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A Blog is a Better Social Media Hub Than Twitter

Socialized

Twitter is excellent for distribution , but if you’re going to communicate original ideas, you’ll need a blog (or something similar). Major news outlets like CNN, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. Your blog can cater to a sub-group of your Twitter friends or a different audience altogether.

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eMarketer’s New Blogging Report: More Readers, Fewer Writers

Debbie Weil

eMarketer ‘s recently released report The Blogosphere: Colliding With Social and Mainstream Media is intriguing. There are two key points: first, the number of blog readers continues to rise appreciably, while the number of blog writers continues to grow, but very slowly. Thus many folks don’t knowingly read blogs.

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Ten Reasons PR Pros Should Blog

Waxing UnLyrical

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Ten Reasons PR Pros Should Blog November 10th, 2010 Tweet Last week, Joe Hackman hosted Danny Brown , Gini Dietrich and me on his BlogTalkRadio show, aptly entitled PRapalooza. Blogging is a strange beast.

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Media140 Sydney: Social Media Twitter & Journalism

Laurel Papworth

I’m not a journalist who blogs, nor a blogger who has ever been paid for writing by a media organisation, nor journalist who is also an academic. Just ignore all the people joining Facebook, uploading YouTube videos and writing blog posts while we chatter here about whether journalists do it better. It was weird.

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25 Guest Posts on Blogging, SEO and Social Media

Kikolani

Earlier this week, I shared the top 25 blogging and social media posts on Kikolani. Now I want to share some of my off-site content, as I have been doing a LOT of writing around the blogosphere. The following are my top 25 favorite guest blogging contributions, allowing me to cover a wider range of topics. Link Building.

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Blogosphere Trends + Being Opinionated

ProBlogger

This column is written by Kimberly Turner from Regator (a great tool that gathers and organizes the world’s best blog posts). Man alive, I hate bringing you a list of blogosphere trends that includes both Lindsay Lohan and Jersey Shore—not to mention Sarah Palin. Kain’s “ In Defense of Mel Gibson ” from the same blog.

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Journoggers – Journalists that blog

Laurel Papworth

As more trained journalists move into the amateur blogging space, what are the fundamental differences in the blogging style between the two? As the BBC tells it’s journos to start using social media as a primary source – or leave journalism – what are the repercussions in social spaces?