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How Checking Your Writing Makes You A Better Blogger

Taylor Marek

If you need to make changes, now is the time to do it before you publish it. Here are a couple tips to remember: 1. Solidify your thoughts By reading what you just wrote, you will be able to clarify your thoughts. It also confirms what you were thinking, and typically your mind and the words on the page will click together.

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Digital grassroots: the Internet fights back

Sherrilynne Starkie

It heard about many contentious issues from industry representatives but when the report was published, the public interest was entirely absent. It was during the 2006 election that first signs that a grassroots movement was taking hold were spotted, according to Geist. Nash won the riding.

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What Is A Blog? The Question That Won't Go Away

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While some may call me a traditionalist, I think there are certain aspects of online publishing that does identify something as a Blog, and they include: RSS feed. Journal like publishing design - meaning the content runs chronologically from newest to oldest. At the end of the day, Blogging is a publishing platform. publishing.

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What is the First Rule of Social Media?

Taylor Marek

I’ll publish the results in a future blog post for your enjoyment. Home About Contact Archives Testimonials Speaking Podcast Chat LIVE Social Media Vault My Inner Circle Plugins eBook Hire Me What is the First Rule of Social Media? January 9, 2010 by Taylor Marek I asked this question on Twitter: What is your answer?

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It's Official: Bloggers Are Recognized by the FTC

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They have published new rules covering paid reviews and celebrity endorsements. It will no doubt be a challenge to enforce this but the FTC recognizes what many of my blogger associates resist: that receiving compensation does affect coverage. I am all for co-creative collaborations between brands and bloggers.

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Blogging Is Dead (Again)

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Here's the main crux of the news item via the New York Times article: " The Internet and American Life Project at the Pew Research Center found that from 2006 to 2009, blogging among children ages 12 to 17 fell by half; now 14 percent of children those ages who use the Internet have blogs. " Blogging isn't dead. Plain and simple.

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Writing a Book

Taylor Marek

I’m not going to self-publish it, I plan on getting it to a publisher and go the more traditional route of writing and publishing a book. It has been on my mind a while, on and off since last year (2008). What would it be on you ask? It might be either New Media, Podcasting, or Young Entrepreneurship.

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