Came across this URL that breaks down the success metrics for a winning title for Digg.com.
It can also reveal the keyword effectiveness, see that here.
Dan Zarrella is a viral marketing scientist, and the title check for digg can be found here.
It will make you think about how to create more compelling titles, and let you see what Dan says should work for you, based on previous entries and keyword use.
If you are really hard-core Digg’ing… you should get the Digg alerter. You can download that tool here. (Windows)
To stay on top of more stories that may hit front page and go into “hypermode” – use http://socialalerter.com/
There is a lot of “buzz” and “conversation” in your industry. Are you aware of what is going on? Are you able to capture this and build upon it?
You may be missing out if you have not joined the crowd of Social Media Monitoring and Alerts.
Google Alerts is probably the most well known, but there are others. In fact, the coverage of sources is probably the biggest problem or challenge with that tool.
A company like Sentiment Metrics has spent several years designing their blog crawl, spam detection and analysis technologies. They have so far built up a database over over 20 million active blogs, for example.
In addition, they crawl all the leading blog search engines, RSS feeds, video and photo sharing sites, news networks and social media networks.
It can also do more extensive spam filtering. Not to mention ranking your mentions (sometimes referred to as “rivers of news”) by importance in terms of authority and sentiment. They can view mentions by just your region, or a certain age group or gender so we make demographic profiling possible.
Another powerful solution is Radian6, a worthwhile player for massive and detailed information about your mentions online. Check them both out!
Rocky Mountain News criticized for intrusiveness, insensitivity…
September 15, 2008— In the wake of the recent hit-and-run tragedy in Boulder, Colorado, which claimed the life of three-year-old Marten Kudlis comes the highly criticized decision by the Rocky Mountain News to cover the child’s funeral using the popular social media networking site, Twitter.
While Twitter has been used to cover speeches and news stories on an as-they-happen basis, this incident marks the first time that the site has been used by the mainstream media to report a funeral in real time.
“Coffin lowered into the ground,” one post, or “tweet” from the Kudlis funeral reads, followed by “family members shovel dirt onto the grave.”
Critics stress that it isn’t the use of the social media networking site by News reporter Berny Morson that has them upset, but rather what they feel is extreme insensitivity to the Kudlis family and Boulder community as a whole and that any live coverage of a funeral like this would be just as intrusive.
Neither Mr. Morson nor the Rocky Mountain News were available for comment at press time.
