Beginner Blogger

Sarge,

I did know how the tweetmeme retweet button worked cause I have used it multiple times. But, I liked how you explained it for people that might not know what is really is. This video gives “newbies” a chance to really use the button/ feature.

I almost wonder if there should be a section on a blog that has how to use______. In that blank would be the share button, retweet button, etc.

One question I do have though for anyone is why do you use tweetmeme instead of Topsy http://www.topsy.com ? Currently TechCrunch uses Topsy retweet but many blogs like yours and Blogussion.com use tweetmeme.

Best Regards.

@Ileane – haha I wouldn’t say I feel like a celebrity but it feels good to get a video out there. Hopefully many more to come Thanks for being a subscriber. I will have to check out blip.tv and I didn’t really consider publishing this to iTunes yet. I want to see what the response is to a few videos before I set anything in stone like a regular podcast but definitely something I have considered and would love to do.

@Derek – I do plan to have a place on my blog for a ‘how to use such and such’ I currently have a category for ‘how to’ and would love to create a bunch of these sorts of movies for people to look at for a reference if they’re not sure how to use it.

Topsy is interesting. It seems to function the same way as tweetmeme used to before it started using the popup feature instead of going straight to your twitter page.

@Brandon – You seem to know a lot about Topsy! I haven’t explored Topsy yet but I agree Tweetmeme seems much more industry standard, and not that I’ve used it much, it does have stat tracking available which would be a big plus.

Good video, Sarge! I did not know a couple of things about tweet-meme, and now I do. You sounded really good. Look forward to more videos!

@Farnoosh – Thanks for the feedback and really glad you got something out of the video Hope to produce more like it!

@Simon – Cheers mate. Videos are a great way to branch out to a wider audience. Yeah I it’s important to educate your readers on the different tools you’re using on your site to encourage them to use them. Most of the time they’re used on other blogs as well so it’s better education for everyone.

Like I said in the post and video I wasn’t sure what the button did exactly when I first started out and if I had a video that told me exactly what it did from the beginning I would have started RT’ing a lot earlier!

@An – I used ScreenFlow for the mac. Might use something else next time.

Screenr is something I may try using next (Thanks @Ileane for pointing me out to it!). It’s online, free and very easy to use. http://screenr.com/

Congrats on the first blog post (and thanks for mentioning me )

An,

On Screenr you will see an option that says “don’t send tweet now will send later manually”. Hope this helps.
@Ileane

@Niall – Is there a ReTweet homepage like digg where it shows the most retweeted tweets?

I recently signed up for an account at bit.ly which is great to see how many people are clicking on the links *I* tweet out as opposed to how many people are clicking on that link whether I tweeted it or someone else did.

I used to use hootsuite but people were saying they didn’t like the bar it used so I’ve switched to bit.ly.

@Erica – Thanks for visiting! Glad you enjoy the content – the goal this month is to produce more of that great content

That was my first video tutorial I’ve done. Ever. I was a little uncomfortable but hope to keep doing them as public speaking is a fear I’d like to get rid of and really improve in. So the videos are a great way to help me as well as helping you guys out

I use ScreenFlow for the Mac. It has screen/audio capture and editing all built into one. Pretty neat! I used a cheapy ‘easyman’ headset to record the voice.