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blog post by Susan Gunelius, about tech, on why people blog

By Will Blunt, February 9, 2015, Hubspot. Very useful tips on collecting research for writing blog posts. Tracy linked to this in LinkedIn. HT to Tracy.

Great blog by Jarche on benefits of blogging--I ought to do it, too!!!

Blog by Harold Jarche, Life in Perpetual Beta, April 30, 2012 Love this story of how blogging changed his life for the better.

Look at the "SOCIAL" acronyms--collaboration shows up in both. Guest blog written by Kriss Deiglmeier, ED of the Center for Social Innovation at Stanford, appearing on Beth's Blog on 2/28/12. Believe these help define WL Studio's raison d'etre.

Blog post by Deborah Shane "According to a CareerBuilder survey "hiring managers are using social media to get a glimpse at the candidate's behavior and personality outside of the interview, and are most interested in professional presentation and how the candidate would fit with the company culture. Here are five strategies anyone can use to 'advance and own their professional development'." First three of five strategies are online: 1) Use Facebook in a hybrid way. Facebook can be one of the most effective and diverse self marketing, branding and networking assets of all of the social platforms. Posting professional questions, article linking, Facebook chats and using the Notes Feature are all great ways to brand yourself on Facebook. 2) Brand your LinkedIn and Twitter pages content and information. Having a content rich, branded landing page on LinkedIn and Twitter can make a strong first impression. Complete your profiles and tell your story in your job history. This makes you more personable and shows people you are serious, professional and you want to be remembered. 3) Launch your own blog or guest blog for other strategic sites. This is one of the best ways to share how you think and show your knowledge and expertise, as well as highlight others in your field that you admire or want to emulate. Some of the free sites you can use are WordPress, Weebly and Wix.

part of the interview with Sonia Simone and Jerod Morris at Copyblogger following their decision several weeks ago to close down comments on the Copyblogger blog site. Excerpt: "I don't put my business assets on a platform that I don't control. So I don't put my content on a platform I don't control unless I have it somewhere I can keep it and benefit from it. I wouldn't post original content to Facebook. I would just never - it doesn't make a lot of sense, other than just a post, a simple throw-away kind of a post. So our content lives on our domain, in our e-mail lists. These are assets we can control. " I'm not sure exactly what she means by "content lives on our domain, in our e-mail lists." Maybe it's as simple as it's Copyblogger's stuff, they own it, it's only used to achieve their business purposes and it isn't original stuff that is published elsewhere or stored there on someone else's platform for digestion and use? Blog post also introduces "digital sharecropping" to me. Interesting note about Google-Plus, too. "The nice thing about Google-Plus is I'm notified when someone actually mentions my name, or if I'm following that discussion then I'm notified within Gmail or Google-Plus, any one of the Google products. So it's nice in that way. There's a lot more ease of use. "

Really great post on using SlideShare as a visual blog for originating and repurposing content you have already created, March 21, 2014 by Guillaume Decugis. It shows you two Slideshares as examples of what has/has not worked for them. It could mean taking photographs we already have and entering a little text to make one point per slide. They upped their slideshare postings to one a week along with at least one blog post per week.

"Content marketing is more than writing blogs. Way more. If you're just getting involved in content marketing, the first thing you need to do is launch your blog and start writing. Then, when your blog is established and purring along, try throwing in a new type of content. I predict that you'll immediately see a difference - fresh traffic, targeted visitors, higher conversion rates, and better SEO."

one of the funniest posts I have ever read by Lucy Ferriss, Lingua Franca, July 8, 2015.

interesting observations on Susanna and Jonathan Gebauer's reflections on blogging for six months (March 23, 2015).

This writer, Ronni Bennett, affirms what I believe in the power of the internet for creating new relationships and social networks that help you age well online and off. Blog post on March 25, 2014. "You and I are lucky that our generation has a new tool for a new kind of friendship - the internet. Although it has been awhile since I've mentioned it, I have written a lot about the importance of online and blog friends. (These are several of those stories.) I wholeheartedly believe that the web is a boon for elders and these days, about half the people I hold most dear I have met as a result of this blog."

blog post by Marc Miller, November 5, 2014, on how LinkedIn Publisher Post expands the number of viewers for blog posts. One of his blog posts published on LinkedIn was picked up and used by LinkedIn Pulse Channel Careers Next Level which generated 14,000 views and drove a lot of traffic to his website.

Blog post by Lisa Lane in her (Online) Teaching Blog, June 25, 2011 She reviews Pink's book on A Whole New Mind. Excerpt: "Accumulation -> Meaning Pink says the predominance of the baby boomer mentality means that the goal of accumulating meterial goods is changing to the desire to find meaning in life, a kind of "post-materialism"." For each chapter on these aptitudes, Pink provides resources and tips to develop your own brain along the new lines. Thus we go from theory in Chapter 1 to a series of storied examples, then each chapter ends with self-help advice. (It's already pretty light - I find it very funny that there's a "Summarized for Busy People" version available.) But the mental yoga commercial was a distraction from the main idea. What's significant here is that right-brained, big picture, contextual, design-based thinking will likely be increasingly respected in our culture.

Great blog post for writing blogs and getting and staying unstuck

blog post by Jenny Mackness on blog aggregation and tools to aggregate, May 17, 2012. The blog goes beyond the choice of tool to tagging protocols and how to aggregate when some of the writing/reflecting by learners is done behind password protected walls.

Looking for exciting new tools to simplify the blogging experience? If so, keep reading. We decided to get the scoop on today's hottest blogging tools. We asked 22 pros to share their favorite new finds. Here they are... #1: InboxQ A great blogging tool I discovered a few months ago is InboxQ.

5 blogs between February 2012 and August 2011, with latest published October 11, 2011, written by 3 authors. No comments on blogs.

blog on four ways to build reflection into the learning process, January 22, 2014, Langwitches Blog. Is oriented to "students" but could be adapted for adult learning.

Great blog post by Holly Clark on Edudemic connecting education & technology, September 24, 2014. She suggests: Find another class to do a project, blog or twitter chat with. Change the classroom set up to allow for more student movement & interaction Have students create blogs to foster global interactions Use Skype to promote interaction with the outside world If your class has 1:1, look for other schools to collaborate with Tweet your learning with another class Understand that learning is happening through networks--not textbooks--"Textbooks are a solitary and isolated learning source and their days are numbered. Learning will become about networks. It will be about the people and information you know how to access and create. Your students are not quite savvy enough to do this effectively on their own, so show them how to interact with a network of experts from your subject area. ..."