I was so disappointed to miss the Central Florida Bloggers Conference this past weekend — yes, I had an incredible time visiting family and friends in Syracuse (“Happy to Be Home“) but couldn’t help but get sad when I had to turn down the opportunity to speak at and attend #CFLBlogCon.
I felt like I was in the room, since my boss Marc Middleton gave the keynote presentation, all about our work at Growing Bolder.
(picture from MealsandMiles.com)
I also got the download from my friend and colleague Jackie, who blogs at MomJovi.com (you can see her recap here).
The tracks all sounded so fantastic, and the #CFLBlogCon tweetstream is still going strong…
Had I been able to attend, I think that my goal would have been to give everyone some concrete tasks that they can do immediately to improve their blogs and websites. So while it’s not the same as giving the presentation in person, I thought I could offer some advice here, in the form of a Social Media Toolkit.
All of the links below are to posts that I have written, but most have links to other sources inside — so feel free to poke around and ask any questions that aren’t answered here.
Social Media in General
- How to Make Your Boss “Get” Social Media
- Take the Leap (and Get Over Your Nerves)
- Conference Countdown: Get Your Blog Ready
- How to Pitch Without Striking Out
- Getting a Job in Social Media
- Go From Newbie to Social Media Superstar in 14 Days
- Crisis Response (a Marie Claire Case Study)
Blogging
- 10 Tips for Killer Blog Posts
- Branding: Not Just for the Big Dogs (plus, Webinar video here)
- Favorite WordPress Plugins Part I and Part II
- Using LinkedIn to Promote Your Posts
- Blogrolls: Why and How
- Backing Up Your Blog
- Self-Hosting: Why, How and Resources Galore
- Guest Posts Do’s and Don’ts
- How to Time Your Posts for Biggest Impact
- Audit Your Own Blog: 5 Questions to Ask
Monetizing Your Blog
- Money: The Ultimate Hornet’s Nest
- Making a Blogger Media Kit
- Finding and Working With Blog Sponsors: Part I and Part II
- The Facebook Rule Most Bloggers are Breaking
- Facebook Fan Page Strategy Part I and Part II
- How to Display Tweets in Your Blog Posts
- Timing Your Tweets
- Branding Your Background
- Manage Multiple Accounts
- Finding Friends
- Twetiquette
- Rate Limits
Analytics and Metrics
- Bloggers in Depth (a multi-part series)
- Analytics Part I, Part II and Part III
About Katy
Katy,
I am sorry I missed meeting you. Love your #fitblog chats on Twitter. We are tying to do a tweet-up chat like that for our Get Moving program at the Y. I’ll have to join in on Tuesday!
These are killer resources. You could have been a one-woman conference with all this gold. We’ll see you next time I hope, and Marc was great!
Bookmarking this page now! So great!
Wish you could have been there this Saturday! We definitely missed you! I’ll see you at HLS!!!
I think these sources are just as valuable as a presentation! Thank you so much for sharing!
what an awesome list of great links! thank you so much for sharing. i would’ve loved to meet you at the conference this past Saturday. it was a wonderful day, and i definitely got a lot out of attending!
hope to see you at an event in the future!