What is your opinion of social networking?

November 15, 2008 by John Dilbeck · 13 Comments
Filed under: Attracting Visitors, Business Networking, Poll, Social Networking, Twitter

Over the last couple of years, I’ve invested a lot of time and effort into using a variety of social networking sites to enlarge my circle of friends and associates on the web. I believe that it is working out well for me and I’m enjoying keeping in touch with my online friends.

Until today, I was showing a couple of widgets from MyBlogLog.com that showed the social networking sites I’m active on and some of the latest things I’ve written on a variety of the sites I frequent.

It turns out that those widgets were interfering with the appearance of polls I create using PollDaddy.com, so I moved both of the social networking widgets to a new social networking page, here on this blog.

That solved two problems I’ve been having.

One, it speeds up page loads a bit because it reduces calls to MyBlogLog.com from every page.

Two, it makes it possible to add polls to articles I write. I don’t know how many polls I’ll be creating, but I’m going to try a few to see what we can learn.

There is an art to creating polls that get reliable results. I am not a master of that art, yet. Therefore, I’m afraid that some of my polls will be worded incorrectly and may skew the results. Since nothing really important will be affected by these polls, I’m not going to worry much about it and I’ll just add polls when there is something I’d like to learn more about from the readers of this blog and other places I’ll show the polls.

You never have to participate in the polls, but I welcome your voting and your comments.

In the following poll, I’m asking your opinion of social networking. I realize that your opinion may not match my preconceived notions, so you can select multiple choices and add your own if it isn’t already there.

To add your own answer if it doesn’t match one of the choices next to the checkboxes, just enter it in the gray text bar between the last checkbox and the View Results link. (At least, that’s what I hope it will do.)

When you’ve made your selections or added your “other” opinion, don’t forget to click on the Vote button.

I look forward to your opinions and thoughts about social networking.

Act on your dream!

Tags: opinion, Poll, Social Networking, web 2.0

My tweets on Twitter are no longer posted to this blog

October 16, 2008 by John Dilbeck · 12 Comments
Filed under: Blogging, Social Networking, Twitter

I have been using Alex King’s Twitter Tools WordPress plug-in to automatically tweet about new posts to this blog to my Twitter account.

When I set it up, I was new to both Twitter Tools and to Twitter. This plug-in offers an option to also post a daily index of Twitter posts to the blog. I chose to implement that option.

A few days ago, while looking critically at this blog, those Twitter posts stood out like a sore thumb. Most of them are entirely unrelated to affiliate marketing and I don’t think they belong here, even though it is now my primary blog.

So, on October 8th, I turned off the option of indexing my daily Twitter posts on this blog. Coincidentally, I got tied up doing some time-intensive things that just didn’t leave me with time to blog, so nothing has been added here since then, about a week ago.

If you subscribe to this blog via email, then you haven’t heard from me for a few days.

Most bloggers think that is a terrible thing to do, but I disagree. If I don’t have anything worthwhile to talk about here, I just don’t say anything. Most bloggers think we should write at least one thing every day to keep the readers in the habit of visiting our blogs. I just don’t accept that.

When I have something to say, or have news related to affiliate marketing that I want to pass along, I’ll write about it. Sometimes, I’ll post several times in one day. Other times, such as last week, I won’t post anything at all.

The daily index of Twitter posts violated that idea.

So, now they’re gone.

(The crowd cheers wildly!)

I’ve been doing some research on several things that I’ll be talking about, soon. I hope you’ll find them of interest for you and your affiliate marketing business.

What do you think? Did I make the correct choice in no longer blogging my Twitter tweets?

Act on your dream!

Tags: blog, tweet, Twitter, Twitter Tools

Twitter Updates for 2008-10-07

October 7, 2008 by John Dilbeck · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Twitter

@Moonvine Congratulations on becoming a Giant Squid, Joan. You’ve worked hard to achieve this. #
@Dana_Willhoit Happy Birthday! I hope it’s your best birthday ever. #

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Twitter Updates for 2008-10-04

October 4, 2008 by John Dilbeck · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Twitter

Time to take a break and start reading Steve Pavlina’s “Personal Development for Smart People” book. Goodnight, y’all. #

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Twitter Updates for 2008-10-03

October 3, 2008 by John Dilbeck · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Twitter

Near western NC? 35th annual Campbell Folk School Fall Festival this weekend. More info: http://tinyurl.com/fall-festival-2008 #
Some lensmasters will get a bonus in their payment next week: http://tinyurl.com/3gwhto #
@JackBastide Jack, I enjoy the email notices about who is following me on Twitter. I check their profiles and follow some of them. #
@JackBastide (B) Work for myself. I’d probably make a terrible employee at this point. #

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Twitter Updates for 2008-10-02

October 2, 2008 by John Dilbeck · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Twitter

@OregonCoastGuy Tony, that’s the reason I quit consulting. Too many people not wanting to pay fair value for my expertise. #
@Mitchman3 Mitch, I decided months ago who I was going to vote for and doubt the debates will make any difference. #

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Twitter Updates for 2008-10-01

October 1, 2008 by John Dilbeck · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Twitter

@inkserotica Don’t feel lonely. #

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Twitter Updates for 2008-09-29

September 29, 2008 by John Dilbeck · 6 Comments
Filed under: Twitter

I just updated my Squidoo page: Site Build It, a revolution in website design, hosting, and promotion / http://tinyurl.com/4324sx #

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Twitter Updates for 2008-09-27

September 27, 2008 by John Dilbeck · Leave a Comment
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I just updated my Squidoo page: John Dilbeck / http://tinyurl.com/5k9a5f #
I just updated my Squidoo page: Social Networking at Ning.com / http://tinyurl.com/3hk4k9 #

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Are you getting the most from your Squidoo lensmasters profile page?

September 26, 2008 by John Dilbeck · 2 Comments
Filed under: Promote Yourself, Social Networking, Squidoo Lenses, Squidoo Marketing, Twitter

Did you know that Squidoo made a big change in August 2008 when they greatly expanded what you can show on your lensmasters profile page?

Have you updated your profile to take advantage of the new features?

As an example, take a look at my lensmasters profile page. Go ahead, I’ll wait.

There is a lot more information there than what you would have seen a couple of months ago and much of it can be customized by you.

Depending upon what you choose to show, your profile may show more or less than mine.

Some of the content is automatically generated by Squidoo, however.

Basic information, such as a list of your lenses and the number of lenses you have created, favorited, and ranked, and the members of your fan club, is shown automatically on your profile.

You can add additional information such as your bio, lenses you want to feature, and links to your blogs, other websites, and social networking sites like Twitter, MySpace, and Facebook. Other links can include your CafePress shop, eBay store, and more.

That’s a lot of information that can be shown on one page, and Squidoo even creates an RSS feed for your lenses, although there seems to be a problem with the correct link right now. When I clicked the RSS icon in my browser’s URL box, it took me to an invalid feed, but there really is an RSS feed of all my lenses that can be read in a newsreader and/or syndicated on other sites.

If you haven’t updated your Squidoo profile, what are you waiting for?

That’s an important page. It is already linked to from each of your lenses and from any lenses you’ve favorited. You should be linking to your Squidoo profile from your other sites and blogs, too.

I didn’t really like it the first time I saw it, but after reading Megan Casey’s SquidBlog post, New lensmaster bio page, live now!, I realized there was much more than what I was seeing initially.

Somewhat later, I found her lens, How to rock your lensmaster bio page, and learned how to make my profile page even better.

More sites, including Squidoo, are helping you link to your Twitter profile so you can grow your list of followers and also notify them when you’ve updated a lens or are reading one you want to recommend.

With some extra work on your part, you can include these updates using tools provided by sites such as FriendFeed.com or MyBlogLog.com.

With the use of RSS feeds and tools like Twitter, it is becoming easier to write once and publish (or promote) your content on multiple sites.

Even if you don’t add all the bells and whistles to your profile page, you should be promoting it wherever you can to get more exposure to your lenses.

But, why stop there? It will only take a few minutes to customize your profile and bio and get much more use from the page that Squidoo has provided us.

Act on your dream!

Tags: lensmaster, new, profile, Squidoo

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