19 Ways to Build Relationships With Blog Comments Have you ever left a comment on a blog? How do you feel when the author replies? As we’re all ushered into this age of social media, each and every one of us is looking for ways to form stronger relationships with our audience, especially with current and potential customers. There are many ways to discuss how to cultivate and build relationships. I want to focus on blog comments—an often poorly understood and very underutilized tactic by individuals and businesses. Focus on your blog commenting strategy to build relationships. Why Blog Comments? Over the last 3 years since I started blogging for my two businesses (one company does swimming pools and the other is a sales/marketing company), I’ve personally replied to over 8000 comments on my two blogs. This article isn’t about “How to get more blog comments,” but rather how to cultivate better relationships through comments. Finally, you’re going to find that some of the components of this list are nothing more than common sense.
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8 social curation tricks for Pinterest and beyond (single page view) Curation is a long-standing tradition of collecting, saving, and organizing objects. This typically consisted of books and historical materials for museums or organizations that held historic value for culture preservation. Today it takes on a different meaning. Organizations have evolved from collecting artifacts to digital curation of media and content. While the role of curation has largely belonged to scientists and scholars, and the content from official sources, social media has tipped curation on its head. Heck, even the Library of Congress decided to begin archiving tweets in October 2010. Today's web does not limit the act of curation to those with a doctorate degree. Why do people spend hours online bookmarking, pinning, and reposting? Of course, when human behavior shifts, brands are quick to follow suit.
5 Steps to Hosting Successful Twitter Chats: Your Ultimate Guide Hosting a Twitter chat is an amazing way to interact with your fans and followers, to better understand and grow your community quickly, as well as promote your brand and business. I’ve seen the networking and promotional power of the Twitter chat, so I made up my mind to dig deeper. It’s challenging to describe everything I learned in this one article, but I’ll do my best. Here’s the all-in-one guide to prepare for and host your Twitter chat. Why Twitter Chat? A Twitter chat is a public Twitter conversation around one unique hashtag. Bloggers connect using #Blogchat hashtag. Hosting a Twitter chat is an effective way to: Promote your social media presence: While Twitter chats evolve around one hashtag, it’s still public—which means millions of followers of the chat participants will see the hashtag and check what’s behind it. #1: Understand How it Works Before creating your own Twitter chat, it’s smart to follow or even participate in a few Twitter chats in your industry. #2: Form Your Plan
Transmedia storytelling "Transmedia" redirects here. For a related process, see Transmediation. Transmedia storytelling (also known as transmedia narrative or multiplatform storytelling, cross-media seriality[1] etc.) is the technique of telling a single story or story experience across multiple platforms and formats including, but not limited to, games, books, events, cinema and television. The purpose being to not only reach a wider audience by expanding the target market pool, but to expand the narrative itself ([2]). Henry Jenkins, an author of the seminal book Convergence Culture warns that this is an emerging subject and different authors have different understanding. From a production standpoint, transmedia storytelling involves creating content[4] that engages an audience using various techniques to permeate their daily lives.[5] In order to achieve this engagement, a transmedia production will develop stories across multiple forms of media in order to deliver unique pieces of content in each channel.
The Book Bench: White Until Proven Black: Imagining Race in Hunger Games On Tuesday, February 28th, a twenty-nine-year-old Canadian male fan of Suzanne Collins’s dystopian young adult trilogy, “The Hunger Games,” logged onto the popular blogging platform Tumblr for the first time and created a site he called Hunger Games Tweets. The young man, whom I’ll call Adam, had been tracking a disturbing trend among Hunger Games enthusiasts: readers who could not believe—or accept—that Rue and Thresh, two of the most prominent and beloved characters in the book, were black, had been posting vulgar racial remarks. Adam, who read and fell in love with the trilogy last year, initially encountered these sorts of sentiments in the summer of 2011, when he began visiting Web sites, forums, and message boards frequented by the series’s fans, who were abuzz with news about the film version of the book. (The movie, released a week ago today, made a staggering $152.5 million during its first three days of release.) “I was pumped about the Hunger Games.
Nice Day Designs: social media After writing my post yesterday about my blog design I decided to write a series about blogging, it was only when I logged in did I notice that this is my 600th post, how appropriate! It will be a 3 part series dealing with basics, design(Part 2), and promotion(Part 3). Today I'll be doing the basics, I wrote an article last year on this for Etsy Ireland ,some of the info is out of date because of the changes made this year to blogger, but there are still some helpful tips for total beginners. Firstly you have to decide if blogging for you, lots of crafts people feel that they have to have one because everyone else does, or that it's hurting their business not to have a blog. Now that we have things like Facebook and Twitter there is really no need to start blogging if it would feel like a chore. So now you need to choose who to go with. Tips: 1. 2. 3. 4. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.Interact with other blogs, when you read an interesting article, don't be silent, leave a comment. 10. 12. 13. 14.
Transmedia as Contextual Gap Creation & poburke.com Recently I had the good fortune to be at Ravensbourne for a 2 day workshop organised by www.mediaxchange.com with Martin and Christopher from The Company P. ‘P’ are best known for such Participatory projects as The_Truth_About_MarikaDoll PlayThe Conspiracy for Good Although I feel I have a lot of skill bases covered via my eclectic background, the live event ‘stuff’ is not something I have had opportune or, to be honest, motivation to investigate. Now I’m a man for story and for the ownership of the story to also belong to the reader beyond the point of interpretation of the material. Firstly – is there a difference? “If you were to try and communicate love you could a) write a boy meets girl story or b) give someone the experience of a hug.” I like a good story, but I like good hug too. As creators/designers/providers/enablers/offerers we are tasked to provide a context for transmedia experiences. But power isn’t everything. But there are restrictions too.