Commit Blog Suicide With Social Media

Posted on December 27, 2007
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Patrick of Piggy Bank Pie writes an amusing look at using social media to help your blog die with dignity. He’s the Jack Kevorkian of the blogosphere.

Bonsai Blogging: How to fail with Social Media is a “what not to do” primer on using social media to promote your blog. It’s also a refreshing change from the usual meta-blogging fare that avoids humor like the ebola virus. Patrick tells us:

Bonsai Blogging is the art of miniaturizing traffic by blogging into an isolated container. This method has proven to be efficient for stopping growth, allowing you to fail with dignity.

Go check out the whole thing for a refreshing take on a tired topic. Bonsai Blogging: How to fail with Social Media

Image Credit: Circle Bonsai

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Comments

4 Responses to “Commit Blog Suicide With Social Media”

Patrick on December 27th, 2007 5:02 pm

Very nice review Fiar
Thanks
Patrick
Fiar on December 27th, 2007 5:06 pm

Sure thing, Patrick. It was a good post, and worthy of mention.
Gideon Shalwick on December 30th, 2007 7:58 pm

Hi Fiar

Good point. It’s interesting when you look at the whole point of social websites. I suppose the word “social” kinda gives it away.

It really seems like there is a massive need for people just to hang out, interact with each other and have fun. I have no idea how this kind of activity can turn into a business (just yet), but maybe it’s not supposed to turn into a business in any case!

And I also suppose that is why marketers aren’t considered all that welcome on the social sites either. They really seem to spoil the fun for everyone once they get there dirty little hands in there.

Perhaps the best way yet, if you’re a marketer, is to forget that you are a marketer, and just to join in the fun and get involved the way that everyone else is.

Perhaps that will help you get a bit of attention - something that might come in handy later on for your business…

Gideon Shalwick
Founder of InternetMarketingWizards.com
Fiar on December 30th, 2007 11:50 pm

Good point, Gideon. There’s definitely a seething hatred toward people that make it obvious that they want to use social media for what it can do to benefit them, and I agree that it’s related to the fact that social media is supposed to be social.