Cherie Priest. Blogs May Describe Afghanistan More Honestly Than the News - Technorati Blogging. I ran across this post this afternoon and couldn't resist commenting on the sometimes incredible divide between the news as presented by bloggers versus traditional journalists.
The post, titled "How to Write About Afghanistan" is a satirical look at the remarkably selective perception traditional journalists seem to have of the country. Author Joshua Foust kicks it off with a hard-hitting paragraph: Always use the word ‘war-torn’ in your title. Subtitles may include the words ‘tribal,’ ‘Taliban,’ ‘corrupt,’ and ‘Sharia.’ Also useful are words such as ‘shuras,’ ‘fighters,’ ‘refugees’ and ‘insurgency.’ Perhaps one of the most brilliant sections of the entry is simply a list of "taboo" subjects when writing about Afghanistan, including middle class and secular Afghans, happy marriages between Afghans, references to Afghan intellectuals, honest politicians or entrepreneurs (unless you want them to be president), and successful Afghan feminist advocacy campaigns.
Read the entire post here. HOW TO: Build a More Beautiful Blog. This series is supported by Webdesigner Depot, a popular web design blog covering tutorials, design trends, blogging and inspirational posts.
You can visit WDD at webdesignerdepot.com and follow WDD on Twitter @designerdepot. Whether you're blogging for business or pleasure, now is the time to take your little corner of the web to the next level. Social media makes your blog more visible and valuable than ever, and the amount of resources available to beautify and streamline your blog is enormous, and ever growing. The best part is, you don't have to be a designer or a programmer to create a great looking blog, but you should know where to find the right resources, and how to align your blog's design with its purpose. Learn Some HTML We all wish the web was 100% drag and drop, but we're not quite there yet. A basic understanding of the web's nuts and bolts will allow you to make custom design tweaks, fix template problems, and format your posts more precisely. Find the Right Template Tumblr. Are these the biggest moments in journalism-blogging history? Here’s another one for that book I’m working on – I’m trying to think: what have been the most significant events in the history of journalism blogging?
Here’s what I have so far (thanks Mark Jones and Nigel Barlow): 1998: The Drudge Report breaks the Monica Lewinsky story. How to Get Your Organization to Stop Worrying and Love the Blog. You want to revitalize your brand’s “voice.”
You want to enter into a conversation with the public that consumes your product or service. You want raise public awareness of your organization for almost no outlay of money. You may want to jump into the social media fray and start a blog for your organization. Getting the okay to start an official, company-sanctioned blog may take some doing, however. Your organization will likely have people who don’t know what a blog is, to those who furtively check Perez Hilton daily. Starting a blog is a worthwhile endeavor for many outfits, however. Organizational fear #1: What happens when we can’t control what the public says about us?
This, I would say is the # 1 fear organizations have about social media: if we give people the ability to comment on what we are do, what if they use our site to say bad things about us? But what will soothe this key fear? Madtini – the Virtual Martini Party. TMG Strategies. Racepoint Group. HackCollege - Lifehacks for College Students. RotorBlog.com. MakeUseOf.com. Is Google Making Us Dumber? Public Relations Pros Must Know Social Media. I’ve long held the belief that public relations, as a discipline and department, should own the responsibility for social media across the spectrum of enterprise and corporations.
Mind you, I don’t think social media should be crammed into a silo with PR and forgotten about, but rather, employed across the organization with PR owning the responsibility of managing its implementation and internal education. According to a study released today by Eric Schwartzman’s iPressroom, in collaboration with TrendStream, Korn/Ferry International and PRSA, that belief is a general reality. The report, titled, “2009 Digital Readiness Report: Essential Online Public Relations and Marketing Skills,” shows that public relations owns the responsibility for web strategy relative to blogging, podcasting or RSS; social search; social networking; microblogging and, to a lesser extent, web content management.
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