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Sharing Versus Self-Promotion: An Experiment

by · June 11, 2010

I’ve been conducting some experiments on sharing lately, tracking the number of clicks on various links I share on Twitter and Facebook. While my stats are biased by a couple of factors, I anticipate they will tell us a few interesting things about what kind of traction you can get out of sharing items through social media.

Recently, the fine folks at dlvr.it, an automation service that will post any RSS feed’s entry to any or all of a eight services (Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Identica, Google Buzz, LinkedIn, Ping.fm or another RSS feed), asked me to try their site. I thought it would make for a good lab since they offer metrics behind your shares.

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The Beginners Guide To Promoting Your Blog

by · November 24, 2008

A friend of mine is a very well-read, successful blogger. His personal narratives, short stories and semi-autobiographical fiction normally collect dozens of comments, sometimes well over 100, and spark lots of interesting exchanges between his readers. He’s built his audience steadily, over the course of a couple of years, and by all measures of blogging success, sans monetization, he probably holds the status of “legendary.”

But his blog is on MySpace.

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