Yes there are lots of websites and blogs to read; and for that reason a lot of times I bookmark them and hope to get back to them later. There’s a method to my bookmarking and it usually revolves around learning. I’m an infofreak and my thoughts are that I need to share more of this these bookmarks. So here goe…
Disclaimer* None of these companies paid me to do this and these are not in any kind of order.
1) Objectivemarketer seemed like an interesting site, though the description was ambigiuous but certainly worth trying out.
2) Evernote- Ive been meaning to check this out I just haven’t pulled the trigger on it. Anything that simplifies, I’m all for.
3) Lazyfeed- this seems pretty cool and is exactly what you might think. It’s a real time feed of topics that Lazfeed finds, sortable, searchable, findable, realtime monitoring. I believe its in beta, follow them On Twitter for a reg. code.
4) The Spinks Blog Not that David needs any help but he has an interesting read here and glad I finally went over to see what he had to say.
5) Eventful Find share and promote events- This could be a useful site. The jury is still out though.
6) Hubpages Still checking this one out too-Publish online with easy to use, non-techie tools
7) The ultimate list of basic SEO resources- This is pretty self explanatory no?
8) What the fuck is social media one year later- this slide deck is a follow up by Marta Kagan from her immensely popular first deck on the same subject. Great to read and share, lots of useful stats.
9) The Ultimate list of Twitter tools Ignore the annoying popup and check this list. You never know what you might not know.
10) Why social media marketing fails This is really good, listen to the audio podcast featuring Peter Kim , Jeremiah Owyang and Charlene Li.
I love The filter aspect of Twitter and believe it or not, a lot of these originated from tweets. I just amassed them into an uber tweet for you 
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that the company has cut almost 70 people —accounting for over 40% of its staff.
Why Should You Comment On A Blog Post?
Published February 3, 2012 blogging 4 CommentsTags: blog comments, blogs
I was reading an article today titled, Behind the Wheels: An all-too-real Cinderella story it had 12 comments. The piece was beautifully written and it was interesting to see what those 12 people had to say. Which got me to wondering:
How come useless throw away blog posts and articles have tons and tons of comments and the good stuff gets next to nothing?
Part of the question also emenated from this post, Why Your Networking Sucks — And the Secret to Doing it Right which had 30 comments, but also sucked people in, including me, because it held the promise of revealing a…secret.
I felt like a sucker. I knew that the post wouldn’t really reveal a secret that I had not read countless times before. So why did I click on it?
I have narrowed it down to these five things:
But the next component after you have read the post is, what do you do? Do you share it, save it, or comment? Why should you comment? Here’s a couple of ideas or thoughts.
Social media has changed the game for journalists, for newspapers, for magazines, for bloggers and readers. It’s created a two way mechanism to have a conversation. When you write a blog post or an article, do you write it for the purpose of being heard, to offer up your two cents, to share your perspective, or to have conversations, or for SEO purposes?
As a reader, should we all be obligated to comment on a blog post? What would our world be like if we all were required to provide an educated, thoughtful comment to anything we read? I know some of us barely have time to respond to emails let alone a blog post, but I take solace in the fact that we all now have the opportunity to be heard should we so choose. Though we have an obligation to comment thoughtfully, it just doesn’t happen that way. As a reader or “blog commenter”, have you ever thought about what you wanted the outcome of your comment to be? Think about that.
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