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3 Tools for Curating Content on MacOS

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I’m a big fan of effective curation for content marketing and ‘thought leadership’. My preferred platform is Windows 7 these days, but many of my clients prefer MacOS. I put together a little riff yesterday outlining how use 3 tools to effectively curate content on the Mac.

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The 3 flavors of WordPress

There’s a lot of confusion around the 3 ‘flavors’ of WordPress — WordPress.com, WordPress.org and WordPress multisite. Here’s my attempt to end it. The confusion that is… Here’s a copy of the mindmap you can use as well… Comment or ‘connect’ to discuss how this applies to you and your organization… Related articles WordPress.com Launches [...]

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WordPress ‘tips and tricks’ blogger?

I understand from ProBlogger that you’re looking for someone who meets the following criteria… ManageWP.com is looking for a blogger with great knowledge of the WordPress platform. We want to offer added value to our users through high quality articles about using WordPress, involving tips&tricks, how to articles, plugin and theme comparisons. You would ideally [...]

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Is blogging still relevant?

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From time to time, students ask me ‘is blogging relevant’? When I say that blogging is the foundation of thought leadership marketing, many of them are skeptical. After all, aren’t bloggers 40 year old white guys that live in their parents basement spewing political venom in their pajamas? Far from it! While Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn [...]

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WordPress.com may be all you need…

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I like to talk to you for a moment about thought leadership marketing and an important tool for making it happen… As Chris Brogan says “if you can’t be found in Google you don’t exist”. I say, if you want to be credible on the internet, you have to be searchable, findable, knowable, usable and [...]

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Perspectives on Posterous

If I only had one tool to use for blogging, it wouldn’t be WordPress and it wouldn’t be Blogger [although both are great tools that I use every day] it would be Posterous. I’m currently scripting my own screencast on the subject of Posterous, but in the meantime, here are a couple of other good [...]

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Content marketing: 13 ways to get your clients to think like a blogger

In the past few weeks, I’ve had numerous conversations with colleagues, partners and in some cases, clients, about blogging and the challenges of keeping a blog up and running. Most of those conversations come down to one thing: Content. Do you have enough to say to sustain a blog? Do you have strong enough opinions [...]

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10 Hard Truths About Blogging

With job satisfaction rates at record lows and more and more people looking to enjoy a higher quality of life, millions of people are desperately trying to leave their miserable jobs and are flocking to the world of blogging and Internet marketing.If you’re already a blogger, chances are you’ve heard of Darren Rowse, Brian Clark, [...]

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