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How to Create a Reader Avatar for Your Blog

ProBlogger

For several years, I’ve been using Reader Avatars (also called Reader Profiles or Personas) on my blogs – and I’ve found them very effective and helpful. To create your first reader avatar, you’ll need to spend some time thinking and writing about a type of reader that you’re either attempting to reach or who is already reading your blog.

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Tactical Tips for Building an Online Community

ProBlogger

With all the wonderful feedback on my guest post about how we utilize WordPress multisite and discussion forums to build community for our rather niche market, I thought I might offer some detail about specific tactics and network plugins we use to keep members informed, active and increasing in number. Here’s how we did it.

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Top 17 Social Media Monitoring Vendors for Business

Socialmedia.biz

When publishing analysis and research reports, this software focuses mainly on the major social media sites, including YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook. Whether you own or run a small or big business, this software is the best choice to help you meet your social media monitoring needs and publish your content.

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How Checking Your Writing Makes You A Better Blogger

Taylor Marek

The same should be with your blog, research paper, forum post, or any other form of writing you undertake. If you need to make changes, now is the time to do it before you publish it. Regardless of whether it was a careless stroke by the artist or not, what just happened? Instantly your liking of the painting took a hit.

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Are You a Productive Reader? - Stepcase Lifehack

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Nowadays, it’s easy to find authors on the web, who often post new material expanding or correcting their work after it’s published. Get your own Avatars at Gravatars. Name (required): Mail (will not be published) (required): Website: Comment: Latest. CONTRIBUTE. PRODUCTIVITY. COMMUNICATION. TECHNOLOGY. MANAGEMENT.

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How to Build Community for Niche Site Success

ProBlogger

And its success would not be possible without a few things that make the community what it has become: WordPress Multisite, discussion forums, and social networking. Forums create discussion. We decided to create discussion forums so members could answer each other’s questions directly. The network creates community.

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I Am Not a Blogger, I Am a Human Being!

ProBlogger

Naively, I peeked into a blogging forum one day and was instantly hooked. Suddenly, I was swinging from the nearest web publishing platform. Before I could stop myself, I’d picked a domain name, created a blog, and then brazenly published my very first post for everyone to see. I was out there, naked. And I liked it.

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