Blogs pave the path to share and to express your ideas. Blog needs a  fuel called readership. Social media helps you to increase readership and hence adding a social dimension becomes an important aspect of blogging. People love to share useful information. Your fresh short posts should have ways to share and express. Comments in your blog is one part of it, presence in sharing platforms like facebook, twitter, Yahoo buzz, digg, delicious, stumble upon helps to attract external readers. This is also termed as organic readership growth. Power of social media is well know. One classic example is the story of Time Warner cable and it’s increased use of tweets as main medium to solve customer issues, and information exchange.

How to add social dimension to Blog?

Comments etiquette – Comments are compulsory in blog posts. Allow readers to express their opinion. Respect freedom of expression, anchor to any blog.

Twitter - Having a twitter account against your domain name or blog motto is  must. Create auto tweets using plugins. A tweet in url, if useful will get re tweeted by others and sharing will provide exponential traffic to your blogs. Read more about how to get engaged in twitter. Plugins you must have in your blog.

Social Bookmarking – Bookmarking websites helps you to create incoming links, and link sharing. Most of the bookmarking websites allow you to give abstract of your actual content. Some the famous plug-ins for social bookmarking sites are Sociable (WordPress) helps you to share contents in close to 199 social bookmarking sites.

Web profiles – Let your web profiles have link to your blogs and blogs to your social profile. Blogs are not just  a way to create a posts, It is a way to “LET THE WORLD KNOW WHO YOU ARE“

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Twitter can be a very effective tool to promote your blogs. Most of the Inherent characteristics of twitter  has the potential to ease blog promotion. 140 characters of crisp introduction to your blog along with links to your blog post is the base for effective and efficient blog promotion using twitter. Your followers in twitter are the targeted reader, a link to your blog along with post title is the route. so the first and foremost step is to get associated with your targeted audience i.e getting followers. In twitterism “Following is the way to get followers”. Having a clear strategy is the easiest way to success.  A unfocused, and scattered tweets can not fetch useful result. pen down your strategy first.

Give confidence to your followers, Base line to keep your followers

“Follow me .. I think i know where i am going”

Feel free to increase your following,

In My view “A good twitter will have more following than a followers”

Well know blogger Blog Bloke’s view,

Twitter is more of a social “chat” tool than real blogging. But regardless of what definition you want to give it, it is indeed a boon to business and it will only get better.

Here comes 8 valuable tips from a well known blogger Blog Bloke,

1. First of all, more blogs today are getting rid of blogrolls. They are considered old school and going the way of the dinosaur.
2. Twitter is designed for short, burst announcements to communicate with your followers, grab their attention and to build relationships. But it is NOT a replacement for blogs.
3. Your blog is your most important tool in your Web 2.0 arsenal. You should think of it as being concentric to your overall social media marketing strategy (Twitter or any other Social Networking site) for leveraging your followers over to your blog.
4. Heck, Twitter (like all social networking sites) doesn’t even offer you a top-level domain. Might as well just stay on Blogspot — right? (NOT).
5. Twitter is quickly becoming a search engine in its own right for finding more fodder to write on your BLOG.
6. If you are a marketer trying to make money you will want your Twitter followers to visit your blog and click on your ads.
7. Like I said before, as a communication tool Twitter is still rudimentary and needs a lot of work. It is more efficient to conduct a discussion on your blog comments section than it is to follow a conversation on Twitter. (Especially with all of the third party plugins and scripts that are now available).
8. Ultimately your blog is where you want the action to be. You want your readers to follow you over to your real blog on your own domain and a site that belongs to YOU.

Source Post:  http://www.blogbloke.com/twitter-tips-promote-blog-traffic/

Few Good post to read about twitter,

http://hexablogs.com/twitter/twitterism-effective-usage-of-twitter/

http://hexablogs.com/twitter/a-must-know-for-bloggers-twitter/

http://twittertips.org/

http://www.twitip.com/13-twitter-tips-and-tutorials-for-beginners/

http://www.problogger.net/archives/2008/01/25/how-to-use-twitter-tips-for-bloggers/

http://www.problogger.net/archives/2008/01/25/35-twitter-tips-from-35-twitter-users/

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Twitter, A 140 characters length rope that connects the users with rest of the world is one of the most effective ways to interact in web 2.0. Twitterism quite popular term used to describe your behaviour based on your tweets conveys who you are. Effective twitterism reflects in effective and efficient usage on twitter or tweets. Following steps will guide you to provide better tweets.

1. Listen to your followers - A baseline of twitter is to follow tweets which you like and allow users to follow you. Most of the time a follower may not know who you are. He decides to follow you because he thinks your tweets will be interesting and useful to him. Greet every followers and give a short not about what ou do in twitter. If you are not specific about what you will tweet never mind. Even a simple Hi! will make a big difference. Automating this with a plugin is also a good idea. If your idea to start tweet is to create a brand concentrate on your followers a bit more.
2. Optimize your Tweets – Web2.0 has many inventions to help you. Really big URLs can be converted to small few characters length using tiny url, tinytw.it, sturly and etc. Since twitter is a short message service short codes like msg, 2, 4m, &, y,s  and etc helps to optimaly use 140 characters. In brand building or web site promotion do not use short url,
3. @reply - One of the most specific way of addressing your tweet to concerned user. Be crisp with your @ reply. Best twitterism should have more of @ tweets. check your own @reply’s track the users, address their specific queries. Be loyal to the own who used @username with your service.
4. Twitter background – To create a best impression on your readers an effective twitter background is mandatory. It helps you to announce to the viewers about who you are. Keep your brand identity elements intact.
5. Retweet relevant content – your tweets should have a flow similar to the way you maintain flow in writing passages. Effective tweets should enable readers to look for retweets. keep some questions, opinions open for the readers to answer and retweet.

Effective usage of twitter should talk about some more tools and features. This blog limited to keepina manaerism twitterism in your tweets. Much more to be followed in later posts.

HAPPY TWEETING!

Relevant Contents:

http://www.tweeterblog.com/

http://www.blogbloke.com/favorite-twitterisms/

http://thoughtsprevail.blogspot.com/2009/03/how-to-use-twitter-effectively.html

https://m.twitter.com/tweeterism

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