Top 15 Ways to Get Noticed on Planet Lotus

Are you as perplexed as I am as to how your blog may get noticed on Planet Lotus?  Here’s a list of possibilities:

#15 – Use someone else’s name in your blog title
#14  – Post that you’ve achieved commando status of all the video games you play
#13  – Reference “conversations” you’ve “overheard” from “unnamed people
#12  – Post that another large customer is moving from Notes to Sharepoint
#11 – Declare that XPages is dead
#10 – Deny a rumor no-one knows of
#9  – Call out for the end of the Notes Workspace
#8  – Proclaim that something is IBM’s fault
#7  - Post “statistics” for the Exchange vs. Domino battle
#6  – Include the words/phrases: nude, naked, death, Apple or ASW in the title
#5  – Have a flaming, angry title
#4  – Proclaim that Notes is dead
#3 – Have Vowe link to you
#2  – Have Ed link to you
#1 – Cross link your blog to FB, Twitter, etc. and make sure the URL is via PlanetLotus so that all the RSS feeds and hits on all networks run up your hit totals.

But shouldn’t number #1 really be – Actually have good content? As the “hot blogs” really don’t matter to those folks who actually use the products and many of them don’t read PlanetLotus.  As a colleague said today – “a small number of noisy people mostly control the message – which is quite the echo chamber.”