Tag: blogging

Friday Five: four useful tips from other bloggers, plus one other thing

I like it when blog posts use lists. (Not everyone agrees with me on this, as you’ll see if you keep reading.) I’m a sucker for “Three ways to…” and “Seven new ideas for…” headlines. I’ll read just about any list — or at least scan it. Sometimes, the information is even useful, like the stuff I’ve listed here.

Four tips to keep online marketers from tricking users.

The seven deadly sins of instant messaging, from 43 Folders.

10 ways to be more than a blip in the blogosphere, from the Washington Post, via Micro Persuasion.

10 truths of marketing in a web 2.0 world.

One dissenting view: Enough with the lists. “I’ve grown to hate the list-ification of information,” writes Basement.org. Via 43 Folders again.

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Journalism 2.0: a social network experiment

Despite the challenges “old media” face from the new world of social networking, these appear to be exciting times for journalists who are willing to embrace the new reality — or to at least experiment with it.

A new weblog, Beat Blogging, is one such experiment. The idea behind Beat Blogging is to connect reporters via a social network — a blog, in this case — to help them improve their beat reporting.

The group of 13 journalists — one each from various news organizations — includes a couple of journalist-bloggers whom I try to read occasionally:

  • Eric Berger, who blogs as SciGuy for the Houston Chronicle. Berger says he joined the network because he hopes “to raise the level of debate on my existing blog by adding considerably more commentary from practicing scientists, and giving scientists a non-threatening place to interact with the general public.”
  • Eliot Van Buskirk of Wired’s Listening Post blog. His editor, Evan Hansen, says, “One of the lessons we’ve learned is that blogging offers a fundamentally different relationship with readers than traditional newsgathering, and with this project we hope to tap even deeper into that phenomenon.”

Via The Chronicle of Higher Education‘s news blog. The Chronicle is one of the 13 news organizations to take part in the experiment and has assigned Brad Wolverton, who covers the business of college sports, to Beat Blogging.

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