The essential social media checklist for blogs and twitter

 

How many times have I blogged and then forgotten to tweet alerting followers to my blog?

How many times have I tweeted in haste and twegreted (ooh, that doesn’t work) at leisure because I didn’t add a link or photograph?

How many times have I blogged and gone with words instead of video or audio?

How many times have I blogged and added no categories or tags?

How many? Many, many times!
I need the following as much as the next guy. A social media checklist for blog posts and tweets
Before I post this blog

• Have I read it through?
• Is the spelling and grammar correct?
• Is my tone engaging, friendly and open?
• Have I said anything interesting, useful, amusing?
• Is the headline SEO friendly? Does it say something about content of the blog or is it a cryptic headline pleasing only to me and the very few that may find it?
• Am I encouraging comments?
• Am I referencing the blogs or other social media of important individuals connected with the content of this blog post
• Are links intended for inclusion included?
• Are pictures intended  for inclusion included?
• Could I, should I, have I remembered to – embed a video and/or audio link?
• Have I added the correct/any categories?
• Have I added tags?
• Should I tweet about this through ping.fm (or similar service) and alert everyone on twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn etc?

Before I tweet…

• Have I said anything interesting, useful, amusing?
• Link included?
• Picture included?
• ‘RT @’ included on a retweet?
• is this thing short enough that it leaves space for a retweeters comment?
• have I #tagged all the most important words?
• Should I tweet this through ping.fm (or similar service) and thereby drop it simultaneously into blog, Facebook etc?
• Am I referencing other twitter accounts e.g. topical tw
• eeters who have lots of followers
• Am I asking questions and encouraging interaction
• What time is it in the UK, US ( depending on my present location), because I don’t want to send this awesome tweet into zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzland and have it buried under a million tweets before its intended audience wakes up

I’m sure to have missed a few checks so why not alert me to them in comments? Go on! Please.
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