Danny Brown when he says “Social media is just another toolset, or platform, or information base, or whatever tag you want to give it, to help you manage your needs better, whether they be personally or professionally.” I use dlvr.it to parse out my blog posts and social bookmarks throughout the day while I’m doing REAL work. That get’s the conversation started. On the backend, I use HootSuite and Gist to keep the ball rolling. Personally, I think that if you’re not using some form of automation, you’re working too hard and social media is costing you too much…
We’d love to tell you that Life cereal putting black children only on the box of its Maple & Brown Sugar flavored version was a faux pas the company fixed right away. Unfortunately, it’s still prominently featured on their Web site. For the record, white people also find that flavor delicious. (Via Reddit)
This chart contains one of life’s ultimate truths — that the secret to love is mutually agreed-upon hate. (Via The Daily What, Woodie Borre)
…but when your client is ‘Luxemburg Linda’ who loves the color, you make an exception! Linda just launched luxemburgrealty.com this week and after attending one of executive briefings on business blogging, she decided to add a simple Posterous blog to her site to drive search engine optimization and social media. Click the image above to visit the Luxemburg Realty blog…
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hp6TkzuKfDE&feature=player_detailpage
This is an old post that has been reposted, but if you’re going to master Facebook, you have to be prepared to watch a lot of this type of video — Facebook is constantly in a state of flux and they can and they will and they do change things in a moment’s notice. These changes may affect things that you’ve built in Facebook, but that won’t make any difference. To them. :-D
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=virVFjGudy0&feature=player_embedded
The writer of this adorably creepy gem sounds about one unscooped poop away from leaving a dog’s head in their neighbor’s bed. We encourage anyone who’s ever painstakingly cleaned dog crap out of their shoes to pass along this note and an accompanying pile of dog shit to your very own irritating neighbor. (Via Passive-Aggressive Notes)
Bright, shiny objects! 
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