Triberrium

Delirium synonyms: confusion, disorientation, restlessness… these all relate to my feelings about Triberr right now. It seems like it could be a really cool marketing tool. It seems like it could be a fun way to meet and interact with other writers. But I don’t know. I don’t know how to use it, if I’m doing it right, if I’m making a fool of myself and digging myself into a hole of embarrassment which I will never climb out of. I just don’t know and I’m not entirely sure how to find out.

I’ve basically got a whole lot of reading and trial and error to work through. But, I thought I’d share with you what I’ve discovered so far, because, as I said, this could be something fabulous.

Triberr is a way to promote your blog and get followers. So, yes, you first need a blog, and to post to it regularly – but you should probably be doing that anyway if you want to promote your work. You also need a Twitter account because Triberr somehow (haven’t figured this out yet) posts tweets to your Twitter account. I’m not sure exactly what it tweets, something along the lines of blog promotions for the blogs of other people in your tribe.

Now, I’m all for that. I’m very big into promoting other people, people I’m friends with. If you read my tweets, you’ll see that almost all of them are just that, promotion of other people and my own blog. I should probably tweet more content, but I just don’t believe that other people would find what I do in my every day life all that interesting.

The only draw-back, I can see, to Triberr is that it’s going to give me a ton more blogs to read and I don’t have the time. I’m stretched as it is with my writing, marketing, teaching and family. How would I ever have time to read so many blogs as well? It’s a quandary. But it might just be worth trying this out to find out if it really works.

I think it works best if you get an invitation from someone who is already leading a tribe. Somehow when I signed up, I started my own tribe, so if you want to join just email me and I’ll invite you to my tribe and we’ll figure this out together.