Yahoo IM Networking Group: Everyone’s Invited Including YOU
By Matt Jones on Jul 19, 2007 in Blog Marketing
I am starting up a networking group of bloggers who help each other out, usually with a vote on a social site or a friendly link. By us all being on Yahoo IM (the same IM) it be simpler and everyone who joins will benefit.
Making blogging contacts is a great way to grow your blog. By exchanging IMs, favours and making friends it will build a community around each blog involved, which is what we all want.
If you do not use Yahoo IM it is very easy to get started. You can Download it here for free.
A number of bloggers who I emailed have already shown interest.
Once everyone has added me, I will shoot an email to everyone else who added me containing the IM address of the others (if that makes sense). That way we will all be on each other’s Yahoo IMs.
My Yahoo IM address is:
matt608freemoney
Let the networking fun begin! Be sure to spread the world to make the group as big as possible!
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It is a great idea, Matt, but I think the implementation is a little unwieldy.
We really want a moderated mailing list, don’t we? How about instead of using Yahoo IM, you setup a moderated Yahoo Group with a daily digest?
Better yet, someone (looking in mirror) ought to setup a “backscratcher network”, where every clickthrough is recorded and given back to you somehow.
Hmm, I recall blogging about this months ago… let’s see… http://fuery.com/2007/02/27/digg-digg-clones-pagerank-and-wordpress-plugins/
So, your list of 30 bloggers (31… my yahoo IM is “jfuery”) would probably be interested in this, no?
The only worrisome part is that the social networks might start blacklisting anything that comes from the backscratcher network.
[blockquote]The only worrisome part is that the social networks might start blacklisting anything that comes from the backscratcher network.[/blockquote]
Then they shouldn’t find out about the network , should they ?
Hey Matt,
Sounds like a lot of fun… You can count me in.
Great Guys! Others have joined up too, I will be contacting everyone with each others IMs shortly. People are already having some great ideas. It’s more than just voting for each other, it’s amazing what a few bloggers can achieve when they put their heads together.
This is for Diggs and things like that right?
I am confused? Is this considered a bad thing? I thought that this proposed group would be people who stay in close contact with each other and tell each other within the group about various things such as asking for a Digg consideration, etc…
I don’t want to be part of something that will look bad in the blogosphere. As big as the blogosphere may be, its really a small world. I don’t think Matt has ill intentions here… but I do think careful planning should be made as well as the format be open to the general public.
A message board would be good for something like this. Yahoo groups, Google Groups, etc… or a PhpBB, SMF message board, etc.. would work. I think that would be better than a ’secret’ IM network…
I am sure they exist, but I think it would be more inviting to create a board or community type place where anyone and everyone within some kind of pre-approval screening process would be better.
Any thoughts on this?
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