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What Next? Chop Wood and Carry Water

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See if I can once again piss off Brian Clark with a mild, well-intentioned criticism of his excellent blog. I’ll keep doing what I’ve done all along on this blog: covering with an analytical eye the intersection of new media with B2B publishing and communications. But then I realized that I sort of already do that.).

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A Lesson from the Digital Productivity Terrorists

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Doctorow’s intent, I think, is to inspire, but his example is just as likely to depress. And yesterday, B2B editorial consultant (and—full disclosure—my long-time mentor) Howard Rauch tweeted that “continuously overloading B2B editors with digital responsibilities undoubtedly is key reason why original content is dying a slow death.”.

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Hear a Buzzword? Demand a Definition

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More often that not, these vogue words mask either fuzzy thinking or unethical intentions–or sometimes both. The real value lies in being reminded that we should always demand a definition when a colleague advises us to do more in content marketing or to take on native advertising. Ask for a definition.

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The Loneliness of the Digital Content Creator: Validating Your Work

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But I also think it’s a mistake to leave the validation of your work entirely up to readers who happen to stop by your blog in search of something you have no intention of offering. Related posts: Can Printcasting Print-on-Demand Work for B2B? I don’t disagree. Here’s another that might work for you. But it helps.

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The Loneliness of the Digital Content Creator: Validating Your Work

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But I also think it’s a mistake to leave the validation of your work entirely up to readers who happen to stop by your blog in search of something you have no intention of offering. Related posts: Can Printcasting Print-on-Demand Work for B2B? I don’t disagree. Here’s another that might work for you. But it helps.

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Ethics: Transparency Is Not All

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In a comment today on a recent B2B Memes blog post, “ Content Marketing’s PR Problem ,” a reader by the dubious name of Ant Miles raises an interesting point about content marketing and journalism. As Miles notes, journalism is often biased in hidden ways by PR and marketing. In content marketing, that bias tends to be more transparent.

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Social Media and the Perils of Monetization

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For B2B professionals, mixing social media and business requires a delicate balance of giving and selling, sharing and monetizing. But when I asked him about it over Twitter, he expressed surprise at the change and emphasized that it was not intentional. Are profits and social media compatible?