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6 Ways To Crush Blog Community Building Efforts

January 13, 2010

1. Focusing on only blogging about yourself, your services and other yakkity-yak “more about me” content.
2. Spending all your time disparaging other bloggers or your blog commenters.
3. Ranting of any kind.
4. Never asking questions of your readers.
5. Operating your blog like a clique or “inner circle” instead of openly engaging everyone who might want to chime in.
6. [...]

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Ten Social Media Ideas To Rid Yourself Of in the New Year

December 24, 2009
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1. Social media is all about quantity not quality.
2. Social media happens overnight and you just need a couple clever tweets to get the masses.
3. There are gurus (like Social Media Santa) that really exist and we need to be like lemmings and just do everything they say.
4. If I only post on my blog [...]

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Going from Naked Stick Figure to Fabulous

December 16, 2009
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Which came first the website or the blog?
While it’s important to have some sort of presence on the Web, the times they are a changin, for what drives search engine mojo.
Did you know you can have a blog self-hosted on your domain that can give you the very added bonus of driving natural search engine [...]

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How Not To Promote Your Book: Drive-By Blog Comments

December 15, 2009
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Because I come from an Internet journalist background, I felt compelled to post this comment below that I received on the post I did “I’m not Your Social Media Expert, and That Should Make You Happy” .
I very rarely do not approve a comment to my blog because it’s very important to keep the communication gates [...]

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Be an idea-marathoner…

November 3, 2009

“We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves…The more restricted our society and work become, the more necessary it will be to find some outlet for this craving for freedom. No one can say, ‘You must not run faster than this, or jump [...]

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Yakkity Yak Use A MindMap

October 22, 2009

One of the coolest ways to make sure you’re on target for the content focus you want to have on your blog is to use a mindmap program.
Not only will a mind map program help you improve your creativity, but it’s a fantastic blog brainstorming tool.
One of the best free tools out there to do [...]

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The Blog is Always Greener on the Other Side

October 20, 2009

Here are 7 tips to help you blog successfully.
1. The more you post, the more your blog visibility grows. Posting good content keeps the search engines happy and helps drive more traffic to your blog.
2. If you’ll commit to posting on a regular schedule (at least three times a week) for 52 weeks (a [...]

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Women do Rule the Web

October 3, 2009

This is why I love Mashable – they capture everything including Women Overtaking the Web. Go Women! Go Mashable – the single best resource on social media on the Web.

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Google’s SideWiki and a Side of Sass

October 3, 2009
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I highly recommend that you become familiar with how Google’s newly launched SideWiki

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Six Ways to Expand Your 2.0 Sociability

October 2, 2009
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Six Ways to Expand Your 2.0 Sociability…

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7 Ways To Beat Bloggers Block

October 1, 2009
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1. Make writing your blog a part of your day just like anything else. Don’t wait to be inspired. Set aside 30 minutes three times a week to write a blog post.
2. Read other bloggers – you’ll be inspired and it helps you understand what you can also add a topic that has not yet [...]

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Help I’ve Fallen into Web 2.0 and I Can’t Get Out

September 25, 2009
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I was reading my friend and inspiring mentor Kathy Caprino’s post on how all of us can and should ask for help when we need it, and it inspired me to write this post.
Kathy says, “Blogging, social media, and the digital movement aren’t bad.  What is bad, however, is that thousands of people who need [...]

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