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What's The Point In Commenting On Blogs?

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What is the true value of a comment on a blog? If you go back in time (a little over a decade ago), the mainstreaming of blogging as a publishing platform brought with it a couple of unique features. Initially, these instant publishing platforms were seen as simple online journals for those who wanted to keep them.

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What is Good B2B Content? Content Leaders on 9 Must-Haves for Standing Out From the B2B Crowd

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Instead of a typical "SEO-style" introduction that over-explains the topic, Lavender’s blog gets straight to the point of explaining tactical plays sales teams can use.    Kaur thinks that this blog post by Klaviyo incorporates all three best practices.  I think this is a positive trend. 

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Borrowing Content Was Happening Long Before Blogging

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It sounds a lot like the practices of some industry blogs and news aggregators today. We poached material constantly, from newspapers, from other publications — even from Time. Copying from Time was a fact-checker’s dream, because we knew they took accuracy very seriously over there.

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When I Couldn’t Find Marketing Outlets to Elevate My Brand, I Created My Own

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I started by writing posts on Diversability’s blog and connecting community members to write guest post features of each other. In 2022, we brought on a dedicated writer on a part-time basis to create three articles a month featuring our community members, both for our own blog and to pitch to other publications.

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United Way of Central Indiana Recognized for their Social Media.

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  The article, Appealing to Community , focused on how not-for-profits are reaching out to younger donors with social media while keeping older supporters in the fold.  As a final step before posting your comment, enter the letters and numbers you see in the image below. This prevents automated programs from posting comments.

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The Wrap, Newser and Content Aggregation: How Much Attribution is.

Adam Sherk

In this particular case the original article on the Wall Street Journal is linked to both inline and in the “Sources” section of the sidebar: Two links is good attribution; I think that qualifies as giving proper credit to the original source. But as pointed out by The Wrap, Newser does not always do this. Or … well, ask nicely.

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The Church And State Of Advertising

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One of the main challenges that the institution of journalism had as social media took hold was the potential ability to sway Bloggers who may not be as inclined to follow in the same footsteps of journalism's morals and ethics. journalism. Does anyone remember Blogola? This is big (no, massive) business. advertising.