Tag: Twitter

  • Testing New Social Links

    Thought I would join the world of bloggers who have social media buttons on their posts.  But of course I had to make some of my own for my favorites.  Many of you already have seen my Tweet This button to allow readers add any article to Twitter (directions here).  Well my other two favs are Digg and StumbleUpon so I created those as well.

    Now in order to catch all the remaining ones, since I am hosting on wordpress.com there are some limitations.  A guy named Hillel Storer created GetSocial to easily handle this for any post.  Click here for an overview and click here for the latest download.

    Let me know what you think and if I screwed up any of the coding.

    BTW…I have gotten requests about using my Tweet This button in the past and I there may be some for these new ones.  I have no problem with anyone using them on their own site with one simple condition.  You must add my site to your blog roll.

    Follow me via TWITTER updates. or you can…

    Tweet This Blog Post!    Add to Digg

    Add to FacebookAdd to DiggAdd to Del.icio.usAdd to StumbleuponAdd to RedditAdd to BlinklistAdd to TwitterAdd to TechnoratiAdd to FurlAdd to Newsvine

  • Bearman Charity Drive Update

    Last week I started the Charity Challenge that allows you to do things like blogroll me, follow me on twitter, tweet about the challenge or post a blog about it.  Details here.  Any of those activities would raise money for the local FreeStore Foodbank to help those in need.

    Well week one was a great success and I thank all of you for your efforts.  Keep it going because the challenge runs till the end of June.  Here is a list of all the activity that was generated thanks to your efforts.  Please let me know if I missed anyone on this list.

    $10 for Posting about the Challenge:

     $10 for Adding me to their Blog Roll:

    $2 for Following me on Twitter: (if there were more that followed b/c of the challenge let me know)

    $2 for each day You Tweet about the Challenge (up to 5x):

     For a Week One Grand Total of $156.  Thank you all.

    If I inadvertantly missed your efforts from last week, please indicate in the comments section so I can correct. 

     

     
    Follow me via TWITTER updates.

    Don’t forget your efforts cost me money… so spread the word about my charity challenge. Click the image below for details.

    Bearman,Charity

  • Beartoons Charity Drive

    No this isn’t one of those things where I ask you to support my site with a donation or buy raffle tickets

    Readers from early on here will remember back in November I reported on some local bloggers (Cincinnati Blog and Cincinnati Beacon) throwing down challenges to other bloggers to raise money for the FreeStore FoodBank.  The FreeStore does a lot of great things locally to help families in need.

    With so many people out of jobs, I have been fortunate to keep working.   So while I am by no means a rich guy, I felt it was important to do something to help others.  The FreeStore is a great beneficiary because donors tend to forget about them unless there is a holiday coming up.  So in honor of the launch of my new website URL, beartoons.com, and the celebration of another decade type birthday milestone this month, I am issuing this challenge to help raise money.  I will donate the indicated amount for each thing that you do in the month of June:

    $10 – Add http://beartoons.com to your blog roll (for those who don’t already have it)

    $10 – Blog about my challenge to your readers and link back to this entry in your post – http://beartoons.com/2009/06/01/beartoonscharitydrive/

    $2 – Follow me via TWITTER updates. (if you aren’t already)

    $2 – For each Tweet that you include a link back to this challenge (once per day up to 5x)

    If you add me to your blog roll, include this challenge in a post, or start following me via twitter because of this post please indicate in the comments.  If you tweet, just make sure to put @bearmancartoons somewhere in it and I’ll be able to account for it.

    I am going to give a minimum of $100 so if no one takes me up on the challenge, at least someone will benefit with a maximum I am looking to do is $500, which I hope you will help me achieve.  I’ll post a weekly update of the money raised and who did what to raise the money with links back to your site if applicable.

    Bearman,Charity

  • Beartoons.com instead of bearmancartoons.wordpress.com

    Some of you may know that I have been doing my cartoons for about 3 years at the Cincinnati Beacon website.  Wanting to expand beyond just simply posting editorial cartoons, I started this blog about six months ago.  Knowing that I could still host my blog here but have my own domain name, I went to register bearmancartoons.com. 

    What???? It’s not available.  Some dude had taken it six months ago.  I think he found me on the web and thought I would be an upcoming famous sensation that would make him rich by owning the domain.  All he had done is bought the domain and parked it so don’t bother seeing if he has a tribute to me on there. Well the jokes on you, because you are still paying for the domain and I am still not famous.

    So I waited six months until his domain was set to expire and of course he renewed it.  Of course I could have gone with bearmancartoons.net but eh.

    So lucky for you and me, I got an even better URL – BEARTOONS.COM.   Think how many characters I am saving on twitter posts. 

    Now for those of you linking to me, don’t worry, bearmancartoons.wordpress.com still works.  However, eventually I may want to put advertising on my site so I would have to host it elsewhere.   If you are one of those who have kindly linked to me in the past, if you have time to update your links to point to Beartoons.com (you can leave the title of the blog as Bearman Cartoons), I would appreciate it.

    Follow me via TWITTER updates. or you can…
    Tweet This Blog Post!
    …just Tweet this post (click the image)

  • How to make a Tweet This Blog link using an Image

    So some of you have been wondering how I was able to make an image link on my blog that allows my readers to click on it and it automatically creates a completed Tweet in Twitter account.

    For example if you click this image:

    Tweet This Blog Post!

    It should open up Twitter in a new window with a Tweet about the post already completed. It looks something like this:

    Bearman Example Post on Twitter

    Now I looked around on the web for something that would do this more automatically but either, you had to to download something, they were too confusing, or they just didn’t work when your blog is hosted on WordPress.com like mine is.

    [sourcecode language=’html’]


    Tweet This Blog Post!

    [/sourcecode]

    So once you have copied the above in the bottom of your post there are three things to change:

    1. Change @BearmanCartoons to @whatever your twitter name is
    2. Change “Creating a Tweet This Blog Link” to the title of your blog post
    3. Change the URL link to your specific post from mine of “http://bearmancartoons.wordpress.com/2009/05/06/tweet-this-image/” If you are using wordpress.com there is a permalink url right below the blog title entry box.

    Don’t change the last URL which links to the image (I have changed the wrong one before) unless you are using your own image. And depending on the length of your URL, you may need to use a site like http://www.tinyurl.com to make it a workable link with fewer characters.

    Let me know if something isn’t clear in the instructions or if you have trouble with any of the links.  Would love to know if you find it useful too.

    Follow me via TWITTER updates.

  • Bearman Cartoon: Twit Talks

    So I am known (at least by the few of you that read this) as a Hack Cartoonist.  Well now I can add Hack Animator to my list of things.  As some of you have read, I have been working on some things for a new website called TheGloomers.  It has now in a soft launch that any of you can join and talk about things on your mind.  If you do join, make sure to comment and laugh at all my posts so I get lots of credit.

    Anyway even before then I started working on my first animation that I thought would work well with the site.  Still working out the details on getting my animated/cartoon stuff shown there but thought I wouldn’t let you wait any longer to see my first effort called Twit Talks.

    Be sure to answer the poll question and Tweet (or Twit) all your friends to look at and answer the poll question.  

       

     

  • Twitter screws up your relationships

    See if my previous post wasn’t enough…USA Today has an article in todays paper talking about how people rely too much on social networks like Twitter and Facebook while ignoring the people sitting right in front of them. 

    I love the line:

    As it turns out, some celebrity Twitterers — Britney Spears, 50 Cent, Kanye West, Barack Obama — have hired ghostwriters to supply their tweets because they’re just too busy

    Come on!  Really!  Are you that impressed with yourself that you need someone else to make your life sound more interesting than it is.  Read the article here.