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Why Publishers Need Early Adopters, Annoying or Not

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Yesterday, B2B editor and blogger Maureen Alley wrote a provocative post declaring that early adopters are annoying. But they’ll also bring to light valuable new platforms as well, like Facebook and Twitter, and perhaps even Google Plus. I’m not sure she means it.

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Nine Keys to a Robust Editorial Career in Social Media

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One journalist who’s already experienced this shift is the well-known B2B editorial consultant and blogger Paul Conley. To quote Vaynerchuk one more time : “Your latest tweet and comment on Facebook and most recent blog post? Be a blogger. In a recent blog post , he noted a dramatic change in the source of his work.

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Dialogue vs. Monologue: Six New-Media Principles, No. 1

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What’s more, they can now be publishers themselves, whether through their own blogs, Twitter, Facebook, or other forms of social media. Journalists can no longer rely on the idea of professionalism as separating them in a meaningful way from “amateur” bloggers and other kinds of citizen journalists.

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Social Media and Ethics: An Interview with B2B Editor Maureen Alley

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Like Steve, she is an outspoken advocate of social media and an active blogger and Twitterer. I also manage RD+B ’s Facebook page. Facebook is a different animal from Twitter so I keep that in mind when posting anything to this page. Another is Maureen Alley, the editor of Cygnus’s Residential Design + Build (RD+B) magazine.

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The Loneliness of the Digital Content Creator: Validating Your Work

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The post wasn’t picked up, tweeted about on Twitter, shared, liked on Facebook and only generated a few (if any) comments. The Naked Blogger. 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.

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The Loneliness of the Digital Content Creator: Validating Your Work

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The post wasn’t picked up, tweeted about on Twitter, shared, liked on Facebook and only generated a few (if any) comments. The Naked Blogger. 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.

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Social Media and the Decline of Editing

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Blogger Mark Schaefer wonders , for instance, “why newspapers, who have so staunchly defended the integrity of the published word, would suddenly open the floodgates of stupidity just because the forum has moved to the Internet.&#. It’s as wrong as changing a quote. If you write it, I can edit it; but if you say it, I can’t.