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Changing chiperoni.ch/wordpress/ into a tweet machine

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I am quite excited about POSSE. I’ve added a plug-in called Hum to shorten URLs. And I activated the corresponding WordPress app for Twitter via Publicize. And that’s it. Voilà. My own personal tweet machine is up.

Advantages compared to publishing an RSS feed on Twitter? I guess it has a very similar end-effect to distributing a RSS feed via IFTTT or Twitterfeed. The URLS are shorter and I can define a shorter domain name if I want.

Next thing to explore is the Webmention plugin.

A couple of weeks ago, I got this idea to build a local SEO network for private use. Now I have a good idea how I’ll build it and still keep my sanity. Back to the future. I could set up a local-hosted WordPress site and then blast away. Reaching out to Linkedin, Twitter, G+ and Facebook. In a way, it’s very similar to good old RSS.

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One response to “Changing chiperoni.ch/wordpress/ into a tweet machine”

  1. nchenga

    I attended the WordCamp in Zurich last Saturday.

    It’s been a while since I attended a similar geek event and I
    enjoyed listening to others.

    It was encouraging to hear about WordPress. I’ve used WordPress
    since September 2004. And it’s
    truly a great sign of continuity that WordPress is still here.
    Not only that, but there’s a thriving community and a company
    that want to keep it that way as well.

    Secondly, it was encouraging to hear from other bloggers and web
    developers.

    Here’s a quick run through my Twitter notes and faves (like a
    Storify summary of Tatort on Spiegel.de ;-)).

    First talk I listened to was on trends in
    enterprise blogs    . I found this talk useful for my day job.

    Content must be easy to share, e.g excerpts and images

    ”” ✁___CollectThisTweet (@nchenga) May
    3, 2014

    Comments are being disabled on Enterprise WordPress sites
    #wcch

    ”” ✁___CollectThisTweet (@nchenga) May
    3, 2014

    Large, enterprise blogs have switched off commenting and are
    experimenting with new forms of integrating user interaction,
    e.g. by using annotations, or by asking specific questions, or
    moving comments entirely to Facebook.

    Quartz experimenting with new kinds of comments: annotations

    ”” ✁___CollectThisTweet (@nchenga) May
    3, 2014

    NYT integrates reader comments or they ask specific questions
    #wcch

    ”” ✁___CollectThisTweet (@nchenga) May
    3, 2014

    Techcrunch moved comments to Facebook, away from wordpress
    #wcch

    ”” ✁___CollectThisTweet (@nchenga) May
    3, 2014

    What @qz observes in terms
    of #longform
    (via @rosso) #wcch
    pic.twitter.com/EvlD8jGrQf

    ”” Christoph Hess (@christophhess)
    May 3, 2014

    Regarding content length, short texts and long analysis articles
    (aka Longreads) work best.
    It’s the mid-length texts between 500 and 800 words that are read
    least frequently.

    And many of the enterprise sites use extensive email marketing to
    bring readers to their site.

    The slides are here.

    Next talk that inspired me was by Vitaly Friedman. He had a fun
    starting point by looking at typewriter art in the late 19th
    century, which led to ASCI art and teletext.

    If the Internet hadn’t appeared, we would all be teletext
    designers and developers.

    Vitaly Friedman: we are Teletext Designers 2.0 #wcch

    ”” ✁___CollectThisTweet (@nchenga) May
    3, 2014

    I think I’ll print this tweet on dead wood and post it on my
    office door:

    Delightful ux + value > value > pain #wcch

    ”” ✁___CollectThisTweet (@nchenga) May
    3, 2014

    Vitaly had some excellent UX examples. His message: details
    matter for usability.

    “URLs are the most valuable currency we have on the web” ”“
    Vitaly @smashingmag #wcch
    pic.twitter.com/zrFo4wyg08

    ”” Sara Rosso (@rosso) May 3,
    2014

    Another very enjoyable talk was by Paolo on virtual offices and
    distributed teams. First thing to note it’s not only about tools.
    The tools should not be the first thing you try to solve when
    setting up a distributed team. Three common mistakes are

    Trying to mimic a local office setupMeasuring work based on the
    wrong metricsSuffering instead of embracing change

    Common mistakes: 1 mimic local setup, 2 wrong metrics, 3 suffer
    instead of embracing change

    ”” ✁___CollectThisTweet (@nchenga) May
    3, 2014

    Recruiting is a very important part of distributed teams. And
    because your team is in different places and different timezones,
    managers need to empower their team members. Managers must trust
    team members to perform and deliver their work packages in time,
    in high quality.

    Mayor advantage with distributed teams: reducing interruptions,
    according to @p3ob7o
    #wcch

    ”” Michael Herb (@michael_herb) May
    3, 2014

    Managers: Give up being a proxy. Give them power to make
    decisions and enable direct communication. think peer-to-peer
    @p3ob7o #wcch

    ”” Achim Heger (@schlauberg) May
    3, 2014

    Distributed teams: don’t start with tools but they are part of
    it #wcch

    ”” ✁___CollectThisTweet (@nchenga) May
    3, 2014

    Next talk:

    Successful blogging? Learn how to become yourself. This guy is
    funny and to the point, so read his blog at http://t.co/WbuadIBMYp #wcch

    ”” Juliette Fong (@Jufo) May 3,
    2014

    I liked Christian Leu’s humorous
    talk     about how to become a successful blogger. His point was
    there are tonnes of articles on successful blogging. There’s no
    point in repeating this.

    Reasons why less traffic: writing less; many bloggers moved to
    Twitter #wcch

    ”” ✁___CollectThisTweet (@nchenga) May
    3, 2014

    Many long-term bloggers have moved to Twitter and are blogging
    less. Main reason given by many is lack of time. As a result,
    @leumund presented 10
    simple tips to find more time for blogging.

    It’s important to stay true to yourself.

    Tip 1 ”“ Be yourself

    ”” ✁___CollectThisTweet (@nchenga) May
    3, 2014

    .@leumund : Blogging
    on your own domain is getting more difficult

    ”” ✁___CollectThisTweet (@nchenga) May
    3, 2014

    In summary, it was an enjoyable day.

    Videos of the talks will be published WordPress.tv at some point.

    Observation: There were several talks on maintaining multilingual
    sites with WordPress. For me this is a sign, that WordPress is
    used increasingly in a Swiss business environment. Many Swiss
    websites (even for SMEs) need to display in German, French,
    Italian and English. My humble tip: Consider
    using Drupal instead of WordPress for multilingual sites.
    Maintaining multi-language sites is part of the Drupal core.

    While listening to others present, I thought of two WordPress
    presentations which I could present to share some of my more
    recent learnings and experience:

    Idea no. 1: POSSE and IndieWeb plugins for WordPress ”“ Using
    Webmention plugin, an URL shortener and Jetpack’s Publicize
    (see
    corresponding entry    )Idea no.2: Security for non-techies ”“ Make
    your WordPress site less vulnerable, even if you’re a
    non-developer; about WordPress resources, plugins, advice, where to
    get help

    Further links:


    Storify


    Blogging in an imperfectly multilingual world

    Live blogging
    notes by Evren Kiefer


    On communication within a distributed team

    The end
    of time

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