Keith Goodrum

Here is a cool plugin I found recently. This allows people to leave their Twitter user name when they make a comment.

I think it’s a pretty cool plugin…

Here it the link to download the pluging from Andy Bailey’s site…

http://www.fiddyp.co.uk/wp-twitip-id-plugin-add-a-twitter-field-to-your-comment-form-easily/

[Edit - I've been doing some research because of a twitter reply by Harris Fellman about this tip. From what I can find it does look like that Mike Filsaime 1st came up with this tip.

It looks like Mike started doing this in October, and has been posting his url http://TwitterMike.com regularly. The past month I'd noticed several people doing this, decided to give it a whirl & write about it here.]

Here is a tip to easily & quickly promote your twitter profile in all your marketing material.

Step 1

Go to your favorite domain register and get the domain name http://www.twitter(your name).com. In my case I was lucky enough to get http://www.twitterkeith.com.

The key is to get your twitter user name, or if it works a shorter version. So, for example my twitter user name is KeithGoodrum. I decided to see if I could get twitter Keith instead of twitter Keith Goodrum. I really thought it would be gone because there are several twitters named Keith & figured someone would have grabbed it by now.

Step 2

Go into your webhost and redirect your twitter(your name) to your twitter profile. For example: http://www.twitterkeith.com redirects to http://twitter.com/KeithGoodrum.

Step 3

Now you can start using your new URL to promote your twitter profile. You can add it to your other social media profiles like: Facebook, MySpace, Squidoo, Your favorite forum profile pages… The list is almost endless.

The new URL looks cleaner, and is catchier than a regular twitter profile. So, go out and grab your name before it’s gone.

The past week I’ve been trying out a couple new widgets in my sidebar.

A Twitter Widget

I found a new Twitter widget to put in the sidebar. You can see it at Widgetbox. Check it out below…

There are several things I like about this new widget:

1. I like the design of this widget. It looks clean, and easier to read.

2. It’s a little wider than the old one I was using. (or at least it seems like it).

3. There is an easy to find link at the bottom called “my twitter page”. When someone clicks the link, it opens your twitter page in another window/tab. It’s a nice feature because it doesn’t take readers away from your blog.

4. In the bottom right hand corner there is a scroll button. This is cool as it lets people click the arrows, and view your previous tweets.

Ezine Articles Widget

I found this widget while looking around inside the author’s area. Check out what it looks like…

I like this widget because it’s another way to show readers what your up to. It’s also a good way to help drive traffic to your articles.

This widget give you multiple display options.

It will be interesting to see if this helps getting more article views, and if there is any backlink power from this widget.