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November 27, 2008

Alltop News and Announcements Email List

We just created an email list for Alltop news and announcements. We will send out an email every time we add a new topic to Alltop. Then you can choose to announce this to your followers. To sign up for this list, please send an email to:
 
 news-subscribe@alltop.com
 
You’ll get an email confirmation. Reply to it, and you're done.
 
We created this list for three reasons:

  1. Some followers complained about the quantity of Alltop announcements. Surprising, but true!
  2. Some of you didn’t want announcements that confuse your followers—for example, a pastor tweeting about Buddhism.alltop or a man tweeting about Pregnancy.alltop.
  3. We’ve been holding back some announcements because of their sensitivity—for example, Hunting.alltop, addiction.alltop, and mentalhealth.alltop. We still want people to know about them, though. 

The worst case would have been a pastor tweeting about Buddhism while endorsing hunting, admitting addiction and mental health issues after getting pregnant. That just wouldn’t have flown. :-)
 
Now you can choose which Alltop announcements to make and how to word them. The simplest thing for you to do is go to the topic and click on “Post to Twitter” in the upper right corner of the page.
 
If you join the email list, you may want to unsubscribe from the Twitterfeed procedure at:
 
 https://twitterfeed.com/alltop
 
You can, however, stick with the Twitterfeed procedure if you’d like to continue as is. If you change your mind about subscribing to the email list, send an email to this address:

news-unsubscribe@alltop.com



Comments (28)
Darragh said...
Sounds like a great idea, Guy, thanks! Good way to use the community features and build up a bit of a buzz.

Darragh said...
P.S. Of course, found this through following you on Twitter ;-)

David Deal said...
Excellent idea!

Nov 27, 2008

Gregg Masters said...
....in gratitude to be part of this tribe!

Will do Guy. I turned off the initial Alltop alerts for the reasons you describe but will give this a shot. I've become a big fan of Alltop Sales and am looking forward to Alltop Business Intelligence.

Nov 27, 2008

Ryan Ozawa said...
I'm glad to see this. There's only one downside to having several Guy Kawasaki fans as Twitter friends, and that's seeing Alltop alerts appear fifteen times in your Twitter stream.

Letting your followers choose which links to pass on has manyfold benefits. It restores the value of Twitter as a conduit for passing on relevant links (I know my friend posted the link because he thought it was interesting, not just because he handed over the keys to his account), and therein likely improves the number of clickthroughs and satisfied visitors.

Great work!

seomanifest said...
I signed up and will also send out a retweet

CK Lunchbox said...
Thanks for the update.

AV Flox said...
Oh, Guy! You have given me the heartiest laugh with this: "The worst case would have been a pastor tweeting about Buddhism while endorsing hunting, admitting addiction and mental health issues after getting pregnant. That just wouldn’t have flown."

What a Thanksgiving gift! I have subscribed and will make the announcements manually. Have a happy one!

Meryl K. Evans said...
Great idea. The alltop feed confused my followers, so I had to stop it. This will work better.

Nov 27, 2008

Daniel Schildt said...
That "worst case" example was brilliant. :D

Janet said...
Great idea. Personal re-tweets or messages are better than the autofeed anyway. Have a happy Thanksgiving!

MiMi said...
Precisely the reason I didn't do the autoAlltopTweets. Definitely signing up for the emails. Terrific alternative.

Mr. Pain said...
Guy,
Great idea to use the social intelligence aspect of the media to filter and target!

Count me in.

Nov 27, 2008

Shirley de Rose said...
Count me in, too.

Brad Waller said...
Great idea. I have had a few confused followers wondering why I was talking about pregnancy!

Emanuele Strada said...
that's a great idea... especially for the ones like me that use twitter just to follow...
ciao!
emanuele

organic baby said...
If I'm none of the above, does that make me insensitive? ;) Well, ok, half Buddhist, but none of the rest!

Tom Nocera said...
I have watched Alltop grow explosively - as good ideas will do, no matter the state of the economy.
More important, Alltop has become positively addictive as an online resource, not only for me, but for The Whole Damn Net and has today been designated as "The Most Addictive Website" at http://www.TheWholeDamnNet.com
Also, a big Mahalo for adding the Your Future, Your Past link to the Genealogy page at Alltop.com
Cheers!

Nov 28, 2008

Thank you for this; as much as I adore Alltop.com, I still want to be selective regarding what I promote. Awesome!

styleprdiva said...
sounds fabulous love it and am now following as well ~

Simchabe said...
I'm not fond of any auto-twitter messages so super glad to see this option. I'm a HUGE alltop fan! All my news in one location - thank you =)

Susie Blackmon said...
I love everything Alltop and everything Guy Kawasaki.

Jason Genegabus said...
Guess it was more than just five people who complained about the multiple Tweets.

Glad to see you guys actually did something about it... this might save me from having to unfollow any more Alltop-lovers.

soapboxmom said...
I love Alltop and am happy to support you.

OK, i need some help. You all clearly understand how to create buzz for platforms and ideas that have and add value to our lives.

I have started a small online community, the purpose of which is to allow people and companies to freely share Culture, Knowledge and Experience - i guess you could say it is going to be like Facebook but based on WHAT you know, and what you want to know vs. WHO you know (and who you lost touch with for perfectly good reasons)

So, my question is this. How does one go about gaining "escape velocity" ??? We have around 300 users in our first 15 days of being ONLINE. I want to promote this community, but do not want to spam. I want to see user count grow, but need your thoughts on...DO you pay to advertise, or, do you trust that it will grow organically?

Again, I am not posting here to get free eyes - I honestly and earnestly would love feedback, advice, help, wisdom, harsh criticism, etc.

You all clearly "get it". Teach me.

Thanks

T.Rex

And you can PM me at trohrer@loudhive.com

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