[If you're one of our published bloggers and direct writers, this was sent to you yesterday in email.]
Hello SMT bloggers,
Summer's just about over, so for us it's Recruiting Season, and we hope you can help us grow our community of great and experienced writers. Don't think of it as competition, but as spreading out our footprint and drawing in more attention to your offerings.
Uncle SMT wants YOU!
Actually, we want THEM. We hope you'll share this newsletter around with your circles of colleagues. Not everyone knows that we exist and that we can help writers get noticed through social marketing. And if you subscribe to any outstanding blogs, you might mention us to their authors.
What do we offer in exchange for a blogger sharing her posts? Reach, for one thing. We tweet our published articles at least twice over the course of 24 hours, now with author attribution. You might have noticed that. And now our auto-tweets will be going out upon publication of each article-with author attribution in the form of the author's Twitter handle.
Please check your profile to make sure your Twitter handle is current and in the format @handle. We also use Hootsuite to distribute to other following communities besides @socialmedia2day, plus we post selected articles to our Facebook and LinkedIn groups.
Increasingly, we will be inviting some of you to participate with us in other roles, such as interviewing experts and business leaders, speaking as panelists in webinars and reporting for us from conferences that are local to where you live.
So if you're reading this and have not registered to write for us directly or through your blog's RSS feed, please come and take a look at what we've been building here for the past 3+ years and consider becoming a part of this grassroots social media writer/practitioner community. We're different, and we represent the social soul of the Internet, where mutual sharing of knowledge is the rule.
Themes of the Month
Last month we tested announcing a theme for SMT-Smart Mobs, a practice described by Howard Rheingold in his book by the same name, and exemplified in both the uprising in Egypt and the rioting in the UK. Very informally, that theme was served by 10 of our authors.
For October, we will be featuring the theme of Metrics and Social Media Analytics. This time, the theme will appear on the home page and posts addressing the theme will stand out. How do we measure the actual success of social business practice? How do we know if our aims are succeeding? What new tools help us to answer these questions?
Tips for Getting Published
We get far more article submissions than we can or choose to publish. We look for quality, originality and relevance, but we also tend to pass over posts that have not been carefully proofed for errors in spelling and grammar. Our standards are high and we like to publish a variety of voices from careful and creative writers.
Often, the difference between your getting published and not lies in whether you reach out to me, the editor, curator and moderator of the site. It's fair and reasonable -and often very helpful-for you to email me and alert me when a post of yours has entered the submissions queue. I enjoy striking up relationships with authors and that often leads to my being able to help authors with their topics, formatting and planning. I'm [email protected] and I'm glad to meet you all.
Cheers,
Cliff Figallo
Senior Site Curator