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Hacking Hacker News – How Wily Startups Leverage Social News Sites

InfoChachkie

The lessons learned by Divshot confirm that obtaining, and more importantly maintaining, visibility on the front page of a major social news site results from the congruence of three factors: audience, timing and engagement. No matter how you end up on the front page of a major news site, getting there is just the first step.

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Why Startups Need to Blog (and what to talk about …)

Both Sides of the Table

But should you actually write one if you’re a startup, an industry figure (lawyer, banker) or VC? This is a post to help you figure out why you should write and what you should talk about. They created a reason for their customers to aggregate on their site on a regular basis. By definition, you read blogs. Apparently not.

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How Many Times Should You Tweet Your Blog Post?

Both Sides of the Table

I’ve argued previously that Twitter is a new form of curated RSS and in many ways it is. But it is a transient RSS reader. I’ll finish writing around 1am and that’s a dumb time to Tweet because few people in the US are online. In fact, that is what I plan to do for this post. So, whaddaya think?

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Top 30 Startup Technology and Product Posts for September 2010

SoCal CTO

Why Every Entrepreneur Should Write and 9 Tips To Get Started - OnStartups , September 27, 2010 "The best part of blogging is the people you will meet"- Hugh MacLeod repeating wisdom from Loic Lemeur to me at the Big Pink at 2 am in South Beach after the Future of Web Apps 2008. Why You Should Write. Why You Should Write.

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Social Media for Service Professionals

SoCal CTO

Over the past 12 months, I've had roughly 284,000 people come visit that site and get exposed to things I write. But the web site visitors are accurate. Be interested in what they write. Plan out how you will interact with what they are writing. I keep my blogs separate from by company web site. Use Ping.fm

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Entrepreneurs Now Start Hyperlocal Then Go Global

Startup Professionals Musings

At first this was limited to news sites that concentrated on a segment of a community, like West Seattle, but the concept is now being applied to advertising and promotion sites, blogging sites, and even legal services sites. They are free to write about neighborhood events, charities, schools, and local causes.

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Smart Startups Think Global But Act Hyperlocal

Startup Professionals Musings

At first this was limited to news sites that concentrated on a segment of a community, like West Seattle, but the concept is now being applied to advertising and promotion sites, blogging sites, and even legal services sites. They are free to write about neighborhood events, charities, schools, and local causes.

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