Re: social media RebelMouse

**N* S* <N*@PlantSoup.Com>**

Very interesting Doug.  So I went to sign up bit the only option was to sign up using facebook, twitter, etc.  Can't I just sign up directly?

On Jan 10, 2013, at 5:38 AM, Doug Green <gardeningemail@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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