Read My Blog, Damnit!from oblivion to validation to venerated to viral to victory.

it’s an unconference, damnit.

moderators @ front of room may appear more knowledgeable than they actually are.

this guy doesn’t even have a published blog, yet, man!

moderator actually scamming to suck knowledge from your delicious brains.

Moderator: faddah or @yuetsu

Real Info (#srsly)The BasicsContentAppearance/Readability (Themes/Design)A.B.E. (shameless theft!) —>humorpersonal/anecdotalgo to the... visual, music, movie, animated, interactive

Comments, Respond, Moderate, Accept Feedback

What then ...?

... Storm The Heavens!

List-Servs!

i can haz restraining order??

i can haz restraining order??

!!!!!

Avoid Pushing to Annoyace?

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Your Turn.

Unconference Suggestionstho’ it hurts, and goes against the whole “live in your mother’s basement & blog” ethos, do get out, be social, meet other bloggers, f2f! http://beerandblog.comcomment on the blogs of other people to drive people to your blog (@yuetsu warns: be cautious with this, can work in your favor, or if done to much, you can be considered the forum/comment equivalent of spam).check out the tools @ http://www.socialoomph.com/develop regular relationships with other bloggers who have similar themed blogs/like-minded. guest blog w/ them & they for you. do/publish interviews with each other.check out “art of non-conformity”: http://chrisguillebeau.com/3x5/ , also his book, 279 Days To An Over-Night Success, http://chrisguillebeau.com/3x5/overnight-success/use blogrolls/fave links side bar widgets - exchange links (you link to their blog, they link to you).use RSS in blog (learn to lubz you sum RSS).

easier to read from RSS readersaggregates your blog w/ other similar topic blogsease of use keeps the readership you have

post to social network sites — linked-in, biznik (business, financial, professional theme), myspace, facebook (art, social, culture themed).get mentions on similar themed social/niche network sites, web sites, forum/groups & list-servs.

Unconference Suggestions (cont’d.)

use Brevity & Consistency - it’s a blog, not a thesis, and keep posting.mix it up — use “theme of the week,” use previews & teasers (“next post i’ll be talking about...”).don’t bait / flame / link bait in posts, comment responses, forums. comes back to bite you in the long term. (but @yuetsu mentions, while i’d never do it myself, it has made the careers of Robert Scobble, John C. Dvorak, and most of FoxNEWS.)use WP plug-ins that post your new post titles to microblogs (twitter, facebook, friendfeed, statusnet, etc.). do use humor and challenge yourself to be a bit edgy like your for favorite blog sites (@yuetsu: be careful of pushing it too far.)do bring the thunder & spice the site up with media: stuff from YouTube, metacafe, vimeo, seesmic, stickam, ustream, livestream, etc.

Faddah Steve Yuetsu Wolf

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