Thanks mGarrett For The Link Love
Written by Jeffro On August 28, 2007 | Category Of Post (Blogging) | 406 views | |
I just wanted to take this oppurtunity to thank mGarret for linking up to this site. Michael Garret is a contributing editor for Profy.com, a web 2.0 focused blog that seems to be gaining in popularity everyday. Michael is also the Senior Guide for Mahalo, a human powered search engine. As you can already tell, this guy is in the heart of the 2.0 world so if you enjoy the content on my site, be sure to check out his own blog at http://mgarrett.xeroclix.com/
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Hi Jeff, here is Svetlana from Profy. Wanted to thank you for the link-love in turn
Judging by your MyBlogLog avatar you are one of our most loyal readers and I hope you will continue to read your tech news on Profy.
How did I know you were going to stop by?
Everyday I see your “Profy Has Been Linked To” Twitter posts which is why I said Profy.com seems to be gaining in popularity everyday. The bloggers or guest bloggers you have posting over their are putting up some high quality content that I enjoy reading. The blog authors also seem to acknowledge comments on their entries contributing more to the conversation that they started with their post.
Thanks for stopping by, I truly do appreciate it. By the way, good luck with your super secret project.
Jeff, how could I not stop by? I see incoming links on Technorati and try to thank all the bloggers linking to us in some way (via Twitter, via StumbleUpon or by commenting). It looks to me like an absolutely natural behavior - blogging is about conversation and listening to people and not about being a selfish self-proclaimed expert to share your knowledge domineeringly.
I am really glad you enjoy Profy content. Thank you for wishing us luck with our project. By the way, it is not all that super secret, it is simply too basic and not ready to show to a large audience, that is why we only work with a handful of beta testers. Have you signed for an invite yourself? I am planning on approving the next batch of invites so you may participate in testing if interested.
I was just kidding about the super secret part. I know you tweeted about the project but I seem to have forgotten the link. Could you pass that on to me so I can re read the project post and perhaps sign up?
As for your blogging comment, I whole heartedly agree. It sucks when I come home only to see I haven’t received any emails telling me theres a new comment. I love conversation and I hope I can create a community around this blog, and the soon to be launched forums which allows me to get my communication high, so to speak.
The only people I can talk to that has any clue as to what’s going on is online. The real world folks don’t have any idea as to what’s going on in the world of the internet, let alone what the heck Twitter is.
Ok, I just thought that I actually behaved “top secret”
Here is the link to my post where I invited beta testers, http://www.profy.com/2007/08/17/beta-testers-needed/, give it a look and I will approve your request if you are interested.
I also believe in conversation but it takes much time to actually communicate with readers. But thanking those giving you some link love is just natural, I think. Good luck with introducing forums here though I think I should say that at the very early days of Profy we tried to build a community via forums but only our authors chatted there. The same seems to be very true even for TechCrunch forums: I can see only spammers, web startups wanting their product to be reviewed and bloggers looking for something to review before it becomes popular. But in general it is not really populated, I think.
I know how it feels when you try to explain to your best friend what LinkedIn or Twitter is, it is a memorable experience and usually no one wants to listen (this is especially true here in Russia where the majority of websites used are web 1.0) - that’s why I find myself talking online much more than in my real life