We thought it was a nice play on words on the douchebags that we’ll be talking about (again, from both sides of the PR and blogging coin); and we thought it would catch people’s eyes. BlogWorld’s appeal is that it helps companies understand the blogging world, and the people that inhabit it. So when you ask a blogger to change their title, that’s like asking them to rewrite a blog post that attracted you to them in the first place. Insights bad choices blogworld 2011Which is kinda disappointing. Alas, not to be. C’est la vie. MORE >>

We’re in the middle of the Super Blog Age. These blogs grind out extraordinary content every day.  Every single one of the top multi-million pageview blogs and blogzines out there have these characteristics without fail. Their content provokes these sneezers to hit the retweet button and spread the blog’s content across the globe. Super Blogs deliver.  just discovered Expert Enough and I quickly saw Corbett Barr knew the Super Blog secret handshake.  I love it when blogs make it easy for me to know where they are coming from.  am too. justsayin. MORE >>

Why on earth should you be blogging for your business? Business Development blogging blogging tactics communication create value marketingYou need to do Twitter! And Facebook! And, and, and… Sorry, I am getting ahead of myself. am going to go on a short rant here, then get right down to the nuts and bolts of why this topic is so freaking important! Social [.]. MORE >>

Late last week, I was jazzed to have the opportunity to lead a Spin Sucks Pro webinar on the Art of Blogging (as opposed to the science and data of blogging). The webinar was an outline of one of the style chapters that will be published along with 20-30 other blog post styles that you can use as a framework. This will allow you to expand, experiment, and add variety to your blogging discipline. Seven Questions on Blogging. Q1: I currently don’t have a blog, but am seriously thinking about it. Blog every single day. A2: Great question. MORE >>

Talking recently with Cheryl Burgess ( @ckburgess )—partner and CMO at Blue Focus Marketing, a B2B social branding consultancy firm in Bridgewater, New Jersey; 2011 & 2010 winner of the Twitter Shorty Awards in Marketing; and author of the Blue Focus Marketing Blog —we were both struck by how many of the same people we know through social media (and we both learned about some interesting new people to follow as well). This list will be posted on Cheryl Burgess’ Blue Focus Marketing Blog.  Unofficially – friendly, smart, and writer of many highly bookmarkable blog posts. MORE >>