I'm Rob Blatt. For the most part I wrote about my dogs, music and technology. I swear quite a bit, so this blog isn't for people who can't handle that. I encourage you to subscribe to the RSS feed. All the random images to the right are courtesy of my amazing wife.
The Archives
For a moment, I want to acknowledge Upstart Blogger, who created the theme for Wordpress that I bastardized for the site design. I’m not pointing out the site because they are giving away iPhones and a MacBook Air, I’m pointing out the site because I love my theme and they’ve put together some bang up code.
Anyway, Upstart Blogger is the place for what I’ve been discussing.
Twitter was all over PodCampNYC this year. I was either meeting people that I already was following on Twitter or I was making new friends to follow on Twitter. Just about everyone had an account and just about everyone was active on it.
Twitter was how people coordinated their plans, announced which sessions they were in or going to, put together flash sessions and impromptu concerts. I didn’t even bother giving people my e-mail address or phone number. Instead I gave them my Twitter account and I made sure that I was following them on Twitter.
Like most other attendees that I encountered I have a Twitter account, but until PodCampNYC, it wasn’t really a social tool. Everyone was using Twitter so effortlessly that for the most part the service became transparent and the value was very clear.
Let’s just hope it stays up for PodCamp Boston.
I’ll be posting some notes from Podcamp on the ol’ blog. If you don’t care about it, then please ignore.
Cliff Ravenscraft- Communicating with Your Audience- Building Community Around Your Podcast
Cliff is from GSPN.tv, that’s the Generally Speaking Production Network.
Remember to have a call to action. Without it, no one is gonna know to write you, stupid. Not only that, but you actually have to answer them publicly. If you don’t answer your audience, they won’t know you received their message.
Note to remember: Free online answering machines can be a repository for messages, and people can listen in with Talkshoe or watch with UStream or Yahoo live.
GSPN.tv is a vehicle for Cliff to build his brand and sell that brand as a trusted brand.
Gathering Comments
How do you generate comments for your posts? I’m not sure there’s any answer besides creating a community. For instance, my post on Guillermo Vargas Habacuc draws lots of people in from Google, but there have been no comments left on the story. It has the highest amount of page views, but nothing in terms of comments.
Recently I’ve been going out of my way to leave comments on the personal blogs I read on a regular basis, because I believe in treating others as you want to be treated. This works in some cases, but not all I’m sure. How do you start to build comments on your site?