Chris Koch

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How to get others to blog

Chris Koch

Set up an RSS feed of key news sources and bloggers and forward the good stuff to your SMEs. When blogger’s block sets in at IBM , bloggers can get inspiration through software that lets customers suggest the topics they’d like to see covered. Get ideas from customers. This all happens before the writing begins.

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13 qualities of a good social media voice

Chris Koch

On the other hand, if you’re only trying to reach the techies, jargon may be expected, as marketer Jed Sundwall points out in this excellent presentation, Finding Your Social Media Voice. We need to understand the particular dialects of the audiences we’re trying to reach with social media.

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15 qualities of a good social media voice

Chris Koch

Blog comments, for example, should all receive a response from the blogger, even if it’s just one message thanking everyone for their time and good thoughts. If we ignore these messages, we can hurt the feelings of those involved and lose opportunities to have interesting conversations that could contribute to our social media success.