There I was surfing the net as I do and I decided to do my daily visit to my favourite blogging community, BloggerLuv and came across a post from John titled “Pick your poison” so I thought I might as well re-vamp this post that I originally posted back in September 2010

Those of you who read my blog often will have seen a post I’ve made in the past about a blogger community website called BloggerLuv, since then the site has gone from strength to strength.

One of the reasons for this is the way that fellow bloggers use the site and how friendly, and helpful, they all are on BloggerLuv. If you are stuck for some help with your blogging or even having trouble with some coding on your blog, there is always someone who is willing to help you out.

I on many occasions have taken the opportunity to ask for some help from my fellow bloggers and they always come through with the likes of @Ileane, @jsinkeywest, @growmap and @simplehomeorg to name a few giving good friendly and much-needed advise and blogging tips n tricks.

You can also link up with FaceBook and even Twitter to post out status updates from BloggerLuv:

Working on a new blog post about .... #BloggerLuv ;) http://bloggerluv.com/EqlmO3c

September 14, 2010 4:33 pm via Blogger LUV @ ANYWHERE ReplyRetweetFavorite

@BlazingMinds

Karen

And as you can see I added a hash tag, I do occasionally This also helps promote the blogging community out to the twittersphere, I do the same with my blog and add #BlazingMinds, little tip there for you

One of the other advantages of being a member of the BloggerLuv Community is the ability to post your links to your blog and increase your readers, it’s worked for me, with a bit of traffic now coming from the website and some new blog commentators stopping by and leaving their pennies worth.

There is so much more you can do on BloggerLuv, but probably the best way to meet all these wonderful bloggers is to stop by and see for yourself, stop for a while and check out what’s going on at the forums, groups and more.

Since becoming a member of BloggerLuv and writing this post originally back in September 2010, my blogging friendships as rocketed, I now know loads of helpful bloggers who are always willing to help me out if I need any help. Not only can I chat with other bloggers I can also post what ever I like in the form of a blog post, great for getting things off my chest

So stop on by say hello to me at the BloggerLuv Blogging Community and check it out

There are many ways of finding Tweeters that may be tweeting near where you live or even tweeting about certain things that you may be tweeting about as well, but one of the easiest ways for me is by using the website LocaFollow.

With sites such as Refollow having some problems with Twitter, there comes a time when you may need to use another Twitter Tool to find people to follow and this website certainly has a good choice of options, there is NO mass follow, you must click each tweeter one at a time, but it’s a small price to pay at the end of the day.

By simply entering your required info in one of the four search boxes or even combining any or all of them to tweak your search results, you can find fellow tweeters that you may be interested in following.

For example if you entered “Blogger” into the bio box, you could search for fellow bloggers and follow those that you are interested in.

The same goes for the other options such as location, name and tweets. You also get a good bit of information about the Tweeter that you may want to follow

Having these stats displayed for each tweeters, can help your decide if you want to follow them stats include their bio, followers, following, number of tweets and how long they have been on Twitter.

Now LocaFollow will not get you thousands of followers, but, it will allow you to find fellow Tweeters that are tweeting in your niche and hopefully over time help improve you Twitter influence among your Twitter followers.

So if you are looking for a Twitter tool that will, possibly, improve your Twitter influence then give LocaFollow a try.

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Yet again it’s time for this weeks Saturday Six and this week topic was chosen by myself and there is only one question with six answers..

1. Name 6 of your favourite social network sites and why?
   

There we go, one question with six answers for you to have fun with…

Ok, that’s it, thanks for taking part and I’m looking forward to everyone’s answers. Don’t forget to hit the “Tweet” button to ReTweet this weeks Saturday Six.

Anyone using Twitter can be part of the process by tweeting me a topic, I will then pick one randomly and the chosen topic will be used and the tweeter will have a DoFollow link to their website or blog as a thank you.

If you would like to nominate a topic then simply tweet me @BalzingMinds with your nominated topic and the hash tag #Sat6

Beginners always wondering where to get visitors. Beginners can get free traffic from few simple activities.

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of LG Chocolate Touch. All opinions are 100% mine.

I often said this time and again that it’s about time I got rid of my old phone an upgraded to something a little more special, my phone is very dated compared to a lot of the phones on the market at the moment and it’s had its day, it is a great phone to use, but I would like something more modern and one which has a stack of features enabling me to use in my busy lifestyle on the net and off.

So looking for a phone I noticed the LG Chocolate Touch which has the basics of using a phone such as making calls, texting and a standard these days of a 3.2MP Camera, but the camera also doubles as a recorder with image editor and it’s a touch screen phone, now how cool is that

Not only that, but the phone also has a music player with Dolby Mobile technology for crystal-clear sound quality, nice one for any music fan out there, that wants to hear their music in superb quality. It also has Sweet Visual Effects and features, including Rhythmical Beat that vibrates the handset to the beat of the music.

Another touch which I do like is the One-touch Social Network Message Key for easy use of Mobile Blogging (Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, etc.) this will make it so much easier to hop on to my social networks and start Twitting etc, far easier than the phone I have at the moment!. Also Mobile Media which will allow me to have top-notch text, picture, video, and voice messaging, including Visual Voicemail.

Now I am seriously looking into getting one these phones and it does indeed sound like it would be a great phone to use and would certainly make my Twitting and blogging that little bit more easier when I’m on the move.

As you get ever popular on Twitter and you use it more and more, you may notice that you get a lot of DMs (Direct Messages) from other users and a lot of these have links included, though some of these are genuine, other are blatant phishing scams to get your information.

One of these includes the text “Is this you on here?” and once you click this you are taken to the login page of Twitter, this is just a cunning way of stealing your log in details to take over your account, so to put it simply DON’T CLICK IT!

If you have been tricked in to giving your username and password, then change it straight away on the Twitter setting in your profile.

I’ve recently been recieving DMs with regards to “iq scores“, now I’m not sure if these are phishing scams, but I’m not clicking them, if you have found you are sending these DMs then change your password.

So a couple of simple rules to follow:

1. Never provide your Twitter username or password to any website that looks suspicious.
2. If you are not sure about a link in a DM then don’t click it.
3. If the DM is from someone you know, tweet them asking them if they sent it, if they didn’t tell them to change their password.

There you go a few simple rules that should hopefully keep you safer from the Twitter phishing scams..

So you’ve just read a blog post and you think to yourself, wow that was interesting or maybe it was funny or you would just like to tell your friends what you have read.

But do you take advantage of the buttons that the majority of blogs, including this one, have at the bottom of the blog posts?

Most would probably say no, which is a real shame as clicking on these buttons or links helps a blogger get their post out to more people by you, the reader, simply ReTweeting, Digging or posting the information out on the many social networks that are out there!

So if you are reading a blog post and see links to social networks that you belong to then take the time to click on them and spread the word, you would be surprised how this help bloggers out.

I visit a few blogs and do ReTweet and Digg posts that I enjoy reading, most of the time if you Tweet a post with the ReTweet buttons on a blog post you will get a tweet back for the blogger saying thank you for the RT, which will in turn add to your conversation for your tweets.

Also by submitting posts to social networks will usually help you out by showing others what you enjoy reading etc and this will usually build up your followings on the social networks such as Twitter.

So remember, if there are social networks buttons or links of a blog post, click them and spread the love for the blogs you are reading