Update- December 14, 2011
Now that we have a few teams in place, tweets seem to be going out at a somewhat uninterrupted rate. My challenge now is to find an easier way to switch up team members. Please bear with me while I work out a system that is not going to require every member to reauthorize.
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Updates:December 6, 2011
We have opened sign-ups and our teams are forming now! I will be keeping a close watch on these feeds, as step two of the master plan includes MEGA teams!
What is a MEGA team? I am going to attempt aggregating the aggy feeds into one giant feed. This may, or may not work and here is why:
The way the whole process works is as follows: I combine all of your teams individual feeds into one, with a limit of ten. The limit was imposed during testing, because when I went over that number we ran into many time outs because of load time and feed size. I then move the aggregated feed, (Thus the "aggy" and no it is nothing against any Longhorn out there :) over to Feedburner. Once this is authorized through TwitterFeed, voila!
I will begin testing a MEGA team, and hopefully the load time will not be an issue because I am still combining no more than 10 feeds. I will keep you posted! This would give us th opportunity to expand our reaches even further!
Additionally: I would love your input on the idea of GENRE teams- I have gotten feedback from some, that tweeting anything and everything is not their cup of tea. This makes sense for some! What are your ideas for some genres? Deals and coupons, giveaway blogs, what else do you have for me???
We have opened sign-ups and our teams are forming now! I will be keeping a close watch on these feeds, as step two of the master plan includes MEGA teams!
What is a MEGA team? I am going to attempt aggregating the aggy feeds into one giant feed. This may, or may not work and here is why:
The way the whole process works is as follows: I combine all of your teams individual feeds into one, with a limit of ten. The limit was imposed during testing, because when I went over that number we ran into many time outs because of load time and feed size. I then move the aggregated feed, (Thus the "aggy" and no it is nothing against any Longhorn out there :) over to Feedburner. Once this is authorized through TwitterFeed, voila!
I will begin testing a MEGA team, and hopefully the load time will not be an issue because I am still combining no more than 10 feeds. I will keep you posted! This would give us th opportunity to expand our reaches even further!
Additionally: I would love your input on the idea of GENRE teams- I have gotten feedback from some, that tweeting anything and everything is not their cup of tea. This makes sense for some! What are your ideas for some genres? Deals and coupons, giveaway blogs, what else do you have for me???
Updates- 11/29
Updates-November 29, 2011
It seems that everything is running JUST according to plan, with a little surprise here and there :)
TwitterFeed seems to "time out" every so often. Because of this, it has missed some posts! At first this was entirely discouraging to me. I had big dreams of aggregating the AGGY feeds to form SUPER groups (for those that don't mind their Twitter streams FULL- like me :) I'd imagined differentiating groups by follow numbers, adding genre groups, and more!
But THEN- When going through team tweets, individual feeds, aggy feeds, and MY TwitterFeed dashboard, I noticed something strange! Each person has the option to "check and tweet" the stream at any time. Because I wanted this to be a set and forget kind of thing, I didn't even think twice about that. In my frustration about a team mates latest post not tweeting, I clicked "check now" to force in any holding posts. Lo and behold, ALL members of the team tweeted that post.
It is likely because we are tweeting the same feed, and by checking that feed in the system, it checks it for all members. This is GREAT NEWS!!!
This MEANS- If you post, and check if your message has tweeted, and find that it has NOT- you can force it through ALL members!
I just want to reiterate- This group is definitely for those that DO NOT OPPOSE automation.
There seems to be two distinct groups: Those who control their stream- pick and choose which tweets to send and when, geared toward their followers interests, AND those who don't have time for all of that! I am a girl without ANY extra time. That is what I appreciated about Triberr, and eventually sought to replace- that I didn't need to spend ANY extra time to get a few extra clicks!
It seems that everything is running JUST according to plan, with a little surprise here and there :)
TwitterFeed seems to "time out" every so often. Because of this, it has missed some posts! At first this was entirely discouraging to me. I had big dreams of aggregating the AGGY feeds to form SUPER groups (for those that don't mind their Twitter streams FULL- like me :) I'd imagined differentiating groups by follow numbers, adding genre groups, and more!
But THEN- When going through team tweets, individual feeds, aggy feeds, and MY TwitterFeed dashboard, I noticed something strange! Each person has the option to "check and tweet" the stream at any time. Because I wanted this to be a set and forget kind of thing, I didn't even think twice about that. In my frustration about a team mates latest post not tweeting, I clicked "check now" to force in any holding posts. Lo and behold, ALL members of the team tweeted that post.
It is likely because we are tweeting the same feed, and by checking that feed in the system, it checks it for all members. This is GREAT NEWS!!!
This MEANS- If you post, and check if your message has tweeted, and find that it has NOT- you can force it through ALL members!
I just want to reiterate- This group is definitely for those that DO NOT OPPOSE automation.
There seems to be two distinct groups: Those who control their stream- pick and choose which tweets to send and when, geared toward their followers interests, AND those who don't have time for all of that! I am a girl without ANY extra time. That is what I appreciated about Triberr, and eventually sought to replace- that I didn't need to spend ANY extra time to get a few extra clicks!
Updates- 11/26
Updates- November 26, 2011
I've begun adding members to the Beta testing team to come to our group max of 10, and I thought I should explain a couple of things:
Group MAX is TEN MEMBERS
The way the system works, your feeds are combined into one, and transferred to a Feedburner address. With any more than 10 members, #1, the file is too large for Feedburner, and #2- TwitterFeed has trouble uploading the content and streams are paused, slowed, and other nonsense. So....there is the max.
I am still experimenting with the idea of allowing members to join more than one team to increase reach, but at this time, that WOULD run the risk of violating Twitter TOS, and the only way it would be okay is if we could somehow ensure NO member overlap. I will keep you updated on this!
When a new member is added to the team:
There should be no pause in tweets for anyone else, but the stats on your member page will take a bit to update. For example, the Twitter widget on the page is a list of all team members. I thought this would be an easy way to see if everyone has their feed turned on. When I add a new member to the Twitter list, the widget starts over fresh. Only NEW tweets will show from that point on.
Look out for statistical updates. I can't wait to see the difference a 20,000 reach makes in traffic for each member. I know some of us come from Triberr reaches of near a million, so this is indeed JUST supplemental, but I'd still like to see the impact!
I've begun adding members to the Beta testing team to come to our group max of 10, and I thought I should explain a couple of things:
Group MAX is TEN MEMBERS
The way the system works, your feeds are combined into one, and transferred to a Feedburner address. With any more than 10 members, #1, the file is too large for Feedburner, and #2- TwitterFeed has trouble uploading the content and streams are paused, slowed, and other nonsense. So....there is the max.
I am still experimenting with the idea of allowing members to join more than one team to increase reach, but at this time, that WOULD run the risk of violating Twitter TOS, and the only way it would be okay is if we could somehow ensure NO member overlap. I will keep you updated on this!
When a new member is added to the team:
There should be no pause in tweets for anyone else, but the stats on your member page will take a bit to update. For example, the Twitter widget on the page is a list of all team members. I thought this would be an easy way to see if everyone has their feed turned on. When I add a new member to the Twitter list, the widget starts over fresh. Only NEW tweets will show from that point on.
Look out for statistical updates. I can't wait to see the difference a 20,000 reach makes in traffic for each member. I know some of us come from Triberr reaches of near a million, so this is indeed JUST supplemental, but I'd still like to see the impact!
Impact in Traffic Study
Impact in Traffic- Study
The way the system works, ALL of the members of your team will tweet your post when it goes live on your feed. Not randomly throughout the day. In two days of having a team of 4, you can clearly see that pattern in my stats. Guess where I published posts during that 24 hour period above?
The way the system works, ALL of the members of your team will tweet your post when it goes live on your feed. Not randomly throughout the day. In two days of having a team of 4, you can clearly see that pattern in my stats. Guess where I published posts during that 24 hour period above?
AggyBeta- Day one
The ANTI-bonfire
So since there are only four Aggy members as of NOW, and this form of communication seems a little unnecessary, I do think that for my own organization I need to get together the habit of what will be when we get MORE members. So here you have it! I will use the posts on this site to communicate what I am working on with the site, and would like the comments to be where members can voice their opinions about those changes etc.
Statistics
You may or may not know, but I L-U-V me some stats. I like to read, compare, analyze, and basically get all kinds of obsessive about them! So that is where I am at right now with the site. I need an efficient way to display team stats. Where it stands right now, I can read feed statistics as a whole via Google Feedburner stats. I can see clicks of individual posts, however not by individual person.
I don't really want to display individual stats, as far as "Harry sent Sally X visits on this particular post....". I think since we will not be switching up teams, that it is useless information. If a team member tweets out your posts, what more do you need to know?
The problem? I haven't gotten a way to get the above information, on THIS page. I can physically update the information each day, but as I begin to build "LARGE project #4", in the midst of 5 kiddies at the ankles...(okay the 16 year old is rarely here, nor at my ankles) it will not be feasible for more than one group.
Authorization
As you saw, embedding the authorization screen will NOT work, but I do not want to leave it as just a text link with instructions. I think a pop-up window of the site will work the best, (that which is in my means) Let me know what you think!
You've got to remember, I am NO programmer. I learned HTML and CSS by right-click, view source. After deleting and changing code to see what changes on the page, (for YEARS and YEARS) I have a pretty good arsenal of tricks and ideas, but there are lands I have not dared to enter yet!
Maintenance Free
I hate to continue the comparison, but it is inevitable due to the fact that this group came about because of your shortcomings! Throughout this whole 7 month "Triberr era", I've seen my traffic rise and fall. I've constantly had to do more WORK to keep up with responsibilities to tribesmates, drama, "why didn't you tweet my post" kind of things, etc.
This system should be entirely maintenance free. Just as your posts show up on your Facebook page, this should be seamless. I checked my stream continuously for the first couple of days, but now it seems that we are ALL tweeting each others posts, as they come out. Success so far for day 1!?!
So since there are only four Aggy members as of NOW, and this form of communication seems a little unnecessary, I do think that for my own organization I need to get together the habit of what will be when we get MORE members. So here you have it! I will use the posts on this site to communicate what I am working on with the site, and would like the comments to be where members can voice their opinions about those changes etc.
Statistics
You may or may not know, but I L-U-V me some stats. I like to read, compare, analyze, and basically get all kinds of obsessive about them! So that is where I am at right now with the site. I need an efficient way to display team stats. Where it stands right now, I can read feed statistics as a whole via Google Feedburner stats. I can see clicks of individual posts, however not by individual person.
I don't really want to display individual stats, as far as "Harry sent Sally X visits on this particular post....". I think since we will not be switching up teams, that it is useless information. If a team member tweets out your posts, what more do you need to know?
The problem? I haven't gotten a way to get the above information, on THIS page. I can physically update the information each day, but as I begin to build "LARGE project #4", in the midst of 5 kiddies at the ankles...(okay the 16 year old is rarely here, nor at my ankles) it will not be feasible for more than one group.
I did learn some really cool tricks along the way to trying though!
(How to display an RSS feed on your site using Google Docs)
LOL! I always need to post it when I Google through a problem all night!
Authorization
As you saw, embedding the authorization screen will NOT work, but I do not want to leave it as just a text link with instructions. I think a pop-up window of the site will work the best, (that which is in my means) Let me know what you think!
You've got to remember, I am NO programmer. I learned HTML and CSS by right-click, view source. After deleting and changing code to see what changes on the page, (for YEARS and YEARS) I have a pretty good arsenal of tricks and ideas, but there are lands I have not dared to enter yet!
Feedback!
As you can imagine, I would like this to grow. What do you think of the way it is set up? The look? My weird name? Pretend I am not Cindy and have NO feelings when you reply!!Maintenance Free
I hate to continue the comparison, but it is inevitable due to the fact that this group came about because of your shortcomings! Throughout this whole 7 month "Triberr era", I've seen my traffic rise and fall. I've constantly had to do more WORK to keep up with responsibilities to tribesmates, drama, "why didn't you tweet my post" kind of things, etc.
This system should be entirely maintenance free. Just as your posts show up on your Facebook page, this should be seamless. I checked my stream continuously for the first couple of days, but now it seems that we are ALL tweeting each others posts, as they come out. Success so far for day 1!?!
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