We’re adding new features all the time to help make your experience on CurrentPhotographer.com better. We’ve been testing this one for a while but wanted to make the official announcement. As part of our new features for 2011, we’ve added a plugin called Twitoaster to our website. Twitoaster is a great little plugin that searches through the Twitter stream for Tweets that are connected to our blog posts. When it finds them, they get added to the posts through comments.
Unless you own a super blog like Mashable.com, the days of 50 to 100 comments or more per post are gone. But that doesn’t mean people aren’t reading and commenting, they’re just doing it in differently.
Social networks have changed the way we interact. More conversations are happening on Twitter and Facebook than ever before. If you run a blog I’m sure you’ve noticed a drop in comments over the last year or so. The Twitoaster WordPress plug helps capture the Twitter conversations surrounding your posts and pulls them into your blog. This makes it easy to continue the conversation on the blog and the Tweets are available for everyone to read. Read More→
Founder of Current Photographer, co-host of The Digital Photography Cafe Show, Designer, Photographer, and overall tech geek.
Hyper Alerts Delivers Facebook Page Notifications for Free!
I stumbled across this new FREE web service on Social Media Examiner called Hyper Alerts. If you run your own Facebook Business Page or you manage multiple Facebook Pages this service is for you.
Comments and wall posts are very important to the success of any Facebook Page. Community interaction is key, but unless you spend every hour of every day on your page clicking the refresh button, you don’t always know when these updates come in. As a Page administrator or moderator, it’s your job to interact with these fans to keep the communication going.
Facebook intentionally left out the ability for Page admins to receive these notifications because it could potentially bog down their servers. Think about a Page that has several hundred thousand fans. If they were actively contributing to that Page there could be hundreds or thousands of notifications that would need to be sent daily. Multiply that by the number of large Business Pages out there and… well you get the idea.
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Founder of Current Photographer, co-host of The Digital Photography Cafe Show, Designer, Photographer, and overall tech geek.