Journalistics Home About Subscribe Blogger Outreach vs. Media Relations by Jeremy Porter on September 30, 2010 I’ve seen a lot of buzz for blogger outreach lately. Is blogger outreach really a new service offering? While there are some general rules of media relations that work when targeting blogs, here is some advice specific to blogger outreach: Blog Targeting – research the right blogs for your need – do this way in advance. Don’t pitch bloggers that don’t write about your type of news. don’t think so. What do you think? MORE >>

August 25th, 2010 |Written By: Jay Baer | View Comments Tweet Today’s post is a collaboration with Clinton Bonner , community connectivity expert, futurist, and blogger at Everything to Everything. Starbucks could use their SDN to reinvent themselves as a key member of any local community, and not as a coffeehouse, but as the best-possible advertising platform available in every city and town in the country. link] [link] Alltop Social Media Is Starbucks the Most Dangerous Competitor to Facebook? Why would Starbucks need their own digital network? Plenty. link]. MORE >>

So you might be asking what more can be written about link building for bloggers? Bloggers have an advantage that static and retail websites don’t. Link-building strategies for bloggers. Then you will want to at least submit to quality ones like Alltop (free), Best of the Web Blogs (fee required), and Technorati (free). If you participate on any social media network, social bookmarking site, community, or forum, you will want to make sure that you have a link to your blog on that website in your profile. Join communities like My Blog Guest. MORE >>

CIThread – helps editors intelligently Curate for Communities. OneSpot – Tools for publishers aggregates RSS, Twitter, community ranking. Alltop – Limited blog aggregation. The Sun: how not to win friends or influence bloggers. Great picture and post on the Information Overload Paradox : The post talks about the issue of overload: I can certainly consume more content than I could two decades ago, but no matter how much content is available, I can’t consume much more. How do you do it and what tools are available to you? Aggregation. Filtering. Curation. Images? MORE >>

quite like it, although I didn’t really think I referred to Bloggers that much so find it interesting that they are such a huge part of the wordle. However, here is a wordle about my shiny blog. To Wordle your own site click here. Dan on A New Focus on Social Business Strategy. Powered by WordPress and Hybrid MORE >>