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Monthly Trends + 10 Tips for a Flawless Linking Strategy

ProBlogger

The top ten stories of the last month, according to Regator.com ’s blogosphere trends were: 1. Example: Serious Eats links to a number of food blogs in “ Weekend Cook and Tell Round Up: Thanksgiving Leftover Derby.”. Thanksgiving , 2. Midterm Election , 3. Black Friday , 5. WikiLeaks , 7. Sarah Palin , 8. Harry Potter , 9.

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Media140 Sydney: Social Media Twitter & Journalism

Laurel Papworth

Either the blogosphere is one big echo chamber, repeating each others articles – or worse, pinching them from the Press – with bloggers agreeing with each other and readers can never get a different viewpoint OR no one agrees with anyone online and it’s just a big chatfest of negativity, anonymous comments and flame wars.

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8 Reasons Why Students Should Blog

ProBlogger

Here are eight reasons why students should join the blogosphere. It is my online portfolio, which I can give as an example to organizations before I’m even at the interview stages. Post videos to present the brilliance of your last feature film project. Your blog is your portfolio.

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Monthly Trends + How to Instantly Triple Your Post Ideas

ProBlogger

The blogosphere trends for the month of January 2011, in order, were: Egypt , State of the Union , Golden Globes , Verizon iPhone , Gabrielle Giffords , Super Bowl , Martin Luther King Jr , Sundance Film Festival , Flooding , and Consumer Electronics Show.) See if you can find a legitimate pattern or trend in a story you’re covering.

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Blogging for Startups: 10 Essential Tips to Make it Work

ProBlogger

To become a thought leader in your startup’s industry, and to generate quality leads through your blog, be sure to follow these ten essential steps to creating a blog presence that thrives in the crowded blogosphere. One of my favorite examples of a company that gets it can be found over on the Mint blog. Create useful resources.

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What Traits Define a Social Media Marketer?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

For example, what plays well on Digg versus what plays well on Propeller. Knowing the right people to send something to on StumbleUpon or keeping a conversation going on FriendFeed for example. I came across a great example earlier today; the form at [link] was probably designed by a regular marketer.

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Seth Godin on Steroids: Here’s My Evernote Password

Viper Chill

“ But the Special K campaign may be the first example of real-life human interaction using the pay-with-a-tweet concept. It’s a dipshit move — and sadly, a tech blogosphere staple. During his AMA (Ask Me Anything) on the site after his film went viral, he interestingly had this to say. Source: Massive Greatness.

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