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How important is social media content quality?

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How do you measure content quality? Copywrite, Ink, which bills itself as a "strategic communication and writing services firm," launched its Fresh Content Project in an attempt to rank content quality among popular bloggers.

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Is Blogging Killing Good Writing?

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I read a blog post today that recommended people forget what they learned in school about writing, and instead, write like they speak, and from the heart. Back to the blog post. On the whole, I agree with its contentions. I used to work at an artificial intelligence company that made foreign language translation software.

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A Blog is a Better Social Media Hub Than Twitter

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Twitter is excellent for distribution , but if you’re going to communicate original ideas, you’ll need a blog (or something similar). The most influential people on Twitter are either already celebrities, create their own content, or both. A blog is less dominated by spam than Twitter. Scoble is an exception.

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Why Every Brand Should Have a YouTube Channel

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YouTube is a hub for video content. Companies and brands create video content wherever you look, distribute it on its blogs and social media. They use engaging content to draw and engage their target audiences. In the last three decades, consumers upload more video content online every month than TV has made.

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Affiliate Marketing Tips and Tricks for Beginners

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For example, a marketer who runs a fashion blog would be best suited to promote clothing, fashion accessories, and other related items that visitors would be interested in buying. Post Timeless Content. Content is the lifeblood of affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketers should keep updating their content.

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Live Tweeting Requires Ethical and Legal Considerations

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If you were at the movie theater, neither the studio nor the theater operator would permit you to videotape portions of the movie to post on your blog. As the author of a book, I also understand the need for copyright protections for commercial content. The policy was written in 1986, long before blogging and tweeting.

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Garrison Keillor On: When everyone’s a writer, no one is

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I don’t completely agree with Keillor, and although it is indisputable that there is a lot of crap writing on blogs and social networks, so it went with web sites, newspapers before that, vellum manuscripts (did you see that s**t Brother Jonathan illuminated yesterday?),