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Top Journalism Techniques for Smart Bloggers

ProBlogger

My initial example could easily be summed up in a short sentence on a list blog: “To defeat writer’s block: Get up and move around. Say, for example, you own a health club. If it’s working for the poster child of the physically fit, readers will be more interested when you pull the magnifying glass back to establish the bigger picture.

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PR needs to Focus on Conversations

Buzz Marketing for Technology

I still hear marketers say – “my CEO just doesn’t care about blogs – they only want to be in the NY Times or Wall Street Journal”. For Example – Avaya should be part of any Business Communications conversations on the web because that is what we do. Post this to Posterous. This is really doing the PR industry a disservice.

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The Power of Personal

ProBlogger

Blogging might have started as online journaling, but I think we’d probably all agree that it’s come a long way since then. As a first step in this direction, you could simply include the photos and bios of guest posters and contributing authors to your blog. But blogging is inherently personal, right?

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Social Pros 25 – Alison Carlman, globalgiving

Convince & Convert

Read on for insights from Eric Boss & DJ Waldow’s Social Media Stat of the Week ( This week : The Wall Street Journal reports more people are turning to YouTube as their news source). At one point, Digg was the poster child for Social Media and Web 2.0 Citizen journalism, man, it’s the wave of the future.

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Major problems upgrading to Wordpress 2.9

The Way of the Web

Luckily almost every restored plugin instantly recovered all settings and data, so I didn’t lose any comments, for example. 140char.com will be evolving into more co-ordinated project to effectively cover microblogging across Twitter, Plurk, Tumblr, Posterous etc in a better way. Top Tip – either wait for the.1 So still scatterbrained.

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Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2009

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The article has examples of how social media worked too. How to Make Social Media Work for Non-Consumer Brands (Mashable): This is a good B2B social media article which is chock full of examples. David Armano suggests to study out the candidate first; they shouldn’t just be focused on Twitter, for example.

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The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same | Social Media.

Social Media Strategery

It’s also been grabbing all the headlines – in the New York Times , the Wall Street Journal , Wired , and myriad others. I’ve used this rationale with others and seems to work if you put the social media movement in the context of history with other examples. Great work. link] Steve Ressler Fantastic. Great work.

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