MySMARTblog.com sur Twitter : "#content tip: if you're not extremely passionate about your topic area... Get. That. Way. #CMCa2z @spyfu #blogging. If You Think You Can't Write, You're Wrong. “I can’t write.”
You’ve said it a zillion times, but you’re not going to say it again because it’s a giant, steamy, and stinky pile of crap. You learned how to write. Then you learned you were doing it wrong. Blame it on your teachers. Or the man. The truth is you got off to a great start. You wrote with abandon. Your spirit got splintered and your passion shattered as you progressed through the grades. Like science and math, you learned writing has rules. The red pens started starring in your nightmares like creepy characters from “Alice in Wonderland.”
Again, it’s really no one’s fault. You were taught sentence structure. Each progressive step involved mastering more meaningful forms of writing.
Advocacy. Bloggers. Not Blogging Yet? What Marketers Need to Know to Get Started - M. Many companies want to learn more about social media and how it can help them better connect with their customers.
The logical place for many companies to start their social media initiatives is with a blog. But just what IS a blog? And which blogging platform is best for me? Should I go with Blogger or WordPress? How do I deal with comments, or should my blog even have comments? These are the types of questions that you may have to answer when your company considers launching a blog. Presenter Mack Collier Mack Collier is a social media consultant, trainer and speaker.
His social media 'homebase' is The Viral Garden, which in 2 years time Mack has grown into an influential marketing/social media blog with a monthly readership of over 125,000. Mack is also a frequently requested speaker and has presented at some of the top social media conferences and events, including South By Southwest Interactive, MarketingProfs Digital Marketing Mixer, and Small Business Marketing Unleashed. 5 Things Sesame Street Can Teach You About Breakthrough Blogging. To the Press Tribe: Your Content is a Produc. Companies and businesses would do well by reading and understanding this post titled migration point for the press tribe by Jay Rosen [hat tip to Chuck Peters].
In it, Rosen describes how thanks to the rising of flourishing of people as content producers, expert sharers, and self-guided consumers, the professional news tribe finds itself in the midst of a great survival drama. He puts his finger on exactly what did not happen with the migration to the Internet. The Web is not a way to re-purpose content from other platforms - it's a way to engage, a completely different way of understanding what people think about, what they want to say and do.
One that moves to exponential results when the context is built with the community that wants to participate in mind. It did not happen for mainstream media in exactly the same way as it's not happening for companies. The shared part is also where the customers' use makes the product either a success or an utter failure. Why Are Bloggers Writing Shorter And Shorter Posts? - Web Develo. Have you noticed?
Bloggers these days seem to be writing shorter and shorter articles, with many of the longer ones artificially inflated with images. So what’s up with this trend? And why is it starting to dominate the industry? By DangApricot From The Experts: Go Short and Snappy! According to the experts, readers want simple easily-digestible content, that can be quickly read or scanned.
Realize that people have choices. So is short the way to go? The ability to write more frequently. But before you decide that short posts are for you, you should be aware of the benefits that you can have by writing longer posts. Forget The Experts: Why You Should Go The Distance Some of the most important reasons to write long articles include: And if you are concerned about losing potential readers because of the length, be sure to structure your post so that it appears shorter. Professional Blogging Tips.