Extending the Blog Beyond the Blog
By Dan Zarrella

Disconnected Conversations

Two-Way Integration

Seeding & Harvesting

Seeding

Why Seed?

Auto-Posting vs Easy-Posting

Auto-Tweeting is OK

Auto-Submission is Not

Twitter Seeding

Auto-Tweeting Posts

URL Shortening (bit.ly Example)

Auto-Tweet Code

Existing Plugins
• TweetSuite
– http://danzarrella.com/TweetSuite.zip
• Twitter Tools
– http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitter-tools/

Tweet This Buttons

Tweet This HTML

Tweet This URL

Existing Plugins
• TweetSuite
– http://danzarrella.com/TweetSuite.zip
• Tweet This
– http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tweet-this/

Submission & Vote Seeding

Voting Buttons

Another Way (Mashable)

Voting Buttons HTML
Digg
Reddit
Sphinn

Share This

Existing Plugins
• Share This
– http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/share-this/
• Gregarious
– http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gregarious/

Harvesting (Aggregation)

Why Aggregate?

What’s Possible?

What’s Not Possible? (Yet)

TweetBacks (The Easy & Wrong Way)
http://tinyurl.com/24hp25

Problems with the Easy Way
• Limit to Shortners Possible
• Post-Twitter URL Shorteners
• Bandwidth
• Reverse Engineering

TweetBacks (The Right Way)
http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=http
http://tinyurl.com/24hp25

Problems with the Right Way
• CPU Cycles
• Bandwidth

Disqus Social Media Comments
WP Plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/disqus-comment-system/

uberVU
API: http://developer.ubervu.com/

uberVU

Facebook Integration?

Thank You!
• Dan Zarrella
• http://DanZarrella.com
• @DanZarrella