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April 3rd, 2008

Toluu adds RSS for updates and easier syncing with feed readers

I think Toluu might be one of the best new finds this year.  Sure FriendFeed and SocialThing! are helping us aggregate our online lives, but Toluu is helping me find more and more interesting stuff online.  Getting a broad perspective through RSS is key, I’d say essential, to what I do and maybe for all […]

By Tris Hussey -- 2 comments

March 28th, 2008

Chris Brogan’s Tips for Freelancers and social media work for all bloggers

As part of Chris’ continuing 100 Social Media tips, he posted some great tips for freelancers on how to leverage social media tools and techniques for more business/profile:
Summary
If you’re a freelancer hoping to use social media to get work, here’s a quick summary:

Make your blog your storefront.
Kill all the extraneous stuff from it.
Write posts that […]

By Tris Hussey -- 2 comments

March 27th, 2008

Ed Bott is right Techmeme is full of drivel

Another great post started from a tweet.  Gabe Rivera posted a link to Ed Bott’s column ranting on the plethora of “me too” posts on Techmeme.  The mindless recitation of what other people wrote without adding to the discussion.
And Ed is right.
Techmeme is the Short Attention Span Theater of the blogosphere. It’s an echo chamber. […]

By Tris Hussey -- 2 comments

March 24th, 2008

Seven steps to a better blog from Chris Brogan

Ready to take your blog and blogging to the “next level” (whatever that means to you)?  Chris Brogan has seven really simple things you can do to help you improve your blog and blogging:

Hire an editor
Be the About
Use FeedBurner 
Pay attention to the FORMAT of your writing
Make it easy to comment
Tell us something new
Start storing up […]

By Tris Hussey -- 2 comments

March 17th, 2008

More tips for PR-Media people on reaching out to bloggers

Bloggers have a reputation for being a pretty prickly bunch as far as PR and marketing folks are concerned.  I don’t think we’re too much different than other media folks, though we are more likely to broadcast your gaffs to the ends of the Earth–I guess that makes us a scary bunch.
Regardless Cory Doctorow wrote […]

By Tris Hussey -- 1 comment

March 4th, 2008

BuddyPress to help Automattic and WordPress go social

WordPress is the bloggers platform of choice and with its array of plugins it can do nearly anything.  The WordPress Multiuser plugin BuddyPress let you turn a standard WPMU install into a powerful roll-your-own social network, now this plugin has been pulled into Automattic.
What I didn’t realize (doh!) was that BuddyPress was developed by […]

By Tris Hussey -- 1 comment

February 18th, 2008

Blogger, journalist, writer, or just opinionated

Lots of chatter on the Blogosphere this weekend about Fred Wilson’s articles–A VC: Journabloggers Should Do Their Work Too -A VC: Some More Thoughts On Pro Bloggers–and contrary to my usual form of quoting all these folks I’m going to list the people I’ve read:

Bloggers need to try even harder - - mathewingram.com/work
A Golden Opportunity […]

By Tris Hussey -- 2 comments