It’s November 1st and thus Movember has begun, meaning I’m shaving off my beard and mustache for the first time in 20yrs. I’m 35 so that means since I was 15 or ever since my little stache started to grow back in the day I have a clean face. Why the moustache? To raise awareness for men’s health. So last night, I did it. I cut it all off for Movmeber but I’m not alone. Thousands of men across the world are also participating and I’m on TeamRDU lead by the awesome GreggoryNG. You can see our entire team here: http://www.movemberrdu.com. It’s not to late to join the Movember movement but if you’re not up for shaving you can still support by helping me raise money here or to teamRDU here.

It was a painful process but I did it. Here’s short video of the process.

About Movember from Movember.com

The Mo, slang for moustache, and November come together each year for Movember.

Movember challenges men to change their appearance and the face of men’s health by growing a moustache. The rules are simple, start Movember 1st clean-shaven and then grow a moustache for the entire month. The moustache becomes the ribbon for men’s health, the means by which awareness and funds are raised for cancers that affect men. Much like the commitment to run or walk for charity, the men of Movember commit to growing a moustache for 30 days.

The idea for Movember was sparked in 2003 over a few beers in Melbourne, Australia. The plan was simple – to bring the moustache back as a bit of a joke and do something for men’s health. No money was raised in 2003, but the guys behind the Mo realized the potential a moustache had in generating conversations about men’s health. Inspired by the women around them and all they had done for breast cancer, the Mo Bros set themselves on a course to create a global men’s health movement.

In 2004 the campaign evolved and focused on raising awareness and funds for the number one cancer affecting men – prostate cancer. 432 Mo Bros joined the movement that year, raising $55,000 for the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia – representing the single largest donation they had ever received.

The Movember moustache has continued to grow year after year, expanding to the US, UK, Canada, New Zealand, Ireland, Spain, South Africa, the Netherlands and Finland.

In 2009, global participation of Mo Bros and Mo Sistas climbed to 255,755, with over one million donors raising $42 Million US equivalent dollars for Movember’s global beneficiary partners.

Want to see more? Check out our Mo-Intro video by clicking on the image below:

Joining me was fellow OurHashtag partner, Jeff Cohen (Digital Papercuts). As we arrived, we were welcomed by Beck and other Museum of Life and Science employees to receive our V.I.P wrist band, and name badge. Then we were on our way to the Dinosaur Trail.

As we walked the trail we met fellow tweeple @SmallJones, @clubjuggler, @GregoryNG, @dburr10085 and blogger Kevin Davis of Bull City Rising. We also met a few other local Triangle Tweeple for the first time. Despite it being a little humid, the weather was perfect and Jeff and I started our Dinosaur photo-blogging, tweeting, brightkite-ing, Facebooking tour.

Take a look at my photos below:

A few years ago, or even a few months ago, if you would have said that a museum was having a special exhibit preview for bloggers and twitter users, some may have looked at you like you’re crazy and just laughed. But with the explosion of social media and a strong tech community in the area, having an exclusive Blogger/Tweeple preview at the Museum of Life and Science made perfect sense. Why? I would say for marketing and community engagement. Was the event a success? I would say, yes. The @lifeandscience twitter account sent out a tweet saying they had over 100 tweeple and bloggers attend the event.

The event was not only a success because of the attendance, but also for continued awareness for the Museum of Life and Science. As I walked around, I saw families on the dinosaur trail taking a lot of pictures. Adding local bloggers and tweeple to an already scheduled member preview is a great idea. It can only build excitement and generate awareness of the new exhibit. My hat’s off to Beck and the entire team for coming up with the idea. Will this work for every company looking to engage with the local community using social media? Maybe, but let’s take a look at the process of what the Museum of Life and Science did to have a successful event.

1. Hire someone who’s connected in the community.

2. Engage with the community using social media.

Their twitter account has over 1,700 followers and they have accounts on various social networks.

3. Think outside the box and be creative. Instead of trying to just pull bloggers/tweeple away from their computers and iPhones, they welcomed them with open doors, saying join us.

4. They made us feel special by including us in a sneak preview. The exhibit doesn’t open to the public until July 25th.

5. Have an engagement dinosaur. Unlike Raleigh’s Lego store. The museum had one open dinosaur for everyone to climb on. The kids were happy to play and the parents got better pictures. It was clearly the most popular dinosaur there.

6. They planned for success. They passed out Moo cards with the url http://lifeandscience.org/dinosaurs on it. The url is for collecting blog post such as this one, flickr photos and youtube videos. And not only from today, but from future attendees.

Again, great job to the Museum of Life and Science. Today was my first time visiting and I’ll be back in the near future.

PS. All of my photos and videos where taken with the iPhone 3Gs.

No dinosaurs where brought back to life during today’s event, but this one is cool and I would love to have it as an pet.

I just returned from a trip to Atlanta, GA for the Mashable/Regator Mixer along with my one of my business partners Jeff Cohen (@dgtlpapercuts http://digitalpapercuts.com).  It was one of those “Social Media Hustle Road trips and we used Brightkite to track our journey. While on the way back we stopped in Charlotte, NC to catch the end of REbarcamp (Real Estate Barcamp ) and had a mini conversation about how realtors could use location based social networks like Brightkite. Part of my response was an example of how realtors could take pictures of houses for sale and let their contacts on other social networks see what properties are available now that Brightkite integrates with Facebook, flickr, fireeagle and twitter all with one simple update (check-in).

Also here’s 3 reasons to use Brightkite from a guest post that Kipp Bodnar (@kbodnar32 and I wrote for Louis Gray @louisgray about Brightkite.

1. Building Your Digital Footprint
2. Integration with Your Existing Social Media Workflow
3. Facilitate Face-to-Face Communications

You can read the full post here: BrightKite: If You Think Your Life Is Boring, You’re Missing The Point

If you’re a Brightkite user how do you use it?

Today I was interviewed by Fox News 8 ( Bob Buckly & Stewart Pittman @Lenslinger out of Greensboro, NC about Social Networking Etiquette. I was recommended to discuss the topic by Jennifer Ruggiero a long time twitter follower and friend who I recently met in real life at a Tweetup in Greensboro. As I prepared for the interview I made a few notes and asked via ping.fm the following question: What are some good & bad examples of Social Networking Etiquette that you have seen?

Below are my notes, a few other blog post on the same subject and some feedback I received from Brighkite,  Twitter & Friendfeed.
Brightkite Feedback:

ocell: “Bad: anything automatic. Auto followback, autoresponders, autoDM… dilutes real social interaction and relationships.”

ninanord: “Having a hard time understanding why some people constantly use ie Facebook and Twitter to tell others how ill they are and what kind of bad mood they´re in… Easily turns into oversharing in a sphere where so many people talk, not knowing eachother personally.”

Twitter Feedback:
Bad:

Robert_Peterson: @waynesutton the autobot dm to new followers “Hey thanks, now read this great blog.”

Good:

The interview will air on TV this Friday and the reporter asked me a closing question, “If I could only give people just one suggestion for social networking etiquette what would it be?” I told him for people to be themselves.

What would be your suggestion?

Also read:
social networking etiquette: how important is it?
10 signs your Twitter etiquette could be improved
14 RULES OF BUSINESS REFERRAL ETIQUETTE
A Rant on Social Networking Etiquette or, When did Rude Become Acceptable OnLine?

There’s been a lot talk about Facebook trying to copy Twitter lately with the new public profiles, instant updates and interface changes, but after taking a closer look, it’s seems that Facebook is copying Friendfeed more than Twitter. For example, over the past few weeks Facebook has added “friendfeed-ish” like features such as:
1. “comment” and “like” to status updates
2.  group friend lists
3.  social network content feeds into status updates.

Friendfeed:

It’s easy to compare Facebook to Twitter because of live status updates but Friendfeed has that too with its real-time updates. Overall, I think Facebook is trying to make changes to keep users on Facebook.com, which is smart for them. They see how others are using twitter plus Friendfeed and see the opportunity to add a wider variety of user-controlled features to fit the need of the super geek like a Robert Scoble to people like my mom (@gwensutton) who is new to social networking.

But everyone is not happy about the changes and don’t see the value of adding the features. They want to use Facebook to stay in contact just with their personal friends and family. Nevertheless I asked the question on twitter “A lot of people are talking about Facebook vs Twitter but to me Facebook is getting more like Friendfeeed …. your thoughts? and here is what a few tweeple had to say.

waynesutton: A lot of people are talking about Facebook vs twitter but to me Facebook is getting more like Friendfeeed …. your thoughts?

about 2 hours ago

Thu Apr 02 13:10:36 +0000 2009

INKAHEXE: I don´t use Facebook, I have a profile on hi5.com, this is more popular in southamerica

about 2 hours ago

Thu Apr 02 13:12:22 +0000 2009

RCcarboy: they’re all the same. just different facets.

about 2 hours ago

Thu Apr 02 13:12:36 +0000 2009

jeremysallen: i would agree that facebook has become more of a feed to funnel all of your feeds to your friends

about 2 hours ago

Thu Apr 02 13:12:49 +0000 2009

Sab_1908: they totally are trying to keep up especially with the pic frames …The longer status updates… Giving people more characters

about 2 hours ago

Thu Apr 02 13:13:55 +0000 2009

jeremysallen: im seeing so many more status updates via twitter now than i used to… people finally have stopped asking what is twitter…

about 2 hours ago

Thu Apr 02 13:14:00 +0000 2009

RedKoolAid2000: Facebook data farming scared me from ever being a user

about 2 hours ago

Thu Apr 02 13:14:07 +0000 2009

chilly_o: twitter is the most effective, not really feeling facebook and don’t know what happened to myspace.The real time variable works

about 2 hours ago

Thu Apr 02 13:14:10 +0000 2009

omaireee: if those are the two options, then yes. i feel fb to be more a glorified myspace than anything else, really

about 2 hours ago

Thu Apr 02 13:15:01 +0000 2009

muffet: it’s hard to have convos/keep them focused on FB bcos of the multiple ways you can interact, so def, NOT twitter-like in spirit

about 2 hours ago

Thu Apr 02 13:15:02 +0000 2009

ram0na: I’m over Facebook. It was interesting for a moment to see what ppl I’d lost contact with were doing. NSM anymore. WTF cares.

about 2 hours ago

Thu Apr 02 13:15:29 +0000 2009

StevenBarley: Facebook is still more about personal connections/sharing, multi-media: Twitter leans professional + interests/hobbies, text

about 2 hours ago

Thu Apr 02 13:16:01 +0000 2009

nishland: never thought of FB/FF that way. True both are broadcasts of collective “rants” but the community aspect of FB doesn’t match FF

about 2 hours ago

Thu Apr 02 13:18:29 +0000 2009

Amir7: I don’t like facebook its boring but that’s me. Some say Twitter is boring so It depends on the person.

about 2 hours ago

Thu Apr 02 13:18:50 +0000 2009

ratrealmpress: I totally agree with you, this cyber world is getting all mashed into one big hole

about 2 hours ago

Thu Apr 02 13:24:09 +0000 2009

Geistbear: FriendFeed but less clean interface, busier

about 2 hours ago

Thu Apr 02 13:25:05 +0000 2009

stu: the main feed looks more like Twitter, but the side bar is trying to be popular items like FF, but feel it falls short on both

about 2 hours ago

Thu Apr 02 13:34:35 +0000 2009

Bmoreguy03: i feel the value of facebook has went down when they changed there to there new layout

about 2 hours ago

Thu Apr 02 13:39:17 +0000 2009

Bmoreguy03: at first no one even put them in the same type of website they both did different things but when they changed it

about 2 hours ago

Thu Apr 02 13:40:38 +0000 2009

DerekAlfonso: Twitter is a single service designed for quick status updates, Facebook has some of that too but that’s not the main focus

about 2 hours ago

Thu Apr 02 13:42:21 +0000 2009

princewh: definitely true

about an hour ago

Thu Apr 02 14:00:24 +0000 2009

JediVinnie: could u explain friendfeed..v twitter I R new to facebook & getting alittle lost..have a good one..

about an hour ago

Thu Apr 02 14:19:45 +0000 2009

pam3la: on FB: the lack of chronological order and refresh irks me. it is not a smooth layout per se. getting used to it.

about an hour ago

Thu Apr 02 14:27:55 +0000 2009

wei_yang: Facebook is making FriendFeed obsolete. I always had a FF account, but never used it cause the chatter didn’t exist.

about 44 minutes ago

Thu Apr 02 15:01:47 +0000 2009

rutgerblom: I agree.

about 32 minutes ago

Thu Apr 02 15:14:07 +0000 2009

How are you using Facebook?

jimoz: All 3 plus Friendfeed

about a day ago

Sat Mar 07 02:50:30 +0000 2009

jeremyellison: Facebook. Definately

about a day ago

Sat Mar 07 00:59:07 +0000 2009

JanAboutTown: Blog, I’d send them to my blog…

about a day ago

Sat Mar 07 00:31:23 +0000 2009

resnodesigns: I think I would send them to my blog. Its the only place I communicate often enough.

about a day ago

Fri Mar 06 23:27:41 +0000 2009

Admore: D) whatever the next shiny toy is. Can see Twitter being acquired… but not closing shop.

about a day ago

Fri Mar 06 23:08:49 +0000 2009

JasonOkuma: for me, it would be FB. what about you?

about a day ago

Fri Mar 06 23:06:27 +0000 2009

talktotisha: YIKES! I guess my domain would need to be dusted off. Can’t imagine using FB in the same capacity I use twitter!

about a day ago

Fri Mar 06 23:05:40 +0000 2009

Recruiting_U: blog then Friend Feed

about a day ago

Fri Mar 06 23:05:38 +0000 2009

kcwebgirl: linkedin. facebook is for family and friends and blog is too random!

about a day ago

Fri Mar 06 23:04:22 +0000 2009

girlontheband: Facebook

about a day ago

Fri Mar 06 23:04:03 +0000 2009

modeling22: Facebook #poll

about a day ago

Fri Mar 06 23:03:42 +0000 2009

jason_austin: lets hope that doesn’t happen. I’d be lost without twitter…

about a day ago

Fri Mar 06 23:03:04 +0000 2009

jawar: Today my website. In a few days I will have a much better response.:-) EXECUTING the thought out plan. RE: if Twitter closed

about a day ago

Fri Mar 06 23:02:18 +0000 2009

jreesnc: Britekite?

about a day ago

Fri Mar 06 23:02:02 +0000 2009

kevinrscott: I would direct folx to my blog. Our own sites should be our best platform for contact.

about a day ago

Fri Mar 06 23:01:46 +0000 2009

FreddieScott: blog….

about a day ago

Fri Mar 06 23:01:18 +0000 2009

waynesutton: Poll: If twitter goes down or purchased & closed, where will you send everyone to contact you? Facebook or Linkedin or your blog?

about a day ago

Fri Mar 06 22:59:56 +0000 2009

The results are mixed but Facebook seems like the place everyone will try to communicate and with all the changes that Facebook has made recently it’s not a bad idea. For me, my #1 goal is to create a self hosted or managed solution to where I can stay connected with every single twitter follower I have.  How?  First blog rss subscriptions, you can subscribe here: http://bit.ly/18i5X7 or the big orange button on your right . Next email subscribers, I’ve been collecting email addresses on every site I have, take a look at waynesutton.tv & wayne-sutton.com . Soon I’m going to launch community.socialwayne.com using ning.com and I’m working with a company to launch a mobile sms marketing campaign to build a mobile database but for now you can text get waynesutton to 762763 .

Update: http://community.socialwayne.com is now live, join!

Why the need to collect users or create a community backup?  It’s simple we have come to depended on twitter and don’t forget how felt during the failwhale season of 2008.  Plus if you can create or build your own community, it increases your social capital which you can use to possible create brand partnerships or other networking opportunities. More on social capital here: Digital Urbanite . Don’t worry as a twitter fanboy, I’m still tweeting as usual but now with everyone on the twitter bandwagaon and buyout talks showing up every other week, I’m just being a little cautious.  Also we’re three months into 2009 and still waiting on a twitter business model and I’m not sure how that will effect the use of twitter.

For those of you who missed the tweet, take the poll below and fell free to leave a comment on your thoughts about building your own community; why or why not.
[polldaddy poll="1437470"]

What would you do without Twitter?

Transparency in Social Media
But what about transparency in social media? The same holds true yet it also has a double meaning. Transparency in social media especially pertaining to blogging and covering a product, brand or service means that’s I’m giving you an honest non-biased opinion or truth when I write or cover a particular topic. Online this can mean that, I am who I say I am online and that my reason for posting or having a discussion about a product, brand or service does not have any hidden agendas.  Or if I’m posting or having a discussion about a product, brand or service and was paid or hired to do so, you’ll know about it up front or it will be included in the conversations.

Why is transparency so important?
Transparency is about trust and with everyone trying to grab your attention online whether it is through a youtube video, blog post, facebook ad or a tweet, trust relationship marketing will be one of the key ways brands will try to sell their services to customers. In other words brands will contact you saying, blog out this, or can you tweet this. I’m not saying there is anything wrong with that but will you let your readers or subscriber know that you were paid to post content about a particular brand upfront or at all?

Will you sell?
We’re in a time where companies will try leverage individuals who are community leaders or have a large audience for brand awareness.  If you have a lot of followers on twitter, blog subscribers or subscribers in an email database you have the opportunity to leverage your community and establish a few relationships with brands who may want to reach your audience. It’s something I call “selling their eyes”, to where you’re willing to push paid content to your community via product placement or sponsored ads. How you choose to let your community know about you “selling their eyes” is up to you but if you want to keep them, being honest or “transparent” is the best way to do so.

Do yo trust me?
There’s a lot of good and bad examples of transparency and social media and I’m not going say any names or cases of others but I’m going go over a few cases I’m involved in:

Crocs:
I’ve recently interviewed and wrote a blog post about Crocs’ social media specialist George G. Smith Jr. ,
Did I get paid to write the blog post? No.
Did I receive some Crocs swag? Yes.
Was I planning to write the blog post before the swag? Yes.
Did I let my readers know I received some crocs swag? Yes.

Kodak:

I was looking for a flip mino hd, and was suggested the Kodak Zi6 on twitter.  Then I purchased a Kodak Zi6 from Best Buy and was asked if I would write a blog post about using it for Kodak’s A Thousand Words Blog
Did I get paid to write the blog post? No
Did I receive any Kodak coupons or incentives for writing the post ? No

iPhone app reviews:
I’ve been approached by several iPhone developers or their marketing representatives asking if I would review their iPhone app on my blog and by doing so they would give me a free coupon to purchase the application.
Have I posted the reviews? No
Should I ? Maybe just as long as I’m honest, that if the apps sucks, I let my readers know and give them my truthful opinion.

What does the twitter & brightkite community think?

So I asked on brightkite & twitter the question: Why is transparency in social media important to you? Take a look at the response below:

From Brightkite:

RobertFischer says:Authenticity is what’s important. And it’s impossible to be authentic while being opaque. It’s all “Cluetrain Manifesto” stuff.

maravillasband says: Transparency is why it is perceived by some to be dangerous, I think

kagorges says: Transparency builds trust, which leads to more connection and more interesting sharing of each other — and that is what makes social networking interesting. Just trading references or pitching our product/services is shallow and very quickly boring – just like networking meetings that are all about trading business cards — no real connection or context.

pamperry says: It is about your purpose. If you are not afraid of who you are and know what you are here for – you want to share it! You want to broadcast it and promote it…and nothing makes you feel better than to be understood.

From twitter

aprillwrites: @waynesutton Because transparency is one of the factors that differentiates social media from others.

JoshuaJMills: @waynesutton transparency = truest, without it imformation you provide would be tainted.

jaymeburnett: @waynesutton I just want to know that I can trust people. I like to think that most people are good, and transparency is a part of that.

kerosinclothing: @waynesutton transparency I important because you want the facts on a certain topic, not just someones opinion, which always has bias

Free Marketing
A few notes to remember, if people love your product or service they don’t mind letting others know about it,  remember the mac beautiful youtube video?

But if you do want others to cover your product/services I advise you to be upfront and let you readers now about the relationship or risk being exposed using social media.

Why is transparency in social media important to you?

The history:
Earlier this year when I had started doing online video interviews for the local TV station a lot of people in N.C. were saying Wayne you have to interview Pam. We’ll the year went by and I eventually met Pam for the first time at one of President Elect Barack Obama town hall events in Raleigh, N.C. before he was elected, we shook hands, exchanged business cards and the months flew by.  After that we crossed paths again at a new media/tech conference called Converged South in Greensboro, NC where I did get a chance to cohost an interview for 30THREADS.com of Pam. Then this week President Elect Barack Obama announced that he selected evangelical pastor and author of “The Purpose Driven Life, Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at his inauguration and the LGBT community was very upset and sounded off their frustration on twitter.  Which lead me to Pam’s site and I contacted her team to see if she was up for an interview to talk about the situation.

The interview:
The interview took place at Brian Russel’s Carrboro Creative Coworking office and asked Pam a series of questions about her blog, her role at the DNC, citizen journalism, LGBT reaction to Rick Warren, challenges of being a female blogger, main stream media rejecting and embracing blogging and what’s next for her in 2009. We also talked about the social responsibility that she and I both have as African-American bloggers to education our communities and culture. I won’t go into details Pam’s responses because I want you to watch it on http://waynesutton.tv .

The outcome:
So you may be asking yourself what does this have to do with extending your brand and relationships? For one, Pam has a huge following and a different community that I have. Plus she’s well respected by main stream media, journalist, reporters and the local community in N.C. and by interviewing her it ads to my credibility. She operates in different circles that I seldom reach and by interviewing Pam people who never heard of Wayne Sutton now know that I exist and are more likely to do a little research to see who I am and what I do. Also not being in a mode of trying to control content both my site WayneSutton.TV and Pam’s site Pam’s House Blend hosted the live interview at the same time using Ustream.TV. After the live show both of our sites share the saved show to where her readers and mine can watch the show if they missed the live stream.

The effect:
Immediately after the live show I started getting emails from my google alert from a few sites that I’ve never heard of before and a few other local bloggers in N.C.
A Blog Around The Clock – Pam Spaulding on Waynesutton.tv
Gay Blog Headlines – Live on WayneSutton.tv
2015Place.com – Combined Gay News Headlines

Lessons Learned:
Although Pam and I are entirely two different individuals but at the same time we have a lot in common.

• Pam’s a lesbian and I’m straight
• Pam blogs about politics and religion and I try to stay away from that conversation (except today)
• Both of us are African-American
• Both are bloggers
• Both reside in N.C. (Pam’s lives in Durham and I live in Raleigh)
• Both are passionate about what we do.
• Both want to education our race and community about online technologies
• Both have big plans for 2009.

But despite our differences, Pam and I respect one another and have a new found relationship. The feedback from the show has been great so far except me talking to fast…. I’m still in beta mode by the way.

The new beginning:
Pam it was an honor to interview you today, and thank you for your contributions to bridging the gab between the bloggers and main stream media. I’ll see you around N.C. or at a future conference in 2009.
The challenge for you:
Think outside of your social network and try to think new ways of reaching audiences that you’re not connected too now.

Are you willing to interview or have a discussion with people who don’t entirely agree with in a public online forum?

As for 1938Media, I was reading the Remarkablogger site and saw a video of Loren Feldman at a blogging conference where he said: “the most important thing in your digital life is your personal blog”. This was after Wired Magazine posted an article called: Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So 2004. To Wired’s point I think the post was written to start a conversation but it did have some good meat to it.  

Some points of the article talked about how more people are spending more time on social networks and less on blogs. But in my case what am I to do? I have 11,610 followers on twitter, I just started this blog with 92 feedburner subscribers, 563 Linkedin contacts and 716 facebook friends.  If twitter goes down how would I stay connected with those 11,610 followers, will they subscribe to my feed, connect on Linkedin or Facebook?  

While we wait for Twitter to figure out how to make money,  staying connected and having a global reach with my twitter followers is where I see the true value in twitter but as 2009 come close I’m getting nervous about what’s next.  So I’m taking advice from Tyme and 1938Media and making my blog a priority but with new blogs launching everyday and people spending more time on social networking sites just have a text based blog is going to be hard to stand out from the crowd, but I have a plan. 

The SocialWayne.com blog plan.

1. Continue to use micro-blogs and social networks to reach new subscribers
2. Make the blog as interactive as possible (more features such as chat coming soon)
3. Use multiple blog content for posting: Audio and Video post. You can already subscribe to socialwayne.com in iTunes
4. Content is still king. Be creative in writing, give away free advice, seek guest writers
5. Be original “Think Different”
6. Partner with Friends for link exchanges
7. Guest write on other blogs for exposure
8. Make socialwayne.com more like a service and a social networking site to make users stick

Will it work? Only time will tell, either way if I’m not tweeting as much as I used to, I’ll be blogging here.

Also for those who wonder how I got 11,000 followers on twitter, I’m working on a blog post about that too. It’s going in my F.A.Q section.

Question: If you would start a new blog today, what would you do to grow your audience?