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My social media mistakes
Mack Collier’s Viral Garden is one of the first blogs I read when I started blogging 2.5 years ago and has been my social media instructor over the years!
I love social media because it is such a new medium and it gives me the freedom experiment. But when you experiment, you can also make huge mistakes. Mack recently published a post of his social media mistakes – time to blog and tell:
1) I really need to work on my Twittering. There are some superb Twitterers out there who have managed to build a very strong personal brand through this medium. I tend to interact with the same Tweeple all the time, mostly friends, when I should in fact expand my network.
2) I don’t link back to other bloggers enough – this is however about to change!
3) I don’t comment enough on other blogs – I wish there were 48 hours in a day! Just because I don’t comment doesn’t mean I don’t read blogs, quite the opposite in fact. I have around 150 feeds in Google Reader but if I have to prioritise, I’ll choose the bloogers I have a relationship with – Michael, Sandrine, Willem, Cedric, C.B Whittemore, Katia, Chris, Jason, Mack , Nico and Andrea
4) I should have self-hosted my blog ages ago! All my old posts and comments have now been transferred onto my new blog but I have now lost my authority. I recently wrote a post about self-hosting a blog – take a look, it really isn’t brain surgery!
5) My blog name is a little silly (hopefully girlie!) - I thought about re-branding but this blog has been around for too long. Plan ahead – your blog name is your online identity!
Your turn now! What are you biggest social media mistakes?
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about 1 year ago
Hey,
I think that my biggest mistake was setting my blog under a sub-domain, rather on a new domain.
Hey ho!
about 1 year ago
Lolly, thank you for including me in your priority list! I admire your discipline in having only 150 feeds. My biggest mistake is having too many in my reader, and then not keeping up. Time to prune. Thanks for the inspiration!
about 1 year ago
Love your new blog!! I subscribed to the new feed too. It’s hard to get all the prior links to move over, because people know you from the old address. (FYI, I’m at http://brandandmarket.com, not on blogspot anymore.)
I’ll fix my blog roll to your new URL.
It’s great that you could get your name as the URL!! I tried, but of course there are millions of us “Chris Brown’s”
Thanks!
Chris
about 1 year ago
Tons of useful info here – will grab your feed!
about 1 year ago
Completely empathise with you about not commenting enough and being more precise with blog feeds – same boat!
It’s very easy to try and read everything, and end up not taking in any of it because there are so many different resources out there, and then putting time into writing a worthwhile comment can be difficult – I guess it’s a tricky balance, read and assimilate, or concentrate and add value!
about 1 year ago
I agree with #1, working with twitter as a business tool is useful, but many people get in the habit of only tweeting with friends – not very good as a business tool. I’m @CindyKing if you would like to connect with me.
2 & 3 – I’ve linked to this post today and here I am leaving a comment. You are right, these take a bit of work and I have read that 10 comments a day should be the minimum (a number I seldom reach).
4 – I noticed that you moved and so the AdAge folks might not see you this year. This is a shame, but self hosting is a better choice for a blogger like you. Better moving now than any time in the future. You will get your authority back quick enough. Remember it is easier to move up in authority now that you know how to do it.
5 – having a blog name that people can remember is important, and if it sounds girlie, well you are a girl. I work with a group of women on one blog, about writing white papers, and the fact that we are working in a traditionally male niche may be held against us. On the other hand there is no reason why a woman can’t write a white paper as well as a man and we feel that being women may actually work in our favor.
stumbled.
about 1 year ago
Well I am definitely falling down on the job to just now be commenting on such a gracious post! Thank you Lolly, I’ve enjoyed reading Blog Till You Drop these past few years, and hope I can for many more!