Know thy audience and Cause-it on Facebook

1,700 unique hits after 24 hours of circulating in the blogosphere – we’re totally stoked . The next question is: who are our wonderful “hits” and what do they eat for breakfast?
In my first round, it was not unusual to find that, even after Digg-ing my best stories and releasing news about a  big [...]

SUVOA Trickle Blog Pays Off – we’re on the 1st page of Google

So it seems that the “trickle blog” technique has paid off in spades.
As you will recall, the technique involves doing multiple posts, as opposed to one big, long post on the person, organization you are targeting. What this does is make Google and other search engines stand up and take notice. If they notice you [...]

1,700 Unique visits in 24 hours

Thanks everyone for starting OnlineActivist off with such a bang!
In the last 24 hours, we’ve gotten 1,700 unique visitors to the site!
We were picked up on Metafilter last night, as well as Stumbleupon and some very kindly bloggers linked to our series on “trickle blogging.”
Update 1: just noticed that we’ve been listed #1 today as [...]

Claiming your blog on Technorati.com

Technorati is the “google” of blogs – it is a place where bloggers go to see who is linking to them, what’s going on in the blog-o-sphere, search out blog content and connect with fellow bloggers.
Technorati is must when it comes to being seen and your message being heard.  The first step is to register [...]