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Do Personal Passions Make You a Better B2B Blogger?

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It’s a popular tactic among B2B bloggers to look at dry B2B topics through the prism of seemingly unrelated personal enthusiasms. Viewed from a distance, a favorite pop band or children’s book might not seem relevant to B2B marketing and communications. It can be an effective approach, but it’s not without landmines.

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The Coming Content Marketing-Publishing Continuum

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Writing on Foliomag.com earlier this month, blogger Josh Gordon spun a comment heard at the Folio: show into a bullish prediction for print magazines. What interested me most in Gordon’s premise was a point he didn’t follow up—the potential convergence, whether in print or online, of traditional publishing and content marketing.

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Social Media and the Blurring of Professional Roles

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Obvious or not, what made his statement today interesting was the way he said it: Not, “I don’t blog much anymore,” but “I’m not a blogger anymore.” It’s no longer as meaningful as it once was to say you’re a blogger, or a journalist, or a marketer. You can be a blogger one moment, a marketer or journalist the next.

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Paul Conley: Has the Content Marketing Dream Become a Nightmare?

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And though he is now beginning to question its potential, he was an early advocate for content marketing as a promising new career path for journalists. Conley is best known, however, for his subsequent work, starting in 2004, as a consultant and blogger. What they’re selling in the market is the ability to co-opt their journalists!

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Nine Keys to a Robust Editorial Career in Social Media

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There’s potentially a role for you in any B2B enterprise, and not in doing PR or traditional marketing work, but in practicing straight journalism. One journalist who’s already experienced this shift is the well-known B2B editorial consultant and blogger Paul Conley. Be a social-media marketer. Be a blogger.

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Three Ways to Turbocharge Your New-Media Career

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There are probably an infinite number of effective approaches to doing so, but, based on my recent reading and on my experience this month as a blogger, I’d start with these three: 1. Our traditional mass-market culture and ways of doing business are built around serving the mass, the normal.

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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. I would suggest, in fact, that every B2B publisher and content marketer needs one or more early adopters in their midst. I’m not sure she means it.