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Blogosphere Trends + Digging Deeper

ProBlogger

Let’s see some examples: Proposition / Prop 8. Explaining why something happened (as well as how, see example #1) can be just as important as explaining what happened. Blogosphere Trends + Digging Deeper. The basics: Proposition 8, which banned gay marriage, was ruled unconstitutional. Post from: Blog Tips at ProBlogger.

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11 Common Mistakes That People Make With Their Personal Brands.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

To have credibility, you need to have other people in your field willing and able to testify to your competence. People will expect you to back up your brand with the truth, so when you fail to perform, they immediately begin to question your competence. Rather than stay in your own zone all the time, get out there and meet people.

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How to Save the World

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Our professional value really is a function of the extent of, and our ability to integrate, our knowledge, our thinking competencies, and our communication competencies. Chris put this together a couple of years ago for an IT audience and has since expanded on it, but for me it produced an immediate aha!

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10 Best Time Saving Apps and Plugins To Optimize Your Blog

Kikolani

Building a blog that matters is a full-time gig these days, especially if you want to stay ahead of close to 200 million other competing blogs – which you do, right? First off I’d like to say that if you really want a blog that sparkles like a diamond in the blogosphere sea, you need to focus on three things: 1.

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IBM Social Computing Guidelines

Buzz Marketing for Technology

These guidelines aimed to provide helpful, practical advice—and also to protect both IBM bloggers and IBM itself, as the company sought to embrace the blogosphere. In 2005, the company made a strategic decision to embrace the blogosphere and to encourage IBMers to participate. Be who you are. IBMs business performance.

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What George Orwell Taught Me About Blogging

ProBlogger

The medium may have changed but these rules are as relevant to the blogosphere as they were in Orwell’s day. Your posts are competing with a myriad of other distractions both online and offline and so you need to get your point across with brevity and emphasis. The web is full of mediocre blogs, so make sure yours stands out.

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12 Blogging Income Streams [And the Story of My 10 Year 'Overnight' Success]

ProBlogger

She said she felt she’d never be able to compete. I had no intention of it ever being more than that and there were no examples of people directly monetizing blogs. For example, it was through ProBlogger that I landed my first paid speaking opportunity. By way of illustration, I shared my own story.

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