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The Fastest and Slowest News Sites in 2012

Adam Sherk

Here are the fastest – and the slowest – news sites in 2012: Home Page Page Speed Score. April 2012. T-13 The Wall Street Journal 88. April 2012 Page Speed Score. 19 The Wall Street Journal 88 84 4.8%. For the sake of simplicity I pulled PageSpeed Online scores for the home page of each news site. 4 TechCrunch 91.

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How To Start A Blog In 2012

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Starting a Blog in 2012 is a little bit more complex. For this post, I'll define a Blog as an online journal that you either house on your own server or is being served via the Blogging platform's servers. How to start a Blog in 2012: Choose the right platform. online journal. Starting a Blog is easy. Read first.

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Bloggers: Would You Rather Be First Or Right?

SocMed Sean

So, can we just apply the same tenets of journalism to blogging? I’d love to hear your feedback on whether you’d rather be first or right when breaking news on your blog. To add to this, do journalistic tenets of ethics, source validation, etc… apply to blogging?

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Google+ Engagement for News Sites: Top Performers and One-Year Growth Rates

Adam Sherk

10 The Wall Street Journal 72.8 As of today Bloomberg News and The Telegraph have not made a new post since July 2012, and the most recent post on the CBS News page is dated September 2012. 24 The Wall Street Journal 17,910 6,927 6,312 31,149. 19 The Wall Street Journal 58.84 1 Mashable 239.86 2 BBC News 147.34

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4 Reasons to Use Social Enterprise Networks for Business

Mindjumpers

Upstart Business Journal, the Austin Business Journal and the North Bay Business Journal. Before joining Software Advice in 2012, she worked in sales management and advertising. Tweet Guest post written by Ashley Furness, who has spent the last six years reporting and writing business news and strategy features.

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67% of Consumers Are More Likely To Purchase From Mobile-Friendly Sites

The Realtime Report

adults aged 25-54, conducted by Sterling Brands and SmithGeiger in Q3 2012; plus 40 consumers’ mobile journals and a 32-consumer focus group ( AdWeek ). The data comes from interviews with 1,088 U.S.

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20 Bloggers to Watch in 2012

ProBlogger

She has a unique work history, starting out in traditional journalism and evolving until she landed a job editing a popular blog. I think we will learn a lot from her experiments in digital publishing, especially during the latter part of 2012. In 2012, she’ll be just as busy. Colin Wright. Colin Wright intrigues me.

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