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As a blogger, how can you protect yourself from this sort of intellectual theft? First, you must know your rights.

Building trust with your readers can be difficult. In most cases, you are marketing to people who don't really know you and have no reason to trust you.

Until very recently, you had one choice if you want to get your book in the hands of readers: traditional publishing. But today, traditional publishers are no longer the sole gatekeepers. You have a lot of options when it comes to publishing your book. Wondering whether it's worth it to pursue a deal with a traditional publisher, or whether you should take matters into your own hands and strike out on your own publishing journey? In the first post in our self-publishing series, we'll weigh the pros and cons of each side so you can make an informed decision.

Here are 4 steps to pitching a brand or client that have worked for me, especially when I was afraid to ask.

This guide is here to help you find out whether your blog idea has the potential to go viral and attract more readers and shares, plus a few tips for when you are about to hit the 'Publish' button.

Facebook is an excellent tool for publishers and bloggers, but it's also a hotbed of rumor, hearsay and controversy over what you allegedly can or cannot do. There are solutions if you keep the mindset of engaging your community rather than only looking at it as a tool for monetization or traffic generation. For those answers, you go to the source. In April, Adam Mosseri, VP of Product Management for News Feed for Facebook, presented a video on how Facebook News Feed works and provided tips for publishers. I'll share with you his advice, along with my own experience.

Which email newsletter service will help you achieve your blogging goals? Here are the highlights of the most popular ones so you can decide for yourself.

In this post, you will find 8 methods to structure your post and speed up your writing.

Facebook seems to get more similar to FriendFeed every day. The latest, the addition of an "I like this" link on News Feed items, is one of the more significant challenges to the lifestreaming service yet, as it essentially duplicates a major component of what makes FriendFeed tick - a simple, one-click display of indicating your liking of a specific item in a stream of activities and a view of all of the other people that have also liked it.

The Wall Street Journal claims that Facebook is talking to Nokia, but also Palm and other mobile phone manufacturers, trying to get a deal to better integrate Facebook's services into mobile phones.

Echo is... the next generation commenting system. It's the way to share your content, and watch the live reaction. You can quickly embed Echo on WordPress, Blogger, or any website and turn your static pages into a real-time stream of diggs, tweets, comments and more.

the next generation commenting system.

How are you doing at marketing yourself? You know when it comes right down to it, whether you're teaching school, leading a corporation, or heading up a non-profit, your effectiveness will be based on your relationships.

I know most of you have your profiles from long time on microblogging sites like twitter, Friendfeed, Identica, Plurk but what's the problem you have no followers only following, only you are fan and in more detail the problem with you, you do not have a good readership blog, peoples do not know you.

"Wikis, Blogs und Messenger halten unaufhaltsam Einzug in Unternehmen. Fraglich ist aber noch, wie sich die digitalen Chats archivieren lassen. Nun gibt es erste standardisierte Lösungen. von Wilko Steinhagen"

Ranked list of running public Diaspora* pods. Comes in handy as Diaspora*'s official main pod is invite-only.

Ranked list of running public Diaspora* pods. Comes in handy as Diaspora*'s official main pod is invite-only.