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Digital grassroots: the Internet fights back

Sherrilynne Starkie

Yesterday, Michael Geis t presented a keynote address to the IABC 2012 Canada Business Communicators’ Summit which was held in Ottawa. It started in 2004 when a legislative committee held a series of hearings on digital copyright reform. March 2012: Ottawa’s Twitter top 20. Michael Geist (Photo credit: Wikipedia).

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Get Your 2nd Edition Copy of 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Today (for 25% Off)

ProBlogger

Most bloggers go through periods where they either lack motivation, get distracted or suffer from blogger disillusionment. This is why I created 31 Days to Build a Better Blog – and why today we’re launching the 2nd edition version of it – freshly updated and revised for 2012! Updated for 2012.

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#MySMCStory: Social Media Club and Me

Ari Herzog

Eight years after building my first website, I began blogging 2004 on a now-deleted LiveJournal community. I’d originally been hired as their corporate blogger. In 2012, again, I have the honor of serving as President to a larger and increasingly passionate group of leaders in the social and digital space. What’s yours?

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10 Popular Affiliate Programs for Small and Medium-sized Blogs

ProBlogger

As we’ve already seen today , affiliate marketing is a relatively trouble-free way for bloggers and other website owners to earn money. The network made the 2012 Blue Book of Top 20 Affiliate Networks, which stated regarding them, “They are courteous, helpful, and point you in the right direction.” ShareASale.

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How to Grow Your Fitness Blog to 100,000 Monthly Visitors in Less than a Year

ProBlogger

A screenshot from semrush, showing the growth of traffic since 2012. The blog is caloriesecrets.net , it was established in April 2012 and by the end of April 2013, monthly traffic from Google was 102,944. This is part of your job as a blogger, it’s not an optional task. So, let’s get started. Build a community around your blog.

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All ProBlogger are $10 for the Next 10 Days Only

ProBlogger

What’s made the last decade all the more satisfying to me is that I’ve been able to bring others along on the journey of making money through blogging – through starting ProBlogger in 2004. This new eBook is all about helping bloggers who are in the first weeks of their blogging to get started on the right foot.

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A Review of Google Social Media Tools

Idaconcpts

This was just a little bit less than 3 years earlier than the founding date of Facebook: February 4, 2004. The service allowed users to publicly share postings from other Google products such as YouTube and Blogger and non-Google ones such as Twitter and Flickr. informative infographics) to attract visitors to your site.

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