Posts tagged: blogging

Blogging for Fun

Even though blogging can be utilized for a variety of other purposes such as generating income, promoting a cause and providing data there are numerous bloggers who appreciate blogging merely due to the fact it is fun. These bloggers get pleasure from blogging for reasons like staying in touch with friends, expressing themselves or keeping a record of crucial events. This article will explain how blogs can be used for these purposes.

Blogging to Stay in Touch with Friends

Staying in touch with friends and family members is just 1 of the numerous reasons a person may perhaps wish to begin a blog. This is specially helpful for those that move far away from their friends and family members. Staying in touch by phone, normal visits and even email isn’t always effortless. This is mainly because it can be difficult to keep up long distance interactions with various distinctive people at once. However, by maintaining a blog, an individual can significantly simplify the process of staying in touch with friends and family members since they do not need to repeat information in individual phone calls or emails or make time to go to a number of different people.

When maintaining a blog, the individual can pick to post many different information and facts and photos. Via this info and photos the blog owner can keep others informed about current events in his life. Friends and family members can view the blog at their convenience to catch up on essential events in the blog owner’s life and in most cases can post comments to the blog owner. They may also read comments from others. This is beneficial if those viewing the blog know each other since they can not just stay in touch with the blog owner but also have a chance to communicate with other friends and family members via the comments section of the blog.

Blogging as a Form of Expression

Some bloggers start blogging as a form of expression. They may perhaps right poetry, songs, short stories or even use the blog to vent about personal events or politics. These bloggers may perhaps wish to maintain their blog private or can make the blog readily available to the public. Keeping the blog private is sort of like keeping a diary or a journal. It gives the blogger a multi-media form of expressing himself with out the risk of others discovering his true feelings, innermost dreams or frustrations. Other bloggers opt to make these blogs public. This may possibly be for a variety of diverse reasons. Sharing these feelings with other people allows the blogger to reach other people who may well have the same interest as the blogger.

Bloggers who use their blog as a form of personal expression may desire to be cautious and take into consideration the decision to make a blog public. This is vital simply because the blog owner could initially not see issues with permitting others to view his personal thoughts. However, over time he may recognize his blog could either be offensive to other people or could result in complications if friends or family members view the blog.

Blogging to Keep a Record of Events

Another widespread reason for blogging is to keep a record of essential events. Examples of some kinds of events which a blogger may wish to document contain a pregnancy, weddings, vacations, sporting events or completion of school events. Utilizing blogs to maintain a record of these events gives the blogger an chance to record daily events in 1 uncomplicated location where they can effortlessly look back on the blog or share the postings with other people who may well be interested inside the events. In these cases the blog can serve as a form of scrapbook documenting the events as they happen. The blog owner can post as typically as he desires and may well select to include elements for instance photos, music, audio files and video files into the blog. The blog can also be created to suit the events being documented. For example a journal depicting a vacation could have backgrounds, fonts and colors representing the vacation location although a pregnancy blog may possibly feature elements which represent pregnancy, babies and being parents. 

Social Media Marketing: True Fans & Online Community-Building Lessons

http://www.thrillingheroics.com/how-to-turn-your-true-fans-into-your-worst-enemies

Last week I made a public statement about a falling-out with a community I care a lot about. Here is some feedback from Ben Yoskovitz (StandoutJobs.com) and others about my statement, and some lessons I’ve distilled on how to treat your True Fans.

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Blog SEO Tip – Put Keyword in Title – Social Media Marketing

This is the first in a series of McBuzz Blog SEO tips. It shows how to use keywords in your blog so that people can find you in search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN/Live Search. If you only have time to do a few things to optimize blog posts, do these first! (SEO, as you probably know, stands for search engine optimization.)

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Chris Brogan: Social media & Business strategy – Marketing Agency

http://www.murraynewlands.com/2009/10/chris-brogan-an-interview/ Chris Brogan of ChrisBrogan.com is President of New Marketing Labs, a new media marketing agency, and home of the Inbound Marketing Summit conferences and Inbound Marketing Bootcamp educational events. Chris Brogan works with large and mid-sized companies to improve online business communications like marketing and PR through the use of social software, community platforms, and other emerging web and mobile technologies. For more information on this, please contact Chris directly.

Chris is co-author of the book Trust Agents, with Julien Smith.

Bio

Chris Brogan is a ten year veteran of using social media and both web and mobile technologies to build digital relationships for businesses, organizations, and individuals. Chris speaks, blogs, writes articles, and makes media of all kinds at [chrisbrogan.com], a blog in the top 10 of the Advertising Age Power150, and in the top 100 on Technorati. He is co-author of the book Trust Agents.

Chris is also the cofounder of the PodCamp new media conference series, exploring the use of new media community tools to extend and build value.

He recently became president of New Marketing Labs, a social media agency. He runs the Inbound Marketing Summit events with CrossTech Media. Chris frequently speaks at and attends marketing and social media events, sharing his passion for all things social media.

Chris won the Mass High Tech All Stars award for thought leaders for 2008. He has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, US News & World Report, The Montreal Gazette, Newsweek, and some other places.

(Use the above for a short form speaker bio, and cut out whatever you want, should you need such). : )

More About Chris Brogan

http://www.murraynewlands.com/2009/10/chris-brogan-an-interview/

Prior to these roles in the media and events space, Chris had over 16 years of telecommunications experience in wireless and landline technologies, including enterprise software and hardware experience, project management expertise, and applications/solutions engineering experience, as well.

Speaking

If youre looking for a speaker, check out his Speaking information page. Chris speaks on topics such as social media in the enterprise, second circle technologies, which Internet technologies businesses should consider adopting, why video online matters to your business, and much more.

What Chris Has Done

If youre wondering why youre bothering to read anything Chris writes, here are a few bullet points of things that hes done in his past that might be relevant:

Won the Mass High Tech All Stars award for 2008.
Blogged since 1998 (when it was called journaling).
Recorded several podcasts, and launched a small new media network in 2006.
Videoblogged in several forms, including Small Boxes and AttentionUPGRADE.
Built data centers, released software, acquired companies, and all kinds of other fun projects while working for a wireless telecommunications company.
Launched the PodCamp unconference series with Christopher S. Penn.
Programmed and hosted the Video on the Net conference in 2007.
Worked on an Internet video startup with Jeff Pulver in 2007.
Collaborated on tons of social media and social networks projects over 2007.
Disclosures and Relationships

I work for New Marketing Labs, LLC, a social marketing and media company.
I am co-Founder of PodCamp, an unconference series.
I am on the Advisory board for Utterz
I am on the Advisory board for The Conversation Group
I am on the Advisory board for Hubspot
I am on the Advisory board for IZEA
I sometimes use Amazon Affiliate links to point to books Ive reviewed.
I am an affiliate for Chris Pearsons DIY Themes site for the Thesis theme. (Because I think the theme rules!)

I am an affiliate for Teaching Sells, from Brian Clark (Because I think the product is worth it).
My site is hosted gratis by Rackspace Cloud.
I am an affiliate for The Biz Web Coach (Jims a friend)
I have occasionally put affiliate sales links in posts older than 10 days. If they are explicit ads for a specific product, they are products or services I endorse. Those links are explicit.
If they are Google Adsense, its whatever Google thought was relevant.
I took money for an ad from CEA
I took money for an ad from eBillMe
Pure Digital gave me a Flip video camera to review.
Nikon USA gave me a D60 to review (later to purchase).
Garmin sent me a Nuvi 200 to review (to be returned).
BatchBlue gave me an upgraded account to review.
FreshBooks gave me an upgraded account to review.
Pipeline Deals gave me an upgraded account.
Saddleback Leather sent me a messenger bag to review.
Kodak sent me a Zx1 to play with, and then the new one .. forget the name.

I am sent NUMEROUS books to review. Ill only review the ones I like, unless I suspect you might like it, too.

http://www.murraynewlands.com/2009/10/chris-brogan-an-interview/

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Social Media Marketing “Expert” Profile #1 “The Uppity” Type (A Parody)

Does This Social Media Marketing Expert Haunt You In Your Dreams When You Sleep At Night?

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My Video Story – Team Wolf Pack

Through hard work and the support of my wife and new friends I know that success is destine to happen. Our goal is to make sure that each and every member succeeds in life.

http://geronimorubio.com

http://geronimorubio.com/wolf-pack

http://www.myspace.com/geronimo_rubio

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Social Media Marketing…Don’t get left behind!

Social media marketing is the new communication and marketing method for smart companies and people. The pursusive people are the influencers of buying decisions around the world. SEO/SEM, Web Design and Publishing Systems, Integrated Social Media Solutions provided by Compliments International, LLC. Http://www.complimentsinternational.com

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An Example of Social Media Marketing Done Right

How HeadBlade engages its customers through social media. A good example for you to learn from in your own business.

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How to Start an Internet Business – Video 5 of 10

“Planning and Creating Content to Drive Traffic to Your Website”. This is video 5 in a series of 10 videos about how to start an internet business from scratch. From SubHub (http://www.subhub.com), membership site experts.

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How to Start an Internet Business – Video 2 of 10

The 2nd video in a 10 video course about how to start an internet business from scratch. In this video you will learn about choosing a subject and domain name for your money making website. From SubHub (http://www.subhub.com), membership site experts.

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