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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. Validation came not from readers as much as from “publishers, editors and fellow content creators. Finally, keep in mind what validation means here. agreeing to publish our work in the first place.”.

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The Loneliness of the Digital Content Creator: Validating Your Work

B2B Memes

The post wasn’t picked up, tweeted about on Twitter, shared, liked on Facebook and only generated a few (if any) comments. Validation came not from readers as much as from “publishers, editors and fellow content creators. Finally, keep in mind what validation means here. agreeing to publish our work in the first place.”.

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Process vs. Product: Six New-Media Principles, No. 6

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By turning the process itself into the product, formerly behind-the-scenes editorial judgments can be discussed and validated, news and other information can be shared more rapidly, and inevitable errors can be more quickly identified and corrected. But they are far more dramatic in real-time formats such as live-blogging or Twitter.

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Social Media and the Decline of Editing

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The solution he sees is not editing, but social controls of the sort found in Twitter and Facebook, built on “real identities and control of relationships&# : “The result is better discourse. We may never uncover that secret, but the point is still valid. So I’ll just have to face it.

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Jesse Noyes: Brand Journalist or Brand Reporter?

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I think there’s a valid point in saying the goal of journalists and brand journalists are not precisely aligned. “Brand journalism” is a kind of catch-all neologism; it’s used to describe a fairly new, relatively unexplored and broadly defined practice. It’s clear that Noyes has given this issue a lot of thought.

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Will the Web Have A Past?

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Last month there was a flurry of declarations from the likes of Paul Carr and Leo Laporte that microblogging on the ephemeral canvases of Twitter and Buzz was robbing them of their pasts. Would anyone be surprised if one day it just quietly disappeared? Had I been doing so I’d have something to show for it.

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Do B2B Editors Get Twitter?

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As with other business-to-business content creators these days, there are few trade press editors who don’t have—and at least occasionally use—a Twitter account. But how many use Twitter not just for promotion, but for its most valuable benefit, social engagement? There’s no authoritative answer that I know of. Total Posts.

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