A while ago we announced our sweet and useful BlogTips application for Facebook, which we decided to make into a contest for a free pass to the Blog Business Summit.
A few days ago we zeroed in on Mark Krupinski, who submitted a rather large number of extremely good tips. Things like, for example:
Participation: In addition to writing posts for your blog, you should spend a fair amount of time reading and commenting on other blogs. These can be your competitors or simply the thoughts of others in similar fields.
- This is very important for: understanding what’s going on right now in the blogosphere in relation to your topic, how others are using their blog to communicate and this will help you establish “link love” when you comment on other sites.
- Find other blogs via engines like Technorati or Google Blog Search. Then start subscribing to RSS feeds to the ones that interest you. As time goes on, you’ll realize the ones that are important to you and you keep those and start identifying the blogs that influence them.
- Remember to use blogrolls as a valuable resource for finding what the author subscribes to and follow the same path as above. It’s a simple meandering through the blogosphere.
- When you do comment, make sure you add to the conversation. Comments are like a cocktail party - You don’t just walk up to a conversation about the business potential of Twitter.com and start talking about what ate for dinner last night. Make it relevant.
For some very obvious reasons, we’ve offered him a free seat to the Web Community Forum 2007: Community Building in the age of Facebook instead, and he plans to be there.
Congratulations Mark on winning the contest, and we look forward to seeing you in Seattle this December!
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Herman Najoli 09.28.07 at 8:36 pm
Excellent tips. I’ve only begun realizing how much there’s rich content in the entire blogosphere. I just had an excellent conversation with a Canadian blogger after commenting on her website a couple of times. She visited mine too and we engaged in a lengthy phone conversation over ideas that were of interest to both of us. Great tips.
Jason Preston 09.29.07 at 10:37 pm
It’s true Herman, there’s a lot of cool ways that people can connect and learn through blogging. It’s exciting stuff!
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