In preparation for my new year’s resolution to blog a bit more I have been sorting out my online life. louisedoherty.com has had a quick nip-tuck, I’ve finally joined Twitter.com, and I’ve been getting to grips with RSS feeds to get my daily news, views and fun (incidentally, my new WordPress theme cleverly makes a louisedoherty.com RSS automatically – here)
Also, I’ve set up my iPhone to do all of the above so I can blog, tweet or get news on the go. I feel, as my mum likes to call it, ‘techno’d up.’
I’ve also been experimenting with PR via Twitter. I don’t think my boss is convinced yet, but we’ve got 5 followers in one day! I’m using twitterfeed.com to auto-post the news collected by housepricecrash.co.uk members (and turned into an RSS) to a dedicated Twitter account. Confused? It basically means the news on housepricecrash.co.uk can be automatically seen on Twitter by anyone who should wish it so.
Worst case scenario: no one cares. Middling scenario: we get more members because more people are exposed to the site.
Best case scenario: the journalists on Twitter see the updates, write about the site or get in touch for an interview or quote.
Incidentally, I chose housepricecrash.co.uk as the Twitter guinea pig because its members are pretty passionate, web-literate and vocal. Just check the forum.
I’ll be putting a link to @housepricecrash on the housepricecrash.co.uk homepage when its new design is launched later this week, which should boost housepricecrash.co.uk in the Twittersphere.
You do PR for HPC? I love that site. It stopped me buying a place in Summer 2007, right at the top of the housing market.
I rarely read the forums but subscribe to the HPC blog. In fact I wrote about it here: http://www.prblogger.com/2007/07/human-content-aggregators/
Noticed you like Merryn Somerset-Webb. Same. Much better analyser of the market than that Allsop woman.