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Twitter for Dummies – Part 2: Twitter, the social community tool

In the previous post, I elaborated what I use Twitter for, both at work and for my personal sites. So what is this “Twitter”-thingie then, hey? How can I explain Twitter as a social community tool rather than a blogging tool…? Well try these approaches: How to explain Twitter? Think of Skype, but different! You [...]

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Twitter for Dummies – Part 3: The parts that makes Twitter work

In part 1 of this series, I described what I use Twitter for. In part 2, I highlighted Twitter as a social networking tool. In this post, we will go slightly more technical: looking at the parts in the engine that make Twitter really useful.

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Twitter for Dummies – part 4: The Geeky Art of Nerdy Tweets

You have successfully created your Twitter account. You read part 1 of this series and have some pretty good idea what you will use Twitter for. You understand the importance of building social communities, and which tools can help you with those tasks… And then… the blank Twitter prompt is staring in your face. What [...]

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Twitter for Dummies – part 5: 10 tips for effective tweeting

You have successfully created your Twitter account. Through part 1 of this series you got some pretty good idea what you will use Twitter for. You understand the importance of building social communities, and which Twitter tools can help you with those tasks. Part 4 in this series thaught you the basic syntax of a [...]

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Twitter for Dummies – part 6: The Most Frequent Questions You Will Be Asked

This series all started from the basic question “How do you explain Twitter to someone who is completely ignorant about micro blogging and social media?”. We went through the moves of explaining the social networking side, what you can use Twitter for, the software components that make Twitter work, the technical syntax of tweets, and [...]

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Understanding the traffic on your blog – Part 1: Traffic Quantity

A serious blog is geared towards its audience. As a serious blogger, it is important you understand your audience, your readers. When I started blogging, I struggled to understand my blog traffic. Simple and free tools like Google Analytics, gave me heaps of figures and graphs, but it took me a while before I could [...]

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5 things to do after creating a new blog

OK, you did it, you created a new blog! You post a few entries on which you sweat for days, give it the best of your best. But what’s next? Here are five basic steps I follow for every new blog I create:

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Understanding the traffic on your blog – Part 2: Traffic Quality

In Part 1 of this series we concentrated on the quantity of your blog visitors. We used a case study based on the 300,000 visitors on The Road to the Horizon, my personal non-profit blog. In Part 2, we will focus on the quality of your traffic: Based on the 7 main groups of traffic [...]

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Understanding the traffic on your blog – Conclusions

Using an actual blog as a case study, we looked at the quantity of the traffic in Part 1 of this series. In Part 2, we zoomed in on the quality of the traffic. In this post, we will summarize our conclusions and practical tips. The bottom line A blog, just like any website, has [...]

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Start Blogging! But, what will you blog about?

OK, the decision is made in your non-profit organisation: the powers-to-be have given you the green light to start a blog. Or you made up your mind and you will start blogging no matter what anyone says. 1. Either think about it or just do it. There are two schools of thought: “Jump” or “Think [...]

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Does your organisation need a blog?

I assume your organisation already has a web-presence with a corporate website, so why would you want to start a blog? 1. A blog as an addition to your existing web presence Have you ever defined the goals for your organisation’s web presence? What do you want to achieve? How do you measure that? For [...]

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