Guest Post by Yolandia A. Facio

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I’m not a negative person, and I’m not preparing for the worst, but I am concerned about what I read in Shoemoney’s post: Is the Death of Youtube comin?.

While I don’t necessarily post a lot of videos of my own, I know a quite a few bloggers who rely heavily on Youtube videos. It helps them keep their blog alive when they can’t write and helps them share content at a level that’s not possible any other way, such as that required for a how-to tutorial. Read more »

Lisa’s Traffic Secret

I thought it would be nice to finish off the weekend with a video from Lisa Irby of  2Createwebstie. The following video is one of her most viewed and is one that I found very useful when I first started blogging.

If you don’t know who Lisa Irby is, please take a moment to read Blog Better by imitating a blogger who does it well (How I learned to blog by following the blogging advice offered on her site) and Blog Better by interviewing a better blogger (An interview with Lisa Irby – she offers some great tips for beginners). Read more »

In yesterday’s post I gave you some ideas for blog post alternatives that you can use when you just don’t have time to write.   One of those suggestions included posting a Youtube video,  but what exactly should you make a video about? If you’re already boring people with your written content you certainly don’t want to put them into a coma with your video? So what can you do to make sure it’s engaging? And why should you bother in the first place? Read more »

For the past few days, I’ve been offering some video posts here about the cloud that surrounds content consumers today…

• Get Your Content Into the Cloud
• Infiltrating the Cloud In Which People Breathe
• Decrease the Distance by Growing Your Network

Today, I want to get a bit more specific about how to understand the cloud and begin to infiltrate it. The secret boils down to shifting your thinking. Your site doesn’t exist to consume users, it exists to feed users where they hang out.

And here’s the Youtube link to Your Site Is Just a Launching Pad Into the Cloud.

People who are active online have determined the size of the cloud in which they consume content and have a tendency not to venture outside of it. How then do you connect with them? By growing your own network and decreasing the distance of separation.

Here’s a Youtube link to Decrease the Distance by Growing Your Network

Today’s challenge is simple: reach out. Find a new blogger with whom you haven’t connected before and visit their site. Subscribe, comment, or send them an encouraging note. In my next post, I’d like to talk about optimizing your blog for getting your content into the cloud.

I wanted to clarify my thoughts from my previous post about getting your content into the cloud. I mention some technologies here that people “breathe” every day, such as their subscribed feeds, Facebook, Twitter, etc. Our goal is not only to get people to our site, but to get our content to where they are so that it can act as a magnet to draw them to an intended destination.

Here’s a Youtube.com link to the video Infiltrating the Cloud In Which People Breathe.

Thoughts? Would love to hear them. Over the next week or two, I’ll be talking about specific techniques for infiltrating the cloud.

If you are a content provider, you have to stop thinking about how to get people to arrive at your website and start asking how you can get your content integrated into the cloud in which people live their daily lives.

This is what I discuss in this video, but I’ll be breaking this idea down in future posts to talk about some of the specifics.

Here’s a link to the YouTube version of Get Your Content Into the Cloud.

Also check out my new Better Blogging Vimeo channel.

In this short video, I’ve shared some thoughts about the single greatest threat to your blog, or even your entire blogging career. A few notes are below…

The single greatest threat to your blogging career is YOU!

Four ways you can kill your own blog…

• Greed – getting anxious to see the return can cause you to mess up early on.
• Self-doubt – negative thinking can kill your blog.
• Laziness – success ALWAYS involves hard work.
• Stupidity – just don’t do anything stupid!