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I’ve just hit a milestone on Delicious. I’ve just hit my 1,000th bookmark today, and if you want to see what it is cick on this link to see my delicious account.

Why is it important, why is it something worth blogging about? Well because it brings me to the point of this post. I want to ask you, the people who visit this site, your opinion on something I have wrestled with.

Recently I have decided that it’s ok for me to add my own articles to Delicious. I used to think it was just shameless self promotion and that I shouldn’t be doing it, and then I realized that I was getting close to 1,000 saves and so my ratio of self promotion vs promotion of others in this ralm is very small.

There is no magic metric I have found for how much self promotion makes you a ME person, but I think 20 posts in 1,0020 is a low enough ratio.

What say you? How do you feel about putting your own info into social bookmarking sites? Do you feel there is a golden ratio that should be adheared to?

Thank you for reading,
Josh “Shua” Peters

Want to know more about Social Bookmarking? Here’s a link to my Delicious bookmarks tag SocialBookmarking

I awoke this morning to find that I had an unusually high volume of Twitter follows, my blog readership hit a new high mostly from incoming Twitter traffic, and I have a new email subscriber (hello new email subscriber) and I didn’t know why. Then I opened up my Google blog reader and read the ever informative Jacob Morgan‘s new article on Why You Need a Social Media Marketing Department and he thanked me for my late night Twitter contributions.

If you haven’t read it yet go read it now.

Back?

Ok, the lesson here is one that has been stated time and time again from the likes of Chris Brogan, Seth Godin, the guys over at CopyBlogger and well just about anyone else who has used the above title in a blog. Get involved in the conversation.

You want more readers to your blog? Go read other blogs and comment on them. It’s free publicity.

Want more followers on Twitter? Engage to the ones you have and your followers will grow when other tweeple see your name showing up on their friends @ messages.

Thank you Jacob Morgan for the nod, and thank you (new and old readers alike) for reading,
Josh “Shua” Peters

p.s. I stole the whole thanking people for reading thing from Jacob Morgan. I liked it and decided to do it myself.

Tag Archive: Sharing

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