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It’s time for another one of those darned Week in Review blog posts. Sure, the bottom half is all boiler plate links from the previous week. But this top half is free form, I write about anything. Which is what makes it hard. Which is what makes it fun!
By the way, Website In A Weekend is really, really close to having its first 1000 comments. Be comment #1000, win a $15 gift certificate from Amazon.com.
I’m sure you can find something to say. How would you spend an evening in a pink limo? What’s your blogging equation? Are you on Foursquare already? Why or why not?
Be commenter #1000, I’ll add your name and a link to your site right here as well as sending you an Amazon gift certificate.
Lisis from Quest for Balance has comment #1000.
Odds
I don’t do so well collecting up odds and ends. Extreme John does though. Check out 13 of the Best Wordpress Blogging Tips of the Week. Extreme John finds Website In A Weekend among the best he can find, and he finds a lot. Thanks, John!
By the way, if you’re in the Tampa Bay area, be sure to check out John’s fleet of exotic limos. Now, I’ll be at Sea of Dreams this New Years Eve (Bassnectar is spinning), but if I were in Tampa Bay, I can’t think of anything more fun than cruising around in a pink Hummer H2 limo. Call me remarkably… superficial… but I know fun when I see it!
Foursquare
Remember that snarky footnote I left a few weeks ago about the cool new social media application as yet unspoiled by the likes of internet marketers? No? No big deal. I was reading along at In Over Your Head and it turns out Julien Smith is a fan of Four Square for the same reason I am: simple game mechanics get me out of the house trying new stuff.
Now here’s the interesting thing: more men seem to be using Four Square than women. Now I may be totally biased, but I have as many women friends on Four Square as men friends. It could be that they set their checkins as private, totally understandable.
(iTunes Buzzoutroom channel just kicked in with Pitch Black “Ape to Angel.” Sweet! We live amazing lives.)
Here’s something else really cool: Most of the men tend to orbit pretty tightly around the same spots, day in and day out. But the ladies are all over the map. I mean this literally, Four Square is location-based so when I say “all over the map” that’s exactly what I mean.
Sods
Picking up the thread from last week on quid pro quo, let’s take a look at a Confident Writing’s Blogging Equation:
Quality content + regular posting + engaging style + social media engagement = increase in readers
This is all well and good… but it doesn’t scale!
Once your blog finds real success, your time becomes too limited to continue doing those things that garnered the success. A conundrum to be sure.
The author, Joanna Young, takes another crack at the problem with Solving Tricky Blog Equations. She proposes a range of solutions from reducing posting frequency to shortening responses to simply eliminating comments.
These two articles are really good, and the community at Confident Writing is different than my community of regular readers (you know who you are). I left a couple of comments over there myself, and will be following along in my RSS feed. Check it out and let me know what you think.
New articles
Here’s what went down this week:
- 7 Essential Tools for Building Your Marketing Empire. These 7 easy-to-use tools are practically necessary for getting anywhere in internet commerce. Ignore them at your peril!
- WordPress Screencast – Practical WordPress Tip #1 Grabbing links fast. Fast screencast recap of Practical WordPress Tip #1 on how to quickly grab links for internal linking, to help your SEO results.
- Blog World Recap: How to Attract a Large and Loyal Audience. Deacon writes final report from Blog World Expo: how to get and keep critical influence as a blogger – you need this information if you didn’t get to Blog World.
- DIY WordPress: your “gateway” drug into programming. If you’ve ever secretly wanted to learn to program, WordPress might just be your ticket to the fast track. Read how WordPress lets you ramp your skills up fast.
- Static Versus Dynamic Websites – Operational, Informational, Interactional. The meaning of static and dynamic websites depends on the context of your discussion, and you need to know these 3 definitions so you won’t get ripped off.
- Dynamic Content Generation – How WordPress is Like a Sushi Restaurant. Understanding how WordPress works is easy: it works just like a sushi restaurant. Read it and see, I’m sure you’ll agree.
The Week In Review Series
- Last WIAW Week in Review
- Watering Holes and Quid Pro Quo – WIAW Week in Review. Great breakdown on writing a killer weekly review post, and some notes on how to deal with implicit quid pro quo (how many comments do you owe?).
- Stay tuned…
Next WIAW Week in Review
Near as I can figure, pink limos don’t have squat to do with blogging. But if you read this far, you gotta admit, it was killer headline. And every blog post deserves a killer headline!
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I guess for a ‘girls night out’ the pink Hummer might be OK but I can’t imagine ever going in one myself. Hummers are over-the-top to begin with. Hummer limos go a little more overboard so by the time you add the pink… wow, it’s so Paris Hilton.
Gabe | freebloghelp.com´s last blog ..3 darn good reasons to buy a domain today
Hahaha! 15 years ago, I wouldn’t be caught dead in a pink limo.
Now, I’m single.
Puts a whole different light on everything! =)
Dr Wordpress!´s last blog ..Blog World Recap: How to Attract a Large and Loyal Audience
OK, combine that with being in Florida and I’ll let you keep your man-card.
Gabe | freebloghelp.com´s last blog ..3 darn good reasons to buy a domain today
The words of a VERY smart thinker, guys use to give me crap all the time about the Pink H2, until I helped them understand it’s tremendous benefits.
Extreme John´s last blog ..Weekly Link Dump #3
This discussion could go way out of bounds, real fast… I’m stopping here. Website In A Weekend is G Rated. It’s a brand thing. =)
Dr Wordpress!´s last blog ..7 Essential Tools for Building Your Marketing Empire
Yeah, I was about to say something about going down the rabbit hole with Barbie’s Hummer, but thought better about that…
Okay, logging off for a bit – obviously I shouldn’t be allowed to touch a keyboard for at least another (how long is Avatar again?) three hours?
Seriously, though, what IS that number underneath CommentLuv down there? A checksum? A curiosity generator?
Holly Jahangiri´s last blog ..Wordy Wednesday (Last Wednesday of 2009)
Thanks for mentioning those two posts, and – more significantly – the CW community. They are quite something, and I’m glad you found it easy enough to jump in – without the remotest hint of an Amazon voucher in sight! (Here’s hoping I’m #1000)
Joanna, you have quite a community over there.
You’re a little shy of 1000, but I do have a couple hundred articles, and I would be delighted to have your feedback on any of the others!
Dr Wordpress!´s last blog ..Dynamic Content Generation – How WordPress is Like a Sushi Restaurant
I totally use Foursquare like a man. I check in to the same 5 places over and over. It is nice to be the mayor of Chinatown gate though, and I’m working on kicking out the mayor of the Bow and Arrow sculpture on the Embarcadero.
Deacon´s last blog ..Christmas Comes Early
I get the feeling that men respond really well to this “Mayor” notion. And that women don’t care as much.
So far, the females don’t tend to check in multiple times at the same place.
This is going to be so cool when they release the data. There’s going to be multiple PhD dissertations written… which conclude that – left to their own devices – men and women behave stereotypically as, well, men and women.
Dr Wordpress!´s last blog ..Watering Holes and Quid Pro Quo – WIAW Week in Review
Wow Dave this was a nice surprise, THANK YOU!!
I always knew that you had your head on straight, very few men see the true benefits of a pink limo. Yet it seems so basic. haha.
Extreme John´s last blog ..Do Follow Google PR 4 Accepting Guest Posts
John – I *totally* get it… In fact, I’m just _green_ with envy.
If you ever get that beast out here to San Fran, my buddies Deacon, “5am” and I will pack that thing full of hotties faster than sh*t through a goose. Like shooting fish in a barrel. No chodes allowed.
Everyone else: I’m not just sucking up to Extreme John here to get that pink H2 out here to The Citay By The Bay. There’s so little truly unique content on the web, this was a no-brainer.
Here’s the deal: if *you* have unique, unusual content which tells a compelling story, I’ll write it up. Finding good stories is hard. John has several more stories begging for the telling. Do you?
Dr Wordpress!´s last blog ..DIY WordPress: your “gateway” drug into programming
Giving your girlfriend a ride in a pink limo would definitely make your life simpler. She would think you to be considerate enough for taking care of her preferences;-)
regards
Limo
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