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If you are an aspiring newbie or an established blogger, this blog will teach you the elements of successful problogging, along with guidelines to personal organization needed for blogging success. If you are running any online business (not confined to blogging alone), this blog will help you to manage your time and schedule effectively. It will help you with goal setting and will make you an effective performer.

"We feature hundreds of posts here in a weekly basis that we think you should be reading. However, we wanted to take things a set further today and share a number of the best posts from the last year that you simply have to read. These are the timeless classics that are not time sensitive and could be read at any time of the year. With so many tech blogs spitting out so much content on a daily basis, it can be hard to find the brilliant posts and you'll find great value in bookmarking all of the posts. You are not going to get through all of these in one day, but flick in and out over them over the next few weeks and you'll find yourself learning from the best thinkers who have taken the time to share their knowledge and wisdom."

Welcome to Technorati's State of the Blogosphere 2011 report. Since 2004, our annual study has followed growth and trends in the blogosphere. This year's topics include: blogging and social media, bloggers and traditional media, traffic and analysis, brands and marketing in the blogosphere, bloggers' motivations and consequences, monetization, and changes within the blogosphere over 2011

There is a laundry list of issues that need to be addressed when it comes to improving corporate blogs, but here we've narrowed down the key elements that companies should focus on. Here are 10 tips for corporate bloggers hoping to make a positive splash in their communities.

If you're new to blogging - this is a must-reed!

Blogs are social networks.Are you networked yet?

n the spring of 2005, IBMers used a wiki to create a set of guidelines for all IBMers who wanted to blog. These guidelines aimed to provide helpful, practical advice-and also to protect both IBM bloggers and IBM itself, as the company sought to embrace th

"f you have one or more RSS or Atom feeds, you can create a custom widget designer for your website and allow your visitors to create widgets for their websites using your feeds. Because the feed links in the created widgets point to your website, this can help your website or blog gain more traffic and generate more reader interest"

"The Posterous Migration Guide: Imports by Wordpress, Tumblr, Squarespace, and Posthaven Compared"

Facebook has released a highly comprehensive plugin for WordPress. With the new plugin, you can perform sophisticated auto-publishing to your Timeline and add many Facebook features to your blog.

In traditional enterprise change initiatives, you tend to start with a defined set business requirements to address a given problem or opportunity. Socially-driven enterprise change, however, is different because parts of the organization are already changing prior to full articulation of a problem or solution. Companies find their employees using social technologies without any formal support within the organization. People are finding value, but may not be focused on quantifying that value into a business case that can be used to support the effort.

Despite starting conservatively with my personal Google+ use, I've had quite a few people ask me what I thought of G+ and when we'd write a post about it here on TopRank's Online Marketing Blog.  With all the hype and past track record with Google's social media tests, I decided to wait.  I've been a bit more active on Google+ as of late and strangely enough, nearly 6,000 people have decided this was worth a Circle inclusion. You can find me here: Lee Odden G+.

Cloud applications, platforms, and services are being embraced by libraries and librarians around the world. If you're just getting started or want to learn more about this increasingly popular trend in computing, here is a collection of 21 articles, blog posts, and conference presentations to get you started:

"Choose from your favorite topics and interests, and customize your Pulse with unique pages and sources. Read your favorite blogs, newspapers, magazines, and more"

"Monitor millions of sources in 42 languages and don't miss anything published on social networks, news sites, forums, blog or any web page."

Everything you want to read - news, your favorite blogs, art and more - in one convenient place designed for you.

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The Chilcot Report - in bite (byte) sized chunks

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