Comments on: Social Media Playbook

By: annie

annie — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 11:31:37 +0000

Well its a nice article and links is also seems to be useful thanks for sharing, its better than a lot of the stuff I have found.

By: Sam Freedoms Internet Marketing Controversy Blog

Sam Freedoms Internet Marketing Controversy Blog — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:32:52 +0000

Hi Andy,

I like the angle you take on things – always trying to find that extra edge and sharing at least 10% of it with us. ;-) (you KNOW you know way more than you tell).

Of course, you look at social media from the business model which is, in my opinion, its best (and only) function. Everyone else might think of it as SOCIAL, but all I can say is that it’s SOCIAL only in the way that keeping a bunch of egg-laying hens as comfortable as possible would be considered SOCIAL.

You said we could post a link so here’s one from a similar angle but that is told in my “between-the-eyes” style…

The Myth and Fallacy of Social Media

Happy fishing,
Sam

By: Chris B.

Chris B. — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 20:33:01 +0000

That “Are you Sabotaging Your Social Stories” article is fantastic. I just wanted to add that because I think it really touches on some of the pitfalls of SMM.

By: Michael Lodispoto

Michael Lodispoto — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 02:01:19 +0000

For some reason when I think of social media I actually think of Digg, Reddit and Stumbleupon, but NOT Myspace and Facebook. How weird is that? The complete opposite of Lincoln in the above post. Maybe since I’m a newbie to social media and was introduced first by Digg and my love for Digg made me seek out a way to have a site that members can vote on videos and groups and more ( Digg at the time was mostly tech news). That’s when I found Pligg, the open source platform resembling Digg, then evolved my own site earthfrisk from there.
Social media to me is not Facebook, I think social networking with Facebook, but like I said I am a newbie to the field and not a pro and do not intend on becoming a professional Social media man. I prefer to hire you guys and see who does best for me.

By: Advice Network Writing contest

Advice Network Writing contest — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 19:29:03 +0000

Andy,

The idea behind Advice Network is that if professionals who specialize in subjects that are hard for consumers, like buying a house, running a business, or planning a wedding, post “how to” articles on their area of expertise, then that will attract traffic of people who are in need of the same vendors.

So, it takes the article directory piece, and then marries it with lead generation for small businesses. Almost like elance, but without the taking a cut of the revenue from the entire job thing that elance does.

By: Lincoln

Lincoln — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 19:23:19 +0000

You know for some reason when someone says social media, I think of Facebook and Myspace, period. I never think of Digg, Reddit, or even StumbleUpon actually belonging in that same category. I wonder why?

By: Mack

Mack — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 02:27:56 +0000

Let me first laugh at “DON’T BE AN IDIOT”, very nice haha.

It is great to see you passing some necessary attention to some of the these great post. Surely something everyone can help out with.

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 00:30:55 +0000

Alex I did take a look a while back, though to be honest it seemed like an article directory. I know there is more to it but I just don’t have a huge amount of time to delve in.

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 00:26:04 +0000

I haven’t got it 100% sorted out.

If you are a Technology blog and you are writing about Tech stuff all the time, you seem to be able to get on Techmeme a lot easier than if you are a blog that only sometimes covers technology stories.

I think linking through to stories gets you on their radar and somehow added to the sites they monitor, but Techmeme doesn’t seem to poll my feeds very often.

I can cay that having the lead position for the top story on Techmeme can drive some useful traffic. For the PageRank story it was something like 800 direct visitors though I was pushed out of the lead by Techcrunch.

It is possible to be tied into a story with any links to the current people listed, possibly based upon title.

Don’t forget they have sister sites as well on things like politics and celebs, though I am not sure how much traffic those can drive.

By: Maki

Maki — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:13:25 +0000

Hehe. Thanks Andy for the mention.

One question.. do you need to link to the Techmeme story to be connected to the original story (Mu’s article)?

I know you can get included on the frontpage when Techmeme regulars link to your article.. just not sure what you need to do if you are not on the frontpage because of being linked-to but want to be counted as a related-story…

Should you link to the story on the frontpage and the Techmeme blurb?