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How to Create a Reader Avatar for Your Blog

ProBlogger

For several years, I’ve been using Reader Avatars (also called Reader Profiles or Personas) on my blogs – and I’ve found them very effective and helpful. To create your first reader avatar, you’ll need to spend some time thinking and writing about a type of reader that you’re either attempting to reach or who is already reading your blog.

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18 Tweetable Twitter Tips for Newbies

Waxing UnLyrical

Use a real photo of yourself for your avatar. (I Make sure your avatar is “SFW” (safe for work… and yes, you’d be surprised again). < Image: _DaniloRamos via Flickr, CC 2.0. area, she loves helping for- and non-profit clients, both small and large, turn corporate codswallop into community cool™.

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Saying Goodbye to Digital Marketing: Meet the New Me

Ari Herzog

I spent four wonderful years self-employed as a digital marketing trainer, consultant, and community manager. Looking back at my blog archive my answers were staring back at me: diluting social media , using the telephone , changing blog layouts , leaving Flickr Pro , unfriending , unlinking , and going dumb. Footsteps by schick.

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Uncovering The Remarkable In Your Social Networks

Waxing UnLyrical

We talk often – myself included – about using it to build relationships , about getting to know one’s community, about deepening human interaction. Yet how much do we really know about the people behind the avatars? Image: digitalbob8 via Flickr, CC 2.0. Image: Shreyans Bhansali via Flickr, CC 2.0.

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Powwowing With Pepco on Social Media

Waxing UnLyrical

So I contacted Debbi Jarvis , Pepco’s VP of Communications (a delightful woman, and whom I also know through IABC/DC Metro ), to see if she could fill me in. Turning to the man So I decided to turn to the man himself – Andre Francis, who’s the face (or avatar) of Pepco’s social media. These fine folk did: Jan.

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22 Twitter revenue streams – monetizing tweets

Laurel Papworth

Whenever I present or give classes on monetizing social networks and online communities people usually have two questions. Social Media Monetization Models on Flickr [link]. Pay $25 a year a la Flickr for a Pro account. Maybe nice avatars or backgrounds created by budding entrepreneurs and facilitated by Twitter?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

The photographers are all kicking it at flickr, the chatterboxes are tweeting away at Twitter, and you got your musicians over at last.fm Lets say you are connected with Jane on MyBlogLog and are chatting it up with her on twitter and sharing photos on flickr. rocking out. How does it work? Drop us a line if you need any help!

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