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How to Write Blog Content For Your Readers (or Why Metrics are So Important)

Nov. 18, 2009

Note: This blog post is graphic-intensive. If you can not see images below, you may want to visit the blog directly.

The most important aspect to consider when writing blog posts is you.
I’d be lying if I wrote anything different.
You.
When I write blog content, I keep of a mental log of who you are, what keeps [...]

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Why My Twitter Account is Brand New – and What it Means for You

Oct. 1, 2009

I’m no stranger to changing Twitter strategies.
The last big shift occurred in April 2009 when I opted to automatically follow every person and organization who followed me, creating an identical match of numbers between those who followed me and those I followed. Two weeks later, I explained why I unfollowed everyone on Twitter–over 7,000 accounts–and [...]

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Can You Help Me?

Sep. 23, 2009

“Human beings have a tendency to want to help one another,” confesses Mitch Joel in the opening sentence of his plea to ask you to buy Six Pixels of Separation, his book that argues we’re no longer connected by six degrees, but far fewer links. It’s on my list of books to read.
Seth Simonds shares [...]

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Why I Use 22 Wordpress Plugins Today

Sep. 18, 2009

Every couple of months, I update you with a list of plugins I use on my self-hosted Wordpress blog. (I profiled 15 plugins in December 2008 and 23 plugins in March 2009.) Looking back six months, many plugins remain the same but I deactivated some and installed some more.

Akismet protects my blog from spam. Pre-installed [...]

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To Moderate Blog Comments or Not

Sep. 12, 2009

I want to confess something to you.
It’s not easy for me but I have to break a promise.
Eight months ago, I shared three strategies to keep me writing comments on your blog. I told you that blogs requiring registration or moderation, or preventing email notification of follow-up comments, were no no’s to me.
Many people added [...]

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How to Name Your New Blog

Aug. 12, 2009

So, you decided to start a blog. Congratulations!
What’s it called?
Is the name of your blog identical to your domain name or company name, like Dan Schawbel’s Personal Branding Blog, Stuart and Carla’s The Lost Jacket, Brian Clark’s CopyBlogger, or Kirsten Wright’s Wright Creativity?
Perhaps a snippet from your organizational name led to the blog name, such [...]

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How I Flawed and Why I Seek Your Help

Jun. 4, 2009

I received a one-line message a few days ago in my LinkedIn inbox:
Learn more and more from you everyday. Thank you!
I’ve been seeing a lot of these messages over the past few months–by email, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and in person–which make me blush and cause me to follow-up with something like this, which I returned [...]

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