This Really Short Blog Post is Waiting for Your Answer

by Aaron on March 10, 2010

What’s the social media thing that you know you should do, but aren’t? Why?

These other posts might be of interest to you:

  1. Four Quick and Easy Blog Post Ideas
  2. A Blog vs. a Post
  3. Tease Me, Stuff Me, or Fill Me with Facts: Effective Blog Post Titles

Tagged as: roadblocks, social media

  • http://www.couldbestudios.com/ Matt Beck

    Twitter ate my blog. Not literally, of course we keep several going still, but our post volume on them is very low, and I took my personal blog down completely.

    I post to twitter and facebook regularly, and I participate in discussions online all the time, but… I find I'm pretty likely to condense what would have been a lengthy blog post in the days of yore into a couple of tweets or a status update.

    I know all of the reasons this is bad, but it's a slippery slope. Short updates really are much easier to manage without breaking up the workflow of the day.

  • ahockley

    I've found the same thing… most of my blog posts are now longer, more planned pieces. Short and medium-length things just don't get posted since they'll usually get explored in other forms.

  • http://www.michaelvandertol.com/ Michael Van der Tol

    More targeted twittering….but are my customers really on Twitter.

  • ahockley

    You're asking the right question… knowing how well your clients are represented on Twitter is a big factor in deciding how much time and energy to invest in Twitter.

    What sort of photography is the focus of your business?

  • http://oneorganizedbusiness.com/ Alaia Williams

    Using Facebook to connect with business people… I know why I'm not – I'm annoyed by facebook (pillow fights, farmville, endless fan page requests), but since everyone is over there, I should put more effort into reaching out to my biz contacts through that channel. They all seem to love Facebook…

  • ahockley

    The good news is that Facebook has (finally) implemented features to let us block the annoying applications such as FarmVille or Mafia Wars. Look for the links to block the application just underneath the offending items when you see them.

  • http://oneorganizedbusiness.com/ Alaia Williams

    Yes, I've noticed that feature and I'm glad they have it. But it's still time consuming to go in there and manually block each application. Like it's also time consuming to accept or ignore friends one at a time. And on Twitter it's annoying to get rid of DM one at a time as well…

    ….oh, now I'm just complaining! Ha!

Previous post:

Next post: