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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. Geist and some prominent bloggers criticized Bulte for what looked to them to be a clear conflict of interest. March 2012: Ottawa’s Twitter top 20. Michael Geist (Photo credit: Wikipedia).

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WordPress Feature Review: New Features You Missed in 2012, Part 2

ProBlogger

was the second and final major WordPress release of 2012. However, many bloggers were surprised that the link manager has been removed from the default version of WordPress (though most agree removing this was a good decision). The days of bloggers inserting dozens of images into blog posts one by one are over.

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WordPress Feature Review: New Features You Missed in 2012, Part 1

ProBlogger

Today I’d like to walk you through the new features which were introduced in 2012, in WordPress 3.4 I’ll be focusing on the features that are most relevant to bloggers and explaining how they can help you. Twitter is one of the most powerful tools available to bloggers. The three major releases in 2011 were 3.1

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Melbourne Food and Wine Blogging Event

ProBlogger

I’ve been excitedly sitting on this one for a while now and am relieved to finally announce a new ProBlogger event that is coming up for Melbourne Food and Wine Bloggers (and anyone else who wants to travel to Melbourne for an evening). Here are the event details: Date : Tuesday 17 July 2012. Time : 6pm arrival.

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277: The Secret to Building a Better Blog

ProBlogger

You don’t have to take the course to become an action-oriented blogger. My name is Darren Rowse and I’m the founder of ProBlogger, which is a site for bloggers and prebloggers designed to help them to start and grow profitable blogs. We are doing it as a group where we can support you and get bloggers interacting together.

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253: I Guarantee This Will Improve Your Blog

ProBlogger

Those who already have a blog; beginners to advanced bloggers; and groups. It really came from, I think it was back 2007 or 2006 even, where I came up with this idea for a 31-day blog post series. It went crazy, bloggers from around the world, thousands and thousands of them took this challenge that I put out there over a month.

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What Is Cyber Liability, and Why Should You Care?

ProBlogger

Recently, here on Problogger , I was discussing the topic of privacy breach notification and how it affects us as bloggers. Fast-forward to 2012 and the law’s rapidly catching up, if it hasn’t already caught up. The article goes on to say that by 2007, 106 lawsuits had been brought against bloggers, up from 12 in 2003.