Posts Tagged ‘bloggers’

Blogging has come a long way since its beginnings in the ‘90s, with over 156 million public blogs in existence as of February 2011. Everyone is blogging, from moms to techies to artists and politicians, and a fun infographic from Flowtown examines the blogging ecosystem.

Join Baratunde Thurston (left), The Onion’s Director of Digital and author of How to Be Black, for an entertaining look at creative social media campaigns in our Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting February 16. Other speakers include Morin Oluwole (Facebook), Tim Devane (bitly), and SocialTimes' writer Devon Glenn.   Register now.

Not getting the response from bloggers that you think your company deserves? Here are five tips for pitching bloggers that will get even the crankiest bloggers to consider writing about you.

Many businesses fail to realize that conducting blogger outreach is not the same as conducting traditional media outreach and their outreach strategies need to be adapted. Scoring a hit in USA Today is still great, but the value in reaching out to bloggers and other influencers online continues to grow.

A free e-book from BlogDash provides solid guidance for successful blogger outreach. With BlogWorld starting tomorrow in New York, I’ve excerpted sections with key takeaways for PR and marcom professionals to keep in mind for the next few days and beyond.

Since its launch a year ago, over 2,000 bloggers joined and contributed to StageofLife.com. The website is an international writing project that takes submitted stories from bloggers and organizes them by categories. Using a multi-generational approach, bloggers submit essays and other insights about their lives which are coded and displayed in one of ten life milestones.

You think it’s easy? Find out just what it takes to date a blogger.

Everybody get’s at least one family update letter near the end of the year and everybody knows at least one person in their life who has a daily blog. Now, the question is which is worse, the family letter or the daily blog.

Parenting site Babble released its annual list of the Top 50 Mom Bloggers of 2010, selected by a panel of mom bloggers and parenting experts.

The complete list is available here, including the overall top 50, as well as the following categories: the best, the most controversial, the funniest, the most confessional, the best-designed, the most useful, and the best-written.

The overall top choice was Lisa Belkin, who writes Motherlode for The New York Times.

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The Associated Press – the go-to organization for journalistic standards – has announced today that its staff will recognize bloggers as valid sources of news and credit them in their articles. This announcement comes from a smattering of policy changes designed to respond to “the age of the Web”, yet critics are raising their eyebrows [...]

Tom Johansmeyer is the Senior Content Director at enter:marketing. He also blogs for Cigar Reader, of which he is co-founder, Gadling, and Luxist. Sometimes, I have to rediscover my blogs I like. It sounds crazy, right? I have about a dozen that I hit every morning as part of my daily routine, but there are [...]

Tom Johansmeyer is the Senior Content Director at enter:marketing. He also blogs forCigar Reader, of which he is co-founder, Gadling, and Luxist. It’s hard not to be greedy. You want to use your corporate blog to attract and retain visitors. So, when they reach your blog, you do everything you can to keep them … [...]