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Your Bloggy Reading for Monday Morning

More links I’m not going to get around to posting about at length: ** Building an Audience For Your Blog Shane Richmond gives advice on building traffic, and some thought on what advantages branded blogging like My Telegraph offers. ** So What’s Brassneck? Speaking

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Work in Progress 3: Three Types of Journalist Blogs

Here’s the third in my series of guidance documents for journalists, hoping to ease their transition into the blogosphere. As ever, it’s posted here for advice, criticism or mockery… Expert Comment Many journalists assume that blogging is just a form of opinion

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Work in Progress 2: Joining The Conversation

Why should I bother joining in? You should bother, because you respect your readers. This is more important in trade journalism than most other forms of our profession. Our readers are also the people we write about. We are the intruders in their business,

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Work in Progress: Types of Blog Post

Types of Blog Post (and how to create them) The Link Post Blogs originated as weblogs or logs of people’s web travels. Each post was just a link with a small bit of commentary, to give the reader an idea of why it

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Forced Corporate Blogging

You know, whenever things get difficult doing the Web 2.0 thing within a traditional publisher (and I’ve just seen some more journalistic backlash – always fun), I come across something like this (sighted on Adriana’s revamped and rehoused blog) to make me

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You Don't Start Blogging, You Join In

The reason clichés become clichés is that clearly articulating ideas in an easily understood manner is actually pretty hard. When people hit on a really good formulation, they tend to stick to it. This has come home to me because I’ve spent the

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10 Ways to a Killer Blog

Spotted at Communication Nation.

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Get ahead, get a Headline

A discussion else-blog about the use of aggregators to read blogs got me thinking about headline-writing. It’s something we devote a lot of time and brain-power to in the magazine world. It’s our first and best chance to “sell” the feature to

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Good advice for the critical blogger

Some excellent advice from Mysterium Tremendum: If you’re going to be railing against the poor state of public education, the poor quality of teachers, and the general stupidity of the average student/teacher/school district/etc, at least: a) run spell check on