Helping You Rock Out Your Site Like A Rockstar!

I have been here and there in different fandoms, whether anime, celebrities, or even hobbies, I have been eager to connect with others. However, as of recent, I have found that I can support those fandoms by contributing articles to FanHistory.com. FanHistory is a wiki that contains thousands of articles on different fandoms like actors, politics, sports, television, music and more. In fact, the number of articles total well over 500,000.

The great thing about the site is that if you are a fan of something, your article submissions are welcomed. It is fun and a way to connect with others. For those of you who I know run fanlistings, you could even submit your fanlisting within your fandom there. You just go in, register, find your niche, and insert your information on the pages of your fandom. You can even create a new page if your fandom has not been covered or if there is a part of the fandom not mentioned, like in anime, it could be categorized down to the character. Also, if you have a fanlisting, it could help you get a good reciprocal link.

In fact, I encourage you if you are a big fan of anything in particular, go to FanHistory, look up your fandom to see if it is listed. If it is not, you should add something about it. If it is, well, you can add more if there is anything missing.

Here are some basic tips for those who are new with Twitter, or may use Twitter, but have a few questions. Remember that Twitter does have a Help section that is filled with resources that extend further than this blog article.

1. Fill out your profile, including your profile picture. A lot of people connect more if they see a picture of a person, but as long as you have a picture, your chances of being followed back are greater than that of a person with the default Twitter picture.

2. Automatic Direct Message, or Auto- DM: Despite the fact that they seem really nifty to use, do not if you are a business. For one, it is a sure chance you may be unfollowed quickly if your Auto-DM right off the back tells people to visit your business first, rather than connect with you and develop a bit of a friendly relationship.

3. Do not continuously plug the same thing in your stream every 2 to 5 tweets. It is annoying and most people who are active on Twitter will notice. That is called spam.

4. If you re-tweet (RT) or re-post another’s tweet on your stream, make sure to give credit to them. It makes you a courteous tweeter, and you might make a new follower.

5. Giving out some Follow Friday love (where you plug people you recommend others to follow on Friday. Hashtags #followfriday and #ff) is great, but excessive tweeting can be seen as annoying and spam-like. Spread your follow friday love out throughout the time you are online.

6. Do not expect people to follow you back just because your followed them. You need to have a conversation first before they may follow you back. A lot of people who have a lot of followed automatically follow back.

7. If you are getting messages in your streams that you can gain over 16,000 followers in 30 or 60, or even 90 days, do not even think about joining. They do not work or they involve a lot of shady follow and unfollow techniques.

8. If you DM (Direct Message) someone, follow them. It solves that problem with one-sided conversations. If you do not, there is no way that they can reply to you via the DM method.

9. Despite your opinion, if you run into a problem where you are in an argument with other tweeps (Twitter people), remember this: It is better to agree to disagree, no matter the issue. It looks bad if you try to enforce your opinion and people will see you as a megalomaniac.

10. If a person says they are an expert, do a little research before you take their advice or employ their services. A lot of people like to give more credit to themselves than there should. This is not to discredit those who may be able to ‘walk the walk’, but to prevent you from having a bad experience with those who can only ‘talk the talk.’

These are just the ten tips that come from the top of my mind that I have been tweeting off and on since December 2008. Do you have any?

I could not help it. When @morbidromantic sent an invite, I checked out Blip.fm and decided to join. Once I got in, I got so enthralled that here I am, writing about it here.

The site is a play where music meets social media. You can share your playlist or ‘DJ’ on your Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal and a few other social media websites. I have been a bit addicted with it and have already favorited more than two dozen songs.

Also offered there are video clips of songs too. You can also follow those you know or follow people you happened to surf upon and liked their playlist. You can issue ‘props’ or for those familiar with forums, ‘karma’ points. You can also receive ‘props’ from another user if they like your stuff.

No, you cannot be a DJ, but you can sure feel like one, especially when your audience are the people who follow your updates across the social media world.

I am finding that some people on Twitter have more than one blog, but are signing up for different accounts – one for each website. You do not have to always do this. You can use the same Twitter account and every time you blog, that will appear using Twitter Tools by Alex King.

However, it might look strange if you twitter stream had “New Post”, so here is a way to help you distinguish which blog post goes with what site.

1. You have to have Twitter Tools and your own Twitter account.

2. Install the plugin manually or you can install it automatically in WordPress 2.7 and above.

3. Go to your Plugin Editor and to the Twitter Tools Plugin. Look for the following chunk of code.


class twitter_tools {
function twitter_tools() {
$this->options = array(
'twitter_username'
, 'twitter_password'
, 'create_blog_posts'
, 'create_digest'
, 'create_digest_weekly'
, 'digest_daily_time'
, 'digest_weekly_time'
, 'digest_weekly_day'
, 'digest_title'
, 'digest_title_weekly'
, 'blog_post_author'
, 'blog_post_category'
, 'blog_post_tags'
, 'notify_twitter'
, 'sidebar_tweet_count'
, 'tweet_from_sidebar'
, 'give_tt_credit'
, 'exclude_reply_tweets'
, 'last_tweet_download'
, 'doing_tweet_download'
, 'doing_digest_post'
, 'install_date'
, 'js_lib'
, 'digest_tweet_order'
, 'notify_twitter_default'
);
$this->twitter_username = '';
$this->twitter_password = '';
$this->create_blog_posts = '0';
$this->create_digest = '0';
$this->create_digest_weekly = '0';
$this->digest_daily_time = null;
$this->digest_weekly_time = null;
$this->digest_weekly_day = null;
$this->digest_title = __("Twitter Updates for %s", 'twitter-tools');
$this->digest_title_weekly = __("Twitter Weekly Updates for %s", 'twitter-tools');
$this->blog_post_author = '1';
$this->blog_post_category = '1';
$this->blog_post_tags = '';
$this->notify_twitter = '0';
$this->notify_twitter_default = '0';
$this->sidebar_tweet_count = '3';
$this->tweet_from_sidebar = '1';
$this->give_tt_credit = '1';
$this->exclude_reply_tweets = '0';
$this->install_date = '';
$this->js_lib = 'jquery';
$this->digest_tweet_order = 'ASC';
// not included in options
$this->update_hash = '';
$this->tweet_prefix = 'New blog post';
$this->tweet_format = $this->tweet_prefix.': %s %s';
$this->last_digest_post = '';
$this->last_tweet_download = '';
$this->doing_tweet_download = '0';
$this->doing_digest_post = '0';
$this->version = '1.6';
}


4. Within the line


$this->tweet_prefix = 'New blog post';


simply change it to something else like your domain name. In my case, I have put


$this->tweet_prefix = 'Blondish.net - New blog post';


This is not much, but for those who keep asking how I did it, this is it. Simple, right? If you have more than one blog, you can just alter your tweet prefix to coordinate with what you want your tweet to say in case you do not want it to use the default ‘New blog post.’

I was talking with AlohaArleen on Twitter about MyTweetFollowers.com. At first I wanted to know what it was as she was asking around if anyone had heard of it and if it worked.

I decided to inquire and she sent a link. Being the geeky girl who is always curious and will try something in the name of proving or disproving if it works, I went to the site. You log into the site with your Twitter ID and password and you are led to a page with 2 sections of followers. First, you have to follow the VIP people who pay to be listed. Second, you have to follow 20 of the people in the regular listing. It is really something different.

The VIP (paid) members simply pay $5 a day for 10 days or $6 a day for 5 days to be listed and not rotated through the system. I am trying the system myself, but I am not sure how it will turn out. I guess like the other programs, I will have to give it a little time, like a week for a verdict.

Right now it has not been easy to find something good as a job in my area. Most of the things available are factory work. That does not do anything for me as my career has always been along the lines of web and graphic design. It is actually what I am studying for. I am seriously considering to look for New York jobs as there are a lot of opportunities in my field, especially in the New York City area.

Of course, I like the freelancing, but I am not as known as others and even though I do have some demand on my services, it is not like having a regular job to go to. As a freelancer, I have to pay for my own healthcare and even continuously strive to put myself above others when bidding for a job. I am almost at the point in my life that I may need to move to somewhere like New York to finally get somewhere with my career.

I found out that Blondish.net had been nominated at the Blogger’s Choice Awards in several categories:

- Best Geek Blog
- Best Blog About Stuff
- Best Blog Design
- Best Blog of All Time

I saw that my friend Lydia nominated my site. Thank you, Lydia! I believe in order to vote, you have to sign up.

I appreciate if you might be able to vote for me there. I actually have not done any blog award sites or any web competitions in some time, so I would really appreciate it. If you comment here and say you did vote there, I will make you a special graphic gift showing my appreciation that you can snag and take back to your own site.

CD Rates which is known as Certificate of Deposit Rates are not savings bonds, nor saving accounts. They are similar, but require you to keep the money in the account over a certain amount of contracted time. The amount accrues interest, but if it is taken out, then it you would not receive the amount of money that was interest. The amount for investing in CDs are much higher than usual savings accounts. However, the interest rates are usually much better than savings accounts from even credit unions.

This is something that my ex and I have discussed about getting with the money we have put together in his savings account. It would allow Angel to have money when he is older and not have to worry.