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Tumblr Rolls Out Fan Mail, A New Interblog Messaging Service

Megan O'Neill — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 11:37:00 +0000

Have you ever wished you could send a quick note to your favorite Tumblr users to give them notes and suggestions or just let them know you think they’re awesome? Soon you’ll be able to with a new Tumblr feature called “Fan Mail.” Tumblr will be rolling out Fan Mail to all users over the next few days, opening up a new channel of communication via interblog messaging.
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5 Tumblr Tips For Microblogging Success

Megan O'Neill — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:27:53 +0000

Tumblr is all the rage these days. New Tumblr blogs are going viral on an almost daily basis, from Teenage Mutant Ninja Noses to The 99 Percent, funny text messages and more. Seeing all the Tumblr success that surrounds you may inspire you to start your own Tumblr blog, but where do you start? We’ve put together a list of five Tumblr tips to help you plan, set up and run your Tumblr blog for maximum success.
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Tumblr Tops Blogging Service Downtime With 42 Hours Down In 2011

Megan O'Neill — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 11:41:14 +0000

Last December statistics showed that Tumblr was the least reliable popular blogging service, with 47.5 hours of downtime in between October 15 and December 15, 2010. The good news is, Tumblr has shown a decrease in downtime in 2011, but it still tops the charts for blogging service downtime in 2011, clocking in at 42.1 hours down between January 1 and November 30 of this year.
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Report the News — Not On The News — Says Time, Inc. Panelist

Julie Andrews — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 09:18:12 +0000

Moderator of the Medill Club Ethics Panel 2012, Professor Jack Doppelt with alums Joyce Hanson and Sally Fryberger

Brian Moylan, an editor at Gawker Media (and self-proclaimed “Gawker shit talker” on Twitter), remembers a recent spate of 20 minutes that seemed like the longest ever. He couldn’t click the refresh button on enough browsers fast enough. Having just spotted a Tweet on Billy Crystal’s feed announcing the nine-time Oscars host would be emceeing the Academy Awards yet again in 2012, he posted the news.

Moylan then realized the Academy had not yet confirmed the information—and anxiously awaited confirmation hoping the post would not have to be taken down (or crossed out and amended).

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Social Media Adoption and Fortune 500 Companies — Have They Reached their Peak?

Azam Khan — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:35:08 +0000

Fortune Magazine annually tracks America’s largest corporations due to their influence in the business world. For this study, Academics from Center For Marketing Research Dartmouth examined the social media activity, specifically blogging, of various organizations, concluding that the biggest companies have slowed down their social media efforts and appear to be hitting a plateau. More after the jump. continued…

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The Evolution Of The Blogger: Which Type Of Blogger Are You? [Infographic]

Megan O'Neill — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 11:50:29 +0000

Blogging has roots all the way back to the early 1990s, when forum members would keep accounts of their day-to-day activities and in 1994 the first real blog, Justin’s Links, hit the web. Blogging has come a long way since 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.
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7 Important Questions To Ask Yourself Before You Start A Blog

Megan O'Neill — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 10:40:24 +0000

Thinking about starting a blog? Before you even think about sitting down to set up your blog and write your first post there are several questions you need to ask yourself. These seven important questions can help you determine whether you’re on the right track, how you should proceed and whether you should even be starting a blog at all.
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Google Releases Blogger App For iOS

Frank McPherson — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 21:09:13 +0000

Blogger is one of the first successful blogging platforms that for many people provided their first introduction to blogs. Blogger was also one of Google’s first acquisitions, when the search engine company bought Pyra Labs back in 2003. Google hasn’t done a tremendous amount with Blogger and it took them a while to develop an Android app for the service, and even longer developing an iOS app, which they just announced today.
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Tumblr for Android 2.0 Manages Multiple Blogs with New Interface

Kenna McHugh — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 13:00:04 +0000

Android users should be ecstatic to know that the Tumblr Android app just went through a major overhaul. What an overhaul it is! It feels like a brand new experience with a revamped UI. The new app has the ability to quickly create and save posts. You can even add video and photos to your blog or follow new Tumblr blogs and manage your account from your device. iOS users received this update back in July, and now Android users are feeling the satisfaction of having the same freedom.
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7 Tips for Marketing Your Content

Tom Johansmeyer — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:00:08 +0000

I’m knee-deep in launching a new blog. This will be my tenth (non-personal) blog launch/re-launch in six years. Each time I do it, I seem to forget (and re-learn) the pain that’s involved. Getting a blog off the ground is far from easy, and keeping it alive is even harder. Of the 10, five are alive and well, if in different hands, two are dead and two should be if they aren’t. For the tenth, it’s still too early to tell, but everything looks better than it has with my other launches.

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Infographic Reveals The Best Time To Publish Blog Posts

Megan O'Neill — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 10:50:35 +0000

You’ve got a great new blog post ready to publish and you know that your readers are going to love it, but should you post right away or wait for a more suitable time of day? Should you post to your blog in the morning? At lunch time? Or maybe at the end of the day, just before you go to bed? A new infographic from KISSmetrics reveals not only the pros and cons of posting during both high and low activity hours, but also pinpoints the best time to post to your blog.
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Hey Bloggers! Let The Gender Genie Decide If Your Writing Sounds More Male Or Female

Megan O'Neill — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 09:15:37 +0000

Earlier today a Tweet caught my attention, asking the question “Does your blog sound more male or female?” The tweet, posted by Rachel King aka @rachaelgk, directed followers to the Gender Genie, a fun project from a few years back that claims to tell you whether you are male and female when you feed it something you’ve written—fiction, nonfiction or blog entry. We couldn’t resist sharing this fun “tool” with you, our beloved readers, both male and female!
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3 Great Social Media Lessons From BlogWorld

Neil Glassman — Fri, 27 May 2011 12:40:59 +0000

I had high expectations for three of the sessions at BlogWorld Expo NY this week. And they did not disappoint.

Allow me to share with you a bit of what I learned about managing (and avoiding) a social media PR crisis, responding to attack comments on your owned media and how, without the appropriate metrics, you’re marketing blind. We’ll look at mom bloggers and the #ToyotaFail; Facebook wall moderation after a comment attack; plus News Feed Optimization — perhaps the most public secret in Facebook marketing success.

From the first professional conference I’ve attended where a session audience gasped. Twice.

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5 Lists of Takeaways From BlogWorld Expo NY

Neil Glassman — Thu, 26 May 2011 11:50:34 +0000

At its first Big Apple event, BlogWorld Expo presented a nearly overwhelming agenda of sessions accented by the cricket sound of laptop keyboards, discrete iPad envy glances, “attending” multiple sessions by following the hashtag stream and, one hopes, more than a few “Ah-Ha!” moments for everyone.

In the first of two posts, here are my somewhat random, totally opinionated takeaways from some of the sessions in which I participated at Blogworld Expo NY.

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Everything You Need To Know About Video Blogging…From Puppets!

Megan O'Neill — Tue, 24 May 2011 07:00:19 +0000

Meet Mario and Fafa the Groundhog. Mario and Fafa are here to teach you everything you need to know about video blogging, from what a video blog is to how you should set your blog up, how to get subscribers and more. The video is silly and entertaining, but it also really does offer up some good tips that can make for a successful YouTube channel.
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