THE BIG REVEAL!

So, let's see.

• We've announced that Triberr has expanded to add a 3rd member of the team. Andres the Great!
• We've announced that our lovely Christina Majaski will be holding Open Clinic Hours for Triberr noobs every Mondey eve
• We've announced that Triberr now enables you to brand your Twitter experience end-to-end using your very own Twitter Client which can be created in under 10 minutes
• We've laid out a plan and explained how Triberr solves big problems for little bloggers
• We've announced the release of our very own Triberr Wordpress plugin

What else could we possibly have up our sleeve?

A LOT!

On February 18th, Triberr will hold a press conference for it's members.

In it, we will reveal something elephant sized. Something that will change the blogosphere forever.

And I want you to be there when we do...

Who Is Andres the Great?

I am extremely excited to introduce to you the new member of the Triberr Team. Andres Hernandez. Aka Andres the Great!

Lord knows Dan and I need all the help we can get.

Andres has been the unofficial 3rd member of the Triberr Team since the very beginning.

• When our Database server got huffy and threatened to quit, Andres was the guy who optimized it and made it all happy again
• When our RSS Sweeper Function started to choke under the weight of all the newly added RSS feeds, Andres talked it down off the ledge and made it get back to work
• When we encountered the issue we couldn't resolve ourselves, Andres was the guy we turned to for help

It's fair to say that Triberr would have been in whole lot of trouble if Andres wasn't around.

So we begged him to join us as a full partner. Of course, he turned us down, but only the first 100 times.

Eventually, his workload diminished, his lovely wife and him moved from Colombia to Brooklyn, NY, and he finally decided to accept our advances and join...

How To Turn Your Blog Into a Twitter Powerhouse

I'm not even sure how to begin this post. What I'm about to share with you is THE COOLEST THING! I've seen in a looooong time.

If you're a blogger and you tweet, then the 10 minutes you're going to spend setting this up after you're done reading about it will be the best, most productive 10 minutes you'll spend all day, possibly all year.

Note: Video instructions on the bottom of the post

What is it?

I was really struggling with the headline for this post. I was thinking something like:

• How To Brand Your Tweets
• How To Increase Your Blog's Exposure on Twitter
• How To Create Your Own Twitter Client App

All of those would have been valid headlines for this post. Of course, since I'm speaking to Triberr members in this post, I could have gone with something like...

• How To Avoid Promotional Post Conundrum
• How To Help Your Tribesmates Help You

And those would have been accurate as well... So what is it?

It's your very own Twitter App.:-)

STOP! Don't Run Away....

I know that many of you...

Solving Big Problems for Little Bloggers

Triberr has left Private-Beta behind and officially entered Open-Beta on January 12th, 2012.

Since then, our sign ups have exploded thanks to amazing members who keep sharing information about Triberr with their own audience, on their own blogs, and even teaching Triberr workshops.

Here are few links for you guys to check out, especially if you're a writer:

• Top Ten Triberr Tuesday
• My New Time-Saving Social Media BFF: Triberr
• What Is Up With Triberr These Days?

Thank you all for sharing Triberr with your audiences. Dan and I appreciate it more than you'll ever know.

The Curse of Big

The problem with exploding membership base is scalability.

Every time a new blogger joins Triberr,...

How to Show Custom Sidebar Content on a Wordpress Site

Back in the day, when I used to develop websites using Joomla (a fantastic way to start building websites, because most other CMS's seem easy), I could easily designate custom content to show on different sections of the site from within the CMS.

One of my main gripes about Wordpress has been the inability (to my knowledge) to show this custom content based on where the user is on the site.

For example, if I had written a whitepaper about SEO, such as the Beginner's Guide to SEO, I was easily able to do this in the backend by selecting "Show this widget on (x) page".

I wasn't able to do this until recently with Wordpress when Joe Hall helped me out by pointing me to the Widget Logic plugin for Wordpress.

How It Works

The Widget Logic plugin adds a custom field to every widget, which you can use to designate the rules according to Wordpress's Conditional Tags. I will explain the most popular (and I think useful) ones below in a bit. The plugin adds the following box to...

How To Start a Revolution - Infographic

You can’t start a Revolution. In fact, there has never been a time in human history when someone started a Revolution.

I know, I know. But what about Martin Luther King Jr? Or George Washington? Or Che Guevara? Or Tito? Or how about….insert your favorite Revolutionary here.

Nope. Not one of them started a Revolution.

Sure. In school we’re taught that these guys are Revolutionaries, but schools have a funny way of painting things black and white. Good or bad. Things are usually not that simple.

What really happened is that Revolutions start and people emerge as leaders. That’s it. But THAT is a very important distinction. So let’s say it again.

Revolutions start and people emerge as leaders.

How can you recognize these leaders?

To quote Jessep , as played by Jack Nicholson in the movie A Few Good Men:

"We use words like honor, code, loyalty...we use these words as the backbone to a life spent defending something."

Those are the kinds of words Revolutionaries care about.

Say,...

Growing Up Naked in Public - The History of Triberr

End of year signals time for reflection. So I figured I would compile a list of milestones that led us here. Here we go.

It's been a roller-coaster year for Dan and I. Very much "against all odds" tale of two unlikely protagonists fighting for equality in the blogosphere.

But how did it all start?

In The Beginning

Dan and I first came across each other on November 12th, 2010, when he left a comment on a guest post I wrote for Social Media Examiner. Our first encounter is still there, documented for all to see.

Engagement From Scratch – Recommended Holiday Reading

Chestnuts roasting on an open fire, Kindle or iPad in hand, if only there was something great to read. 

Well, there is. 

Our very own Danny Iny has authored an amazing book on how to create engagement around your blog. This is a MUST READ for every blogger out there. 

Engagement From Scratch: Download for free or buy a hard copy on Amazon.

What’s Special About This One?

Danny Iny is a master marketer himself. But what makes this book truly special is Danny’s ability to bring some of the greatest engagement specialists in the blogosphere today. 

That’s right. This book has over 30 collaborators, each contributing a chapter worth of their best, most distilled knowledge about community building and engagement. 

I have personally read every single page of it and can vouch for its awesomeness. 

Who contributed? 

• Guy Kawasaki, the author of

How To Develop a Content Strategy For Your Blog

While everyone worries about China taking over the world, I sit back in amusement with the realization that, unless something changes drastically, China isn’t going to be a threat to anyone.

While the amount of content on the internet may be growing, success is still possible. It is possible if you do things the right way. China is not. So I’m not too worried. Most bloggers aren’t either. Don't be one of those bloggers.

Ghost Cities

There has been a lot of news about China’s “ghost cities” lately.

Being the genius economists (and experts in human nature) that they are, the Chinese government decided to build several cities.

Just drop a city where a city did not exist before. One in particular is an amusing story. Kangbashi was built as a symbol of Chinese prosperity. It is a model city built to house a million people. The problem is that only 20 thousand moved in. That’s right…2% occupancy.

The ghost cities are...

The Secret To Staying Ahead of the Blogging Curve

Tell me if this sounds like you.

You’re reading this because you have a blog, and you want to make it better.

You want more people to read it, more people to engage, and more people to take action by turning into customers.

You’re dedicated to that goal, and you put tons of time and energy toward making it happen.

You spend hours writing, and even more hours reading. Reading about blogging, social media, and internet marketing.

Your mind is swirling with thoughts. How to use Twitter. How bloggers should engage on Google+.  How to write a sales letter. Etc. Etc. Etc.

Well, I’ve got some bad news for you: you’re studying the wrong things.

The Trouble with Yesterday’s Best Practices

You’re putting yourself perpetually behind the curve and guaranteeing that you never make it to the big leagues – because all you’ll ever learn from studying these topics, are yesterday’s best-practices.

Yesterday’s best-practices would be fine if you were working in a medium that doesn’t change much;...