Bloggers know it. And they usually work as great resources that they can bookmark for future reference Looking for a tool to turn your lists into an even more interactive and fun experience for your readers? Content curation tool review: Listly was written by Cendrine Marrouat for her social media blog, Creative Ramblings. Blogging Great Resources Reviews content curation tool list posts ListlyPeople love list posts. They love them because they are skimmable and easy to read. Let me introduce you [.] MORE >>

By now most companies have figured out that good content is critical in a digital presence. That content can take many forms – user-generated, interactive, structured (data), marketing, conversational, and others. What I’ve seen in the last month is that most companies still struggle internally with content ownership – who owns the generation? Someone please tell me, where is the Content Department? Legacy organizational functions are aligned around different types of content, but they converge on the end customer. Who owns the publishing? MORE >>

As a blogger, however, it’s almost impossible—all you want to be doing is writing great content and generating traffic, right? The forums are a veritable Algonquin Round Table of SEO discourse and are a terrific resource in and of themselves. The Top 6 SEO Resources for Bloggers. Search Engine Optimization Blogging ResourcesThis guest post is by  Matt Beswick. For anyone involved in SEO, staying on top of the game is a difficult task thanks to the unpredictable nature of the business. SEOmoz. Search Engine Roundtable. Search Engine Land. MORE >>

Johnson How to (NOT) Pitch a Blogger July 22, 2010 Liz Pope, Media and Research Manager When I first started learning about social media and “pitching” bloggers, the words that stayed with me the longest were from a colleague who, when asked how to pitch a blogger , responded, “You don’t.” You should never “pitch” a blogger, it’s like “walking into their living room uninvited. You should never “pitch” a blogger. Engaging with bloggers, or anyone else in the social media realm, is about having a two-way conversation. NEVER blind copy bloggers on emails. MORE >>

Content marketing seems to be the meme du jour. What’s most striking about this conversation remains the blind eye most bloggers have to the majority of corporate blogs, micro messages, and content initiatives that fail. According to the Content Marketing Institute, only 40% of content marketers feel their efforts are successful , and consumers have been less bullish, with only 14% trusting corporate blogs in recent years. The resources and “ how to produce &# online content argument that most online communicators discuss are accurate. MORE >>