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The Loneliness of the Digital Content Creator: Validating Your Work

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I’ve hit the “publish” button thinking to myself, “this could well be my best Blog post to date,” only to find out a short while later that nobody cared. agreeing to publish our work in the first place.”. Here’s another that might work for you. However: be your own best reader.

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The Loneliness of the Digital Content Creator: Validating Your Work

B2B Memes

I’ve hit the “publish” button thinking to myself, “this could well be my best Blog post to date,” only to find out a short while later that nobody cared. agreeing to publish our work in the first place.”. Here’s another that might work for you. However: be your own best reader.

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Writing for the Web: The Human Algorithm and Zero-Sum SEO

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If you want your content to work, write for people, not for search engines. In the course of a wandering and inconclusive presentation on writing for the Web, one of my fellow audience members asked the room, “Does anyone here think SEO isn’t important?” I was reminded of this at last week’s SIPA meeting.

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Be Yourself. Just Not Your Real Self: Scripps’ Muddled Social Media Policy

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What that means, of course, is they have to limit what their staff can think of as “personal” on their personal Twitter accounts. You can only talk about your “personal life” with “friends or others with similar interests that aren’t work related.” If you’re a sports writer, no problem, right?

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Do Personal Passions Make You a Better B2B Blogger?

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On his We Grow Media blog , Dan Blank puts it this way: I find that my best work comes from observing the world outside of the topic I write about. Blank doesn’t explain how he identifies his “bestwork. There’s a risk, of course, in drawing comparisons between your personal passions and B2B issues. Probably not.

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Why Aggregation Is Not Distasteful

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Except perhaps among library scientists, they were never best sellers, but neither were they distasteful. It’s honest work that benefits readers and writers alike. The nearest print analog would be those dimly remembered volumes in library reference rooms that indexed articles from journals, magazines, and other periodicals.

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Blogging Strategies: Post in Haste, Promote at Leisure

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A 2008 study looked at the best times and days to publish content. The best times to post were between 1 pm–3 pm (after lunch) or 5 pm–7 pm PST (after work). And of course, if I should happen to be doing something else at the time, I should probably wait until the next Thursday.

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