1. Extending the Blog Beyond the Blog
By Dan Zarrella

2. Disconnected Conversations

3. Two-Way Integration

4. Seeding & Harvesting

5. Seeding

6. Why Seed?

7. Auto-Posting vs Easy-Posting

8. Auto-Tweeting is OK

9. Auto-Submission is Not

10. Twitter Seeding

11. Auto-Tweeting Posts

12. URL Shortening (bit.ly Example)

13. Auto-Tweet Code

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

15. Tweet This Buttons

16. Tweet This HTML

17. Tweet This URL

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

19. Submission & Vote Seeding

20. Voting Buttons

21. Another Way (Mashable)

22. Voting Buttons HTML
Digg
Reddit
Sphinn

23. Share This

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

25. Harvesting (Aggregation)

26. Why Aggregate?

27. What’s Possible?

28. What’s Not Possible? (Yet)

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

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

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

32. Problems with the Right Way
• CPU Cycles
• Bandwidth

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

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

35. uberVU

36. Facebook Integration?

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