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Blog Comments as Social Currency

31 August 2010

When I peruse blogs every day, I find a lot of stuff I like, some stuff I don’t like, and a little bit that I really like.  Like enough to warrant a comment, anyway.  But I don’t always comment.  I read through the comments first, and see if someone already said what I am planning [...]

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Free and Fast Market Research and Keyword Research

5 August 2010

If you’re looking to spin up quickly on a topic, understand keywords or related (secondary) words to a search term, find out what a person talks about, or want to do some market research, keep reading.  You can use two free tools (Twitter and Wordle) to give you a graphical representation of content, all in [...]

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Blogging Guidelines, encore: After The Fact…

10 March 2010

This is part five of a five-part series I’m writing.  The five parts are homework, being mindful when writing, mechanics, promotion, and follow-up.   The first installment also has a bit more of an introduction that sets up the what/why of this. This section discusses a few things an author can do once the post has [...]

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Blogging Guidelines, Part 4: Promoting Your Blog

8 March 2010

This is part four of a five-part series I’m writing.  The five parts are homework, being mindful when writing, mechanics, promotion, and follow-up.   The first installment also has a bit more of an introduction that sets up the what/why of this. This section lists some suggestions to go about promoting a post once you have it [...]

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Blogging Guidelines, Part 3: Steps To Do For Every Post

5 March 2010

This is part three of a five-part series I’m writing.  The five parts are homework, being mindful when writing, mechanics, promotion, and follow-up.   The first installment also has a bit more of an introduction that sets up the what/why of this. This section lists the steps that should be strongly considered for every post.  Note that [...]

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Blogging Guidelines, Part 2: Things to Keep In Mind When Writing Your Post

3 March 2010

This is part two of a five-part series I’m writing.  The five parts are homework, being mindful when writing, mechanics, promotion, and follow-up.   The first installment also has a bit more of an introduction that sets up the what/why of this. Here we talk about the things to keep in mind when thinking about and [...]

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