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Blockbuster Blogs: How Breakthrough Ideas Are Born

Animalz

I’m pretty happy if people still talk about one of my articles a few weeks after I hit publish. Kevin Kelly, the legendary founder and editor of WIRED , realized the internet allowed creators* to establish direct relationships with their fans, instead of through intermediaries like publishers and record labels.

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What We Learned From Refreshing a Decade’s Worth of Blog Content

Contently

We started writing blog content in 2011—back when Facebook fan pages and Klout scores were the marketing trends of the moment. This revealed a disconnect between the type of content we’d been publishing for the past three years and the topics that are the most interesting, valuable, and searched for among our target audience.

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5 Common Ways Freelance Writers Get Scammed

Freelance Writing Jobs

Derivative Work Appears: Later, the client publishes content on their site that closely resembles the freelancer’s original work. A few weeks later, the client publishes an article titled “Unlocking Productivity: The Advantages of Working Remotely.” This could be: A slightly rewritten version of the original.

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40 Bloggers to Watch in 2011

ProBlogger

Welcome to the 2011 list of bloggers to watch. Blog lessons aside, I believe that How to Get a Grip should be required reading for everyone wanting to focus on the important stuff in 2011. After meeting at BlogWorld, I got him on the phone and we chatted about his 2011 plans. Jordan Cooper. Blog | Twitter. Srinivas Rao.

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The 6-Step Process to Turn Ideas into Published Blog Posts

Men With Pens

If you want to grow your business, you need published content – and that means turning your idea into a written blog post. A process that leads you from initial idea to published post so easily that you’ll wonder how you could ever go off track. Step 6: Preview and Publish. But you need more than just ideas.

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What Is Harvard Referencing Style? Formatting, Tips, and Examples

Grammarly

Humans use one type of thinking for instinctive, emotional decisions, but a different type of thinking for slower, more strategic decisions (Kahneman, 2011). but it often endorses or rationalizes ideas and feelings that were generated by System 1” (Kahneman, 2011, p. Place of publication: Publisher name. and Chen, F.

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The 5 Must-read Books for Bloggers in 2011

ProBlogger

He does the homework by interviewing collection of thinkers from the fields of media, advertising, publishing, commerce, and web technology. I believe that all micro-publishers should read this. The 5 Must-read Books for Bloggers in 2011. This book is essential reading for those who want to stand out. Learn more.

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