Top Corporate Blogs, Finalists Announced. By Jason Keath on May 02, 2011 Out of the Fortune 100, more companies are investing in Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube than in a corporate blog. Why? Because blogging for business is hard. It takes ongoing resources and time that are not needed on most social media platforms. Brand blogs can produce some big results when you take time to put together the right platform. The Social Fresh community nominated over 200 company blogs for our Top Corporate Blogs awards. In order to make it to this final nomination list, for our judges to review, objective metrics were used such as Postrank.com scores, Alexa.com traffic numbers, recency of content, number of nominations, and adherence to nomination requirements.
Our Judges Our panel of judges will be conducting a blogging for business panel at Blogworld NYC on May 25th, Leads, Subscribers, and Sales: Bringing Action to Business Blogs. Our 29 Finalists In alphabetical order Congratulations to the company blogs that made it to the final round of judging. 10 Simple Strategies for Business Blog Content.
Are you sick of business blogging ? Do you feel like your brain is empty and out of ideas for blog posts? This is a common feeling. (I know I, personally, have often felt this way.) The reality is that the web is full of too many great ideas and different types of content , that you should never run out of things to blog about, regardless of your industry. When it comes to blogging well and often, it usually comes down to how you see ideas and how well you explain them in a way that matters to your audience. 1. 2. 3. 4. 6. Example: 7. 8. 9. Photo Credit: qisur. 24 Impressive Blog Plugins You Should Consider. One of the great things about blogging is how easy it is to set up a blog on any of the multitude of blogging platforms.
While there are many options for building your blog, one of the most popular platforms is WordPress.org. However, what you get when you set up a WordPress blog can be pretty basic depending on the theme you choose. To make your new blog sing and work for you, it’s a good idea to install some key plugins. Photo credit: Shutterstock.com Plugins extend and expand the functionality of your WordPress blog. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of plugins you can add to your site to optimize it, customize it, add some bling, make it easy for your readers to navigate and so much more.
Which Plugins Should You Use? When it comes to plugins, how do you choose which to add to your blog? To come up with this list, I asked my Facebook fans for suggestions. How to Install Plugins For the sake of brevity, I picked a finite number to feature. The Impressive Plugins #1: Audio player: The Freakonomics Guide to Making Boring Content Sexy. How to Craft Post Titles that Draw Readers Into Your Blog.
Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting » Content Lessons Learned From 25 Popular Blog Posts. 10 Tips for Corporate Blogging. This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. In a world where small businesses with corporate blogs receive 55 percent more traffic than small businesses that don't blog, companies should be taking note on how to improve their blogs, attract more readers and get more results.
But still, a lot of companies with corporate blogs seem to be bogged down in uniformed policies and simply aren't thinking outside the box. Afraid to take on colorful personalities or step a bit outside of their company's happenings, many corporate blogs employ an official tone announcing the play-by-play updates of company news. This is just one mistake that businesses are making in the blogging world.
There is a laundry list of issues that need to be addressed when it comes to improving corporate blogs, but here we've narrowed down the key elements that companies should focus on. 1. 2. 4 Corporate Blogging Strategies | Penn Olson. We’re witnessing more and more companies having a blog section on their corporate site. Why? Because a blog is a site where one can write and publish any content without having to go through any gatekeepers. This simple fact brings many advantages to businesses. Many businesses are eager to start.
But how many have actually sat down and thought through a blog strategy clearly before launching one? Through analyzing how several companies have used a blog to their advantage, we have come out with a list of 4 blogging strategies that will give you a better idea of how a blog could help your business. 1. Building thought leadership requires a business to consistently share its thoughts and opinions regarding the industry. Edelman Digital Edelman Digital, the digital arm of Edelman, has done particularly well in this aspect. Surely, anyone would agree that the team is a competent one. Quoted from Edelman Digital Blog: Perfectly said. 2. Zappos No selling! And it sure looks fun! 3. 4. Blogging Terms Glossary: A list of Blogging terms. Are you puzzled by some of the strange blogging terms found throughout the blogosphere? Then this glossary brought to you by Wikipedia should help you out.
Autocasting : Automated form of podcasting that allows bloggers and blog readers to generate audio versions of text blogs from RSS feeds. Audioblog : A blog where the posts consist mainly of voice recordings sent by mobile phone, sometimes with some short text message added for metadata purposes. (cf. podcasting) Biblioblogosphere : A humorous reference to the world of librarian blogging. Blaudience : The audience, or readership, of a blog. Blawg: A blog focusing on commentary about the law, generally written by a law professor, law student, or lawyer. Bleg : A blog entry consisting of a request to the readers, such as for information or contributions. Blog Carnival : A blog article that contains links to other articles covering a specific topic. Blistless or B-listless : When a blogger becomes listless or apathetic about posting. Glossary of blogging. This is a list of blogging terms. Blogging, like any hobby, has developed something of a specialised vocabulary.
The following is an attempt to explain a few of the more common phrases and words, including etymologies when not obvious. Blog-related terms[edit] A[edit] A popular feed format developed as an alternative to RSS. Autocasting Automated form of podcasting that allows bloggers and blog readers to generate audio versions of text blogs from RSS feeds. Audioblog A blog where the posts consist mainly of voice recordings sent by mobile phone, sometimes with some short text message added for metadata purposes. B[edit] Blawg A law blog. Bleg An entry in a blog requesting information or contributions. Blog Carnival A blog article that contains links to other articles covering a specific topic. Blog client (weblog client) is software to manage (post, edit) blogs from operating system with no need to launch a web browser. Blog publishing service A software which is used to create the blog.
Blogger Post. State of the Blogosphere 2010 Introduction - Technorati Blogging. Welcome to Technorati's State of the Blogosphere 2010 report. Since 2004, our annual study has followed growth and trends in the blogosphere. For 2010, we took a deeper dive into the entire blogosphere, with a focus on female bloggers. This year's topics include: brands embracing social media, traditional media vs. social media, brands working with bloggers, monetization, smartphone and tablet usage, importance of Twitter and Facebook, niche blogging, and changes within the blogosphere over 2010. The 2010 edition of State of the Blogosphere finds blogs in transition—no longer an upstart community, now with influence on mainstream narratives firmly entrenched, with bloggers still searching for the next steps forward. Bloggers’ use of and engagement with various social media tools is expanding, and the lines between blogs, micro-blogs, and social networks are disappearing.
The significant growth of mobile blogging is a key trend this year. Continued on the next page.