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Tips for managing a collaborative blog

Sunday, April 17th, 2011


Collaborative blogs are great, but they can be challenging to manage. Here are a few tips for better organization.
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Collaborative blogs, or blogs curated by multiple authors for writing and producing content, have become pretty much the norm in non-personal blogs nowadays. A pool of writers producing a steady stream of content funneled to one Web site? That’s a great setup right there. Needless to say, it’s only logical to have a team of creative people sharing the workload—more people to shoulder article production and promotion duties, event coverage assignments, editing and other content-related tasks.

 

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Weekly Link Round Up – 04-08-11

Friday, April 8th, 2011

Why Facebook and Twitter Are Not Replacing Blogging (SocialMediaToday.com)

While there is no doubt to Twitter or Facebook’s influence over the social media sphere, they can never be replacements for the freedom of use or content that blogging provides. Although statistics from Technorati paint the picture, there may be some details statistics fail to show.

26 Ways to Engage With Customers Using Video (SocialMediaExaminer.com)

Videos enhance client communication and collaboration. While this particular medium may not be up everyone’s alley, there is a wide array of ways to use it: from brief, eye-catching ads to interesting, blog-like discussions. Make use of it to introduce your business in a showy way, or simply boost up the fun factor for your community.

Connecting With Super Bloggers? Think Content. (SocialMediaExplorer.com)

While it is feasible to get word of your company out to the big bloggers, don’t think about it in terms of pitching. Instead, why not create your own content? After all, these super bloggers are always looking out for fresh content and rich ideas they can’t access. You’ll find that developing real content will work for you in the long run.

5 Things a Bad Dog Can Teach You About Writing Good Copy (CopyBlogger.com)

Keeping your audience’s attention can be like catching the eye of a misbehaving dog. After all, most of your readers online can be easily distracted. By learning how to develop content that keeps their eyes on your page, you can easily create persuasive copy that is bound to do well.

Don’t Listen To Anybody – The Weirdest Advice You’ll Ever Get About Promoting Your Blog (SocialMouths.com)

While the internet is full of advice about what to do and what not to do when running a blog, sometimes getting your blog on the map doesn’t entail following all the advice given to you. Instead, the point is that since you have control over how you make your blog, design your own realistic strategy. Don’t be afraid to test out the different advice people share, though. It just may come in handy.

Utilizing Tumblr for social media marketing

Monday, November 22nd, 2010


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As the Internet continues to march forward in terms of capabilities and usage, it’s becoming a tightly interconnected ecosystem that’s both self-serving and socially-proficient. As it continues to mature, standards, tools, and services have come out of the woodwork to leverage on its capabilities, steering its path to benefit their businesses, and to enhance its functionalities online.

 

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Elements to optimize your blog’s sidebar

Thursday, November 18th, 2010


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A blog’s sidebar practically summarizes the content and all the features offered by the blog. In essence, it showcases what you have to offer in one or two neat, unobtrusive columns, depending on your chosen blog layout or template. It plays a large part in upping a blog’s usability, improving the user experience to give your visitors easy access to different sections within your blog without having to navigate their browsers away from your domain.

 

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Retracing old blog posts for new ideas

Sunday, October 10th, 2010

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It doesn’t matter what your professional background is and how long you’ve been writing—that traitorous little mental vacuum we call writer’s block will always be at some corner waiting to jump you when you least expect it. In a previous blog post, we gave you some suggestions and a few personal remedies to help lessen the threatening effects of the writing funk.

 

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Let your personality get you noticed on the blogosphere

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010


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In any social situation, it’s pretty easy for most of us to blend in with everyone in the background. At the subway, you’re a passenger trying to stay safely away from that homeless dude like everyone else. On the street, you’re a corporate workhorse struggling to grab some grub before your lunch hour ends, like everyone else. Right now, you’re stuck in front of a screen reading this while wishing you were on a flight to San Diego for Comic-Con; like everyone else.

Unfortunately, even online where everyone is supposedly given their own voice and everyone strives for individuality, you could still be a mere blip in the social spectrum.

 

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Text isn’t dying- it’s evolving.

Sunday, April 25th, 2010

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I remember reading Taming of the Shrew in grade school and thinking ‘this is English?’ Nope. I was wrong. It’s Elizabethan. It’s what our language has evolved from.

Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and more have been playing active roles in the evolution of language. With the development of online tools, we’ve been able to enhance communications between countries, cultures and languages. While students may not have a grip on how we’ve talked and written in the past, they have developed their own language that fits with the tools that they are surrounded with. Isn’t that more resourcefulness than anything?

 

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