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The concept discussion may be the first step toward community isn't a brand new one. Actually, it’s fairly consistent theme using the probably the most influential writers coping with community management, including Richard Millington at FeverBee and Patrick O’Keefe at iFroggy. Even though it’s a subject that's been discussed extensively, it’s  important enough which i think it’s excusable to become repetitious.Beyond that, however, It can be quite essential for small online towns. A lot of the thrill

Nick Denton, founding father of Gawker, continues to be focusing on a task he hopes will disrupt the leaving comments system on his network.Really, he hopes it'll disrupt online journalism completely.Denton is developing a platform which will turn commenters into featured authors. Rather than becoming an article's afterthought, Denton is developing a platform which will turn readers' opinions into group discussions. They'll have the ability to control who's within the discussion, and who's omitted.Denton

If you haven’t been following the news lately, this week there was a heated discussion about a marketing campaign that Google carried out to promote its Chrome browser. Basically Google hired a marketing company to promote some web videos, and that company in turn hired bloggers to post the videos (obviously paying them). The problem emerged with some SEOs noticed the campaign and found a couple of those bloggers using dofollow links to the Chrome homepage, which in theory if a violation of

Continuing our discussion of things you should be doing right now to improve your blog, today’s tip—the final in this series—is: This is a variation on the first post in this series, about creating a product, but for those of you feeling overwhelmed by the prospect of creating a new product from scratch it can be a good first product.

Continuing our discussion of things you could be doing right now to improve your blog, today’s tip is: One of the tasks that I build into my own blogging on a monthly(ish) basis is to dig into Google Analytics. I do a number of things while digging in but one simple task that can have significant impact is to look for “hot posts”—posts that attract a higher rate of traffic than normal posts.

Do you follow numerous people online that you often wish you could mute in regard to specific topics? Unfortunately when it comes to social networking, you either have the option of muting a user altogether or just removing them as a friend or unfollowing them. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could just mute the topics that they post about which you don’t like? Well now you can with a new social community called Subjot.

Have you tried all you can to get traffic to your blog to no avail? Have you tried promoting your products to your readers but you find it difficult to progress? Do you find it difficult to get comments and social media shares of your blog posts? If you answered yes to one or all of the above questions then it is time to rethink your blogging strategy. It is true you will have to market your blog to get visitors coming but you need to start thinking about the difference between getting visitors and

There’s been a good spirited discussion about why I deleted my two blogs and moved to Tumblr. The best are from Louis Gray, Mark Evans, Matthew Ingram and Hubspot. However, the more I think about it, there’s another point to discuss: high-value vs. low-value SEO.

In preparation for our short onstage discussion at CM Summit next week, I recently hopped on the phone with Color founder and CEO Bill Nguyen. Color, ostensibly a social-photo app, is backed by big money and saddled with huge expectations. It launched with great fanfare in March. I wrote glowingly of its potential here. I got a fair amount of sh*t for being too rosy in my estimation of the service's potential. By April, Color had been written off as a failed effort by much of the blogosphere, and folks