Testing out the iPhone WordPress app. Mostly, you should ignore this.
Mar 242009
Aug 092008
Found this article through Connie Benson Bensen. There are other community strategy links to check out, but I wanted to look at this one in particular.
Do write posts on how to use features of your product.
Do write about what is happening in the industry or reaction to relevant news.
Do provide readers with an inside lane behind your operations.
Do offer RSS or Email updates
Do engage with your readers via comments
Do blog about topics with authority
Do ask a colleague to proof your blog for spelling, grammar, and your possibly offensive jokes
Don’t just copy and paste a press release
Don’t attack your competition
Don’t write about internal promotions or corporate back slapping. “GO TEAM! You Rock! You’re a legend! We’re all f*cking great!” are fine for internal communications but not for general consumption.
Excerpt from “http://aloa.uplink-web.com/?p=55″ article on PR tips for startups. Read the article it’s good. There is one thing I want you to take specific note of. Looking at the url of the blog post shows that they are not using their blog software to it’s full potential. The specific url for the post is ?p=55 which is absolutely just terrible. All that tells search engines is that this is the 55th post on the blog. It contains no information as to what the blog post is about. This can easily be remedied in WordPress by assigning the “permalinks” to “day and name” or “month and name”.
This option can be found under settings/permalinks and works wonders for your blog.
Had this blog been properly set up the url would have looked something like “http://aloa.uplink-web.com/2008/08/08/10-20-pr-tips-for-startups”
which of course tells search engines that on 08/08/2008 an article was written pertaining in some way to PR or public relations, it’s a tips article, and it’s targeted to startups. Much better than “this is the 55th post written on this blog”.
- Note: The 2.0 won’t do much because puctuation doesn’t show up in url’s generated by wordpress.
Make sure you properly set up your permalinks. Every bit of SEO helps.
May 142008
I’m off the meds now. It’s amazing how much clarity you lose when you are on such a heavy prescription. It’s probably worse for someone like me. I don’t take over the counter pain meds. After my back surgery a few years ago I had a choice of either living with the pain or suppressing it with medication. I did enough experimenting in high school. I didn’t want to live like a walking zombie on pain killers my whole life so I just live with the pain. Some days it hurts more than others, but it’s always manageable.
So when I get pumped full of medication for a procedure it really kicks my butt. I’m way behind on all of my reading. My google reader is horrendously full so I’ll be spending the next couple of days scanning all of the blogs I’m subscribed to. I was getting terrible headaches when I’d get on the computer so I didn’t get much of anything done. Fortunately I had a couple of articles saved up for the photo tips website so that it didn’t just sit there. I’m really amazed at some of the photographers that have become part of the community. I’ll need to add a forum to the site soon. That will be after I can get a directory put on the site. I’ve tried one, but it doesn’t seem to be working right. There is another directory plugin that I can try so I guess I’ll go that route.
I’m really loving friend feed right now. I think it’s one of the coolest apps to come around in a while. Of course that just means it eats a lot of my time.
The Dallas Stars are a few hours away from playing the Detroit Redwings. Detroit leads the series 3-0 and I’m not that confident in our playing lately. I do believe this will be our last game of the season, although I hope I’m wrong. I’d love to be adding an entry into this journal in a few hours saying how wrong I was to say the Dallas Stars would be hitting the golf course next week instead of the Stanley Cup Finals. The Redwings have just been playing near perfect hockey all year and have only gotten better as the playoffs progress. I’ve no doubt they’ll win the Cup this year. Oh well, there’s always next year. I just hope Modano stays around for it.
