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Blog Design for ROI Rule #3: Shower Attention and Appreciation On Your Community

ProBlogger

Awards, badges, and recognition. Since you want to encourage high quality participation, as well as helping people understand why they should visit a particular member’s profile page instead of clicking elsewhere, give your members titles (or “badges”) and display these alongside members’ profiles.

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Cyberbullying and blogs – a case study Mumbrella

Laurel Papworth

Often, bullies use it to exclude the victim from a social circle for reasons such as looking different, being gay, being intelligent or gifted, or having special needs or disabilities (Shariff and Gouin, 2005, p.3-4). NOTE: for overseas readers, Tim Burrowes is a journalist, ex-editor of B&T magazine and others I guess and now a blogger.

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The Future of Blogging: I Had to Tell You This

Viper Chill

The magazine industry is crumbling. Though both sites have been around since 2005, TechCrunch quickly established itself as the industry leader, with founder Michael Arrington’s personal rants and opinions gaining attention around Silicon Valley and beyond.

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How to Systematically Build a Mountain of Links

ProBlogger

Its personal data from the life of Nicholas Felton, a designer and data guy, who’s been cranking out these reports since 2005. Distilled’s SEO Guide to Creating Viral Linkbait and Infographics and Smashing Magazine ’s The Death of the Boring Blog Post are also linkable assets. The same is true about SEOmoz’s annual ranking reports.

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