Its monitoring covers blogs, message boards, forums, microblogging sites, wikis, media sharing sites, social networks, online classifieds and review sites. The company’s built-from-the-ground-up monitoring tools cover more than 50,000 sources, and its database of more than one million journalists, bloggers and media sites are invaluable for connecting with the right writers and performing effective outreach. Nielsen’s monitoring covers more than 100 million blogs, social networking sites, discussion boards and other sites where consumers can post content. MORE >>

see message boards and fan sites brimming with excitement over the latest film or gossip about one of the actors, and when they show snippets of the premiers on the news, there are always lots of screaming fans. The answer is exactly why I believe this series has such a massive following in the first place—and it’s an extremely important lesson for any blogger trying to grow a community. Why bloggers should care. Many bloggers do this extremely well. Writing Content community writing techniquesThis guest post is by Allison Boyer of NMXlive.com. MORE >>

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search Get Your Social Media Story Straight April 1st, 2010 |Written By: Jay Baer | View Comments Tweet This is the best ad I’ve seen in months. If Your Story is Inconsistent, At Least Leverage Your Content Ouch. Unfortunately, the same lack of content leverage applies to photographs as well. MORE >>

I was just looking at the WordPress dashboard for my blog and noticed that I have written 587 blog posts (this is the 588th blog post to be exact) and 31 pages of content (well, that’s 31 articles that I have posted here on my blog). mean, really–how in the world have I come up with 587 blog posts and 31 pages of content? Here is how you can find content for your blog. Do your research to find content for your blog. Before I start ranting and raving about how I personally come up with content for my blogs, including this blog right here, let me add my.02 MORE >>

These are the journalists, bloggers, analysts (industry or financial) and others who can help amplify your content, spread your story, and lend credibility to your messages. Since we don’t live in an ideal world, use influencer rating tools like Klout and Kred in conjunction with checking which blogs are featured most often on blog rolls of target bloggers (an informative though imprecise measure of influence) and the Pagerank of each blog. But “use” and “success” are two different things. What your competitors are doing in social media. MORE >>