The Art and Science of Blogging with Twitter

Blogging is an art to express thoughts, recommendations and to share experiences. The blogger needs to be able to reach the readers with interesting content that will capture their attention to explore and stay on the blog. The goal of bloggers is for their readers to get a value out of their blog.

The science of blogging is analyzing how to get people to read your posts. Social Media is your assistant to spread a blog post. Post to all the social media platforms that you are on. Join social media platforms that you are not on yet. Twitter is a very powerful social media platform to tweet your posts. It's all about using good #HashTags that will be searched on by potential readers. Tweets need to go out at strategic times to reach potential readers that you are trying to reach.

Recyle old blog posts on your social media platforms. This will ensure that any new connections see your posts. It also gives you a chance to reach existing connections that might have missed your posts.  

Blogs requires constant attention or it will fail. You need to invest time in it by continually creating interesting content that brings value to readers. Keep on posting.

My Twitter Word Cloud

My twitter timeline translated into a cloud.

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Facebook vs Google+

The two social media platforms appeal to different audiences. Some of us use both of them for the different type of experience you get on them.

Facebook has good FB pages that business setup for you to interact with and learn about them. Google+ also has pages for business to setup. Both platforms offer good content.

Now for the personal accounts on Facebook. It's a mixed bag. I like it for basic communication, sharing moments with family and friends. I plug my blog posts on it. Facebook can be drama book at times. I still use it because most of my connections on it have not embraced Google+ yet.

Google+ personal accounts offer a different interaction from Facebook. The interaction on Google+ is awesome. I meet people from all over the world and you can do the same on FB but it seems easier on G+. It's a diffent feeling on G+ for me. All those bogus reports of G+ being a ghost town that I read are full of crap because I must be a ghost communicating with other ghosts then.

Sharing content to specific groups of people I find easier on G+ using their circle feature to group people in specific circles to post too and monitor feeds. The FB lists to group your friends in specific lists to post too and monitor feeds is Ok.

I did not forget about Twitter. You cannot compare Twitter to FB and G+ because it's use is so different. Twitter is in a class all by itself. 

What did you just tweet?

Twitter a very powerful social media platform. A tweet can be seen by millions in seconds. We have people monitoring twitter for keywords to start a firestorms over tweets that people of notoriety make.

We have technology at our finger tips and it's so easy now to express your feelings on the fly meaning no harm most of the time just poor judgement in words. If you select the wrong words you are going to create a firestorm on twitter by the twitter police. You can lose your job over a tweet.

Most people have a personal twitter account. If you tweet from a personal account add a disclaimer to your profile that this is your personal account. That won't save you, but it does differentiate your business and personal tweets. Personal tweets should be hands off. Don't take it so serious get a life. People at the spur of the moment have a lapse in judgement and say stupid things. Just think if the President could have fit his biggest lie of the year words on a tweet he might have been tempted to tweet it. The president is more into selfies, so I think he is safe on twitter.

Generation gap on social media?

Is there a generation gap on social media? No

People of all ages use social media so what are some of the excuses not to use it. I'm to busy, I'm a private person. Not good excuses. We have many types of users. Some live on it and others jump on a few times a day. Just find a balance to not interfere with your real life interactions.

Twitter is more important than Facebook it has evolved to be a complement to your email account. Don't get caught off guard when someone ask's you for your twitter name and you say what?

Facebook is a good way to stay in touch with family and friends keeping some posts private and some public.

LinkedIn is a must for everyone it's your e-business card. Don't just open an account with minimal info to just be a stalker to look at other profiles. A must for job seekers.

Google+ my is my favorite. It's Twitter and Facebook combined. Google+ allows you to make some great connections all over the world.

Just get on social media and have fun. Keep in touch with the important people in your life.