Kikolani

MAY 1, 2011

I started out on sites by photo bloggers I met at a photowalk in downtown Phoenix and branched out from there with people in their comments and on their blogrolls. In just a few weeks, I have found a lot of great photo bloggers to interact with. I also generally include the blogger’s Twitter handle in that tweet.

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Kikolani

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

If you are a blogger trying to make money online and the recommended powerful ways to make money with advertising, affiliate marketing, and creating products is not working out for you, then you need to focus on doing something you’re already probably good at – creating content. Become a Paid Contributor.

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 23, 2010

PR, social media, and news articles I’ve found interesting, for example. And my guest bloggers, both frequent and infrequent. I’m pleased to tell you that I did, indeed, go eat a dosa that day. Now, about two and a half years later, I talk about a lot of other stuff. I’ve used it to find sources and new handbags.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Five easy steps to customizing your 404 page, assuming you’re using WordPress (you in Blogger, or something, I ain’t got nothing for you). You know, when I was trying to figure out this 404 thing, I looked at the error pages of many of the "top" bloggers and I was amazed at how many of them had a generic 404 page.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 6, 2011

That’s what this article is about. Bloggers everywhere need to rethink their approaches: display advertising needs reinvention: who’s it working for? As a blogger, you need to make some serious strategic calls on where to put your focus because content-making is heavy going. Old models are struggling. Why listen to me?

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Waxing UnLyrical

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

But look at what he says when examining what someone wrote in an article entitled “public relations comes of age&# : Besides not knowing the difference between public relations and publicity (see Seth Godin’s definition here ), the author clearly missed the boat by thinking public relations measurement is based on WOM and media mentions.

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Why, sometimes, steps are not OK The title of this post, if you couldn’t detect it, is a play on articles that follow a certain naming pattern: ### [NOUN - plural, syn. Or “Turn your articles into downloadable reports/ebooks.&# They lecture: “Send an IM to your friends and mention your website to them.&#

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 14, 2011

I have an account and tried to use it then settled on old blogger for my biz blog because it was easier even if it has less versatility. Mark as read Approve comment Howie, Ive never really tried Blogger - went straight to WordPress, and its so easy. And my guest bloggers, both frequent and infrequent. Read All About It!

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Kikolani

JUNE 15, 2010

In the last few months, I have had the privilege of becoming a regular contributor on several multi-author blogs such as Search Engine Journal , Famous Bloggers , Social Media Examiner , Search Engine Watch , and Stay on Search. HootSuite for Bloggers. Twitter: RT @kikolani Best Practices for Collaborative Blog Groups [link] #blogging.

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Gresham said: RT @Sisarina: When The Media Plays Scrooge [link] #metrocarols #socialmedia /via @shonali <-cute article! And my guest bloggers, both frequent and infrequent. This post was mentioned on Twitter by Shonali Burke, Melanie Spring, SarahSkerik, Tina, John D. Gresham and others. thanks for the … [.] Read All About It!

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

As you continue to hone your craft (as I try to do), here are some of the exercises I put my writing (and those of my guest bloggers) through on a daily basis, to see if it looks as attractively as it (I think) reads. And my guest bloggers, both frequent and infrequent. But hey, it’s never too late to start, right?

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 18, 2011

A Better Blogroll If you like highlighting other bloggers on your site via a blogroll, you will probably find that as you add more and more to them, it becomes a huuge list. I did this because as more guest bloggers have come on board and the categories on WUL have increased, this menu started looking really untidy. Read All About It!

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Mark as read Approve comment Awesome article! And my guest bloggers, both frequent and infrequent. Comment as pts moderator Elvin Westler Getting info Pending approval share On Facebook On Twitter flag Delete Hide Unhide Ban user New! Your style is so much better compared to most other writers. Reply Rate Up div.livefyre-comment).removeClass(livefyre-hidden)"

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Kikolani

JUNE 27, 2011

There may also be times where you want to only share writing by you, and if you have a lot of guest bloggers on your site as well as guest posts on other sites, having a full RSS feed for your blog won’t do. Just one of the many reasons I think LinkedIn is a great social network for bloggers ! Creating a Custom RSS Feed.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

His interviews, along with the MBC Special episode, were featured on countless Kpop blogs; two articles on the Korean online community Soompi had 118 comments altogether, a majority of which were positive. And my guest bloggers, both frequent and infrequent. Read All About It! Greenbanana - Heather Yaxley Jon (Newman)'s PR 1.5

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Waxing UnLyrical

AUGUST 25, 2010

And that led to the article. Here are five productivity tools I really like; a couple that I included in the aforementioned article, and a couple more. And my guest bloggers, both frequent and infrequent. Cha-cha-change Of course, things have changed a lot in just a few years. If you haven’t tried them yet, have a go.

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Kikolani

JANUARY 16, 2011

This will usually lead to those bloggers coming back to your site and engaging with you in your blog as well. Question: I still don’t understand how much revenue a semi-succesful blogger should expect to make let’s says 6 months in? Question: What is a good way to feature key bloggers at a foodie type event?

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Waxing UnLyrical

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Heres the Wikipedia article for YouTube Live: [link] And the channel featuring the full live show and highlights: [link] Reply Rate Up div.livefyre-comment).removeClass(livefyre-hidden)" And my guest bloggers, both frequent and infrequent. I think its so exciting to see a culture has developed around this. Read All About It!

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Mark as read Approve comment As a PR student I have been reading your blog for quite some time and found you articles interesting as well as helpful for my PR course. And my guest bloggers, both frequent and infrequent. Reply Rate Up div.livefyre-comment).removeClass(livefyre-hidden)" I am now a Follower of your blog.

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Kikolani

JANUARY 26, 2010

Blogging Tips for Serious Bloggers. The presentation included great tips for both beginning to advanced bloggers. Since you can’t send identical tweets in 24 hours, try writing three different headlines for your post so you can have three unique tweets back to your article. Social Media ROI.

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The Way of the Web

APRIL 7, 2011

If you’re interested in playing around with data and search, then it’s definitely worth checking out, but the important thing for this article is in the picture: It’s a picture of a T-Shirt sent to me by Blekko. Say 25% of the T-shirt recipients are like me and have a blog.

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 21, 2010

There are several other options, such as Flickr, Tumblr, WordPress, Blogger, etc… even Ping.fm. I was so disgusted that I posted a link to my post (because it was one of the first from the "PR world," I believe) and to my BNET article, which had a slightly different bent, to give my comments additional context.

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 4, 2010

Why Digital Death Sucks – This is a thought provoking article from Shonali Burke on the campaign where celebrities stopped Tweeting until they raised $1M. And my guest bloggers, both frequent and infrequent. Read All About It! Greenbanana - Heather Yaxley Jon (Newman)'s PR 1.5 Well, perhaps sometimes those of my dog, Suzy Q.

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Viper Chill

MARCH 1, 2010

Feedburner If you’re a blogger and you’re not using Feedburner, I first of all want to know where you’ve been, and secondly need to say that you have been missing out. Postrank I have been using Postrank Analytics for about 3 weeks now and find it really impressive. If so, then Delicious may be for you.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 27, 2011

If you want more than a hope in hell of being a possible source for an article, you have to reel the reporter in. This means actually giving them what they’ll use in the article before it ever gets to the interview stage. Which is why it frustrates me that so many people who work in media/blogger relations still dont get it.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 25, 2011

Walking the transparency talk I WAS going to write about something to do with online integrity, but, like many well-meaning bloggers, I got side-tracked by my Twitter feed. The article that held my attention involved my favorite online shopping site – Etsy.com, and a particular seller of offensive greeting cards. Read All About It!

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Ari Herzog

MARCH 7, 2011

I have a nice list of users who regularly ask me for votes on social sites or retweets, and I generally accommodate them, assuming it is a good article. I wrote about Kristi one year ago when she single-handedly introduced me to 15 bloggers and readers in her community and I am writing about the goddess again right now.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

collecting media coverage, putting it into a database, matching the articles and posts up with other metrics, etc.). Aggregation and de-duplication : crawling web data, aggregating multiple media databases, removing spam and duplicate articles 2. And my guest bloggers, both frequent and infrequent. Read All About It!

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Viper Chill

MAY 6, 2010

Though my biggest feature (in-depth articles) is my biggest flaw (not needing to cover a topic again) I was able to come up with dozens of post ideas after one quick brainstorming session. These pages show the most viewed articles that the StumbleUpon audience voted for and enjoyed.

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Kikolani

JUNE 28, 2013

Here are some of the best articles I have seen on Google+ , retweeted on @kikolani , and read in RSS subscriptions this week. 3 Marketing Tools I Miss (and Their Alternatives) – If you used PostRank, Formulists, or Google Reader, here are the best alternatives. This Week on Kikolani. Fetching Friday'

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

and Postrank, and Tweetmeme and Topsy and Facebook Insights and about 1,000 other tools you can use to precisely measure social media success, there is literally no excuse to not ALWAYS BE TESTING. There’s an optimal time of day and day of week to tweet. There’s a way to get your Facebook update seen in more news feeds.

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Waxing UnLyrical

SEPTEMBER 4, 2010

Nice article, compelled me to comment, even though i dont write good. And my guest bloggers, both frequent and infrequent. Mark as read Approve comment Mam, We have to curb our hunger, greed in order to attain happiness. We are never satisfied by what we have got. Thats why happiness makes us follow throughout the life.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 16, 2010

Some tools you can use are Social Mention , Trackur , and PostRank. Reply Kwame June 19, 2010 at 7:18 am Israel, I’m sure your strategy will be excellent if you work with this article. Reply Anwar June 20, 2010 at 1:53 am Kwame, Very extensive article. PostRank is becoming one of my favorite tools. Love your stuff!

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Kikolani

JULY 23, 2010

Here are some of the best articles I have stumbled upon and retweeted on @kikolani this week. How to use PostRank for social media analytics and engagement – check out the social sharing statistics on your site & others, plus get a free three month trial of their analytics to get in-depth engagement analytics.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 20, 2011

Mark as read Approve comment I do think the tools make it easier, and from what I remember from the Gladwell article, many folks took exception to what they perceived as a dismissive tone of Twitter and the like. Like WUL guest blogger Conway Wigg, I don’t believe tools trump people. [.] Reply Rate Up div.livefyre-comment).removeClass(livefyre-hidden)"

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Waxing UnLyrical

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

This was why I was so disappointed in the Mashable article from about a month ago on “ the future of public relations and social media &# because, despite the word count, quotes from 14 PR pros (some of whom I know and respect mightily), and pretty screen shots, pretty much its entire thrust was that PR = press releases = publicity = PR.

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