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Does your brand take bloggers seriously?

Sherrilynne Starkie

Formerly known as The State of the Blogosphere the report has been renamed the 2013 Digital Influence Report because it takes a look at the broader social Internet as well as blogs and bloggers. Instead they should be looking at pageviews, comments, replies and retweets if they wish to gain insight into engagement and influence.

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Online Community Activism with GetUp and Prosper

Laurel Papworth

It’s up on GetUp the activism social network. This activating of social networks is interesting – there is some poorly thought out attacks e.g. Buyer’s Strike Irresponsible. which doesn’t actually link to or name the “some commentators&#. Help us stop them destroying peoples lives.

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Get More Comments: Focus on the First Comment

ProBlogger

That’s when you begin to wonder … why isn’t anybody leaving a comment? There are blogs with readerships in the hundreds of thousands with barely a handful of comments per post. Why don’t people comment? But for commenting to happen, they must understand it as an option. That first comment is the tipping point.

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Blogosphere Trends + Using Infographics

ProBlogger

This map of Twitter activity during a recent U.S. Please share them in the comments. Blogosphere Trends + Using Infographics. Do one thing and do it well. Define your focus and make sure that the information you’re presenting is relevant to your point and not simply pretty to look at. Lead the viewer’s eye.

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Mastering the Art of Listening: A Blogger’s Guide to Success

ProBlogger

Let me explore a few ways that a blogger should consider ‘listening’: Listen to the culture of the blogosphere This is one for those yet to start blogging (and it should also be applied to those getting into new social media tools like Twitter, Facebook etc). What posts are generating good conversation/comments?

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Blogosphere Trends + Handling High Word Counts

ProBlogger

Once you’ve done that, replace passive constructions with active ones wherever possible (“a pirate rode the unicorn” rather than “the unicorn was ridden by a pirate”) and get rid of wordy phrases (e.g., “can” Please share your techniques in the comments. Blogosphere Trends + Handling High Word Counts. Share This.

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Tweet After Death: How to Use Social Media to Live Forever

Waxing UnLyrical

Musicians, authors and visual artists alike all engage in such activity every day, for art is its own mouthpiece on your behalf. The closest (and you might say actually fulfilling link, in terms of the activity I was really looking for) discusses digital gravestones and final memories for a site … including monthly email videos!