It's the stinkin' badges - helped along by casual competition with friends, and now, despite my best attempts to not make any actual alterations to how I behave, I am sure I am doing things that are actually better for me, in the same way that Foursquare recommendations have pushed me to new venues and trying new things, based on badges and recommendations from friends. Gaining one's first badges, such as 5,000 or 10,000 steps, or 10 flights of stairs traversed, is pretty straight forward. badge for 50 flights is one thing. The badges are driving the behavior. MORE >>

believe it will be better than Facebook comments , will be faster loading, and be easy to implement as Google+ scripts and badges are already there on every website. Connect Blogger to Google+ – Firstly, click on the the Google+ link in your Blogger admin. If you have not integrated or connected a Google+ account to your Blogger account, Blogger will ask you to upgrade to Google+. After you agree to the terms, then your blogger profile will convert to a Google+ profile and link both your Google+ pages and the Blogger blog. MORE >>

Blogger outreach is reaching out to the blogger community to create a relationship that involves you having regular, constructive and mutually beneficial contact with them. What this means is that you keep communicating with bloggers regularly and don’t just get in touch with them, when you want a guest blog to be posted. think of blogger outreach not from the perspective of an online marketer, but somebody who actually wants to strike up a conversation with the best in the field. What is Blogger Outreach? Searching For Bloggers. Blog Directories. MORE >>

Applying for ranking with the Ad Age Power 150 to get that awesome badge in the sidebar of your blog. When a blogger hits the big time and earns a ton of subscribers or has a large community commenting, said blogger has to be there to reply, engage, comment, and return the favor. Blog Social Media Ad Age Power 150 analytics Big data Bloggers Blogging clicky community content content marketers Feedblitz Google IT Link Love plug ins RSS search search marketers SEO server subscribers Success thought leaderToday’s guest post is by Jayme Soulati . Didn’t think so. MORE >>

called the condition being "Built Like a Blogger", accurately captured by Claire Chang at SXSW in 2011 and immortalized on Twitter. Claire quoted me: "Built Like a Blogger" Now it's possible I need to discard a ton of these shirts, not because I need dresser real estate back, although I do, or because some of the logos are for companies that no longer exist, although that's true too, but because, largely in part to my adapting of the Fitbit fitness tracker this last Spring, I've managed to increase how much I walk each day by as much as 75%, and I've dropped twenty pounds. MORE >>