Making your blog social

How to make your blog social.

@BrianBreslin http://brianbreslin.comWordcamp Miami 2010

1. What does it mean to be social

1.What does it mean to be social

•Integrating the social graph

•Connecting your site to social networks

•Making your blog as sociable as you

2. Social Networks? Build up

or build on

Social Networks, build up or build on?

•Do you build your own social network? (Buddypress)

•Or do you jump into existing ones (facebook connect)

3. Putting the social in to your

media

Putting the social in your social media

•Bookmarking sites (Delicious, Digg, Reddit)

•Social browsing sites (StumbleUpon)

4. Turning your blog viral.

Turning your blog Viral

•Make reading your blog infectious

•Turn your readers into promoters

5. Best Practices

Best Practices

•Understand the culture of social networks

•Treat the community with respect

•Engage your community wherever THEY want to

6. Things to avoid

Things to avoid

•Spamming. seriously.

•Treating it as a 1 way outbound communication

•Diving in without testing things out first

7. Simplifying social

Simplifying Social

•Plugins to integrate

•Sharethis

•Sociable

•Disqus

8. The role of SEO in social

Role of SEO in social blogging

•Prepare your content for consumption

•Prepare your content for distribution

9. The future of the social blog

The future of the social blog

•Distributed social networks (DISO)

•Identity Providers (OpenID)

•Activity hubs (activity.streams)

10. Useful Tips

Useful Tips

•Setup a list of goals (traffic, audience, engagement)

•Focus your efforts on your niche (where do they hang out)

•Its all about the content

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