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, the addictive message service that connects the world of users with 140 character at a time.  Thanks to the superb minds behind twitter the likes of Evan Williams for helping us to answer the question what are you doing? Twitter has become a vital connector for people and communities.  In fact it helps companies to update their status to the intended audiences.  In comparison with the legacy branding utilities tweeter helps you to choose and control your listeners, their home page is loaded with your tweets along with list of other tweets they follow.

Some of the user comments about tweeter and it is usage are,
Nicole Ahn

Twitter definitely is a great example of websites going further than what is available. Twitter proves to be beyond just a status update website, but more of a community of users who are informing one another of what is going on around them. It’s amazing to see networking among people, twitter working within the society, and the public being affected by what goes on on the internet.

Michele Lorito-Chase

To catch a glimpse of shared knowledge at one’s own speed, to share knowledge with those who desire to obtain it, a platform that facilitates collaborative thinking for creative genius, for brands to give without a price tag, to build an unprecedented global network to share with and grow-Evan Williams is a pioneer who’s contribution will open up different territories for even greater contributions.

Husnia Karimi

i do think the same that Twitter is one of many social media tools what i think that some of us using it as a fun tool and some using it as a connecting with each other, in the end of the day is the way you are useing this tool.

Hence proved, A powerful tool to update your status, your post, your thought, your feel, your understanding, your xyz. Twitter proved to be a powerful tool for bloggers. Usage of Tweet me, Tweet this plug-ins with wordpress helps you to update yous post publishes to twitter and hence to all you followers. It works as a SEO tool too. It works as a ping tool too, but only your followers are updated.
Extracting the full usage of twitter involves few easy to follow step by step approach. Come back here to get more guidelines on twitter.

1. Choosing a right Twitter template
2. How to design your Twitter background image
3. How to use plug-ins like tweet this, tweet me with your Blogs
4. Enhancement for your Blog
5. Enhancement for your brand identity
6. Following, Follower strategy
7. Use of Social monitoring tools for your tweets
8. Monitoring your twitter behavior

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