Why Twitter and Blogging Go Hand in Hand

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I don’t think that Twitter will ever replace blogging or people will stop blogging because they are on Twitter. I think Twitter and blogging go hand in hand with one another. Twitter will always have that 140-character limitation and I don’t think they will increase the number of characters because 140-characters is actually the ideal [...]

Using Social Media To Build Your Community

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Social Media is ripe with places that we can connect and further enhance community. Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin and YouTube are a few of the big boys available for community building. The more places your readers see you and get to know you AND EACH OTHER, the better. Use the tools at your disposal. Here’s a [...]

A Blogging Snow Day

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I’m stuck in my house today. I’m writing this in my pajamas and it has nothing to do with my health and everything to do with the frozen water sticking to the streets around my neighborhood. I remember when I was a kid, snow days were one of the best things that I could imagine. [...]

7 Ways To Integrate Social Media Into Your Blogging

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So we talk a lot on here about blogging and rightly so, given the name and URL of the site. Today I’m going to give you a few ways to make sure that what you write actually reaches the people you’re aiming for. One thing you might not know about me is that I run [...]

5 Reasons Not to Give Up Your Blog Because of Twitter

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Have you been neglecting your blog? Are you spending time on social networking sites like LinkedIn, Facebook and twitter trying to “master” the way to make money and not spending time on your blog? Maybe someone told you that blogs are dead and it’s time to bury it? @Markwschaefer wrote a blog post regarding this [...]

Why Twitter and Facebook Are Not Replacing Blogging

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A recent post over at Forbes claims Facebook and Twitter are replacing blogging. Written by Jeff Bercovici, it uses statistics from the just-released State of the Blogosphere report by Technorati, one of the leading blog resources on the web. In the post, Jeff points out that Facebook and Twitter are replacing blogging with the argument [...]