To conclude Twitter week on Portals and KM, I want to share 10 Ways Twitter Will Change Blog Design in 2009 by Rachel Cunliffe on Mashable. I am reorganizing her content to reflect its availability and then providing my thoughts in most cases.

Can Do It Now

TwitterRolls - In addition to blog rolls, bloggers will list their favorite tweeters and optionally a short note on why they're worth following to help others discover new tweeters. I find that many people already list their twitter feed - I do. On the Tvissimo blog we list all feeds by TVissimo people as well as the company feed. I am suggesting to my blog clients to list all the active twitters in their firm on their blog in this manner.

Blog design influenced by Twitter themes - While many bloggers change their Twitter theme to match their blog's themes as closely as possible, this will also work in reverse. Perhaps - but I chose a very different background for my Twitter page because I could select a photo.

Tweets move out of the sidebar - More bloggers will mix blog posts and tweets into a single column together a la Tumblr, rather than keeping them in the sidebar. More new themes will have a built-in style for displaying tweets in an elegant way amongst blog posts. I think this might get confusing.

BlogTweet combined feeds - Blog feeds will have the option of including or excluding tweets - made simple thanks to Yahoo pipes. Follow this video tutorial to see how to do it. I would rather keep them separate. They are different channels with different capabilities.

Current Word Press Plug-ins

TweetThis - Some bloggers will ditch catch-all social networking plugins such as AddThis and ShareThis and just use TweetThis, finding this to be the most effective way of sharing new links online. Watch Twitter move up into the first tab of the ShareThis plugin. I hope Typepad moves in this direction

Tweet comment - Blog visitors will be able to comment on tweets displayed within a blog - whether they are a Twitter user or not. Wordpress users will find the Twitter tools plugin useful. I do not like the Tweets within a bog concept but do like the tweet about a blog post idea above.

Blog comment form changes - Some bloggers will add a form field for people to fill in their Twitter account name when adding comments on blogs. Others will change the common "website" label to "website/Twitter page." Useful for visitors without their own blog or website but who use Twitter. See the WP-Twitip-ID Plugin Wordpress plugin. This is good as there are Twitter users who do not blog.

New sidebar widgets Favorites widget - display recent favorite tweets. This is another good idea, listen up Typepad.

Not Yet Available

Tweetbacks - Bloggers will start to add "Tweetbacks" to their blog posts. The simplest version will show the number of people who have tweeted this post (including all reverse engineered tinyurls). Another good idea.

Tweetstats - in addition to "most read," "most commented" type sections in blog sidebars, bloggers will add "most tweeted" and "recently tweeted" blog posts sections. Again, another good idea.

Thanks to Rachel for these. I do think that blogs and Twitter are different and should not be confused or merged. They have different capabilities and can be used to compliment each other. Fusing them makes these differences murky and dilutes each one. However, cross-reporting is good.

What are you ideas? What do you think of the above? Hope you enjoyed Twitter Week. More to come.

You can also take a picture of your Twitter followers combined profiles via Twittersheep. Thanks to Jack Vinson (@jackvinson) for this. BTW - Twitter will not replace blogs - only complement them and let them better focus on what they are good at - moving beyond sound bytes.