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Do you have your hired bloggers sign contracts?
I have a niche blogging network I have started and would like to hire some bloggers to add content and personality to the network. I have some "writer" contracts, but none with anything specific to blogging.
Do you know of any blogger contracts out there in the public domain with specifics for the blogging industry? What specifics would you suggest for a good blog writer contract?
If anyone has some examples they would like to share (heck I'll even pay for it) I would love to take a look. Email me directly at "don aatt makovision dott comm".
Steve Pavlina on 'How to Build a High-Traffic Web Site (or Blog)'
Steve started his site one year ago. He had zero visitors. This month he is projecting he will have over 700,000 site visitors. How did he do it? This article tells how.
Interestingly, Steve's perspective goes against the grain of many of today's blog models. He is against disposable content (i.e. Engadget, Gizmodo). He says, "Virtually everything on this site is my own original content. I rarely post blog entries that merely link to what others are writing. It takes more effort to produce original content, but it’s my preferred long-term strategy. I have no interest in creating a personal development portal to other sites. I want this site to be a final destination, not a middleman."
IMO he is right. When "The Great Blog Shakeout" (every industry goes through a consolidation phase) occurs in a few years, you will see the ones with the 'real' content remain. (Article)
Blog growing pains: Newspaper shuts down blog.
What do you do when a corporate media blog turns into little more than a character-bashing forum? You shut it down. At least that is what the Washington Post did yesterday according to this article over at CNET.
I'd love to hear how the Business Blog Consulting people would handle this. What would you do if your corporate blog ran into this type of problem?
Technorati
I thought I already claimed my blog with Technorati. I guess I haven't. Well ... here goes. Technorati Profile
11 Techniques to Increase Page Views on Your Blog
Of course more page views may or may not be what you want from your blog. At least one commenter on the previous post noted that they are happy with a low page view count because it could mean people are leaving their blog by clicking on an advertisement and thereby earning them money. While there could be some truth in this observation and I’m not adverse to this happening on my blogs - I’m also interested in building blogs that people find interesting and useful and one of the many measures of this can be page views. Of course to get back to the money thing again - those of you running impression based ads will be interested in increased page views also.
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Are 'splogs' ruining the blogs?
Spam has always been a hotly debated topic in the digital realm, so it should be no surprise that its form in the blogosphere--"splogs"--is the source of much angst. But the latest controversy over splogs is far more specific than the broad condemnation that has become the standard response to spam in email, cell phones and other electronic communication.
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Getting Into Blogs Helps Search Engines Find You
The end result of setting up blogging tools on a corporate or small-company Web site is, because posting information to the site becomes so easy, the site content is likely to be more accurate, timely, up-to-date and in sync with the needs and interests of customers. A company's technical-support or customer-service department can post answers to the day's issues into the support area. The sales team can update details about all your products. HR can update the "Management Team" area and job postings, and so on.
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If Blogging Isn't Journalism, It Will Be
Those engaged in the debate about the relationship between blogging and journalism ought to be aware of how journalism came to be. Guttenberg's invention didn't bring it about. In fact, journalism as we now think of it didn't emerge until less than 200 years ago. By "as we think of it," I refer mostly to the division of labor within newspapers, which created the reporting profession and brought about the constant, usually creative tension between reporters and editors.
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Next on board the blogging bandwagon: e-tailer.
Take eHobbies. The site, which sells remote-controlled helicopters and other toys for grown-ups, added a blog in May, where it posts photos from trade shows and shots of employees. The captions range from boosterish to boring; many of the links on the blog lead to an eHobbies product page.
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Bloggers Go Mainstream to Fight Regulation
Federal election officials until now have steered clear of Internet oversight, siding with bloggers and other online activists who portray the Web as a laboratory of grass-roots political participation and an outlet for free speech that should develop unhampered by the government. But online political activity has become increasingly more sophisticated since the FEC last examined it a few elections ago.Acknowledging the Internet's growth, a federal judge last year ordered the FEC to extend some of the nation's campaign finance and spending limits to political activity on the Web. Bloggers fear that will mean new, unique limits on their activities, even though several of the commission's six members have indicated they have no desire to go beyond what the judge ordered.
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Warning: Your clever little blog could get you fired
His story is more than a cautionary tale. Delta Air Lines, Google and other major companies are firing and disciplining employees for what they say about work on their blogs, which are personal sites that often contain a mix of frank commentary, freewheeling opinions and journaling.
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A Brief History of Corporate Blogging at Microsoft
BlogX was one of those, 'I-wrote-this-on-Sunday-night-against-beta-bits' applications that only software developers can bear to use. Using BlogX was like driving a car with no windshield or shocks through the wild west. It got us from point Win to point Web but the ride was bumpy and buggy. Despite the pain of migration and the loss of readership we all experienced, almost everyone was happy to move to weblogs.asp.net (and later to blogs.msdn.com) and install a sparkling new blog editor in December of 2003.
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