How to get on Memeorandum

People keep asking me about how to get noticed. How to get on Digg. How to get on Memeorandum. Well, you’re asking “how do you promote your blog?”

Yesterday Buzz Bruggeman and I talked about that (his company has been in lots of newspapers because of his blogging) on stage at the Blog Business Summit.

The Eastside Business Blog took some good notes that might help you.

I get a ton of email every day asking me to blog their site. I love getting that kind of email. Just make it simple. One paragraph with a URL (only make it longer if you really are adding any value). Say “this might be interesting to you.” Don’t beg for a link. I hate that. I do love knowing about new stuff that I don’t yet know about. I don’t blog everything I’m sent, sorry. I get more than 100 emails a day.

Which is why I said not to rely on a link from me to get noticed. But I still enjoy learning new things.

Oh, and where does the male bias come from in Memeorandum? Well, I just did a quick look through my “blog this” folder in email. Almost all the email I get suggesting I look at new blogs is from men. I think there’s a social phenomenon going on here that researchers should look into.

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Robert Scoble

As Startup Liaison for Rackspace, the Open Cloud Computing Company, Scoble travels the world looking for what's happening on the bleeding edge of technology for Rackspace's startup program. He's interviewed thousands of executives and technology innovators and reports what he learns in books ("The Age of Context," a book coauthored with Forbes author Shel Israel, has been released at http://amzn.to/AgeOfContext ), YouTube, and many social media sites where he's followed by millions of people. Best place to watch me is on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/RobertScoble

Comments

  1. I think what you’re actually answering here is “How can I get the pool of bloggers selected at Memeorandum to link to my article?”

    This pool tends to cover some types of items (lots on certain business deals, eg) and not notice other types of tech news. I haven’t been as regularly surprised by new news items here as I am with the more diverse pool used for political Memeorandum highlighting.

  2. I think what you’re actually answering here is “How can I get the pool of bloggers selected at Memeorandum to link to my article?”

    This pool tends to cover some types of items (lots on certain business deals, eg) and not notice other types of tech news. I haven’t been as regularly surprised by new news items here as I am with the more diverse pool used for political Memeorandum highlighting.

  3. I think what you’re actually answering here is “How can I get the pool of bloggers selected at Memeorandum to link to my article?”

    This pool tends to cover some types of items (lots on certain business deals, eg) and not notice other types of tech news. I haven’t been as regularly surprised by new news items here as I am with the more diverse pool used for political Memeorandum highlighting.

  4. […] In most cases where there are multiple companies or products in the same space (take AJAX calendars for example), each still are given an objective and thoughtful review. Blogniscient, however, has never been given an analysis on its own terms. Even the title of your post was called Blogniscient v. Memeorandum. Your follow-up comment showing the stats of Memeorandum against Blogniscient seems rather unfair, considering Memeorandum has received an overwhelming amount of coverage on blogs like yours and Scoblelizer (although Robert actually has covered Blogniscient prior to yesterday). Case and point, as I wrote this post, Robert has a new post up called How to get on Memeorandum. […]

  5. Mr. Robert Scoble - great job yesterday at the Blog Business Summit in Seattle. Your work is impressive. I’m particularly amazed that you can read through 1400 feeds a day. I wish I could pry out 4-6 hours each day to read …

    I’ll start sending you a complimentary subscription to the print edition Eastside Business Monthly - I’d like to hear your feedback on our regular Microsoft section and how we can improve it.

    After yesterday (and after we rework our website in the next 30 days) I definitely want to start educating our readers on rss feeds and blogging. You will start to see some cool stuff at: http://www.EastsideBusiness.com

    BTW - Thanks for mentioning my blog notes from yesterday.

  6. Mr. Robert Scoble - great job yesterday at the Blog Business Summit in Seattle. Your work is impressive. I’m particularly amazed that you can read through 1400 feeds a day. I wish I could pry out 4-6 hours each day to read …

    I’ll start sending you a complimentary subscription to the print edition Eastside Business Monthly - I’d like to hear your feedback on our regular Microsoft section and how we can improve it.

    After yesterday (and after we rework our website in the next 30 days) I definitely want to start educating our readers on rss feeds and blogging. You will start to see some cool stuff at: http://www.EastsideBusiness.com

    BTW - Thanks for mentioning my blog notes from yesterday.

  7. Mr. Robert Scoble - great job yesterday at the Blog Business Summit in Seattle. Your work is impressive. I’m particularly amazed that you can read through 1400 feeds a day. I wish I could pry out 4-6 hours each day to read …

    I’ll start sending you a complimentary subscription to the print edition Eastside Business Monthly - I’d like to hear your feedback on our regular Microsoft section and how we can improve it.

    After yesterday (and after we rework our website in the next 30 days) I definitely want to start educating our readers on rss feeds and blogging. You will start to see some cool stuff at: http://www.EastsideBusiness.com

    BTW - Thanks for mentioning my blog notes from yesterday.