Jan 06 in Community
Written by: Heather Rast
A Blog And A Partner
I had the opportunity to partner with Successful Blog author Liz Strauss, and let me say I’m darned lucky. Not only is Liz the fairy godmother of relationships and conversations, but she can identify kernels of ideas and say big things about them. Things that get her readers thinking. And you can be sure, they’re always listening to Liz.
The post I co-authored was published today and is titled “It’s so easy to get stuck repeating what we already know.” And you guessed it, it’s about making assumptions, not being in tune with your audience, the misapprehension of academic intelligence and practical intelligence, and a few other things too.
(More) Magic Happened
As you can see from the screen shot below, Liz announced the post this morning on Twitter. Some loyal followers checked out the post, then visited my blog and Twitter page. Voila! Cool stuff happened (Heather pumps fist in the air, yells “Score!”). This morning, I gained about 27 new followers who likely wouldn’t have otherwise discovered me.
Celebrate! New peeps!
A Bigger, Better Following
Having people’s interest is really great, and on some level validating. But I’m not overly concerned with the number of folks in my Twitter sphere. What I AM jazzed about is the new opportunities that were given to me today, as a result of the increase in followers.
Blessed with a larger network of friends, I can now bounce ideas off more people, my chances of discovering new links and tools has improved, I’ve gained insight into new fields and strengthened insight into fields held in common. There are more people for me to discuss things with, more people to be inspired by and learn from. Not to mention challenged, and even humbled, by. Like my own advisory council. How cool is that?
Partnering With Peeps
Yeah, this “new followers” gig is a sweet one (for me). The trick is to honor their new interest by sharing the best I have to offer. I sure will try. Together, we’re as good as greater than the sum of our parts. Isn’t that the essence of social media?
Thank you, new followers. Separately, we’re good. Together, we’re great!
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11 Comments for: What A Twitter Network Can Do For You
The power of networks are amazing … and constantly surprising. And you are right, Liz is kind of magical.
Came from JesseNewhart’s twitter post. Good way of looking at the opportunity to expand, not just the ‘ego’ numbers.
Thanks!
Awesome! I’ve only been tweeting for a short time but am already seeing how amazing the power of a Twitter network is. Congrats on the new followers!
*smiles*
Michele
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts – because of the combination and permutations; the relationships, the ideas we build on, the support we can offer each other.
What we control is what we do with it and about it – like DArmano is doing. We can choose to be agents of change. Thank you for the inspiration.
It’s like a domino effect really, one thing leads to the next. Great blog and good luck growing your RSS subscriptions as well…everything will follow suit.
Yup. You rock. Glad to see more people are following and reading what you have to say. It IS good stuff! I’m happy for you!
@LizStrauss, you provided the inspiration, the vehicle, and the co-creation opportunity. Without your keen idea, I would have let the chance just slip by, unrecognized.
Gavin, you said it–we’re all just one click away from helping our neighbor or influencing another person. What an awesome responsibility! I second your thoughts on Liz, she has a kind heart.
Michele–aw, thanks for the support! Twitter sure can be a great ride. I’ve learned so much, and had fun doing it!
@ConversationAgent, thanks for the (minor) correction, you knew what point I was trying to make! By thinking about people and how we can help build them up, we each can help grow a community of thinkers and sharers–we all win!
Avat, thanks so much for the visit. It took this event to remind me that every deed or word has implications. We can use our exposure to others for good, or for bad.
I agree! I didn’t quite get the Twitter thing until my followers and blog hits started to multiply exponentially. Thanks for confirming this with your post!!
Jared Lyda
http://www.fireandmotionblog.com
Great stuff. I took the liberty of adding your blog to the blogroll on one of my blogs. I hope you don’t mind. I look forward to reading more of what you and your partner are writing about.
Twitter: authenticsports
Skype : stan_smith2
Avat (http://invesp.com/blog), thanks for the encouragement! Being able to grow readership (on this blog or Twitter followers) is a lot of fun and rewarding. Along the way I have learned so much from so many talented and smart people…that’s my good fortune. And I hope to provide value to other marketers/communicators who in turn might consider joining my community.
Jared (http://www.fireandmotionblog.com), thanks for stopping by. It’s great to interact with people who have opinions or contributions. It’s true, a great majority of my blog traffic originates with Twitter. I internalize that interest as my responsibility to produce (whether Tweet, blog, or otherwise) create, share, or encourage good content and ideas. And if I can poke fun at myself or make someone laugh, then it’s a double ‘win’.
Stan (@authenticsports), glad you stopped by today, too! It’s my treat to be part of your blog roll, thank you. Feel free to email me suggestions for future posts, or make any observations on existing ones.
And you think I did that. Huh! Now who got the whole thing started in the first place. Hmmm? I mean, the whole blog post came about because you said such brilliant things.
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