Atlanta Tech Blogs has just reached a fun vanity metric: 20,000 organic twitter followers. Yay. Lots of digital marketing lessons have been learned over the past 3 years about how to gain a solid social media following without spending any money (hint: content, content, and more content). But however we … Keep reading >>>
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The (first) Top 10 Blogs Report from Atlanta Tech Blogs
Every week, Atlanta Tech Blogs promotes hundreds of new blog posts - YOUR blog posts - to our audience of over 14,000 unique, opt-in individuals. Every week we will show you who really made waves with their posts. Since this issue is our very first "Top 10 Report", we'll start … Keep reading >>>
Introducing The Atlanta Tech Blogs Weekly Newsletter
Thank you for your support of Atlanta Tech Blogs these last two-and-a-half years! You’ve faithfully subscribed, unsubscribed, shared, opened, read, clicked, and deleted our Daily Digest faithfully for at least some of that time. A daily email can be powerful. And annoying. We get it. Your inbox is full! Subscriptions … Keep reading >>>
Atlanta Tech Blogs 2015 by the numbers (and experiments)
I am always in awe when I read Mailchimp's annual report about how many billions of emails they send. It's fantastic that the most awesome email service provider in the galaxy lives right here in Atlanta! So, I thought, on a much, much smaller scale, that it would be cool … Keep reading >>>
Social Media tracking on Atlanta Tech Blogs
First, a great thank you to all our Twitter followers. We're rapidly approaching 5,000 followers, which is nothing compared to Bieber, Perry, and Swift, but with $0 marketing spend ever, we're not complaining. Twitter is, and has always been, the largest driver of traffic to and through atlantatechblogs.com; however, since … Keep reading >>>
User Generated Content Experiment
A month ago yesterday, we added a simple functionality to Atlanta Tech Blogs that allows anyone to submit content to be posted and shared via Atlanta Tech Blogs' growing web, social, and email audiences. During that time, 52 items were shared. We did not publish any user submitted posts (USPs) … Keep reading >>>
Simplicity
Tonight marked the third time in the last few days that "simple as a competitive advantage" came to the forefront of my day. First, Kyle Van Pelt wrote about a great restaurant that serves its fantastic food on paper plates. Then today, I attended a church committee meeting on how … Keep reading >>>
10rocket's Blog Challenge
I've known Chris Turner, the founder of 10Rocket since early last year, when he and I met at Tech Talent South. Shortly after that, Chris enrolled in The Iron Yard's Ruby on Rails software developer course, because he wanted to be able to build the software product that he had … Keep reading >>>
The many ways to follow Atlanta Tech Blogs
It's a fun and odd feeling when you start doing something as a "project" and then it turns into something way bigger. That's what's happened with Atlanta Tech Blogs. We are now a content strategy and creation business, and it's just a whole lot of fun. No other way to … Keep reading >>>
Learn Something New
I read a lot of blogs every day. A lot of blogs. Today, one of John Saddington's four blog posts today (he blogs for himself and for Desk) caught my eye and made me think. John wrote about Roost, a plugin for WordPress that enables Safari users to get push notifications … Keep reading >>>