Designers’ Social Media Partnership

We all know that after writing a great post and hitting the publish 
button we’re not even halfway finished!

There can be a seemingly endless marketing job to do by submitting a 
blog article to various social bookmarking sites like Digg, 
StumbleUpon and Delicious. We can also choose to submit to social 
networking sites like LinkedIn and Facebook. Also, for designers and 
web developers there are several niche bookmarking sites springing up 
like DesignBump, DesignFloat, Dzone, etc. The good thing about the lesser known niche bookmarking sites is that only a few votes will put you to the top of the page and can get you great traffic.

But after we’ve done this there is no way of knowing that our efforts 
have paid off! The article will sometimes sit on the bookmarking site with just 
one vote and therefore unseen by the majority of the 
site’s visitors.

Here’s where the Designers’ Social Media Partnership Google Group comes in…

Promote your fantastic posts!

After you have written your blog post you can post the link and ask people to vote, bump, 
thumbs up, or generally big up your post. Maybe you can provide the 
links to the various voting sites so people can just click away very quickly to promote your 
article. I’ll write an example post to the group to show you what I mean by this.

Using the universal “I’ll scratch your back…” rule, people will be 
compelled to vote for your articles if you’ve voted for theirs. You 
may like to send them a private mail through the group to let them know.

Joining the group is easy with your Google ID and posting on the group is as easy as writing an email. You are, of course, completely at liberty to vote for the articles you 
consider good enough.

Remember, this isn’t confined to designers or developers, any blogger who wishes to promote their latest masterpieces can join the group.

Happy blogging, happy voting and I hope you enjoy being a member of 
this group! Thanks to Brandon Cox for this idea.