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Myself I have not noticed any type of buzz in the blogsphere regarding Entrecard in a long time. I will admit I have never really used there ad placing services much, maybe once or twice if that so I can’t say if they are good or bad but I can say that maybe if there is no buzz about them that the flash in their pan is gone.

I do think that today I am going to place a few ads with in the Entrecard system and see what kind of results I yield, and if I do not yield much at all then you can bet on the fact that I will be pulling there widget down.

What do you think, is Entrecard dead?

It is very easy, especially when your knew to blogging to go at it very aggressively. You want to bring in lots of readers and traffic to your site to check things out and grab those subscribers. So what you end up doing is pounding the social networking sites as hard as you can, sending out broadcast after broadcast to your friends list hoping to get them to swing by. But are they just looking at you as a spammer with out you even realizing it.

Is there a happy medium? 

I am not sure if there is a happy medium, in some cases I have even seen it where I have stopped by a blog for the first time and found that I liked there content so I started to read some of there most recent posts, and I was compelled to comment but the blog owner just thought for some reason I guess I was spamming his site. Which to me is right stupid as I am sure most of you do this too, if there is a new comment or two on my blog I look and see who they are before I approve there comment. I don’t just say “Oh that guy is spam” and toss there comment in the garbage. I think some people need to look up the definition of spam and learn a few things about community involvement.

If has been about two months now that I have backed right off of any type of broadcasting or self promotion simply because there are so many people who don’t understand really what spam is, and I don’t want to get looked at that way.

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Well if you have been blogging for any amount of time I am sure you have heard of Twitter by now. When I first started blogging over 6 months ago, well I think it is closer to 9 months now, I joined Twitter like most everyone else. I had a look around the site and could not figure out what it was all about, so I just left it and moved on to some of the other sites like Blogcatalog and MyBlogLog.

It was not until recently that “Twitter” started to catch my attention, so much so that I am going to have to put some focus on that site in the up coming weeks and have a closer look at it. Why you ask? Well it would seem that there has been close to 20 or 30 people who have found me in there (user name of Konvictcollin) and they started to follow me to see what I am up to.

I have always liked it when people in social networking sites add me as a friend but what has really caught my eye is the fact that a few people who have added me also have bloggers like Jeremy from Shoemoney, Darren from Problogger and John Chow. Most people add these guys to there groups of friends because they are so popular so that was no biggy to see, but what made me go wow is the fact that there is only like 10 other people in these same lists that I am in. So for some odd reason I am being put into groups with some of the biggest bloggers around. I am not complaining, I am very honored to be added to lists that have so few names or mostly the bigger bloggers.

This tells me that I should be focusing a lot more in Twitter and what they have to offer a blogger like me. Do you have a profile in Twitter, if so look me up and add me as a contact. Once again I am under the user name of Konvictcollin.