The Enlargement of the Online Footprint: Articles Mentioning bkmacdaddy

Last week I started writing a new series of articles about building your online presence. Coincidentally (or not) there have been a few articles popping up here and there mentioning bkmacdaddy – a flattering yet timely example of the results that can come from working at enlarging your online footprint. The powerful potential of the viral nature of the interwebs is available to each of us and can be utilized in countless ways to grow awareness for your campaign, your business, your product(s) and/or your reputation.

So I thought it would be a good idea to share these examples with you. I have to admit, I am a little proud of these recent developments and humbled by the fact that people took the necessary time and effort to actually include me in their blogs, websites, and recommendations. Most of all I am excited to see some tangible results of the last several months’ work I have been putting in to build my own online presence. I hope you can take a moment and visit each of these articles to see for yourself. My sincerest thanks to the authors for their kindness and efforts.

PRSarahEvans.com

I just found out about this one last night. It’s an article collecting votes for the 2009 Top 50 Tweeples to Follow (“Tweeples” means “people on Twitter”) and someone nominated me! @maheshcha tweeted last night that he was voting for me on this site, so I clicked on his link to find that I had been nominated amongst a list of pretty amazing people on Twitter. What a pleasant and flattering surprise!

clutterlovers

My new friend @countzeero wrote a post recommending some of his favorites to follow on Twitter and cited my recommendation posts as the inspiration for his own as well as included me in his list!

Printed Proof

Another new friend, Christian (@printedproof) of printedproof.com, started a weekly series on his blog that includes recommendations of people to follow on Twitter. Like Count Zeero above, he mentions me as the inspiration for his new series and also recommends me to his readers.

tweetfeat.com

This is a cool site that does an interview each week of a Twitter person they choose to feature. @DesignerFoo asked me to participate in week 9!

Here In HP – leoraw.com

I am always floored when someone calls me their ‘mentor’ in anything. It seems to be happening more often lately but I am still surprised that people look up to me in that way! I’m still figuring this stuff out myself! But I’ve heard it said that you only have to be one step ahead of someone else in order to be a leader. So I guess I have to be resolved to the fact that there are those that I can help by sharing the things I am learning. Leora (@leoraw) is one such person, and she wrote about me on her blog as she referenced my article about using Mr. Tweet instead of #FollowFridays on Twitter.

z3bb.net

This is the blog of a Twitter friend from the Netherlands who goes by the handle of @z3bbster. He wrote a recommendation list and also later references my Mr. Tweet article.

monoexpression.com

This is a VERY cool site put together by Graham Smith (@imjustcreative), an amazingly talented designer who I highly respect. To be honest, this one was self-submitted. But I loved the idea of the project and wanted to be a part. Check it out – it’s a great idea!

Although I am very proud of these mentions, my real hope is that this article will help you see how working to build your online presence can become viral and raise awareness of your name and brand. These inbound links also increase the search engine optimization of your website, another element of growing your internet footprint. So hopefully you need no further convincing and are already working on your own process. Let’s go!