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Twitter Updates for 2008-01-23
- Update Creeva’s Daily Link List 01/22/08:
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The Airplane Gods Didn’t Just Hate Me
When I was a consultant and traveling all the time I seriously thought the airplane gods wanted to mock me. Especially the time I got stranded because of an overbooked flight in Buffalo for 8 hours. The Consumerist has a list of the top 10 worst airports for delays - I’ve been to most of them. From their list here is where I’ve been:
Chicago, IL (MDW)
New York, NY (LGA)
Atlanta, GA (ATL)
Philadelphia, PA (PHL)
New York, NY (JFK)
Newark, NJ (EWR)
Chicago, IL (ORD)
So for all the rest of you that have been stranded out there waiting for your flight to take off, I take great sympathy for you.
Brand Management - Branding Yourself
Journey To Get Paid wants to bring you into the world of brand management.
Now the first thing to know as a blogger that you are your brand. Whatever you do positive or negative effects your brand in tremendous ways. It also effects your SEO in a way also, but I’ll get to that towards the end. You have to decide how you want yourself as a blogger to be perceived. If you want a spam blog that may or may not generate yourself a ton of money please stop now because some of the things I’m going to explain is just going to out you quicker to the general population.
You as a blogger is the primary asset for your brand, that being said if you have a collaborative blog, that blog in itself is a brand name and the authors are their own brand names. If you are insightful, engaging, humorous, or interesting you can gain an audience. The audience you wish to reach depends on yourself. The blog I’m going to use for example is my personal blog at creeva.com. This blog is the core of my internet persona (ironically not really the core of my journey to getting paid but my core nonetheless). Where ever I post across the blog-o-verse I cross post the article to my home blog. This allows ease of backup and exposure to the few people that take interest in me.
For those that don’t care about the fluff or personal lamenting I have the on topic blogs I work on (journeytogetpaid.com) this immediately separates readers from the two brands I wish to confer on to them, the brand of myself as a blogger compared to the brand of one of the blogs that I write. This allows for a more personal dynamic of engagement between yourself and your readers. You should always be personal - but I’ll never get asked if my cat is feeling better at journeytogetpaid.com.
Honing into the fact that you are your own brand management (Scobel is king of self-brand management) you have to target your own peer group. This includes allowing other methods for readers and friends to contact you. This gives multiple levels of engagement where you still have some control over the boundaries. I went from google telling me “did you mean cirev?” when I did a search for creeva - to the fact now that I have over 6k hits on that name. Is that good? Well my friends can find me through all the various services I use - or the can engage me at my home blog with aggregates the data from far and wide.
Let’s take this story I’m writing right now. When this is published it will be published on journeytogetpaid.com and crossposted to journeytogetpaid.blogspot.com (google crawls itself first hence the blogspot mirror) and creeva.com. You may think that is the end of i, but far from it. At creeva.com I allow my friends to read me from whatever social network they use and wish to follow me on. Here is a run down to what happens when this story is crossposted and published over at creeva.com.
Creeva.com crossposts to the following sites
My livejournal which in turn syncs with my dandelife account
It also through RSS feeds goes to these sites:
Sends an alert to my twitter readers
Sends a notification as a blog entry into my myspace blog
Cross posts into my facebook profile
Archives as a line in my old tumblr account that I don’t know what I’m going to do with
Archives to my old suprglu account that I used to use as my lifestream.
Theoretically before anyone reads this article it will be published 13 places. This is also before the spammers get to it and repurpose it for their own means. My wife says she is going to blame me when the internet crashes. Behind the scenes there is even a bit more that goes on, but that really isn’t publicly accessible since it has nothing to do with branding.
Why do I do this?
Different people know me at different places, but my writing is all me and I wish to share that with all of them. I’m not as bad as some. I actually at one point crossposted every song I listen to, thankfully I’m more selective at what I crosspost at this time. It’s more relevant to what is going on and family and friends can have different levels of engagement with m.
I also use many activity specific type sites like flickr and digg which I don’t cross post to but have a level of engagement with other users there. But of course my profile links back to my main site. Whenever I crosspost I also include links back to where he article was originally published at. This allows readers to traceback and find the information at teh correct source. I use no subterfuge or magic mirrors to hide what I’m doing. It’s all plain as day.
Seeing this is my journey to get paid I’m sure your wondering how I can monetize all these sources?
In short - I can’t, but passing the message and advertising myself to those that show interest hopefully have them trace back to the original article. If not I have methods of importing comments from these diverse locations into creeva.com. So if you leave a comment on my facebook account or my flickr account it get pulled back into creeva.com. This allows full engagement with my readers and what they have to say.
So all I have to do to be popular is push myself out everywhere at once?
No, if your not interesting and don’t have any friends now, propagating your information will not help you get anymore. If your not clear on your intentions or your readers think your being shady it can back fire on you. It can get you on the dreaded spammer list in people’s minds. Yes I could theoretically start 2000 blogspot domains and crosspost to all of them, but I don’t. I just maintain the links I already have in the communities that I already exist. I’ll migrate the method in which I interact with a service by sourcing material from the one I primarily use, but I don’t abandon the community I left behind.
This of course in some ways hurts me from a monetary perspective - but my branding gets better and recognition improves. You will always have to write something people wish to read if you want to gain a steady and growing following instead of single SEO tricks to get people to click links without giving them any substance (that’s cheating). Work on your own writing and enhancing the communities around you, this is what gives you a following and brand loyalty.
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Posted By Creeva Murkado to Journey To Get Paid at 1/23/2008 10:27:00 AM
Twitter Updates for 2008-01-22
- Update Journey to Get Paid: While you may be read this from one of several sites or feeds, the homep.. http://tinyurl.com/37acjw #
- Update Launched journeytogetpaid.com: I opened up my newest online diary that’s targeted, jour.. http://tinyurl.com/2tn8yk #
- Update Unnamed Poem: so far the magic swirled Mystery demented and tortured flowed through twisted f.. http://tinyurl.com/3xrrtt #
- TWITTER - Towards Water I Tread Towards Eternal Relaxation #
- @brianshaler it almost becomes Twitter Haiku http://brian.shaler.name/twitter/tag/acronym/TWITTER #
- @brianshaler TWITTER - Towards Water I Tread Towards Eternal Relaxation #
- Update Late to the Lifestream Party?: Never - it’s still to early to be late.
It seems my art.. http://tinyurl.com/27o396 # - @sheagunther - I understand your disappointment - I only wanted a flying car #
Creeva’s Daily Link List 01/22/08
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HOWTO: 70 gory photoshopping HOWTOs Posted: 22 Jan 2008 12:22 AM CST … |
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Viral + Monetizable = StartUp Magic Quadrant Posted: 21 Jan 2008 10:19 PM CST … |
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Fred Thompson Quits GOP Presidential Primary Race! Posted: 22 Jan 2008 01:29 PM CST |
Late to the Lifestream Party?
Never - it’s still to early to be late.
It seems my article on life caching struck a chord with someone. I’m glad someone at least shares my understanding on this need. He is just starting to search and find his lifestreaming needs and tools, and this really is the best time to start.
I left him this comment on his site (though his comment system mangled my formatting and I’ve fixed it here):
I’m glad you enjoyed my article - I have a few follow-ups to that article that I need to pound out - such as different ways of actually caching the data. I can say reading a couple of your earlier that you are not late to the life streaming party.
While I agree life streaming is useful, important, and mostly neat. Life caching is the evolutionary transition that will need to occur as the data portability movement takes place. Tools unfortunately to do any type of life caching are terrible at this time. I have some wordpress plugins that I ‘m cutting my PHP learning teeth on that have lots of bugs that I need to streamline - if the object of most of these plugins came from the lifestreaming design instead of spam blog design (repurposing RSS feeds can go both ways) then this small faction of belief in saving our own data can grow.
Dang - sometimes I’m just too long winded.
P.S. Lifestreaming is becoming a verb maybe in a few more years it will be up there with w00t and in the dictionary.
On another one of his posts I left this comment:
I’ll give you the fact that your earlier thoughts on life streaming is correct - it is too much information.
That being said - you need to look at who this is for. Most people don’t care about everything I do and I’ve pruned my RSS feeds that I give to the public down so they only get the useful information.
I archive and save this data for myself - and like the pictures people take of their children growing up, there is never a thing as too much information.
It may be too much information at this point in time - but when personal data mining takes place in a few years as the next hot trend - and archive of this data will be very useful to find trends of different points of your life that you may otherwise forget (or wished you would have forgotten but google reminds everyone anyways).
Over at the lifestream blog the author linked to this original article from here - but while sees usefulness in life caching still believes in the importance of life streaming. I don’t think you can truly do one without the other, but with this newer concept catching on there is no good way to do it yet. I left him this comment:
We can agree to disagree on the importance of life caching - but without accurate and long term archiving of data (life caching) - the lifestream setups most people currently will only be fleeting since most use RSS feeds in a transitional phase of their life stream. As the RSS feed items expire they are removed from the lifestream. Even sites like dandelife.com that does the best job of storing data for a lifestream only keeps transitional data from the auxiliary streams and eventually it expires.
I really hope the industry catches up with this idea - I’ll get at least one more of those promised life caching articles out this week.
Twitter Updates for 2008-01-21
- Update Creeva’s Daily Link List 01/20/08:
Ron Paul Takes Second in Nevada!!!
Posted: 19 Jan.. http://tinyurl.com/2jh5lj #
Unnamed Poem
so far the magic swirled
Mystery demented and tortured flowed through twisted flesh
The rot of perfume raped the sinuses
I’m lost in wanting
I’m found in satiation
I’m a fellow that to you I surely will jest
Quipped and quoted
Lies far from truth
I bring you my soul and the twists that exist within
The lies turn into truth on wings
Full circle the delivery arrives and no more lies exist
I’m lost in wanting
I’m satiated.
Launched journeytogetpaid.com
I opened up my newest online diary that’s targeted, journeytogetpaid.com. The whole point of the site is to document the trials and tribulations of becoming a professional blogger. Will I be able to attain that goal? Probably not, there is a very good chance that it is a pipe dream. I would probably make more money registering spam sites based off typos then I would making money as a professional blogger. It does come down to the fact that a fellow has to dream.
I have a few more websites that will be launching soon giving me a variety of sites to work with different people and attempt to capture my little slice of pie. Journeytogetpaid.com is to document them all. The failures and successes are to be shared with the readers. Why should I profit without sharing the insight.
I do plan on crossposting all my work on whatever sites I work on back to creeva.com. My faithful readers will be able to get all of the information always here. Though it is suggested you go to the other sites so you can keep up with the latest and greatest - also on the sites I’m not going to be alone so on creeva.com you are only going to get part of the picture.
To read the launch synopsis on Journey to Get Paid go here.
