Posts Tagged ‘blogging’

Does Your Company Support Your Blog?

As much as you think blogging and social networking are mainstream, corporate America has not caught up quite yet. Many companies are fearful that they are losing control of their brand -- and they are. Companies are trying to put together social media guidelines as quickly as possible, so that employees know what they can and cannot say online, concerning their brand. You've probably seen a blog… Continue reading

September 28 2009 | By Dan | Tagged: blogging, marketing, personal branding, social-media | 14 comments»

Command and Control Your Google Results

In my last post, I gave you an introduction to your Google results and forced all of you to Google your name. If you have a common name, you should use your middle name or brand yourself relative to a topic ; if you have a unique name, you are in a position to own your results page quite easily.Many of you will get random results when you… Continue reading

February 26 2009 | By Dan | Tagged: blogging, brand, google, identity, personal branding, social-network | 4 comments»

Confessions of a Lazy Blogger

/caption] When I first started blogging a few years ago, I went through a series of stages that most authors can appreciate.

Wow, I'm online!
Ok, now what do I say regularly?
This is really easy!
People are actually reading me?
Better check my stats...
Better recheck my stats...

And so it goes. In those early days life was simple and something like blog stats meant a lot to me. I joined a few networks and… Continue reading

January 23 2009 | By Mike | Tagged: blogging, laziness, simplicity, work-life balance | 11 comments»

Obama’s Top Ten Tips For Video Blogging

I started a video blog documenting my journey fighting breast cancer across America. President-elect Barack Obama started a video blog documenting how he plans to implement change in America . What do we have in common? Absolutely nothing; His vlog is way better.So if you are like me and want to video blog like Obama, I offer these tips that I picked up from watching the President-elect's weekly… Continue reading

December 23 2008 | By Brandon | Tagged: blogging, obama, video, video_blog, vlogging | 1 comment»

Top 10 Web Apps in 2008

Here at Lifehack, we like to review the web apps that were released over the course of the year and see how they went — which apps stood the test of time and remained popular after the hype of their launch had subsided? In this article, we'll look at ten apps that did particularly well and provide users with a valuable services. I've tried to craft a rational list —… Continue reading

December 22 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: blogging, lists, music, video, web-apps | 14 comments»

How to Build Credibility on the Web

There are literally millions of voices on the Internet. Blogs, Social networks, micromessaging services like Twitter, instant messaging services, email, wikis, forums, and dozens of technologies I haven’t even heard of – and dozens more to come – give us all an unprecedented ability to be heard.But with all those voices clamoring for attention, how do you stand out from the crowd? More importantly, once you get someone’s attention, how… Continue reading

September 22 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: blogging, credibility, internet, self-promotion, twitter, website | 23 comments»

4 Reasons Why Blogging is a Noble Passion

I initially began the blog with a 20% desire to help others, and 80% to cynically make the kind of money the A-list bloggers are making. - Urban Monk.net I stumbled upon an interesting blog, Urban Monk, several days ago. As I read the brief history of the blog, I felt harmony with the passion and motivation that the author, Albert, has for the blogging.I began blogging four months ago with… Continue reading

June 24 2008 | By Shilpan | Tagged: blogging, connection, passion, relationship | 21 comments»

10 Ways to Pimp Your Blog

A couple months ago, I wrote a newbie's guide to blogging to help you get started with blogging. If you've been blogging for a little while now, you might be looking at how you can take the next step. To that end, this post offers 10 ways to "pimp" your blog, both in the sense of "tricking out" your blog to make it more attractive and more useful… Continue reading

April 23 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: blog, blogging, Communication, community, marketing, promotion | 36 comments»

The Newbie Guide to Blogging

We live in a blogging world. Whether you're a business startup, an established business, a freelancer, an intern, a musician, or anyone else, blogging can help you:

Make your name or brand visible
Connect with others in your business or interest
Reach out to the public about issues you're passionate about
Express yourself
Update clients or an audience about projects you're working on
Share your knowledge
Learn to write better
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February 25 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: blog, blogging, Communication, software, tool, web-app | 69 comments»

How To Use Your Blog To Make 2008 Your Best Year Ever!

Introspection, and self-actualization are two thought processes that are very unique to the human species. You may be surprised to learn that one of the best ways to discover your potential is to somehow keep track of your progress as well as your thoughts in various instances of life. The reason that blogging happens to be the perfect medium for recording such ideas is that it's much more than… Continue reading

January 11 2008 | By Alex | Tagged: blogging, creativity, writing | 34 comments»

9 Ways to Get More Out of Windows Live Writer

Chances are, if you're a blogger, you've heard about Microsoft's free blogging tool, Windows Live Writer (WLW). In case you haven't heard about it, WLW is an offline WYSIWIG (What You See Is What You Get) blogging tool that integrates very nicely with most blogging platforms, allowing you to create and edit blog posts from your desktop. Although it is usually great fun to mock Microsoft's efforts… Continue reading

December 3 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: blogging, software, tool, windows_live_writer, writing | 32 comments»

Getting Attention by doing a Good thing

In our era where there's a million new things on the web everyday competing for attention, how do you get attention? Do Good.Take for instance Collis Ta'eed, an Australian freelance web designer, who like just about every other web designer started one of those Web 2.0 sites. Nice, but nothing special, just another blip on the swiftly flowing information river. He decides to do something Good.He creates out of nothing… Continue reading

October 15 2007 | By Bob | Tagged: attention, blogging, good | 3 comments»

Your Blog Is Your Resume

When you meet someone, like a client or peer, do you immediately Google them? I don't exactly do that, but when I was responding to internet ads for sharehousing I found myself submitting people's emails into Myspace's people search.It's amazing what you can find out about a person through these things, and you should be weary of that, because employers do the same thing.Your blog is serious business. It… Continue reading

July 9 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: blogging, resume | 30 comments»

17 Firefox Extensions That Make Blogging Easy

The great thing about the Firefox browser is when you have a problem, there is usually a solution in the form of an extension. As a blog writer, I've been using a few that smooth out the experience and get rid of a few annoyances.Here are a few suggestions.CollectingGoogle Notebook - Highlight the content you want to save, Note it with this extension. You can organize different… Continue reading

June 1 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: blogging, extensions, firefox, writer | 125 comments»

10+ Powerful Sales Concepts For Blogging Success

Selling Subscriptions to Your BlogIf you're giving away subscriptions for free, why is it so hard to get subscribers? Well, because there is a cost to subscribing, and the cost is in the form of people's most valuable currency, time. If you want more RSS subscribers to your blog, then you will need to sell those subscriptions. How do you do that? Simple. You use the same sales… Continue reading

May 30 2007 | By K. | Tagged: blogging, branding, feed, rss, sales, subscription | 10 comments»

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