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August 31, 2011
How to Find Free Pictures for Your Blog
You’ve just written an award winning blog post about the life cycle of the green bean. Now, to find a great picture to accompany it! But what websites should you peruse? Which photos on those sites can you legally use? Here are a few I regularly use, plus one I stumbled upon just for this blog. (Read more…)
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January 29, 2010
8 Ways to Look Like a Blogging Noob
Thousands of new blogs pop up every day. Because I’m constantly being asked to check out new blogs from friends and colleagues, I’ve started to notice that most new bloggers tend to make the same mistakes. These are the 8 mistakes that just scream “I’m a blogging noob!” If you want to gain the respect of your audience, avoid doing these 8 things. (Read more…)
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May 5, 2009
Can Public Relations Pros Prevent Blogs from “Brand Hijacking”?
The purpose of a personal blog is to provide a forum where its writer can complain, praise, and pontificate. A lone personal blog is one of perhaps millions out there, but like everything else out there on the internet, what’s written on even a personal blog has a sense of permanence. As anyone with a website knows, drawing traffic to a new property is a difficult proposition. Most people who read my personal blog seem to be one-time visitors. (Read more…)