On Sunday night, August 9, at 8 p.m. Central, Mach Collier hosted "How to Maximize Your Blog's SEO Efforts with Lee Odden (@leeodden)." The complete transcript contained over 700 posts. Below is a condensed version of that transcript organized by general topics. Continue reading this post to learn more about the "how" and "why" I culled the data in this manner. Is this useful? Please use the comment form or tweet me (@zkellyq) to let me know.
This was my second #blogchat event and it was just as lively the first which featured @AmyAfrica on how to use your blog to generate sales and leads. I continue to explore the best tools for extracting the valuable content exchanged in the chats. I came into the SEO chat using only Twitter and quickly found that to be a laborious way to keep up with streaming content. I'm going back to using Tweetdeck for the next chat (see earlier post for info on the tools I used for @AmyAfrica chat).
That said, it's still a challenge to capture all the good stuff from a blogchat. Mack and other bloggers provide terrific recaps, but if you're really detail oriented like I am, then you may want to dig deeper into the content. This time I took a data management approach and pulled the transcript into a spreadsheet (I use OpenOffice Calc).
My goal was to delete redundant and non-relative chatter to produce a content-specific transcript. I culled the tweets and added categories so I could sort the data by topic. There is till some redundancy, as there were over 700 posts to scan, however, if you want to review by topic, this should help.
Condensed #Blogchat Transcript, Click here: Blogchat SEO with Lee Odden 080909.
If you participated in #blogchat and tweeted something that I overlooked as a critical piece of content, please feel free to add it as a comment to this post. I welcome your comments and I'd like to know if having a condensed transcript in PDF format is useful. If not, what format would work better?
Related articles:
#Blogchat August 9, 2009: SEO/Lee Odden
@mackcollier (Monday's recap): #Blogchat 8-09 Recap; How to Maximize Your Blog's SEO Efforts With @LeeOdden
@zkellyq: Optimize for People First: Lee Odden on SEO
#Blogchat July 26, 2009 Sales & Leeds/Amy Africa
@zkellyq: How I Survived Blogchat with Amy Africa
Complete transcript of the blogchat, click here now!
@mackcollier: Mack's top 10 take-aways: #Blogchat 7-26 Recap; How to Use Your Blog to Generate Sales and Leads With @AmyAfrica
@zkellyq: 11 take-aways, posted on Handshake 2.0: Drink Up - The Morning After Blogchat with Amy Africa
@stuartfeigley: Boosting leads and sales with your business blog.
Fascinating post on a complex subject. Looks very difficult. Not sure I'm up to it yet and am grateful for your synthesis.
Posted by: Anne Clelland | 08/12/2009 at 07:55 PM
Thank you for commenting. Anne, You're so right, it is a complex subject. There's a lot to process in a #blogchat. It's like 2 hours of several hundred people talking all at once. The data has to be compartmentalized before it can be synthesized. At least, that's how I see it. The topics let people choose what they want to review. Some really great advice was posted in Sunday's chat.
-Kelly
Posted by: Z. Kelly Queijo | 08/12/2009 at 09:36 PM