44 Must Read Resources on Content Marketing The term “content marketing” sounds like a hip buzzword to describe the latest marketing craze, but in reality, the concept has been around since the first newsletters came rolling off the presses. And if there’s one single reason why companies around the world continue to incorporate “content marketing strategies” into their yearly plans – it’s because it has been working for hundreds, if not thousands of years! Let’s go over a short recap as to why content marketing is a good marketing strategy to employ for today’s online audience: Show You’re an Authority on a Subject – When you offer unbiased and valuable information on a given subject matter, you earn trust with people who visit your blog or website. The following resources below will help anyone learn about why content marketing is important to any business and how to get the most of it. For Beginners For beginners to people looking for primers on content marketing, these links will get you on the right track. 1. Writers block. 14.
Why Google+ is Good For Business – and the Stats to Prove it [Infographic] Get ready for some proof that Google+ is important for your business. It’s the final day of infographic week based on our Ultimate Guide to Marketing with Infographics, and I’ll be sharing our fourth infographic example using the 12 steps that make marketing data visualization easier. This time I’ll be running through why you should be using Google+ for your business. Don’t forget the tweetable facts taken from the infographic at the end of the post. But I don’t want a 3rd sock! Add Google+ as your third business marketing sock. That title was the best quote heard at last years SEOmoz MOZcon conference – in reference to Google+ being an unnecessary extra social network after Twitter and Facebook. “On Air” video hangouts are great for broadcasting and chatting with people en masse – you can use them to train existing customers on using your product or just have an open Q&A session. And if you happen to be a Red Hot Chili Peppers fan (and a guy), you’ll know what to do with that third sock.
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.
13 Idea-Starters for Stuck Bloggers The dreaded “writer’s block” afflicts us all from time to time. I struggle with it almost weekly. Occasionally, I have an easy run of several days, when the ideas seem to flow effortlessly. But that is rare. Most weeks, I get stuck at least once or twice. Photo courtesy of ©iStockphoto.com/pmphoto So what do I do? Tell a personal story. Next time you get stuck, you might want to pull this list out and review it. Question: what other idea-starters do you use as a blogger or a writer?
Empower Guatemalan mothers One in six indigenous girls in Guatemala complete the 6th grade. This is because the majority of indigenous Guatemalans live below the extreme poverty line, and parents can’t afford the school fees and costs of uniforms and books. Kids are also needed to help work and support the family. Traditional development efforts approach the effects, not the causes, of this kind of cyclical poverty. Mercado Global empowers indigenous women in Guatemala to break out of poverty and become rural entrepreneurs, hand-crafting products for companies like Levi’s out of their own homes and growing their community businesses. And the success has been staggering: so far, over 2,000 indigenous children have gained the opportunity to go to school because of this award-winning model. You can help: 1.
The origin of personas The Inmates Are Running the Asylum, published in 1998, introduced the use of personas as a practical interaction design tool. Based on the single-chapter discussion in that book, personas rapidly gained popularity in the software industry due to their unusual power and effectiveness. Had personas been developed in the laboratory, the full story of how they came to be would have been published long ago, but since their use developed over many years in both my practice as a software inventor and architectural consultant and the consulting work of Cooper designers, that is not the case. Since Inmates was published, many people have asked for the history of Cooper personas, and here it is. In their book, Fire in the Valley, authors Paul Freiberger and Mike Swaine, credit me with writing the “first serious business software for microcomputers” as far back as 1975. I was writing a critical-path project management program that I called “Plan*It.”
When's the Best Time to Blog & Share? Anyone who spends their day on the Internet inevitably wonders this question. Should I start publishing later in the day, to hit the after-work traffic? Should I publish earlier in the morning, to catch commuters while they're on the way to work? Or is everything completely random, driven by the off-chance that a post will end up on StumbleUpon and enjoy a slightly longer tail? Social sharing widget Shareaholic looked at its 2011 data, breaking it down to the top 100 days and times for sharing. See the results in Eastern Standard Time. Shareaholic looked at two metrics: social shares and traffic. Thursday beats every other day. As most blogs know, the best time of day for social shares is between 8am and 12pm ET. Image via UrbanHomesPDX.com.
10 tips for (reticent) bloggers A colleague who teaches writing, draws incredible poetry and prose out of her students. Yet she has what she calls ‘writer’s blog’ (block) which prevents her from starting a blog. Another has just had an incredible learning experience and spent four hours organizing her thoughts and experiences by writing blog posts… despite not having a blog, as she feels uncertain whether others will be interested in what she writes. It seems they are not alone… When I started blogging, I struggled to find my voice. 10 tips for reticent new struggling teacher student bloggers… Write in your own voice, as if you are talking to people you know.Don’t over-think and over-plan, just write what’s in your head. Like this: Like Loading...
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The Cannes Mobile Lions winners 2012: the award-winning mobile campaigns with case studies and videos Awards: Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity Founded: 1954. Deadline for entries: 9 March 2012. Entry fee (for Mobile Lions): €399 (US $528.65) for international entries €478.80 (US $634.37) for UK entries Winners announced: 19 June 2012. Prize: (much coveted) Lion trophy. mobiThinking verdict: mobiThinking has been campaigning for years for a Mobile Lions category at Cannes, so it’s good to see it attract a whopping 965 entries in the inaugural year. In 2010 and 2011 , we collated all the mobile campaigns across the various Lions categories, which gave a good indication of what was to come this year. The quality and variety of winners is pretty impressive. • Guide to mobile awards • World Summit Mobile Awards • EMMAs • Smarties (MMA Awards) • Global Mobile Awards • Cannes Lions • Meffys • Webby Awards • Cannes Lions • Grand Prix winners Nike+ Fuelband (USA) Awards: Titanium Grand Prix; Cyber Grand Prix. Hilltop re-imagined for Coca-Cola (USA) Awards: Grand Prix Mobile Lion.
Starting a blog? 12 ideas for blog posts I’m currently writing a chapter on blogging for a book on online journalism [ UPDATE: Now published ]. It includes 12 typical blog post types to kickstart ideas. Here are the examples I came up with – I’d welcome any more: Point 6 UPDATED January 20 2012 in response to this blog post (I’m now wondering: was that linkbait? ). : the best way to start blogging: simply link to something elsewhere that you feel is interesting, or (better) that you disagree with. : for a story or for a way of doing things . : a straightforward and easy way to create a post. : attend a relevant event – a conference, meeting, public talk, demonstration, or even just a conversation – and write about it. : this typically only works once you’ve established a readership and generated goodwill by contributing yourself on your blog and in comments on other blogs, or if it’s for a worthy cause. : there are two ways you can pick a fight on your blog – one good, and one bad.
Skazka ob Ivanie Durakie i ego dvukh bratiakh; Semenie-voinie i Tarasie-briukhanie i niemo sestrie Malanie, i o starom diavolie i trekh cherteniatakh : Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910 eBook and Texts > Canadian Libraries > University of Toronto - Robarts Library > Skazka ob Ivanie Durakie i ego dvukh bratiakh; Semenie-voinie i Tarasie-briukhanie i niemo sestrie Malanie, i o starom diavolie i trekh cherteniatakh View the book (~58 pg)Read Online (3.5 M)PDF (2.7 M)B/W PDF (178.0 K)EPUB(~58 pg)Kindle(~58 pg)Daisy (84.0 K)Full Text (1.6 M)DjVu All Files: HTTPS Torrent (2/0) Help reading texts Resources Bookmark Skazka ob Ivanie Durakie i ego dvukh bratiakh; Semenie-voinie i Tarasie-briukhanie i niemo sestrie Malanie, i o starom diavolie i trekh cherteniatakh (1892) fullscreen Author: Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910 Publisher: Leptsig, Gergard Language: RussianCall number: AFF-6196Digitizing sponsor: University of TorontoBook contributor: Robarts - University of TorontoCollection: robarts; toronto Full catalog record: MARCXML This book has an editable web page on Open Library. Description On cover: Izdanie dozvolennoe avtorom26 Selected metadata
How to Blog: Blogging Tips for Beginners Update: See our more recently published posts on the topic of starting a blog at How to Start a Blog in 5 Easy Steps and how to make money blogging. Welcome to my How to Blog – Blogging Tips for Beginners Guide. On the page below you’ll find links to a series of how to blog tips that I’ve written with blogging for beginners (and ‘Pre’ Bloggers) in mind. It unpacks the basics of blogging and a lot of the decisions and strategies that you’ll want to consider when setting up and starting a blog. How to Blog – My Ultimate Guide to Blogging for Beginners Since developing this series I’ve produced a book specifically for beginner bloggers. Lastly- if you enjoy these posts and want to keep in touch with ProBlogger – subscribe via our RSS feed. Blogging Tips for Beginners Introductory Posts Blog Design Tips Tips for Writing Content for Blogs Tips on Making Money from Blogs Blog Networks Other Beginner Blogging Tips Want more Blogging Tips for Beginners? 1.