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Dear Guy Kawasaki, Twitter has helped my blog

How has Twitter helped or hurt your blog?
Submitted by Guy Kawasaki, co-founder of Alltop.

Most of my traffic and people visiting my blog were not bloggers and would never subscribe to the site. I got most people to join the email list or met through networking.

Twitter for me was the missing piece. It has allowed content both new and old to have life and lend credibility to twittering. Where others need to develop content to go along with twitter. Twitter gave me an outlet for the content.

In addition several new posts were influenced by quotes or headlines that got traffic via twitter.

This is just sad but true, Twitter and blogs: Post once and bail out

Orphaned Twitter accounts and blogs are becoming an interesting topic of discussion in this article on Cnet by Dave Rosenberg.

Twitter and blogs: Post once and bail out

As I have been cruising twitter of late, I find this phenomena often. It is not unusual for people not to get twitter or blogging. I find that the concept is just hard for people to take. The learning curve is just so weird.

Think about it even if I wanted to say write a book, a screenplay a haiku poem there is a form and that form takes a while to master.

Twitter is coming into it's own and it's evolving as I am even typing this. While Twitter is he long tail of blogging the reality is that it's still confusing.

Let's face it as much as I enjoy blogging. It's first draft and I grew up on newspapers and books not blogs. To publish a first draft kind of goes against everything we were taught in school when you really think about it.

Here is my take on it.

1. Social Media is not going away.

2. It's the same content in a different form.

Theatre begat Film begat Television begat VHS begat DVD begat begat Internet video begat youtube begat hulu begat mp4 etc. etc. etc.

3.You have to meet people where they are at.

If your client, fans, database are you using twittter. You should be on twitter. If your clients fans database is on myspace, hey you should be on myspace.

4. Write content that your people and you care about.

5. Promote that content. Don't just write but learn to promote it.

I am seemingly spending more time promoting what I write than writing it. Eventually that will change once the database has built momentum it's then a matter of being...

6. Consistent:Be consistent with your output. Dedicate yourself to some sort of schedule because social media is about attrition, small ball, throwing stuff against a wall and seeing what works.

Final thoughts: You can't escape social media if you want to grow your business online. Therefore you need to get help and education on not abandoning your twitter or blogs. Go back and claim your web real estate and get some help.

We can help just email us. Yes this is a shameless plug to end this post. lol

"Hey that's me wait that's not me." Twitter to verify accounts to eliminate celebrity impostors

As the popularity of twitter grows so does the reality of the celebrity impostors. I find this only amusing because I saw this happening with website. I am amazed at how many celebrities don't own there own name as a url. It's like the whole publicity, agent circle was completely asleep when they built the internet.

 Twitter to verify accounts to eliminate celebrity impostors- by Verne Kopytoff

GRAB YOUR BRAND ON TWITTER WHILE YOU STILL CAN.

I mean come on $10 bucks to secure your name as a URL. Hello! $5,000 a month for my publicist back in the day so that they could ignore the web.

Case in point: I remember asking my agent if she wanted me to build her a website and she basically said, "No" because she didnt see a benefit. Comically a few years later she actually said to me, "Hey have you seen the website, I'm so excited." Really you can't make this stuff up.

Finally I am reminded of my buddy Dat Phan because part of his impetus to start building his myspace profile was that someone was pretending to be him on myspace. This guy was thanking people for congratulating him on winning last comic standing.

FINAL TIPS: Get the url with your name even if it's the .name. especially if you are branding yourself. Get the twitter.com/yourname if you can as well again branding yourself before someone else grabs it. If you have common name then try adding the activity or category that people will most likely search for you under. Also you always add the word BLOG behind your name and start a simple blog site.

David Kamatoy is a Juggler on several levels. Currently Professional Juggler Comedian, Blogger, Music Producer , Video Director/Producer, etc. The Kamatoy Media Group is helping companies bridge the gap between social media and traditional advertising with Email Marketing using Jugglemail.com (Get a FREE TRIAL account) and more. If your interested please contact us immediately. Current Clients and Projects include NoMoreGeysers.com, and TheAirGorillaBlog.com.