Monday Reading Roundup Take #5

What I think you shouldn’t have missed last week…

ReadingWelcome everyone to a new weekly roundup of great posts spread around the blogosphere. There’s been quite a lot to read and most articles were great (something good in the air it seems), but I had to make a selection in the end.

Barbara Rozgonyi of WiredPRworks reviewed a great tool provided by Youtube, insights. It helps you understand who exactly is watching your videos so that you get to know your audience a little better.

Chris Garrett has publishes results of a blog survey he’s been working on. Here a little on blogger demographics, but make sure to also read the related posts.

Matt Jones of Blogging Fingers has analyzed the effect the right music can have on your blogging, more precisely on your creativity.

Greg of 10e20 published a great how to article on maximizing current events for social media success. He also explained why others fail to get the best out of their submissions.

Dawud Miracle discussed the impact of too many choices on customers. Having multiple choice is a good thing, while having too many is tiring and annoying.

Steven Snell explained on VandelayDesign which differences should set premium themes apart from free themes. Take a look before deciding to purchase.

Phil Butler opened an interesting issue to debate: what our conduct should be, regardless of how famous we are. Pointing out the good and bad examples, he reminded us all it’s all about being kind and never thinking you of all people are too busy to ignore others.

Debra Mastaler of LinkSpiel pointed out a few aspects we should consider before deciding to submit our link to a certain directory.

In a previous Monday Roundup, Blogging Bits recommended cutting the middle man and selling our own ad space. Tibi Puiu of Lost Art of Bloggingcame up with a comprehensive article describing how to actually sell the ad space.

Brad Shorr of Word Sell, Inc. showed us how to put our business blog to work. Blog posts can easily become marketing and sales materials that you can direct potential customers to.

Hope you’ve enjoyed this weeks reading list and invite you all to add your own links in the comment box. Until next week, have an excellent 7 day period :)

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  • Brad Shorr

    Hi Alina, thanks for the mention. These other posts look really interesting and I’m looking forward to checking them out.

  • Tibi Puiu

    Hey, Alina. The roundup looks really great; currently reading through Chris G’s survey. Oh, and thanks a lot for the link!

  • Alina Popescu

    Hi Brad! Thanks for stopping by and for your comment. I’m glad you like the list.

    Hi Tibi! Welcome! Given other articles I’ve written, yours came as a good expansion of the topic. Keep up the great work :)

  • Hendry Lee

    I really enjoy Chris’ blog survey. He is going to post more after he got back. I’m going to check out TIbi’s link.

    Here’s my 5+11 Essential Books for Bloggers. It was inspired by Chris’ post on ProBlogger.net.

  • Alina Popescu

    Hi Hendry,

    Welcome back and thanks for the link! Speaking of the link, I read a few posts of yours and wanted to comment. Are you planning to every enable comments, or should I try email? :)

  • Hendry Lee

    Alina, thanks for your interest in commenting on my blog. And for welcoming me back too. I’ll be a regular comment contributor. I’ve added your RSS feed to my blog a few days ago.

    I have a few reasons why I disable comments and leave trackbacks and pingbacks on. (link tagged as nofollow)

    My blog is still new. I appreciate the value of comments, but for now that is the policy of my blog.

    I am still open to feedback and answer email regularly.

  • Alina Popescu

    Hendry, I see your point. I’ll use your email for feedback, comments or questions until you decide to enable comments :) I’ve also subscribed to your rss feed a few days ago, that’s the simplest way I found to keep in touch with all the fine blogs on my list. What reader do you use?

  • Bamboo Forest

    They all look very interesting. Thanks for sharing.

  • Alina Popescu

    Hi Bamboo Forest! Glad you’ve enjoyed this week’s edition :)

  • Barbara Rozgonyi

    Alina – you have such a way of finding exactly what I’m looking for! Looking forward to checking out the other posts you recommend.
    Thanks for including the YouTube post.

  • Steven Snell

    Thanks for the link!

  • Hendry Lee

    :) Let’s see if you will be able to change my mind about it. I have an open mind.

    In my other blog, I have people ask to fix typo, delete duplicates, it becomes full customer support issue. That’s not where I want to go with my this blog.

    I know some people who will say a blog without comments is not a blog, but that’s another argument.

    I use FeedDemon and Google Reader. Google Reader has a great summary mode and sharing is instant. And I use FeedDemon to track new blogs.

    It is my favorite news readers since 2005.

    What do you use?

  • Alina Popescu

    Hi Barbara, thanks for stopping by! Feel free to read on and don’t mention the link.

    Steven, you’re welcome!

    Hendry, I am a big comments fan, so i will definitely try :) I use Bloglines as a reader but I am looking for something I can use to categorize feeds. And it also needs to be able to import everything from bloglines :) It would be a big waste of time to resubscribe to over 100 blogs.

  • Hendry Lee

    I agree. Google is able to import OPML so that certainly is worth a try. What I like about Google Reader is the ability to share with friends and display all headlines in one page. That makes processing very fast.

    If you are familiar with Gmail, you will like the features.

    FeedDemon is the way to go (now it is free) if you want a desktop version. It does support OPMML too.

    Both allow you to create folders so you can categorize as you wish.

  • Alina Popescu

    Thanks for the advice, Hendry! I’ll give the Google reader a try.

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