Yesterday I received an email from BlogCatalog notifying me about a new idea that they had. What would you happen if your newest post was Dugg and all your friends at BlogCatalog knew about it? And then what would happen if they Dugg it too, letting all of their friends know it. That would be pretty powerful, right?

Well in the next couple of days, BlogCatalog will launch Social Dashboard beta, a new feature that displays your latest activities across many social networks — Digg, Flickr, Last.fm, Twitter, YouTube, and many others . That means automatic cross-networking and promotion right from your personal profile page. It also means that the your post updates, Twitter comments, Digg submissions, and other activities will appear on the Social Dashboard of all your BlogCatalog friends, and maybe their friends too. This is the kind of networking that can make posts go viral. And that’s just for starters.

Their Dashboard will help you keep up on the activities of your friends. It’s almost like having the ultimate social network feed reader made up of your friends, it’s absolutely awesome don’t you think?? It will help you streamline networking and stay up to date with friends across the Web. When they upload a new Flickr photo or submit a new article to Digg, you will know and you can then share it with your friends.

Use it promote your activities. Use it to keep up on friends.

They also think Social Dashboard will strengthen the BlogCatalog community for you. It helps make profile pages much more dynamic, giving people a reason to visit them again and again. I was waiting something like this since too many time ago, now we can share all our network links across the web in a single place  :twisted: .

Hello readers and bloggers, sometime did you think about why your feedburner’s subscribers counter change suddenly? or why a day it shows 100 and the next one shows 80? you probably have the wrong idea about what this counter really shows. I found this information by looking in the feedburner dashboard, there is a “i” of information beside the statistics in your Feed Stats Dashboard. It is something like this:

So what’s about this counter? what it really shows?

Basically this counter shows the number of subscribers you got during the last day. This mean that the number that you see there, is the number of subscribers you got yesterday, and it’s delayed by a day so really you can see tomorrow how was your blog today. Thats the reason why when you are starting your blog, you see how this number variate a lot, from 2 to 30 and vice versa, because this number doesn’t shows the number of total subscribers to your blog.

Instead, if you choose in your dashboard a date range like “last 7 days” or “all time” this number will be the average number of subscribers for all of the days selected. This number provides a general understanding of the size of your subscriber base over a time period.

How this number is calculated ?

FeedBurner’s subscriber count is based on an approximation of how many times your feed has been requested in a 24-hour period. Subscribers is inferred from an analysis of the many different feed readers and aggregators that retrieve this feed daily. The subscribers’ number is not computed for browsers or bots that access your feed.

Subscribers counts are calculated by matching IP address and feed reader combinations, then using our detailed understanding of the multitude of readers, aggregators and bots on the market to make additional inferences.

What’s the reach ?

This is another factor related to the counter. Reach is the total number of people who have taken action ( viewed or clicked ) on the content in your feed. So if someone click over a link your counter will increase by 1.

Subscribers is a measure of how many people are subscribed to your feed. At any given time, you can expect that a certain percentage of this subscriber base is actively engaging with your content and this “Reach” measurement provides this additional insight.

Additionally, there may be people viewing your content beyond your known subscriber base. For example, they may view your content on a feed search engine or news filter site.

Reach aggregates both of these groups, providing an accurate and useful measurement of your true audience.

Learning about…

I received this question by mail and I hope this post helps to understand the basics of the feed counter. A feedcounter is one of the widgets that you can’t miss in your blog, it gives an idea to your readers about how “popular” is your blog and also can give you a percentage about how many people visit your blog daily.

Do you know what’s post on fire? don’t be alarm, I met it just yesterday dropping e-cards. Post On Fire is a social network site for bloggers & blog readers, very similar to Sphinn, starting because the panel and categories are very similar.

It’s a free online community anyone can join. PostOnFire users discover & share the best blog posts on the net, including a voting system that put their readers in control of which blog posts should be in the front page. When a new link to a blog post is submitted, it will be added instantly to the “just submitted” section. When a blog post link in the “just submitted” section receives enough votes and less “extinguish”, it will move to the front page “hot posts”. “Extinguish” is a feature that let users report a link that is not worthy or it’s a spam. When a blog post link receives too much “extinguish”, it will be discarded.

Why you may use this community?

Why to use it? I don’t know you but I don’t found anything new on this network site, it is like digg, sphinn and others…The advantage you can get using this community is in the fact this one is very very young. It may has 1 or 2 weeks as older online, this mean you could be one of “bosses” if you start to use it from now .

The posts on the hot list has just 3 votes!! and I was looking the network and I found some many bloggers registered on bigger communities like sphinn, mixx, digg…this mean you will not alone , adding all them as friends you could ask them to vote for your posts on this new social network.

In my personal opinion I think is a good idea to join, this community is expanding quickly as I could see and being than young you have the opportunity to be one of top users, getting the most of votes and probably attracting more readers to your blog .

Submit or vote quickly with their plugin for wordpress!. Join to Post On Fire and don’t forget to fire this post !

Probably you’ve heard about MyBlogLog, a social media network part of the Yahoo Services, allowing you to meet other bloggers and their communities.

Why do you need MyBlogLog?

May be you are bored to join on every social media network over the web, but you don’t have choice, you may to join on every network you find out there . MyBlogLog is one of biggest communities on internet enable you to track that last little bit of information about your website. You probably already know where your users are coming from and you probably already know what pages they’re looking at while they’re there. However, if you have a blog or any other site where you frequently post new content on the main page, you don’t have a good way of tracking what people find interesting. One way is to track when people click on the links you provide. Up until now, outbound link tracking has been a pain in the butt, requiring CGIs and managed links. MyBlogLog makes this process easy. But why do you need to know what people find interesting on your site? You can use it to tune your content to be even more compelling for your readers and to determine which stories you should follow up on.

Using MyBlogLog Effectively

Although MyBlogLog is not designed to build traffic to your site or to give you a community automatically, the most people with large communities have them either because their blog is popular and they advertise the community on their blog or because they message and talk with other MyBlogLog members and they join communities that are interesting to them and other members join their community as a result.

If your site is of interest to people, in the coming days you will see a number of people checking out your community, much like how people stumbled upon your blog in the early days. An effective way to attract some people to your community is adding them as friend when they visit your site and leaving a message in their profile just saying “thank you for….” that is very appreciated. You can do this looking the MyBlogLog gadget in your blog to see the latest MyBlogLog member visitors.

What’s The Benefit of Pro Stats?

MyBlogLog Pro gives you real-time stats and this is helpful to get real-time feedback on your links if you are a compulsive blogger . If you don’t have a lot of traffic or simply you are not a compulsive blogger, the free version may be sufficient.

Additionally, MyBlogLog Pro gives you a longer list of “top links,” listing all of the links clicked on your site each day, which is useful if you have dozens of links. If you don’t have a lot of links the free version’s daily Top 10 links is probably fine for you.

You can purchase MyBlogLog Pro by a monthly subscription fee ($3/month) through PayPal and an annual fee ($25/year) by PayPal or Credit Card. The monthly fee will continue until you cancel the service. The annual fee must be renewed by you each year. You can upgrade your account to MyBlogLog Pro via the Edit Settings area of any of your blogs.