Subscribe to  SmartBrief  newsletters, RSS feeds, and  Google alerts  in order to find ideas for new content. I’m taking a few days of vacation time (before Patti Knight kills me) so we went through the 2010 most popular blog posts and updated a couple to run here again. Enjoy! It’s interesting to go back and look at both what I was reading two years ago and where I was getting blogging ideas. This blog post idea was shamelessly stolen from  Jeff Bullas  and “ 30 Tips To Make Your Company’s Blog Rock.” 50 Tips to Make Your Company’s Blog Rock. Ask questions. MORE >>

visit and leave comments at trackosaurusrex to stay ankle deep in the hip and trendy, and velodramtic to feed the romance of a long, hard ride. Today’s post is written by Jennifer Roberts. was riding up one of the canyon roads in Boulder, Colorado a few weekends ago. wanted to use the ride to work out how to write an article linking my online social behavior with the concept of a social consumer. But my high-end Sella Italia Lady saddle was distracting me; it was uncomfortable. Demographics. describe my daily commute in Boulder riding my single speed on my blog. Interests. Offline. MORE >>

Email, then Twitter, then select RSS feeds. Today’s guest post is written by Yvette Pistorio. . Because of the fast pace of social media, we are constantly bombarded with distractions from one social network or another. You have to participate and engage consistently, Facebook seems to change something on a weekly basis, Google has all of these animal-named announcements, new social networks pop up all the time…it’s exhausting to keep up with everything! recently asked on our Facebook page, “If you had only 20 minutes a day to spend on social media, what would you focus on?” MORE >>

For instance, I have “ must make ,” “ winter training ,” “ books worth reading ,” “ gift ideas ,” and more that feed my creativity. Pinterest feeds that in a big way. I’m not going to lie. I’m obsessed with Pinterest. blame my sister. She’s an enabler. Since its launch, I’ve been a big proponent of it. It’s, in a sense, an online scrapbook. You find images and videos you like and “pin” them to your online boards. But the best part? Something like 84 percent of us are visual learners. MORE >>

Feeding the media is like training a dog,” he once said, “You can’t throw an entire steak at a dog to train it to sit. Last week, some news came to a head. Some very disappointing news that makes me really wonder about people. new author, Ryan Holiday, has written a book called, “ Trust Me, I’m Lying.” ” And, with it, a gaggle of blog posts and articles are coming out about how reporters and bloggers have been duped by the 25-year-old claiming to be a PR professional, but who is instead a “ media manipulator.” And they feel good. Really good. ”? MORE >>