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Blogging Helps Socially Awkward Teens
Blogging is often considered self-indulgent and the Internet a threat to teenage mental health. But a new study finds that adolescents with social problems who blog may benefit from the added social connectivity. Previous research shows that simply writing about personal misfortune can be healing— and that breaking down a traumatic experience into a coherent narrative is often a key part of recovering from conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other after-effects of trauma, like depression. The new study, however, finds that online writing may be even more helpful, at least for teenagers who feel isolated and have difficulty socializing. MORE: Kids Sexting May Not Be as Big a Problem as We Thought The teenagers were assigned to one of six groups. All of the writing groups showed significant improvement after ten weeks of blogging, as rated by their own reports of feeling better and socializing more and by experts who did not know their group assignments.
How to Become a Freelance Hard-Ass and Get Paid What You’re Worth
9inShare40 Want to learn how to turn your passion into a revenue-generating business and make an impact? Join Brazen Careerist for an innovative online bootcamp for aspiring entrepreneurs called The Big Idea, March 6-31. One of the big challenges of launching your career as a freelancer is figuring out how much to charge – and convincing potential clients you’re worth that amount. Do you start at $15/hour? About five years ago — maybe one year before the recession hit — I quit my full-time job in book publishing to go full-time freelance. But as thrilling as the switch from nylons to bunny slippers was, building up a strong client base was tough, and I struggled for years to figure out how much I was worth — and how to find editors willing to pay it. When the recession happened, I realized I had to diversify, so I got my career coaching certification. In both cases, I was afraid. I suppose that last question was at the crux of it all, especially in the case of my coaching practice. 1. 2.
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ComScore’s 2011 Social Report: Facebook Leading, Microblogging Growing, World Connecting
You already know that social networking sites have been getting huge around the world, but an annual report out today from comScore shows what exactly is going at a wonderful new level of detail, with surprises for even long-time industry watchers like me. 1 in every 5 minutes of time online is now being spent on social networking sites, up from a mere 6% in early 2007. The sites, led by Facebook, now reach 82% of the world’s internet-using population — about 1.2 billion people in total. Within these big numbers, though, all sorts of differences emerge. Facebook itself is making up the largest portion of all this usage — even as all sorts of rivals and alternatives are surging. But Facebook is running out of new users in North America and Western Europe simply because it has so much of these markets already (even though it’s not running out of users’ attention). The microblogging service has grown by 59% in the past year to reach 160 million monthly unique users worldwide.
Which Blogging Platform Should I Use?
Joomla is primarily a CMS, which, as a side option, may also double as a blog. Wordpress is the other way around. Its primarily a blogging platform, and additionally, with a few hackles, may double up as a CMS. I'm with you on absolutely HATING WordPress. Many sites are misinforming users and stating that WordPress is a good CMS - WRONG! Yes, there are countless plugins and things to make WP into a fully fledged CMS, but it's a blogging platform. Yes, there is a ton of help to solve most issues with those plugins and customizing WP. I'd tried Joomla, Drupal, and well over a dozen others. I have been using ExpressionEngine for several years now. For blogging, I DO encourage people to try WP. For building a complex site where any data can be content and a chronologically styled blog style is not desired, then EE is what I use and recommend to my clients. EDIT > add: Everyone loves free and open source.
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The Art Of The Live Blog
Earlier this year Anthony DeRosa was working on the agency side of Reuters, managing its API, when editors on the news side heard of his side project, a news blog on Tumblr called Soup that had cracked the top 25 of all tumblogs tracked by Compete--more than 2.3 million of them. In addition to his popularity on Tumblr--Mashable anointed his blog one of top tumblers of 2008--DeRosa was also a respected member of the Twitterati, with NBC New York naming him one of the "20 individuals who shape the local conversation." In July Reuters named him social media editor with the edict to extend Reuter's brand, attract more people to its news, and assist its reporters and editors in using social media. Recently, I caught up with DeRosa at Thomson Reuters headquarters in Times Square, New York. FAST COMPANY: What does a social media editor do? ANTHONY DEROSA: That's a good question. You're lucky I didn't ask you, "What's social media?" Oh, god. What platforms? Mining it. Yeah, that's the thing.
26 Tips for Writing Great Blog Posts
Do you blog? Feel like you’re trying to reinvent the wheel time and again? Looking for some ideas to simplify your content creation process? What follows are 26 tips, from A-Z, to help you create optimal blog posts every time you sit down to write. #1: Anatomically Correct A blog post contains several areas that require our attention and care. Eye-catching titleIn-text links to landing pagesSidebar/banner calls to actionSocial sharing buttonsCall to action at the bottomRelevancy—making sure the post is relevant from top to bottom Parts of the blog anatomy. Example of more anatomical parts to include in your blog posts. #2: Blogging Platform By knowing the ins and outs of your blogging platform, you’ll ensure that your posts look as good as they can. Whether you’re working in platforms such as WordPress, Tumblr or Posterous, it’s good to stay up to date on the features and new versions. WordPress' editor where you can toggle between visual and HTML editing functions. #3: Categories #4: Description
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