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How Many Posts Will Make Your Blog Viable Without Becoming Too Much?
There is another important aspect to building your blog with credibility, search engine optimization (SEO), and readership, and it encompasses the idea of how much is too much in regards to posting frequency. I have gone in all directions for this topic personally. My personal blog The Parental Olympian has seen major fluctuations in posts […]
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The Future of Podcasting May Have Already Arrived
The Apple iPod has brought a great number of advancments to the world of portable music, but more importantly it has also brought to light recently the popularity and capability of a new form of blogging - the Podcast. With iTunes 5, Apple Computer brought Podcasting into the public’s eye with its support for […]
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In Need of Attention? Be Prepared to Give Your Time First
I spoke yesterday about the importance of networking your blog and one its components Attention:
What is the golden rule to get a person’s attention? Pay some attention to them! The same rule applies online. If you comment on a lot of other blogs and websites, and when I say comment I mean intelligent, conversation participation […]
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The Importance of Blog Networking
Building a network for your blog is not an easy task. It is a mix of a number of things including marketing, advertising, and networking with a lot of hard work thrown into the mix. Why, you ask, do I keep mentioning hard work? Because blogging is just that. It is […]
Trying to Sell Your Blog - Not So Fast
There has been a lot of buzz lately about the sale of two major Blog Networks - Gawker Media and Weblogs Inc., and the talk is justified with the dollar signs that were passed their way. Bloggers heads are spinning with the possibilities that they are now presented with, but I am cautiously optimistic. […]
Weblog Usability - Design Problems in the Blogosphere
What is usability? Not-so-simply stated, usability is the effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction with which users can achieve tasks in a particular environment of a product. High usability means a system is: easy to learn and remember; efficient, visually pleasing and fun to use; and quick to recover from errors (Dictionary.com).How does this fit in with […]
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Are professional bloggers the new freelance journalists?
I’ve been a professional blogger for well over a year now. Was I one of the first? I suppose I was. I was the first staff blogger for InsideBlogging. Currently I have the enviable title of Chief Blogging Officer (CBO) for Qumana Software Inc. So in my job and position I get to think a […]
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Portrait of a Professional Blogger
Jeremy Wright of the b5media.com has a great interview with Arieanna Foley. Arieanna is a professional blogger in every sense of the description. She currently writes for 16 different blogs and still finds time to actually drink coffee, read some books, and plan a wedding. Of course, I’m putting money on the […]
A Master of the Blog You Shall Be
It’s just a matter of time before corporate communications departments will have entire legions of bloggers, and those bloggers will be managed by a “Blogmaster” or Director of Blogging. Apparently, Yahoo has decided that it is time to gear up for just that kind of department. They are hiring a Blogmaster. [via Jeremy Zawodny […]
