Corporate. Mitchjoel. Spam. Cleeng. Is Blogging Evolving Into Life Streams? Top Bloggers Spend Less Time Blogging I’ve noticed a gradual change in what we know as blogs when Scoble and Shel wrote the book on Naked Conversations.
Both of them are now focused on micromedia: Shel has an upcoming book on Twitterville, and Scoble spends more time promoting Friendfeed than his own blog. Secondly, I just learned that Edelman’s top blogger Steve Rubel has retired his traditional blog, and it’s now a life stream, which aggregates content from any source. Of course, I don’t need to mention that many of the top 100 blogs all look like mainstream media, with a team of writers, photographers, and editors. It seems as if blogging is becoming old hat, or at least evolving into something smaller, faster, and more portable. More Lifestreams Mean More Noise As more and more people create content on microchannels, we experience more ambient intimacy, but also a lot more data.
Steve Rubel’s switch to using Posterous (the tool that fuels his lifestreaming) makes sense for him. Social Media and PR across Asia. Guest blogging: Looking for guest bloggers or guest post? Join MyBlogGuest! Ghost Blogging And Last Rites. If there's one debate that never gets tired, it's the one about Ghost Blogging.
Shameless Blog Promotion: your ritual after writing a post. My Advice to Beginning Bloggers. Recently, my daughter Marissa asked my advice on starting a blog.
What I told her is very different from what I would have said a year ago. Many experienced bloggers might disagree with me, but I thought I would share my advice here. Photo courtesy of ©iStockphoto.com/melastmohican Many people get excited about blogging. When they start exploring the options, an entire world opens up to them. 10 Steps to Successful Video Blogging.
Have you considered video blogging?
In the age where online reality is replacing actual reality in every facet of our lives, having YOUR face behind YOUR virtual real estate is paramount for people to feel close(er) to you. This blog post will be your comprehensive guide. Why Video Blogging? Video blogging helps you build connections with your viewers like no other blogging format. How to Write Effective Blog Posts. Professional Blogging For Dummies Cheat Sheet. Cheat Sheet Maybe you have an idea for a blog but aren't sure where to start to make it a reality.
Perhaps you already have a blog but are looking for ways to expand your audience and make money from it. Improve your game by setting your blogging objectives, getting to know what types of content most blogs contain, developing an editorial mission, and discovering ways to make money from your blog. Blogging For Dummies Cheat Sheet. Cheat Sheet When you start a new blog, one of your most important decisions is choosing what blog software to use.
You also need to decide what type of blogger you’ll be. If You Only Do *Three Things in Social Media. As noted earlier, “Social Media Monitoring” is the ONE THING every company ought to be doing in Social Media.
“Setting a Social Media Policy” is #2. What’s the next biggest priority? Blogging. This answer is probably more controversial now than it was in the past, when blogging was all the rage (pre-Twitter, pre-Facebook). After all, success stories like @ComcastCares and @Zappos might suggest that an active Twitter presence is a short-form, high-speed, perfectly valid alternative to blogging. Blogging is, after all, a slow & muddy slog. Yea. 5 Ways to Make Friends with Strangers on Your Blog. 5 Ways to Use Social Media to Amplify Your Content. Your Blog Isn’t Special And You Have No Followers - SMG Helps Business Navigate the Social Web. There is a quaint notion surrounding social media that ‘everyone is special and every voice matters’.
This viewpoint is a powerful one: that every voice has an equal footing and every one deserves an equal audience. Every blog post, every tweet, every Scribd and Digg and Delicious item on the net needs a watch. Needs to be thought over. Responded to. Engaged with. “Whether you have a million readers or just a dozen,” goes the refrain, “your voice is just as important.” That’s a very nice, warm and comfortable notion. But it’s wrong. The plain truth of it all when it comes to social media for your organization; some people matter, some people don’t. Okay. Communications and Marketing do not have unlimited funds and one-on-one relationships can scale only so far. A Blog is a Better Social Media Hub Than Twitter. If you're relying on Twitter as your social media hub, you're limiting your potential for impact and influence.
Twitter is excellent for distribution, but if you're going to communicate original ideas, you'll need a blog (or something similar). The most influential people on Twitter are either already celebrities, create their own content, or both. Who do you see most often retweeted? Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. The promise, risks and reasons for liveblogging. 17 Statistics to Monitor on Your Blog [Day 30 - 31DBBB] " » Basic Do’s and Don’t’s for Corporate Bloggers" from Pro PR. I was asked to provide some advice on Corporate Blogging Do’s and Don’t's for an upcoming article in the Globe and Mail.
Here’s what I suggested: DO’s Listen first. Social media is about communities of interest. Meet the blogger, read the blog: five top tips to help readers get to know you « Brendan Cooper - Your friendly PR social media planner. Often, when going through blogs – as I do for example when looking at entries in the PR Friendly Index – I want to know more about the bloggers. I find it interesting to see what they do for a living, what they’re trying to achieve with the blog, and what sort of content to expect, as it all helps me decide whether or not to subscribe. But hardly any of them include this. Blogger and Webmaster Tools and Tips. How I Made the Blog A-List (And You Can To) It's official -- according to Technorati, and to Kineda's cool A-List Bloglebrity tool which uses it, I am now an A-List blogger: Now, that might not be all that interesting to you, except that I'm about to tell you exactly how I did it, and without working at it nearly as hard as Technorati suggests you might have to.
Technorati described their authority groupings in last October's State of the Blogosphere: The Very High Authority Group (500 or more blogs linking in the last 6 months) [aka, "The A-List"] In the final group we see what might be considered the blogging elite. This group, which represents more than 4,000 blogs, exhibits a radical shift in post frequency as well as blog age.
Bloggers of this type have been at it longer – a year and a half on average – and post nearly twice a day, an increase in posting volume of over 100% from the previous group. Guess what... The Basics - Write well, write often. Now... let's not stop here. 101 Steps to Becoming a Better Blogger - lifehack.org. I have noticed that the most successful bloggers online have all taken similar steps in becoming great bloggers.
After lotsof research and study, I can also tell you that blogging is much more complex than it seems to be on the surface. However, with a bit of effort, I believe anyone can become a successful blogger. Here are 101 steps to becoming a better blogger… 1. Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone. If you're not using Twitter yet, you may feel as if you've missed out. Twitter has not only tipped the tuna, but by some estimations, it has already jumped the shark. Don't be put off by its excessive popularity with SXSW geeks or by the whining of Twitter haters who missed the fun. Twitter is an interesting and practical real-time messaging system for groups and friends.
Micro Persuasion: Ten Blogging Hacks. The Clip Report: An eBook on the Future of Media In the early 1990s when I began my career in PR there were clip reports. These were physical books that contained press clips. It seems downright archaic now but that’s how I learned about the press - by cutting, pasting up and photocopying clippings. Disruptive Conversations: Design Requirements for a Corporate Blog Portal, v1.0 - what else do you think should be there?