CBC Techknowledgy Exchange: 2007

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

How do people find your blog?

The most common question I had today was about blog discovery. People are wondering how do people find your blog? There's many different ways, including:

search engines like Google
blog specific search engines like Technorati
ping services like Ping-O-Matic
by commenting on other blogs with a similar topic, leaving your URL
trying to get a post on social media tools like Digg, StumbleUpon or del.icio.us
and of course by telling your friends & family about your blog

Happy blogging!

The last presentation of the day is on right now: Desktop TV with Louis St-Cyr. There's a good crowd of people gathered around watching.

I've seen a lot of activity this afternoon at the CBC Techknowledgy Exchange. I wasn't here this morning, but my colleagues said traffic was much lighter. Quite a good number of people have found their way here after lunch though.

Chai Tea

If you come up to the 10th floor, you must stop by and get a free Chai Tea from the internet cafe. It tastes amazing!

Mad props to Karen & Scott for the reco.

The Blogging Booth

This afternoon at the CBC Techknowledgy Exchanges is nice and busy. Lots of people are coming by asking questions about blogging. Keep 'em coming! I'm happy to answer any questions you may have. I'm glad to see so much interest in blogs.

Why not start your own free blog now?

Blogging about CBC

Some might say Technorati is a blogger's best friend. In a nutshell, it's a search engine for blogs. You can put any keyword in, and see what bloggers are saying about it.

For example, a Technorati search under the keyword "CBC" brings up 10,844 results.

Friendly Giant: 65 results.

Dragons' Den: 231 results. (129 if you use the apostrophy incorrectly.)

Stroumboulopoulos: 172

CBC Radio: 1,223

Hello, My Name is Hubert

Have you seen the CBC's official blog? It's called Inside the CBC and it's run by Tod Maffin.

Tod really has his finger on the pulse of this place.

Have you heard that CBC has a new president? Tod has ... and he's posted a video of Don Newman's interview with Hubert Lacroix.

Guin in da haus!

Hey, it's Guin now manning the blogging booth up on the 10th floor. Swing by and we can chat about:

Movabletype Vs Wordpress
Why you should use Feedburner for your RSS feeds
Integrating social media tools into your blog posts
Or if you don't know what I'm talking about... what is a blog and how to blog!

Stop by, I'm right by the free bevies.

The most important words for Bloggers (in Canada anyway)

2. Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms:
a) freedom of conscience and religion;
b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication;
c) freedom of peaceful assembly; and
d) freedom of association.

The charter extends the freedom of the press, media and communications to individuals and not to institutions, this means (though it hasn't been tested much yet) That as a blogger you have all of the same freedoms and protections of assame Canadian news organization.

Techknowledgy Exchange II

For those of you in the building - there are door prizes up here, but even if you're the kind of person who never wins anything there is a FREE espresso bar.

First Post

This is Justin on the 10th Floor of the TPC at the CBC Techknowledgy Exchange - just demonstrating how all of this works for the first time, if you're in the building stop by

Thursday, November 1, 2007