Helping Bloggers get some exposure!

There is a great initiative going on to garner some attention for blogs with good content and low readership: How You Can Help End the Problem of Blogs With Great Content and No Readers

I have decided to take part in the initiative.

Disclaimer: I am adding this blog to the list of potential blogs that will merit the attention of this new community based on the fact that I have all of about 3 readers, one of which is my sister (hi sis!)

Twitter Poetry: one account - many voices

Ok I admit it. I read and occasionally even write poetry.

Browsing the Web the other day, I happened upon a Haiku, a short form of poem from Japan. I immediately thought of Twitter and how it would be perfect for this type of short, very image laced poetry.

I went on Google to see if anyone had had the same idea. Of course they had! I found a few blogs where people had posted poetry they had created, and twittered.

So, the question became, how could all of the Twitter poetry lovers effectively share their creations? We could create a hash tag. Something like #poet3. But some people really, and I mean really hate hash tags. Then I remembered this post from Geek Thoughts Twitter Groups Done Right! (aka: I hate Hash Tags).

Taking their advice to heart, I created a Twitter account (Poet3) for the sole purpose of allowing all of the Twitter poets to share their poem posts. Everyone can now post to it by starting a tweet with an @Poet3 which will leave the post in your normal posting stream as well for your followers, or send a direct message which will only be accessible to those that want to follow the topic.

I mentioned the Haiku above but feel free to freeform your poetry if that's what you're into. I blogged a while back (See Twitter Stories no. 1) about the need for the community to come up with new uses for the medium and this is exactly the kind of thing I was talking about. So hop on over to http://twitter.com/Poet3 and start posting. Don’t forget to follow the Poet3 account if you want to see others posts.

Look forward to reading you on Twitter.

Use Twitter to update your Facebook Status

Did you know you could use Facebook to update your Facebook status automatically?

It’s easy as one, two, three…four, five… Oh, just follow the bullet list below!

• Log in to your Facebook account (If you don’t have one, why are you reading this?)


• On the right, you should have the Applications tab, click “edit”


• If Twitter isn’t in the list of applications, click on the “Browse more applications” button on the top right


• Now, you can either click through endless pages looking for it or you can type “twitter” in the applications search box on the top right.


• Twitter should be the first in the list (if not, check your spelling). Click on it.


• Click on the “Go to application” button


• Click on the “Allow” button


• Enter your Twitter Username and Twitter Password in the appropriate text boxes and hit “Log In”


• On the top right, you should have a long button that reads: Allow Twitter to Update Your Facebook Status. Well, what are you waiting for? Click on it!


• Read the little text (or not) and click on the “Allow Status Updates” button


• Just for the heck of it, go to twitter and post a message, then rush back to Facebook. You status message should be the same as your recent post. If it isn’t, go back to the top of this list and try to see where you screwed up.

If you liked this post, have a look at these other Twitter related articles from this blog:

• Customize your Twitter Page


• Twitter Story No. 1: Time well wasted!

Enjoy, and thanks for reading!