MyBlogLog can be a great way to do research on quite a few things including…

  • Your social interaction
  • Your community interactions
  • What’s hot
  • Blog traffic research
  • Topic research

One of the things I really like is checking my own usage of social sites. On your home page you can see what you have bookmarked, blogs you have commented on, your latest blog posts, videos you have added and anything else that has changed on any of the sites you have added to your profile.

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Just click the new with then the me radio button. As you can see in the image it is showing a comment I made, a bookmark, a blog post and a tweet on Twitter. There is also an RSS subscription for this which would allow me to add the feed into my reader. Not something I would do for myself (I usually know what I have done – not always but most of the time ;) ) but I do use it for some of the other information.

The big thing I look for on this is how much of what I am doing is with others. After all social networks work best when you are sharing not just your stuff but others also. It is a reminder to me if I start becoming a me networker and not a networker.

Now if you change to view new in my neighborhood you will see what activities your community has and what they are posting, tweeting and bookmarking etc. This can be valuable to see new topics that are generating activity within your tribe. This is the one that I have added to my reader as I check the reader more often than I check in at MyBlogLog.

Clicking on Hot In MyCommunities will give you the top posts that people are viewing and what is going on in the community.

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Just another way to see what is popular within the areas you have shown interest.

Blog traffic research we touched upon in the previous post on setting up your tracking. This information lets you know what is working and what is not so you can work on improving your traffic and how you serve your community.

Finally there is topic research. Stick your topic in the search bar and you can get results like below. I just added tattoos to test.

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This has brought back a list of 73 people who have blogged on the subject and a listing of 160 different blogs. This will take a bit of time but some digging on a topic can help you find others you may want to follow on that topic and blogs that you may want to read and comment on.

This can be a great way to find these types of resources if you are going into a new niche. Now a caveat it will take a bit of time and effort to sort out the garbage from the worthwhile but if you add 10 potential places to comment and start a conversation it can be worth the effort.

So this gives you 5 different ways you can use MyBlogLog for research but understand that being active in more communities, having all of your social sites in your profile and being active make this more powerful. It is case where the more effort you put in the more valuable the results you will get from it.

As always your input and any tricks you care to share that have been overlooked are appreciated.

Mike Paetzold

 
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