Posts tagged with 'blogging'
I received an email the other day, which caused me some significant concern. It was a request, which came out of the blue, asking me to consider to be paid for featuring certain content on my personal blog.
For me, this is a very unwanted and somewhat scandalous approach and I sincerely hope other bloggers feel the same way. If you think about it, it is a very seedy means to encourage independent people who take the time to blog about subjects they care about, to succumb to the incentive of money.
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by Karl Havard
12 October 2009 13:29pm
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Duncan Riley is founder and editor of The Inquisitr, a popular blog that has grown to around 3m page impressions in little more than a year. He also founded The Blog Herald back in 2002, and was a co-founder of the b5media blog network. He has also written for Techcrunch.
As such he knows a thing or two about blogging and I thought I'd catch up with him to find out how he thinks the blogosphere has evolved in the past few years, and where things might be heading in the future.
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by Chris Lake
09 September 2009 14:02pm
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Leon Bailey-Green works as a consultant to the online fashion industry advising retailers on marketing, partnership and business strategy.
He was also behind the Online Fashion 100, which lists the influencers in the industry, and is launching his agency later this year.
I've been talking to Leon about the latest trends in the online fashion sector...
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by Graham Charlton
08 September 2009 11:01am
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Advertising revenue is down, newspapers are struggling and as the
economy takes a downturn production costs are up, at the same time
online readership and revenue continue to rise. So what's the answer?
Go where the eyes are.
Whether you are writing, taking pictures,
shooting video or recording audio you can build communities with your
content. But only if you take it online.
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by Christian Payne
19 August 2009 11:07am
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Blog queen Perez Hilton has unveiled a new fashion-orientated blog that “gives you the scoop on the finer things of celebrity style”.
The Gap-sponsored site so far contains lots of images, and little in the way of text, but should quickly attract a following due to Hilton's popularity and reach.
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by Chris Lake
12 August 2009 16:53pm
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We’ve heard lots of talk about the death of blogs and blogging, with fingers invariably pointed at the likes of Twitter and Facebook. The truth is a bit more straightforward. Blogging was never really as big as everybody said it was.
Well, here’s the good news: blogging is back. Except now it’s called microblogging. And it’s great.
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by Chris Lake
12 August 2009 13:21pm
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Online copywriting can make all the difference between a website that engages and converts, and one that stagnates.
Words communicate to your visitors and influence actions (both positively and negatively). Furthermore, good copy is, as far as the search engines are concerned, the food of the Gods. Words are to Google what oxygen is to you and me.
So I thought I’d try to nail an A-to-Z of online copywriting. As ever, these recommendations are guidelines, rather than firm rules. They're broadly applicable to web copywriters and bloggers, as well as journalists who have their work published online. I hope it makes for a handy bookmark-friendly checklist...
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by Chris Lake
27 July 2009 15:12pm
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The nature of the internet economy has given myth new importance in the digital age. One need only look at the field of SEO to see just how prominent (and destructive) myth can be.
Social media has a lot in common with SEO and one area where that's especially true is in the number of social media myths that have become entrenched. From the belief that social media ROI can't be measured to the idea that your business can thrive if you get to the right influencers, social media myths run rampant today.
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by Patricio Robles
27 July 2009 12:59pm
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JD Lasica is the founder of Socialmedia.biz, a social marketing consultancy, and Socialbrite.org, a learning hub for nonprofits. JD was an editor at a California newspaper before he became involved with digital media in the late 90s. He now speaks regularly about social media and user-generated media.
JD recently participated in the Traveling Geeks roundtables hosted by Econsultancy and I spoke with him about social media, the impact it's having and the fate of mainstream media.
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by Patricio Robles
21 July 2009 12:01pm
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How fast are bloggers? According to researchers at Cornell University, it typically took bloggers two and a half hours during the 2008 US presidential campaign to pick up on stories that were broken by the mainstream media.
That conclusion was reached by using computers to analyze 1.6m websites between August and October 2008. All told, these websites published around 90m blog posts and articles.
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by Patricio Robles
14 July 2009 10:18am
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