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Now finally, we're going to talk about news aggregation. My name is Giovanni Gallucci. We're talking about social media and how you can use it as a platform for your marketing and online advertising initiatives.
The next thing Digg wants to know is that if I’m a human being so he’s going to ask me type in the letters on this image or numbers that I’ve put it up there. They put this here so people can put automated systems like Batch or computer programs. Again it’s the same, you just automatically submit tons and tons and tons of articles. These images with letters inside of them are very, very difficult. They are not possible for computer programs so that’s why they do that.
I’ll see a preview of my story, I’ve got my mug there next to the story, the title, the scripted information, the topic, I’m going to digg it because I’m submitting it, we’re good to go.
Now you’ve got two options, you can submit the story or I can go ahead and start syndicating this out by submitting it and blogging it at the same time. Now you all didn’t see this but under my settings for Digg a long time ago when I set up my account, I plugged in the log in information to my blog so I can go ahead and hit submit story and blog it and what’s going to happen is the story is, looks what’s happening. Digg has looked at the verbiage that I’ve got on my story and Digg is asking me whether enough, this is already been submitted before so let’s look through this.
We’ve got starting in voiceovers, five reason, xTrain, here’s one for xTrain, that’s not the same one so now we’re going to go ahead and say go ahead and submit, that’s fine. So what we’re doing now is we’re submitting the story to Digg and it’s also automatically sending this over to my type pad blog and so we go over. We’re going to pull up my type pad blog and we’re going to see that this is the number one story on my blog now. To be honest, I don’t know if that happens as internally it’s an output but let’s have propaganda and see if it does.
Is it here? And I’m pretty sure this is set up as my primary blog. That’s not there yet. Let’s go look at another blog and see if it went to another one because I’ve got several blogs that I manage personally and for my company so I like to see one. Neither one of them but it will over there in a few minutes nor you can go to either to my Gallucci there and the agency blog and you’ll see that that is up there at some point in time and may probably just take a few minutes for it to get up there.
So we have posted this to Digg now so that’s all fine and good, that’s one for every thing’s happy or everybody’s happy now but now we’ve got a back link. We’ve deployed content on the web but obviously with Digg, I’ve been sitting here flapping my gums for the last 12 minutes talking about how getting content on Digg that generates all kind of traffic. And let’s think about how we might do that. Well, when we were covering instant messaging, one thing I mentioned is the fact that within the news, the message and the application, you have so many people in your buddy list and that’s true, there is sphere of influence there and basically instant messaging is only as good as the sphere of influence you have.
Within Digg, it goes a little bit further than that but you can help yourself out if you belong to other social networks that will allow you to communicate quickly to a group of people that may or may not go ahead and add Diggs to this website for you.
There are a couple of things that are really important whenever you are working with Digg and all these news aggregation sites have similar types of rules but they are all unwritten and the only way for you to figure them out is to test the websites. I’m not going to give away all of my tips and tricks but I will tell you some of the stuff I learned about Digg because it’s the one that’s going to get you the most benefit about.
First and foremost, we’ve got out website or link in Digg now. As quickly as you possibly can, you need to get the word out to start getting people to try to start digging the story with their own accounts. I’m going to go in and while I’m talking, we’ll see how long it takes for me to be able to generate, you know, hopefully, maybe a little couple more Diggs by using another social network I have which is called Twitter.
I’ll turn over to Twitter real click. I’m not going to do a whole lot. I’m just going to post a link inside my Twitter account and just put the title there and I’m not even going to ask people to Digg it. I’m just going to see who goes to the link and see if we can generate a couple of Diggs while we put.
So let’s say 10 reasons why—of course, I’m sure that Jeremy had only one. We don’t want to get anybody upset. Started at xTrain, I post in my hyperlink and I’ve got 24 characters left, let’s go ahead and ask them to Digg it. Please Digg and this is pretty cool because you’re going to see fairly quickly that folks will jump on there and add a couple of Diggs to the application.
Well, let’s talk about some of the rules about using Digg.
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