Home About Me Charities 12for12k Kiva Work With Me About This Blog Disclosure Comment Policy Headway Archives Contact Me Great Blogs Six Steps to Running a Successful Blogger Outreach by Monica O’Brien April 14, 2010 43 voices share yours! Share 33 saves But… but… blogger outreach doesn’t work anymore , right? The landscape for social media and blogging is constantly changing, and due to the popularity of blogger outreach tactics, most bloggers have received a mass email or press release that was completely off topic. No, I’m serious! MORE >>

Image: Lars Plougmann via Flickr, Creative Commons Really, if you just read through the comments, there’s your follow-up blog post… but since I promised you one, you’re getting one. Image: Aftab Uzzaman via Flickr, Creative Commons It’s why I wrote about networking with a twist a while back. You are a perfect example; you and I didnt even know each other prior to Amplify, and now youre one of my trusted sources on so many things (as you know!). And my guest bloggers, both frequent and infrequent. Interesting. I mean, come on. MORE >>

Image: betsyjean79 via Flickr , Creative Commons Advertising, Marketing, Public Relations, Journalism, Design, Digital, TV, Radio, Podcasts, Blogging, Social Networks, Newsfeeds, Affiliate Marketing, Web TV, SEO… Creative industries have evolved just as the environments, mediums, consumers and needs of our clients have evolved over time. It’s a clever integrated approach to working both alone, as well as in partnership, to complement other creatives with a very accurate title: ‘ word of mouth ’ (WOM). And my guest bloggers, both frequent and infrequent. MORE >>

It’s why I have an open commenting system with a fairly easy-going comment policy , for example, and also support other bloggers who read this one with the CommentLuv plug-in. That means allowing guest bloggers to write as they would on their own blogs; protecting my community and deleting comments where they attack other commenters; and telling things as they are, as opposed to the white-washed writing that sometimes happens around the blogosphere. Insights authenticity bloggersThat’s where I’ll have to disagree. image: Marc Wathieu. MORE >>

Share 7 saves If you’re a blogger, you may have been asked to write a guest post by another blogger. Or, you might have offered a guest post yourself to a blogger you admire. So why even think about doing it to another blogger? Quote your sources and link to external references and sites and make sure the blogger you’re writing for doesn’t end up looking an ass as he or she tries to cover your mistakes in the comments. My question is this: Do you have any advice on how to approach more popular bloggers about guest posting for them?I MORE >>