Social Publishing
Moderating comments
I've tried many methods during all these years. Some of them have been more successful than others, some have failed terribly. Fighting comment spam could easily become a full time job. I had been using Mollom for quite a while, and been somewhat happy with it. It wasn't perfect, but it mostly did what it should. Mostly. Then something changed. I still don't know what went wrong, but the service started to break down. My site wasn't connecting with their servers, or there was horrible lag in the connection. I tried modifying the time out settings, which helped for a while and then the proble...
Writing for skimming and writing for reading
Use short paragraphs. Add lists and subtitles. Bold your important points. Make your blog posts skimmable. You've heard all these tips on how to improve your blog posts. Now you may be wondering if your blog posts are really improved, or if people are just jumping in and out without really reading them. To really improve your blogging, I have a question for you. I'm not saying those tips are wrong. There's something to it. Lots of people love to skim blog posts, rather than really read them. Even more never read past the title. I keep seeing people pin stuff on Pinterest, without checking if...
3 tips for better social media
"Be insanely useful! Attend chats, use hashtags, follow more, share more, do this, do that!" At this point you are likely to be familiar with all the best practices of how to use social media to gain more followers, more shares, more likes, more conversions, and more everything. Following all the advice has turned out to be exhausting and pointless. Social media services seem rather dreadful these days. There's lots of noise, spam, misinformation, trolls and worse. So it's easy to feel overwhelmed and lost on social media. Today, I will give you three very simple tips. You can make socia...
My simple recipe for getting more comments on Instagram
With everyone racing to build a huge following and getting tons of likes on Instagram, the quality connections are becoming scarce. Every day someone follows you only to gain a new follower. Every day automated and manual spam comments are made. Every day someone tries to get something from you. Yet every day, my photos get lots of thoughtful comments. Why and how? Since last April, I have been sharing daily selfies on Instagram. There were a few days in June, when I didn't, because I managed to drown my iPhone 4S. But otherwise, I've been onto it every friggin' day. That's a lot of self...
Don't write for your audience
What we call social media works in a sneaky way. It makes you think everything is about you. Whether it's someone else's Facebook update or a like to your Instagram photo, you believe it's somehow related to you. It's not. Everyone for themselves. When someone comments your blog post, she does it for herself. When someone shares your content, he is doing it for selfish reasons. It's personal. Have you heard that very popular advice on how to get online engagement, such as likes, shares and comments? The advice goes something like this: Figure out what your audience wants to read, hear, or se...
Getting back in blogging shape
I took a little blogging break. It wasn't exactly planned, more like it happened. And starting to blog again after a break isn't easy. How am I getting back in blogging shape? To start with blogging again, I recommend checking out my best tips on how to keep on blogging. To follow my own advice, I'm back with my three times a week schedule, I have re-established Shared Spaces series and I've been reading a lot (and a lot). Good, that's done. The next step is to write more again. I haven't been writing that much during my break. Reading, yes. Writing, not so much. Thus I must get my wri...
More effortless and less time-consuming social media
Having at least the basic social media profiles and updating them more or less frequently is pretty much mandatory today, if you want to have your preferred career and not to be lost in the oblivion. It takes time, it takes effort and there are no shortcuts. Fortunately you can make it more effortless and spend less of your precious time with social media, if you go about it in a smart way. You have your Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, Facebook profile, page and maybe a group, Periscope, Vine, YouTube, Google+, LinkedIn, Pinterest, your blog, Tumblr blog, Medium blog and much much more. Gettin...
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