Using Nanoblogging to promote yourself and business

[Hype Anvil]

What exactly is nanoblogging? Well currently it is known by many names. Nanoblogging, microblogging, or lifestreaming. They are basically the same thing, a variation on short messages. Regular blogging may be several paragraphs of rich content, however most microblog posts are under 150 characters or so. These extremely brief thoughts can be extremely powerful in their reach. By friending, subscribing or following folks that are microblogging, you can build a stream of consciousness of information that can be extremely useful. When these folks start following you, however then there is a huge opening for blatant self promotion. Whenever you post a blog, release a podcast or share a link, using a microblog is the best place to make the announcement. For example, when I post an article on Hype Anvil, I immediately announce the post and link in my microblogging communities as well as social communities. Because folks are following you on these services, they are expecting announcements from you and are more likely to respond to them.

What are the best nanoblogging communities? By far the most popular system is Twitter (http://twitter.com) Twitter is where a majority of people are. You should be there too. Having a presence on the most popular systems is a better choice than just choosing one system. Pownce (http://pownce.com) is starting to pick up steam. Pownce allows more rich content than Twitter and have opened their API to help move innovation forward.

If you would like to add me to your Twitter or Pownce, use the following URLs.

http://pownce.markramsey.com or http://twitter.markramsey.com