Twitter – I finally figured it out.
I’ve been actively using Twitter for about two weeks now. I’ve been reading blog posts about it, checked services, downloaded “Tweet Clients” and what not. Somehow, the short-worded world of Twitter didn’t really open up to me that easily. I tend to be wordy, as you know, so the 140 marks -limit really didn’t do it for me. But, I think I finally got the gist of it – in the bloggers point of view. Frankly, if I had stayed on Twitter.com alone, I still wouldn’t get it. Twitter.com is very basic...
read moreWhat bloggers look like
There’s currently 2 discussions about the handsomest / most beautiful blogger on BlogCatalog.com. This made me think about the importance of letting your readers know what you look like. I don’t know if it is that important to other people, but to me it is… For one thing, you can tell a lot about the person by the photo. The age, the style, the gender – you might be surprised how often people think you’re the other gender if you don’t have a photo of yourself! Some topics are gender biased, like…...
read moreThe perfect set of rules
On the post Handling conflict on a forum I was pondering situations that put your discussion group in danger. One of the best ways to pre-empt a problem is to come up with good set of rules, that are easy to read and easy to understand. Most free boards and site packages come with a default terms of use, but practically nobody ever reads them, so they are useless in the sense of creating harmony, but perfect for covering your ass legally. If you can be bothered to read them through yourself, I congratulate you, I haven’t yet… So I...
read moreProps and friends and bloody cudos
Do you ever get the feeling of being used? The latest thing that brought up this feeling was Social Spark. I’ve got tons of friends already, and I haven’t said a word there. I have props for nothing, but my mail box is full of messages “gave you props, hope you do the same for me.” I mean… If props come for nothing, the site would have a field “edit your own props”, and I would find that more appealing than logging in a hundred times to give props for nothing… If you consider spending countless...
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