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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. But for lots of B2B bloggers, the logical connection is less important than the personal one. It can be an effective approach, but it’s not without landmines.

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Bloggers: Feel Free to Repeat Yourself

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Imagine: After days of writer’s block, you’re suddenly inspired to write a long and insightful blog post. Big ideas justify repetition. You’ve found the perfect illustration, and your headline is brilliant. You’re crushing it. Then, just before you click the publish button, a small blip of doubt appears on your radar.

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A Month of “Um” Days

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It’s not the ideal approach for a blogger, needless to say. So this month, as I hoard my psychic energies for a major writing and editing project (more about that later), I’ve had to make what is, for me, a difficult decision about this blog. I will write a post a day (or more) until the end of November.

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Social Media and the Blurring of Professional Roles

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Admittedly, that can be depressing for someone like me—Dammit, Conley, why have you always already said what I want to write about, and better than I ever could? 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.” As Merton Sealts Jr.

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Monetize Your Typos

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Though it wouldn’t work in many forms of social media, this seems like a good tool for bloggers to employ. Of course, it requires the blogger to care enough to offer such an incentive. That comes naturally to a serious writer like Doctorow, but maybe not to the average blogger. If you’re a blogger, why not do the same?

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A Lesson from the Digital Productivity Terrorists

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Commenting on a Folio: magazine blog last week, an anonymous “Exhausted Editor” bemoaned an increasing digital workload : “I’ve got enough junk to write/post/cover. I’m tired of writing the stories, cooking the meals, flying the corporate digital jet and waxing the furniture—figuratively, of course.”

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The Loneliness of the Digital Content Creator: Validating Your Work

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The Naked Blogger. In the social media era, isn’t writing supposed to be more collaborative, more interactive, more, well, sociable? Even in the intimate environs of social media, writing remains a sometimes thrilling, sometimes frightening, and essentially lonely activity. agreeing to publish our work in the first place.”.