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What is Reddit, and Should Your Brand Be Using It?

Hootsuite

Every thread has an OP (original poster) who started it. Reddit launched in 2005 and sold to Conde Nast less than a year later for $10 million USD. Users create posts in topic-based communities — called subreddits — and interact in comment threads. Users can also vote content by others “up” or “down” the algorithm.

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Why I Attend Seth Godin’s Live Events

Debbie Weil

I’ve attended a handful of Seth’s live events over the past decade (cf Why I like Seth Godin’s quirky workshops from 2005) and always come away recharged. Posted via email from Debbie Weil’s Posterous. Today’s was dubbed a practicum on the future of book publishing. Click away quietly if you wish.

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7 Powerful Non-SEO Reasons to Try Guest Posting

ProBlogger

My first experience of ‘guest posts’ was back in 2005 here on ProBlogger when I decided to take a month off blogging to have a holiday with Vanessa and wanted to keep posting on the blog. Here’s my post announcing the guest posters. I mentioned before that one of the first guest posters on ProBlogger landed a dream job as a result.

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248: 6 Places to Find Writers to Hire for Your Blog

ProBlogger

Six places you can find writers for your blog: Guest Posters: If you have published guest posts in the past, take a look at them. If one of the guest posters stands out, contact them. In fact, I think it was probably around 2005 that I hired my first blog writer and she also became an editor for one of my early blogs.

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Twitter Joins Us on Verio | Bare Feet Blog

Bare Feet Studios

For a company like Twitter that has quickly grown into one of the poster services for “Web 2.0&# and community, they do an absolutely terrible job of communicating with their own community of loyal users. So far it’s all just rumor and speculation. And our industry does love its rumor and speculation. And I agree with Roxanne.

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The Team Behind My Blogs: From Solo Blogger to Business

ProBlogger

September 2005: I published a post here on ProBlogger talking about how I’d reached the “six-figure&# level of income from blogging. I guess the transition of moving to more of a business model began with the starting of b5media —a blog network that I began with a small group of other bloggers in 2005.

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Digital and Dollars – Successfully Adding Online Marketing to Your.

Convince & Convert

It’s a journey that’s similar to my own when I merged my digital agency (Mighty Interactive) to Off Madison Ave in 2005. This session included much of what Indra and her partner Jon Bailey have been able to accomplish in the last two years, moving from a primarily traditional agency to a new media powerhouse.

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