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while you write your blog post in Blogger, Zemanta opens up a sidebar next to the Blogger post editor. After you've written a few sentences, Zemanta analyzes the words in your post and suggests images and video that are relevant to your post; with one click, it inserts them into your post.

This is a blog sponsored by Intuit to promote their Quickbase product and yes I am a contributor. However the blog has a diverse array of contributors tackling the topic "The Future of Work" from many angles. The blogging team includes Bill Ives who you may know as a blogger from his Portals and KM blog and also Patti Anklam who also posts to her home blog "Networks, Complexity, and Relatedness" Patti is a serious social network analyst having worked with Rob Cross at IBM's IKO in the late 90's.

Although we'll be writing a lot here about the potential of social media to help people tell their stories, share ideas, start and continue conversations, it is seldom enough on its own. In fact, it is still very much a minority medium in the field of local community action - however powerful it can be, as shown by the work of hyperlocal bloggers (examples here, and we'll be mapping more).

Blogs are easy to create and update, and rich, useful, and original blog content will encourage readers to come back to your site. Here are some tips for making the most of your blog.