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10 Techniques to Get More Comments on Your Blog

ProBlogger

A Jakob Nielsen study once found that 90% of online community users are lurkers (read or observe without contributing) with only 9% of users contributing ‘a little’ and 1% actively contributing. This article was first published October 12, 2006 and updated September 22, 2022. Photo by Alexander Shatov on Unsplash.

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Tools do not a master make [redux]

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Re-printed below is a post of mine from August 2006, Tools do not a master make , that explores a similar theme. = = == ==. Don Norman , of the Nielsen Norman Group , has a different take on PowerPoint. In his essay In Defense of PowerPoint , Norman places the blame not on PowerPoint but on those who use it improperly.

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10 Techniques to Get More Comments on Your Blog

ProBlogger

A Jakob Nielsen study once found that 90% of online community users are lurkers (read or observe without contributing) with only 9% of users contributing ‘a little’ and 1% actively contributing. This article was first published October 12, 2006 and updated September 22, 2022. Photo by Alexander Shatov on Unsplash.

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7 Myths You Believe About Freelance Copywriters

Writtent Blog

Many of us remember SEO attempts around 2006, where many websites hosted just really awful content. Nielsen research has found that consumers are increasingly using content for decision-making, but only when it carries some expertise. It was often stuffed with keyboards, and just wasn’t informative or valuable. Image source.

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Twitter's Supposed Lack of Loyalty: It's “too” easy

Bare Feet Studios

Now is a good time to sign up to receive new articles by email as soon as they are published or subscribe to our RSS feed. Hear from Anamitra Bannerji of Twitter and Chris Abraham of AbrahamHarrison about how to use Twitter effectively in a professional context. Aloha, Share/Bookmark Thanks for reading!

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Social Media Research: Interview with Joel Rubinson of ARF - Part I

Diva Marketing Blog

Part 2 Interview with Joel Rubinson Sidebar : It's interesting to see how Joel's views and the perception of social media research differ in 2009 from the 2006 interview I had with Bill Neal , former chairman of the board of AMA. Others will be presented at our annual conference at the end of March.

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Best Social Media and Digital Marketing Research and Statistics of 2011, Part 2

Webbiquity SMM

Marketers, we’re told, need to think like publishers. Frequent best-of honoree Laurie Sullivan looks into a Nielsen report showing that in terms of time spent on the site, Facebook (yeah, I know, a shock) is the leader followed by Blogger, Tumblr, Twitter and LinkedIn. We’re all hungry for data.