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Writing Fiction is a Path to Self-Knowledge

Kayleigh Moore

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking: what I'm looking at, what I see, what it means, what I want, and what I fear. -Joan Didion Writing, specifically creative writing, is a path to better understanding yourself and your lens on the world. Im sure this has been on my mind lately because of the weekly therapy sessions and the Philosophy classes Im taking (were going full tilt on self-improvement this year, baby!

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7 SEO SOPs: Your Cheat Code for More Rankings, Less Guesswork

Ahrefs

Thats why Ive put together 7 SEO SOPs that will make your work faster, smarter, and more effective, from using AI to create quality content to investigating why your traffic suddenly tanked.

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4 Types of Weak Words: How to Spice Up Bland Content

Enchanting Marketing

Do you ever read back a draft and wonder what happened? Red-cheeked and brimming with enthusiasm, you had written your first draft. You knew it was good. Yay! To celebrate, you pour yourself a glass of wine, before going to bed. Editing is for tomorrow. But when you read your draft again … You feel disappointed. Your writing sounds bland. Grrrr.

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Google Says “Links Matter Less”—We Looked at 1,000,000 SERPs and Our Data Both Agrees and Disagrees

Ahrefs

I still believe that links should be a part of your SEO strategy, but they shouldnt be your whole strategy. A while back, I answered the question, Do links still matter for rankings? by disavowing all links to a few blogs.

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Marketing Operations in 2025: A New Framework for Success

Speaker: Mike Rizzo, Founder & CEO, MarketingOps.com and Darrell Alfonso, Director of Marketing Strategy and Operations, Indeed.com

Though rarely in the spotlight, marketing operations are the backbone of the efficiency, scalability, and alignment that define top-performing marketing teams. In this exclusive webinar led by industry visionaries Mike Rizzo and Darrell Alfonso, we’re giving marketing operations the recognition they deserve! We will dive into the 7 P Model —a powerful framework designed to assess and optimize your marketing operations function.

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What Are Authoritative Sources & How to Find Them

ContentWriters

Conducting research is one of the most essential parts of the content writing process. The internet is full of false claims, and consumers are acutely aware of this fact. According to a study by the Center for the Digital Future , only 25% of people trust the majority of the information on the internet, 51% of people trust about half of the information available online, and 24% of people believe that only a small portion of online information is accurate.

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Turn Your Short Pieces Into a Finished Nonfiction Book

Jane Friedman

Photo by Giulia May on Unsplash Todays post is by author Lara Lillibridge. Have you amassed a heap ofassorted essays, flash pieces, chapters, ideas, and you think you have enough to turn it into a book? Does it seem scattered and overwhelming and youre not sure what will fit where and it is all rather daunting? Never fearhere is a step-by-step guide to turn your hot mess into a hot dish. 1.

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How to Go Deeper in Your Writing

Kayleigh Moore

My most recent Philosophy course just started, and for the first class, we were assigned a short story to read. From there, we had to write a one-page paper summarizing what we took from it. Heres the exact guidance we were given for the paper: You will give the paper a title to orient the reader from the start, and then introduce your topic clearly in the first paragraph.

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How To Schedule Facebook Posts: 2 Easy Methods

Adam Connell

Want to schedule posts to Facebook in advance?

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The Perfect Guide for Where to Submit Your Writing (Does Not Exist)

Jane Friedman

Photo by GeoJango Maps on Unsplash Todays post is by Dennis James Sweeney, author of the new book How to Submit. As writers, we often long for the perfect guide to where we should submit our writing. We want a resource that is dependable, consistent, and navigable. The publishing landscape is complicated! Especially when we are first starting out, we need someone to distill that publishing landscape for us.

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Dashes, colons and commas should often be replaced by a period

Grammar Underground

Are you a dashaholic? Its a thing, apparently. Im more of a colon abuser myself: as if everything I write is so important it requires the colons drumroll effect. Ive known more than a few comma junkies, too. No matter your punctuation poison, theres an easy antidote. The period. Lets look at the role of each of these marks and how not to abuse them.

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Mastering Remote Onboarding: Proven Strategies for Seamless New Hire Integration

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

Join this brand new webinar with Tim Buteyn to learn how you can master the art of remote onboarding! By the end of this session, you'll understand how to: Craft a Tailored Onboarding Checklist 📝 Develop a comprehensive, customized checklist that ensures every new hire has a smooth transition into your company, no matter where they are in the world.

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How To Decide the Ideal Publishing Frequency for Social Media, Blogs, Emails, and More

Content Marketing Institute

Benchmark publishing frequency charts are nice, but they shouldnt be your only research. After all, audiences arent homogenous. To help decide how often to publish on multiple channels, develop a strategy with this expert advice.

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63% of Websites Receive AI Traffic (New Study of 3,000 Sites)

Ahrefs

We analyzed the traffic differences between sites driving greater than 10,000 visitors, between 1,000 and 9,999 visitors, and below 999 visitors per month, across the following seven AI chatbots: ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini, Perplexity, Jasper, and Mistral.

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31 Facebook Live Statistics For 2025 (Latest Data)

Adam Connell

Want to learn more about the current state of Facebook Live?

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Free Yourself from Rewriting Paralysis

Jane Friedman

Photo by Anna Shvets Todays post, the fifth in a series, is by writer and creativity coach Anne Carley ( @amcarley.bsky.social ), author of FLOAT Becoming Unstuck for Writers , now in its second edition. Most of us accept the basic reality: We draft and then we rewrite. Edit, take a break (when time permits), revisit, and revise again. Sometimes, though, the revision process meanders off-course, leaving usand our projectstranded.

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Dos and Donts: How to Pitch Your Press Release to Journalists

Speaker: Michelle Garrett, PR Consultant, Author, Speaker

Yes - press releases are still relevant in the world of public relations! 🎯 Ever wondered how to write a compelling press release, or what are current best practices for pitching your news to earn media coverage? In this exclusive webinar with Michelle Garrett, PR Consultant, we’ll cover tips and advice to help you get the most out of each piece of news you pitch!

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The Best Grammarly Prompts for IT Professionals

Grammarly

In the high-stakes IT world, effective communication is critical. Explaining a complex network reconfiguration to executives or creating a clear troubleshooting guide for diverse support teams is like translating a complicated coding algorithm into plain Englishchallenging. Conveying complex concepts to nontechnical audiences or ensuring consistent policies can be difficult.

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Use Your Marketing Powers To Tell Stories That the C-Suite Wants To Hear [Video]

Content Marketing Institute

Before your next budget discussion with the C-suite, follow this storytelling framework. It lets you change the conversation from marketing as a cost center to marketing as a big contributor to the bottom line.

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The Best AI Content Optimization Tools for 2025

Ahrefs

Great optimization tools can identify missing topics and keywords, suggest and refine headers and titles, generate meta-data, and show tons of useful information about your competitors articles. If you arent using an optimization tool, you probably should.

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53 Social Proof Statistics & Trends For 2025 (Latest Data)

Adam Connell

Social proof is powerful.

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Data Modeling for Direct Mail: Boosting Multi-Channel Reach and Response

Speaker: Jesse Simms, VP at Giant Partners

This new, thought-provoking webinar will explore how even incremental efforts and investments in your data can have a tremendous impact on your direct mail and multi-channel marketing campaign results! Industry expert Jesse Simms, VP at Giant Partners, will share real-life case studies and best practices from client direct mail and digital campaigns where data modeling strategies pinpointed audience members, increasing their propensity to respond – and buy.

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Nonprofits & Competitive Intelligence: A Good Combination

AIIP

By Yvonne Davis Competitive intelligence is a process for evaluating your organization and its business position within a given industry. Before there is a collective throwing of hands in the air and saying we are not Procter & Gamble or Nvidia (big companies familiar with their competitors), lets take a look at some of Read More » The post Nonprofits & Competitive Intelligence: A Good Combination appeared first on AIIP Connections Blog.

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How to Use Formal Tone in Writing

ContentWriters

In many cases, the overall tone of your writing is just as important as the information you share. How you present your content directly impacts how readers perceive your authority, reliability, and branding. While some situations may call for a more conversational and casual approach, many types of writing require a professional, formal tone. An elevated, formal style can benefit academic work, business materials, and professional communications.

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Why Diversity and Inclusion in Content and Marketing Matter as Much as Ever

Content Marketing Institute

The cancellation of diversity, equity, and inclusion programs doesnt mean marketers can stop welcoming all segments of their audiences. Thats bad for business. Here's how to create content that resonates.

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How Do AI Content Detectors Work? Answers From a Data Scientist

Ahrefs

AI-generated content isnt as simple to spot as old-fashioned spun or plagiarised content. Most AI-generated text could be considered original, in some senseit isnt copy-pasted from somewhere else on the internet.

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Scan to Success: How to Leverage QR Codes for Offline and Online Marketing Power

Speaker: Corey Daugherty, Head of Business Development at Flowcode & Georgette Malitsis, Senior Customer Success Manager, Enterprise at Flowcode

Let's explore the transformative power of QR codes in bridging offline and online marketing worlds. 📲 This new webinar featuring Corey Daugherty and Georgette Malitsis of Flowcode will dive into how innovative QR technology not only enhances traditional marketing strategies, but also drives meaningful customer engagement and analytics. Register today to gain practical knowledge on using QR codes to increase conversion rates, optimize customer journeys, and ultimately unlock a new realm o

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10 Most Popular Messaging Apps In 2025 (Data + Trends)

Adam Connell

In this post, we reveal the 10 most popular messaging apps in the world, according to the latest statistics, and share some interesting data about each of them.

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Why Is It Hard to Maintain Blogging Clarity?

Blogging From Paradise

Clarity. Sounds like a blogging buzzword. Ample mentors discuss finding clarity as a key success accelerant. Get clear. Drive traffic. Increase income.

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Interview with AIIP keynote speaker and AI specialist Dr. Mike Ridley

AIIP

Dr. Michael Ridley is Librarian Emeritus at the University of Guelph where for many years he was Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Chief Librarian. Dr. Ridley will be presenting on Human-centred explainable AI at AIIP25 on Thursday, April 10 at 3 pm EDT. Ahead of that presentation, he was kind enough to answer a few Read More » The post Interview with AIIP keynote speaker and AI specialist Dr.

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Marketing Tips, Templates, and Checklists To Improve Your Content Operations

Content Marketing Institute

Youve got a lot to do on your marketing and content plate. Make all those tasks easier and deliver the taste of success with these proven tips, templates, and cheat sheets to improve your content operations. Pick one to start today.

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How to Leverage Behavioral Science Insights for Direct Mail Success

Speaker: Neal Boornazian, President and Nancy Harhut, Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer - HBT Marketing

Direct mail has consistently remained a powerful tool in the marketer's arsenal, but in an age of digital dominance, its effectiveness hinges on the strategic integration of behavioral science. 💡 When you incorporate powerful behavioral science principles into your direct mail marketing strategies, you can prompt the hardwired decision-making shortcuts your audience relies on — and that automatically unlocks new avenues for engagement, conversion, and brand loyalty.

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AI Content Creation: My Process for High-Quality, SEO-Friendly Articles

Ahrefs

Without a clear process, AI-generated content can feel generic, miss SEO opportunities, or just not sound like you. The trick? Use AI as a tool, not a shortcut.

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20 Social Media Trends To Guide Your Strategy In 2025

Adam Connell

In this post, well discuss the 20 most important social media trends and what they mean for your social media strategy

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Why Do You Follow Your Publishing Schedule?

Blogging From Paradise

Why do you follow your blog publishing schedule? Reasons vary. Bloggers find a frequency based on advice from full-time bloggers.

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How to Write an Unforgettable Love Letter: Tips and Examples

Grammarly

In a world where we receive hundreds of text messages, emails, and alerts every day, a handwritten love letter stands out as a thoughtful, heartfelt gesture. Its more than just words on paperits an enduring expression of your deepest emotions. Whether youre professing love to a new partner, rekindling romance with your spouse, or showing gratitude to a parent, a well-crafted love letter can make a lasting impact.

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The Resurgence of Direct Mail as a Growth Marketing Strategy

Speaker: Jeff Tarran, COO, Gunderson Direct & Margaret Pepe, Executive Director of Product Management, U.S. Postal Service

Learn the secrets to direct mail success for growth marketers! Industry veterans Jeff Tarran and Margaret Pepe are here to delve into how direct mail has completely evolved in recent years, and has rightfully earned a seat at the table alongside the email and digital marketing plans of SMBs, enterprise companies, and agencies as they look into strategy for 2024 and beyond.