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United Breaks Guitars: Case Study in Old Media Failure

Socialized

A friend pointed me to a great post on Jane Bozarth’s blog calling United on its superficiality for invoking the cliche of training as a response to a crisis situation: “Sorry, but I don’t see a training problem here. Like Joshua, the computer in the movie War Games, said, “The only winning move is not to play.&#

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The “On Fire” Blogging Success Formula [Case Study]

ProBlogger

My personal development blog, Deep Existence, was flying high. Not world-class blogger numbers, but pretty good for a young blog (five months) and with solid forward momentum. Let’s compare ProBlogger to Papa Joe’s blog. The blogging success formula. There’s a reason this article isn’t on my blog.

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Harnessing the Force: How Lessons From Star Wars Can Elevate Your Blogging

ProBlogger

The post Harnessing the Force: How Lessons From Star Wars Can Elevate Your Blogging appeared first on ProBlogger. As a ProBlogger, you can harness the Force of Star Wars to enhance your blogging business and captivate your audience. Similarly, as a blogger, you must build a strong brand around your blog.

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Time to Rethink Your Blog Strategy? Writing Epic, Incredible Blog Posts

Pam Moore

I recently saw a video and blog post from a leader in the social marketing space offering tips to generate new ideas for content blog writing. They went so far as instructing them how to leverage RSS feeds, do social listening and more to get ideas for new blog content. Importance of blog post format, planning and goal setting.

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What we can learn from blog firestorms.

Akamai Marketing

Its easy to imagine that the social sphere or your blog are simply just an adult playground of cool people. I’ve been watching closely as over the last couple of weeks two incidents on different blogs have caused an outright fury in the blogosphere, dividing a typically supportive group (bloggers) on different sides of the fence.

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Is Your Blog Ready for the Festive Season?

ProBlogger

The post Is Your Blog Ready for the Festive Season? If you start preparing your blog for Christmas in December you’re probably too late. Bricks-and-mortar stores have had the Christmas trees and fake Santas up for months… but what’s the blogosphere doing to prepare? a not-for-profit blog.

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Is Your Blog Ready for the Festive Season?

ProBlogger

The post Is Your Blog Ready for the Festive Season? If you start preparing your blog for Christmas in December you’re probably too late. Bricks-and-mortar stores have had the Christmas trees and fake Santas up for months… but what’s the blogosphere doing to prepare? a not-for-profit blog.