Re: social media RebelMouse

**D* G* <g*@gmail.com>**

Nan - thanks for the note.  I wanted to expand on my thinking a bit and
some practical considerations.  What you're looking at the rebelmouse site
  https://www.rebelmouse.com/douggreen/ is a compilation of all my social
media links.  Every time I put a link onto Facebook, Twitter, Google+, or
any of my websites/blogs rss feeds, that link is collected and put into a
grid.  Think - social media output assembled and put into a visual format.
 Think Pinterest for content.  (if anybody here doesn't know what Pinterest
is - they should Google it and get started) :-)  It's all done
automatically - all links are collected and put into this format.

If I were in the social media business, I would use this as my front page
in a heartbeat.  One example is http://garyvaynerchuk.com/  where he's
using this as his front page for the site.  He has had some custom work
done in the signup boxes so it looks pretty good - but he's trying to draw
you into his world using the various SM platforms.

Back in 2007, I registered a domain edit-the-net.com because I had some
sense that curation was going to be very important in the future.  That
future has arrived now and we see sites such as Brain-Pickings and
LongReads collecting and curating content because people simply can't get a
handle on everything out there and read everything.

They want editors to decide what's good and what's not.  It is these
editors, these curators that are going to become the "stars" of the content
world.  This is happening now.

It's very much like the old human-edited Yahoo where an editor decided if
your site was good enough to be included in their index - before bots and
spiders and math did the searching and ranking.

This software makes what you think is important - that you share with the
world - into a single product.  It makes you a tiny content-editor.

I hope that clarifies it a bit. :-)

>From a practical point of view, whether you should use it like Vaynerchuk
or not is an interesting question.  I put it on
http://www.douglas-green.comyesterday as the main landing page.  I'll
be taking it off today sometime
but using the plugin to make a separate page (likely called "links") that
will appear in the header leaving my writerly "stuff" on the home page.  My
feeds are mostly gardening so they don't "fit" that site theme and
objective.  If I had a traditional gardening blog (I run most of my
Wordpress installs as Websites) then I might consider it -if- and only if
most of my social media work was also gardening related.  But I'm still
thinking about this so I reserve the right to change my mind as I puzzle
out social media and how I really want to use it going forward.   (invoking
the "guy rule" - anything I said 24 hours ago can't be held against me
because I've forgotten it) :-)

So - bottom line.  It is Pinterest for content.  It collects all your
social media links that you send out - assembles them into a graphic grid
and puts that on the website or Wordpress install of your choice.

Does that help?

I still have to think about this - but my recommendation to do a name-grab
is still sound, even if you decide not to install it on your site.  I tend
to do that when I see a new social media operation that I think has
potential - get my name.  ( @douggreen,  douglas-green.com etc)   So get
your name, even if you don't use it - if it takes off, you'll be able to
jump in with your brand.

Doug

On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 12:15 AM, Nan Sterman <NSterman@plantsoup.com>wrote:

> Doug, can you explain what we are looking at?
>
> On Jan 9, 2013, at 10:16 AM, Doug Green <gardeningemail@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > You may want to head over to RebelMouse.com to grab your name for this
> new
> > software.
> >
> > You can see what it does here    https://www.rebelmouse.com/douggreen/
> >
> > It runs on either a Wordpress plugin or a script into a web page.  Here's
> > an example of a script (scroll to the bottom of the page and the info is
> > scrollable as well)
> > http://www.douggreensgarden.com/about.html
> >

-- 

Doug Green
A million readers a month can't be all wrong
http://www.douggreensgarden.com/about.html <http://www.simplegiftsfarm.com>
https://www.amazon.com/author/douglasgreen
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