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Building A Community Around Your Blog: Part 1 If you want your company to be known as an expert online you need to earn attention and credibility among the folks you want to engage with. The best way to do that is to start a blog – packed with relevant, compelling information that demonstrates passion and a unique point of view about your chosen subject. OK, check. Now what. The tools you use will depend on the nature of your subject matter and the people you want to engage with. How social works Imagine a hundred people sitting in a circle. So you talk to your neighbor. Then you both stop talking to listen to someone else. More people now turn to listen to you. Gradually more and more of the circle become aware of you. So how does this work in the real (or at least virtual) world. The trick is to discover where our metaphorical circle of 100 people is currently congregating online. 1: Social Network Sites First of all let’s take a look at the big 3 social networking sites that everyone is talking about right now”: Twitter is fun.

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PR Professionals: How to Determine a Mom Blogger’s Influence Without Asking Her « Jennifer James Online Yesterday my post, Why PR Professionals Shouldn’t Ask Mom Bloggers for Stats, got a lot of response from mom bloggers naturally because it is understandable to the community that asking for stats is borderline rude and also shows laziness because there are so many tools to determine a blogger’s influence that there is really no reason to ask; no reason to ask at all. Before I get into the tools to use, I want to emphasize to PR professionals that no list of numbers compares with actually reading mom blogs, meeting moms at conferences, conversing with mom bloggers on Twitter and simply sitting back and observing the community. Nothing compares to getting to know mom bloggers and gleaning a true feel for a mom’s influence irrespective of stats. Nothing. Without understanding the community you may find a blogger with a lot of numbers, but who may get into constant confrontations on Twitter. Yesterday, I mentioned the information you can find using online tools. Like this: Like Loading...

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