Part of a series. Original version at AlexandraSamuel.com. In my recent blog post about how to sustain your social media presence in just 3 hours a week, I advise drafting 3 blog posts in under one hour. That may sound unimaginable if (like me) you've fallen into the habit of turning each blog post you write … Continue reading How to write a blog post in 10 minutes
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Creation and curation
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What Type Of Content Should My Company Produce?
Valuable to me, not to you. It has to be valuable to your consumers (not to you). All too often content produced at the corporate level is self-serving at best and thinly veiled advertising at worse. Unique perspective. While there is a ton of content that is based on similar content that already exists, no … Continue reading What Type Of Content Should My Company Produce?
Consume, create, connect!
John Jantsch recently wrote on the topic of "Profiting from other people's content". He says... "Don't be alarmed by that title -- I'm not talking about stealing content for gain, I'm talking about adding the filtering and aggregating of content to your content consumption, creation and sharing routine. Pretty much everyone has bought into the … Continue reading Consume, create, connect!
Personal brands vs. corporate brands…
"As the Millenial Generation comes online in the business world, corporate leaders will increasingly need to factor how-to deal with “personal brands” in their thinking. While we’ve all grown accustomed to the fact that prospective employers will be Googling us and scouring our Facebook profiles for incriminating photos, at some point the reverse will also … Continue reading Personal brands vs. corporate brands…
How To Provide Attribution in the Blogging World
Image by Old Shoe Woman via Flickr Though the Internet has no set guidelines for how to provide attribution, one rule is clear: Links are the currency of the Web. If you use someone else’s content, whether licensed directly or through fair use, it is important to be sure to provide a clickable link to … Continue reading How To Provide Attribution in the Blogging World
5 Steps to Reduce the Pain of Starting a Business Blog
Image by kk+ via Flickr Blogging can be intimidating for someone who hasn’t done it in the past or grown up in the age where everyone has a personal blog. It is, however, critical that business owners and marketers ‘blog for business.’ Putting pen to paper or more appropriately, putting fingers to your keyboard is … Continue reading 5 Steps to Reduce the Pain of Starting a Business Blog
Tumblr Leaves Posterous in the Dust [?!]
Image via CrunchBase Rising social media rockstar Kelly Neuville of Envano sent me an article from ReadWriteWeb [you can follow the 'via' link below the graph to the source and read the rest of the article if you're interested] that would seem to suggest at first glance that I should abandon my love of the … Continue reading Tumblr Leaves Posterous in the Dust [?!]
The importance of curation
From a 30,000 foot view, there are two types of bloggers; creators and curators. Let's talk about curation as an 'art' form..."Content aggregation (the automated gathering of links) can be seen on sites like Google News. Overall, this type of aggregation has been seen as a positive thing for content creators and publishers, and up … Continue reading The importance of curation
Creators and Curators
Image by Oversocialized via FlickrFrom my perspective, there are two main types of blog content; creation and curation..."The idea behind curators and content curation is that there is such a flood of new content pouring through the Internet pipes these days that being aware of all of it and sorting it out in meaningful ways … Continue reading Creators and Curators
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