Who would you call a professional blogger ?
A. Someone who blogs in his free time and yet manages to generate some decent income from the blog.
B: An independent full-time blogger who has no day job.
C. Someone who blogs only ‘professional’ stuff and nothing personal / private.
D. A freelancer who writes for another blog network.
I could be wrong here but my assumption was that a professional blogger is a person who has no regular 9-5 job and makes a living from the blog. What’s your opinion?
Anyway, the reason for asking this question is a Seagate contest that begins today. As per rules, only journalists and “professional bloggers” can participate in the contest. Now how would they define one?
Update: The PR team of Seagate has clarified this now - “A professional blogger would be someone who writes blogs on a regular basis.” So I guess most bloggers can enter the contest.
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Sunday, March 9, 2008
Blogging is the Hottest CEO Tool
Brands such as O2 and Topshop have been quick to jump on the social networking bandwagon by using sites such as Facebook to target consumers, but a more recent trend and one that carries some risk has been the use of personal blogs as a communications tool.
Last month Waitrose managing director Mark Price, nicknamed the ‘chubby grocer’, launched a blog on the retailer’s website in which he shares his experiences on a healthier eating regime and tracks his efforts to lose weight, as well as arguing for the introduction of tea trolleys to airport immigration halls.
Price’s actions are relatively unusual, as corporate blogging is still in its infancy in the UK. However, it is thought likely that it will become as popular as it is in the US, where practitioners include General Motors vice-chairman Bob Lutz.
Several other brands, including Dell and Benetton, also operate blogs where employees and consumers can interact.
The appeal is obvious. Blogs are a way of achieving vast reach at a minimal cost. Microsoft chairman Bill Gates spoke about the benefits of communicating with customers via blogs at Microsoft’s CEO Summit in 2004.
It had advantages over more traditional communication methods such as emails, he argued, which could be too imposing or exclude potential audiences.
Microsoft encourages its staff to talk to consumers through blogging; it claims that more than 2000 employees use blogs to keep people up to date with their projects.
“It is a great way to communicate with a wider audience,” says Dave Gartenberg, HR director at Microsoft UK. “We are lucky that some of the most prominent bloggers in the world are based at Microsoft.”
Last month Waitrose managing director Mark Price, nicknamed the ‘chubby grocer’, launched a blog on the retailer’s website in which he shares his experiences on a healthier eating regime and tracks his efforts to lose weight, as well as arguing for the introduction of tea trolleys to airport immigration halls.
Price’s actions are relatively unusual, as corporate blogging is still in its infancy in the UK. However, it is thought likely that it will become as popular as it is in the US, where practitioners include General Motors vice-chairman Bob Lutz.
Several other brands, including Dell and Benetton, also operate blogs where employees and consumers can interact.
The appeal is obvious. Blogs are a way of achieving vast reach at a minimal cost. Microsoft chairman Bill Gates spoke about the benefits of communicating with customers via blogs at Microsoft’s CEO Summit in 2004.
It had advantages over more traditional communication methods such as emails, he argued, which could be too imposing or exclude potential audiences.
Microsoft encourages its staff to talk to consumers through blogging; it claims that more than 2000 employees use blogs to keep people up to date with their projects.
“It is a great way to communicate with a wider audience,” says Dave Gartenberg, HR director at Microsoft UK. “We are lucky that some of the most prominent bloggers in the world are based at Microsoft.”
Sunday, January 13, 2008
Blog's Eye View
Presentation to Digitas employees regarding my blog (Logic + Emotio) and the Social Media Newtwork as seen from my perspective.
Money Making Through Blogging
A 40min cradle-to-grave presentation on how to pick a topic for a blog, fill it with good content, and monetize it.
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Provide Visitors An Easy Option To Promote Your Blog on the Web
ShareThis, the green sharing icon which you’llprobably find in most WordPress blogs, is now available for Blogger platform or any other website.
With a single line of Javascript code, you can help website visitors promote your blog content on social websites like Digg, Delicious, Facebook, etc. Other than social web sharing, ShareThis will let readers forward your stuff via email/SMS while staying on the page.
Now the most wonderful part about ShareThis - when readers share your web content, ShareThis tracks and provides your this information through charts and reports.
share facebook
You therefore know what content is popular among your readers and how they are interacting with various social services.
AddThis also provides something similar in a drop-down CSS menu but with ShareThis, you can decide what services should appear in the menu and their order.
Get ShareThis | Developer Blog
Update: If you are on Classic Blogger template, ShareThis will work without problems but for the XML templates of new blogger, consider replacing characters like <, & and > with their respective HTML codes (<, & and >).
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Add google gadgets to your blog !
for decorating ur blog a can add google gadgets to ur blog. like google talk,google search,google calender,live tv and many more interesting gadgets are present here.so start now and add ur favourite gadgets to ur blog
source :- google gadgets
Monday, November 5, 2007
Favorite Blogs
Martin at GHacks is doing an interesting experiment - he has created a blog feed dependency list (like a mind map) to help people discover related links. He is kind enough to put my blog in his list of favorites.
To keep the ball rolling, here are the ten blogs and bloggers who I really enjoy reading - they’ll always have something unique and interesting to share. This list is no particular order.
John Dowdell - Adobe employee, excellent perspective
Robin Good - New Media and Online Collaboration expert
Allen Stern - Social Media, Web Apps, Online Video
ILuvNUFC - Best collection of interesting stuff online
Long Zheng - All things Microsoft
John Tropea - Great understanding of RSS, blogs, wikis and more
Dr. Taraneh Razavi - Dr. Google
Lisa Barone - Search Engine Optimization
Jeremy Wagstaff - WSJ Journalist, Great tech blogger
Steve Hodson - Technology and Internet blogger
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