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SocialSpark Saturdays: Networking with other Bloggers

socialsparkSocialSpark is leveraged by most bloggers as a means to earning money from advertisers, but what many bloggers don’t realize is that SocialSpark works very well as its own social networking platform.

I wrote a detailed post about How To Use SocialSpark To Find Fellow Bloggers but here are some additional idea’s on how to leverage SocialSpark to find fellow bloggers.

To start just log into SocialSpark
Click on Community -> Browse Users
I usually select the Bloggers tab if looking for other bloggers, this way I can weed out Advertisers.

When I first started SocialSpark, I wanted to network with the most popular and successful, I did this by sorting by “friends” and “blogs” to find who had the most friends on SocialSpark and who had the most number of blogs (with the highest props). This told me the populars and I immediately sent them requests to find out what made them so successful on SocialSpark and learn about them by reading their blogs, checking out how they did paid advertisements (quality, style) and emulate the success for myself.

Next, I searched for bloggers in Arizona by using the “Profile information” on the sidebar and searching for bloggers in Arizona.
I then did queries for technology and eventually poetry, SEO and other categories.

I would add as many people as possible as a friend request, when sending a friend request try to avoid being pitchy and spammy, but do check out someones profile and leave a comment or relevant bit of information that invites the blogger to want to accept your friend request.

I found many friends on SocialSpark and it was here that I first started delving into blogging in August 2008, SocialSpark was the network that helped me become as successful as I am today.

This guest post brought to you by Dragon Blogger, you can read more of my work at Dragon Blogger Technology & Entertainment.

In The Jungle

In The Jungle
Photo-A-Day #1530

Came home from work today and Eva and I played with her animals. She has a wide variety of the Fisher Price Amazing Animals. I got them for her a little at a time. Now she has a regular menagerie and I love it. These are heavy duty toys that she can bang around and enjoy the heck out of. We had so much fun making them “jump”. She loves to jump but doesn’t really do it, she flexes her knees and says “Jump”. She loves it when we jump though, that cracks her right up.

Today I posted the first in a series of what I hope to see as regular posts on the I’m Not A Famous Blogger IZEA Insider Crew Blog. I decided that rather than keep the url and just point it to my bio (as I Am Not A Famous Blogger and all) I would revamp the blog and make it a way in which I could reach out to my IZEA Insider crew members. I’m sending out invitations to be interviewed to each and every member and I hope that you enjoy reading them and learning about many interesting bloggers. The first interview is with Justin Germino aka DragonBlogger.

Today is also my parent’s anniversary. Eva and I called Mom and Dad tonight and Eva even said Happy Anniversary. It was very cute. Happy 36th Anniversary Mom and Dad.