My Thermos

I have a couple of really great announcements to make today. I've just taken on authorship roles for two more blogs and I'm really excited about these opportunities.

1) I've been added to the writing group over at Media Morgue. I discovered these guys through Entrecard and am glad to be a part of the team. They bill themselves as News, reviews and rumors on films, television and the media.

I'll be be providing some commentary and such about the music biz, online services, the RIAA etc. I've got something in the works to be published soon so be on the lookout.

Second - I've also been selected to contribute to the official Entrecard Blog. They have added 10 or so folks from the community to help power-up the blog to feature more frequent updates about anything related to the Entrecard Blogosphere. New posts from others are already starting to appear and my first article has been submitted for publishing later today.

These opportunities provide a great outlet for some content that doesn't really fit here at MyThermos or over at TechFires. It also helps to promote me, my sites and my personal brand. It's going to be a lot of work writing all of this but it should be worth it. It's easy to write about things that are interesting or that I have a passion about so I think I'll be able to keep up.

So wish me luck - and keep your eyes on all of these sites for more updates.

Cheers!
SB

I like to spend a little time each day browsing through Entrecard sites by following the links from the widget. Some call it chain dropping but for me it's an easy way to get a good glimpse into the world of my fellow Entrecardians (copyright pending...) By doing this, I have learned a couple of things about Entrecard that I didn't know (perhaps I should have read the terms a bit better when I signed up)

Apparently there are two basic rules that I need to follow to be a card carrying contributing member of the Entrecard community.

I need to post about Entrecard a lot.

This is my second post and I hope that's enough really. I think this is pretty much going to cover it for a while.

I need to have a contest.

This seems to be really, really important as everyone is doing it. I guess I need to create a contest, and then make it so that a condition of winning is that people need to subscribe to me. Or even better they need to write a post on their blogs about my contest with a link back to me.

It seems that this works to grow my linkbacks which causes an increase in my Technical(?) ranking and then if I am really lucky someone from Google will come by and rank my site.

I have to admit I'm not sure how any of this helps you, the reader, but I get the impression that my site is worthless to anyone without it, so I guess I need to do this kind of thing if I want to be "successful."

So I'm going to run a contest - but I have decided to change the rules a little, you know think outside the box a bit:

So here it is, My Huge Entrecard Contest!!! (note the 3 exclamation points - that implies that it is indeed pretty huge!!!) Continue reading "My Huge Entrecard Contest" »