This guest post is by Kelly Kingman of eBook Evolution. Last year, I took part in a writing challenge called National Novel Writing Month, which is also known as NaNoWriMo. The challenge? Write 50,000 words—all during the 30 days of November. Until then, my personal length record hovered around 10,000 words for a single project. [...]

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Some milestones cannot be ignored and this is one of them. In February 2009 we published our first post here on SocialMediaB2B.com. This is now post number 500. So much has changed in that time. Both Kipp and I have gotten new jobs since then (me a few times), but we kept writing. When we [...]

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Ayman Yousef Mansour has become the second Egyptian, since the fall of former president Hosni Mubarak, to be sentenced to 3 years in jail for online self-expression. Unlike Maikel Nabil...

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This guest post is by Neil Patel of KISSmetrics. Do you wish you knew the secret to writing popular blog posts? You know, the posts that get over 200 comments, 20 backlinks, and hundreds of shares on social networking sites? Over the past five years I’ve started two blogs. The first one became a Technorati [...]

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Ebby Amirebrahimi, an engineer on the Google+ sharing team, announced yesterday a new update for Google+ users. One of the most popular features on Google+ is the ability to disable comments and lock posts to make sure no one re-shares it, but this could only happen after you posted. Thanks to this new update and ...

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With the announcement of the new Facebook Timeline came a lot of grunts, groans and privacy concerns. The new Timeline is all about sharing your life story, which means having it all out there on display. But what if you don't want to share your life story? What if you've been using Facebook for a ...

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I sat and watched almost the entire keynote for f8 yesterday, which is Facebook's developer conference. I wanted to hear about these "Big Changes" that were coming to the popular social network. There were some hints that the Facebook we know and love (or hate) would be no more. Facebook did not disappoint with their ...

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Google has today announced that it is bringing its full search product to Google+, greatly improving your ability to find things that you want to inside its new social network.Google has added the full power of its search engine to Google+, allowing you not just to search for People, but also topics, relevant posts and content from around the web all in one go. It will continue to search for people as well, but will return them as part of results with a much larger scope.When you search for topi [...]

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Continuing our discussion of things you should be doing right now to improve your blog, today's tip—the final in this series—is: 13. Bundle your best posts as an ebook This is a variation on the first post in this series, about creating a product, but for those of you feeling overwhelmed by the prospect of [...]

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This guest post is by Marya of Writing Happiness. When I finished my MBA degree about a decade ago, I undertook a course which taught me how to write great content for my blog. Sceptical? I know what you are thinking: blogging wasn't even around then! I know. Allow me to explain. Doing MBA, I [...]

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The Facebook for iPhone app was update to version 3.5 this week. It brings a handful of much wanted features and improvements.


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Continuing our discussion of things you should be doing right now to improve your blog, today's tip is: 7. Interlink your posts Another task that I try to do on a regular basis (not as regularly as I should!) is going back through old posts in my archives and looking for opportunities to interlink them. [...]

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Continuing our discussion of things you could be doing right now to improve your blog, today's tip is: 5. Check your metrics for "hot posts" One of the tasks that I build into my own blogging on a monthly(ish) basis is to dig into Google Analytics. I do a number of things while digging in [...]

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This guest post is by Karol K of Online Business Design blog. Blogging is not only about putting together 400-2,000 words of text and publishing them on your WordPress site. As a blogger, you can choose from a much bigger variety of possible blog post types (and content in general). Let me be honest and [...]

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When it comes to corporate blogs, looks do make a difference. Now, it isn’t unusual to see companies sweat out every design and layout detail. This is sensible – you want to address brand considerations, deliver a great end-user experience and generally not be ugly. It’s not unusual, however to spend the bulk of your design time on the blog’s theme and not the content. Bring design into your post, and the results are more compelling.

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Some of us tweet and post on Facebook almost nonstop throughout our day, while others tend to limit their posts to a few updates here and there for fear of overloading their friends and followers. As it turns out, there is an optimal time to tweet and post, as well as a favorable frequency of updating that will lead to peak results.In a recent study by award-winning social media scientist, Dan Zarella, he reveals research that determines when and how often we should be reaching out to our own au [...]

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This guest post is by Aman Basanti of Ageofmarketing.com. Quotes and dialogue are one of the most powerful tools in the writer’s toolbox. They bring your writing to life. They give your piece voice and make the words jump off the page. As the famous writer Stephen King once said, "What people say often conveys their [...]

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When I first started writing this post, it was called "25 Social Media Blogs Everyone Should Read." Then, I realized something. There are a lot of social media blogs out there that are awesome, but not right for everyone's tastes. After some further work, I realized something else – there are a lot of really ...

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Google today announced an update to its Google Search app for Android, bringing a few new features that should improve your overall search experience. For one, suggestions will now be grouped by type, with the web suggestions appearing up top. Travelers, nomads, and peeps outside of the States will also get to see country-specific suggestions and search results as long as they’re in a country with a Google domain.

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Manually posts may give your updates more traction Have you ever wondered why some of your Facebook posts make it to your fans' news feeds and others do not? Facebook prioritizes posts using a method they call "EdgeRank." Similar to Google PageRank, Facebook's EdgeRank uses an algorithm that attempts to determine what Facebook users would [...]

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