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Duct Tape Marketing: Adding Social Features to Your Blog

  • Lisa Solomon · 1 year ago
    After putting our company's name on the waiting list for Friend Connect months ago, we recently received notice that we can install Google Friend Connect on our website at http://TheBillableHour.com. However, we've held off.

    We're concerned about social networking overload. Really, does every website have to be the hub of its own social network?

    We're also concerned about the possibility of suffering from negative social proof (or, as I like to call it, the "I gave a party and nobody came" syndrome). If your site has only a handful of "members," that can be a disincentive for new site visitors.
  • Clyde Boom · 1 year ago
    Thanks for the great tip and all the steps and resources to do it.

    I'll try it!

    Clyde Boom
  • John Jantsch · 1 year ago
    @Lisa - as you can see I have not implemented either at the moment as I share some your same concerns. To misquote the Cluetrain Manefesto - While markets are conversations, you may not need to join every conversaton.
  • Maranda Gibson · 1 year ago
    I agree with Lisa. I've tried to pick and choose the social media that my company is involved with purely because if there are a lot of people screaming everywhere, how will anyone be heard? I think it comes down to knowing your business and knowing your brand. Not everything is going to work, be a good fit, or even catch on the way some things (like Twitter) have.
  • Franklin Bishop · 1 year ago
    I think all this social stuff is too much. I will stick with Twitter.
  • Don Campbell · 1 year ago
    Great post John, and thanks for including a link to my video.

    I think it is interesting that so many people talk about how difficult it is to set up Facebook Connect compared to Google's Friend Connect. You'd think Facebook would simplify the process.
  • John Jantsch · 1 year ago
    @Don - yes, you should see the video I found on how to add FC from some FB engineers. It was well done, but man it would have scared the heck out of most folks.
  • UPrinting Online Printing · 1 year ago
    Interesting and helpful post, keep em coming, thanks =-)
  • Steve Gasser · 1 year ago
    Your posts seem to be one step ahead of when I need to know something. This will come in handy for a client meeting tomorrow.
  • Brian Kissel · 1 year ago
    If you'd like to just benefit from allowing new visitors to register and login using an existing account from AOL, Google, Facebook, MySpace, Yahoo or any OpenID account, check out RPX (http://rpxnow.com). You can see it in action at http://www.interscope.com or http://www.uservoice.com and a summary of the data you'll be able to get from the various providers at http://blog.janrain.com/2008/12/rpx-addresses-u...
  • Ashwin · 1 year ago
    It is good that such social networks are moving towards the blogosphere. But, as you rightly said in the last part of your post, they sometimes tend to distract readers and take them away from your blog. So I somehow find Blog and Social Networks are better when alone and not together.
  • Adam Hermsdorfer · 1 year ago
    Really interested in both applications. Friend connect the samples looks like a really cool platform and I like the Facebook applications policy on the no follow atribute. They are removing the nofollow attribute from link because they are assumed to be from a trusted source.
  • SEO Tips South Africa · 1 year ago
    The rapidly evolving social aspect of the internet is of great interest to me, thank you for the post. It is rather funny how snooty facebook is, trying to set themselves apart from everybody else. They do have an awesome audience though, so it definitely is worth it for one to pursue that route.
  • Wouter Olwagen · 10 months ago
    Installing Facebook Connect on my site was an absolute breeze.
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