Thirsty Fish Thinking: Chris Brogan

Thursday, June 24, 2010

3 Steps to Simple Blogging Everyday!

I found this article by Chris Brogan very helpful and convicting. He outlines in 3 steps the process he uses when he blogs - and he blogs a lot! That last part is what convicted me. Some would say I blog a lot but actually I don't. I should and that is what convicts me. Review his thoughts and share yours...

clipped from www.chrisbrogan.com

Let’s go through the formula:

Step 1: Decide WHAT the Post Should DO for You

To get a call to action.

To attract business.

To promote someone else.

To get links and bookmarks and reblogs.

To get a conversation started.

Step 2: How Can I Be Helpful?

tips and advice and ideas that you can use for yourself.

Step 3: The Actual Writing

start with a headline

find a picture on Flickr under their Creative Commons area

My first paragraph is always a personable lead-in, usually with a question

Sunday, March 7, 2010

How do you use social media?

Cover of "Trust Agents: Using the Web to ...

Cover via Amazon

Chris Brogan is the author of Trust Agents and a great pragmatist when it comes to social media uses. Here's a great bit of how to make social media cool and use it for some great power business tools. What do you do with social media sites like twitter, linkedin, myspace or facebook that is cool?

clipped from www.chrisbrogan.com

Social media are a bunch of tools. They let us see things a bit differently. They empowered new ways of working together. But they’re just the tools. When this all gets cool is when we start really turning this stuff on our own passion projects, on our bigger goals, on what COULD happen.

Start a public list of Twitter accounts from local businesses. Point everyone in your community to it.

Start small mastermind groups on Google Wave (I have an incredible group going. Very small. Very useful.)

Donate four hours a week to a charity, giving them more promotion and exposure for their causes, equipping them with more ways to find what they need.

Connect to 10 people every day. Make it a blend of 5 people you’ve been in touch with, and 5 people you need to stay fresh with. Ask for nothing. Offer everything. ( Tim Sanders does this well.)

Give your local school teachers or library a free class on how to use the tools for their projects.