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Here’s a great infographic check list from the folks at DivvyHQ to help bloggers build an audience.  Some tried and true tactics are include and some new ideas too.  Enjoy!

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It’s time for me to get back to podcasting. Well past time.  After a period of crazy, busy change in my life, I’m refocusing my attention back on the blogosphere.  I’ve really missed reading my favourite blogs.  I learn so much from bloggers and so I’m really glad that I can once again spend time in the blogosphere.  Here are some blogs posts and podcasts I particularly enjoyed this week:

FIR #620:  I always learn from Shel and Neville.  I particularly enjoyed their discussion about the social media storm visited upon …

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According to a new study from BlogHer, the community for women online, people are now more influenced by the opinion of a blogger than a celebrity when it comes to learning more about products or making a purchase.
The BlogHer 2011 Social Media Matters Study, co-sponsored by PR firm Ketchum, also shows that 78% of the female adult online population are active social media users and nearly twice as many (20%) are motivated to consider products promoted by or with a blogger they know, than by promotions featuring a celebrity (13%).
The …

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Every once in a while I get so caught up in what’s new and cool in the social internet I forget that not everyone is running at the same speed.  I forget that people are coming into this as newbies and might have only limited experience and knowledge. So what was new to me in 2006 might be new to someone else in 2010.
One thing that’s come up recently is blog comment policies.  It’s good practice for bloggers to publish what their policy is for comments; I thought …

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My friend Susan Getgood is speaking on Tuesday’s Blogging with Integrity webinar, and I encourage everyone who is interested in learning what is best practice in terms of blogger outreach to check it out.
Susan and I worked together many moons ago when the dot-com trend was bubbling up, but she’s since gone on to become a leading voice in the marketing and communications blogosphere.
She is  co-founder and managing director of Blog With Integrity.  She blogs at Marketing Roadmaps and her first book, Professional Blogging for Dummies (Wiley) will …

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Next week is the third Thursday of August and that means that the Isle of Man Social Media Club is getting together for lunch at Paparazzi in Douglas. 
Maybe you are trying to figure out Twitter, of have just established a Facebook Fan Page.  Or maybe you’re a seasoned blogger with a long history in Digg.  Everyone is welcome to come out and chat about the online world and how it’s affecting how we live and do business. 
We meet at 12.30. Everyone buys his own lunch and we are usually all …

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Time was, when asked this questions, I’d start to recite deadlines, copy guidelines and descriptions of newsroom teams.  But that was before the Internet changed everything.
Now print journalists are producing video reports and podcasts.  Radio and TV journalists are blogging. And then there are bloggers, who many say are a law unto themselves.
So how does today’s media work?  The only definitive answer is:  All the time.
What are the deadlines?  As soon as the story breaks. Who should we be pitching?  Depending on the story. What do journalists need …

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There is a new initiative out of  Isle of Man Business & Innovation Centre (IoM BIC).  It’s launching the Island’s first ever business club for women. 
One of the first things I did when I arrived on the Island in 2006 was look to try to connect with other women in business, but there was no such group, so I am very pleased to be involved with getting this up and running.   Other members of the steering committee include Cat Turner (AXA), Debs Gwinnell  (Big Fish), Dr Gloria Miller (International Business School), Heather Smallwood …