Is your social-media-life scattered all over the web?

Organizing and keeping track of all the sites you belong to, calendars, lists, information on visited sites, blogs you write, and other sites you frequent is becoming increasingly difficult with the web 2.0 craze in full swing.

Before it all goes spiraling out of control,  try

SuprGlu

Use it to create one place for others to find all your stuff.  I use SuprGlu by adding all my personal feeds to make one Supr RSS feed of all my stuff.  Or use it to create one place to gather all your favorite feeds.  The feeds don’t have to be yours – you can create a Supr feed of your favorite tech sites, or maybe your favorite recipe sites, it’s up to you to conglomerate the feed into what you want it to deliver.

Then there’s

Scrybe You can’t get into this, the beta is closed, but see the video here.

podcast, iptv, vidcast directory

Podcast Pickle is a great site.  There’s no argument there.

One vidcast in particular that I like is Kidcast.tv – Free Children’s IPTV Network.  They do things that I have often wanted to do, like take apart a cell phone.  It is much less cost-prohibitive to watch this vidcast than to do it yourself.

Get Ready to Promote Your Blog

I’m trying to help a friend promote their business blog, but it is rough going.  I think they didn’t realize it would be so much work just making a blog worth promoting.
So here is my pre-promotion checklist.

1. Focus:  have a specific topic for your blog and keywords for that topic that you sew naturally into every posting.  Put these in a txt file and have it open whenever you post to remind you, until it becomes second nature.
2. Decent Branding:  Make your blog stand out from the crowd – in a good way, please, so people will remember it.
3. Tags:  Use them.
4. RSS: Make sure this is available for your blog.
5. Titles:  Make it catchy, but not so catchy that it stops describing what you blogged about.
6. Time & Consistency:  I like to wait until there’s at least a couple months of consistent postings before I send a blog out into the world. (This really depends on the kind of blog it is.)
7. Other Related Content:  Gather a list of other resources; links, pdfs, videos, etc. that you can add to your blog.  Some say that this is sending your visitor somewhere else, but I see it differently:  sending a visitor to a good resource will get them to check back to your blog for more good resources.
8. Professionalism:  I feel so silly saying this, but please remember to spell check your work and proof it carefully before publishing.

See?  That wasn’t so bad, now was it?

ViroPop – contagious and sweet…

I am, by no stretch of the imagination, a liberal.  I do, however, have a basic respect for the environment and being a responsible human in general.  The flagship show on ViroPop is Taproot and it is quite well done, even by my exceedingly high right-wing standards.

—- Watch it in my VodPod ———->

I thought it was funny, well thought out, and the graphic presentation is very hip.  I would like to make one slightly demeaning comparison.  The host of Taproot did remind me of a certain overly-perky vidcast host of a certain show called Geek Brief.  Which happens to annoy me enough that I won’t watch Geek Brief anymore, even if it did have good information once in a while.  I can only take so much of watching a grown woman act like a three year old.  Boy, am I going to get some flyback on this posting…