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Professional Blogging: How To Become A Successful OnlineTechnology Reporter - My Story With Robin Good

Written by on Wednesday, July 25th, 2007 in citizen journalism, blogs, Robin Good, credibility, RSS, Online Collaboration, ContentDeliveryAnd Distribution, Online Marketing, Video Production, Social Networking, Independent Publishing.

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Professional blogging is a huge growth area, and there are few people who wouldn\’t relish ditching the nine-to-five for a life writing about the things they love best. That\’s exactly what I did one year ago, when I joined Robin Good\’s Media Network. I haven\’t looked back since. A little less than a year ago I hadn\’t even considered the idea that I would be making my living by writing blog posts and making videos for the web. I was an active blogger, putting together various projects and writing about what inspired me, but I had no inclination that blogging would change my life in so many ways. I had worked all kinds of jobs, from HR recruitment to lecturing …

RSS Conversation Monitor: BlogRovr Aggregates In Context What Others Have Already Said

Written by on Wednesday, June 6th, 2007 in RSS aggregator, RSS reader, blogs, Content Delivery And Distribution, RSS, SearchToolsand Technologies, ContentDeliveryAnd Distribution.

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RSS News Feeds make it simple to cut through the millions of websites out there and access laser-targeted information the minute it is published. Even then, though, it can be very easy to amass so many website feeds that you start to suffer from information overload. So what can you do? One possible solution is BlogRovr, a browser plugin that lets you subscribe to news feeds and have them appear on your screen in the context of the site you are currently visiting. Blogging is very much a two-way, open conversation, and sometimes it would be nice to find out what other people are saying about the news you are reading. Let\’s say you are checking out the latest review …

From RSS Reader To Direct Online Publisher: Newsmastering Away With Blogbridge

Written by on Tuesday, June 5th, 2007 in blogs, RSS aggregator, RSS reader, Content Delivery And Distribution, SearchToolsand Technologies, ContentDeliveryAnd Distribution, RSS, Independent Publishing.

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Making use of a good RSS feed reader is essential to the daily routine of most bloggers. Feeds give you a way to quickly seek out the latest hot news for your niche audience from across the web. Wouldn\’t it be nice, though, to be able to read your feeds and publish your blog posts from a single application? Photo credit: arrow Blogging is a conversation, and it takes place daily between the thousands of independent publishers honing in and sharing their thoughts on their particular brand of niche-targeted news. There are very few pro-bloggers who don\’t start their day working through their personal collection of RSS feeds, filtering out signal from noise, and sourcing the foundations of their latest …

How To Make Money Blogging The Easy Way: HubPages Gets You Started

Written by on Tuesday, May 8th, 2007 in online communities, blogs, Social Networking, Online Marketing, ContentDeliveryAnd Distribution, Independent Publishing.

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The question of how to make money blogging is a perennial favorite, and with dedication, hard work and a well-chosen niche-topic it is definitely possible. But for many people looking to get started, negotiating the issues of building traffic, SEO, blogging platforms and monetization options can be baffling. Luckily there is a simple service that takes care of all of that and lets you turn your passion into ad revenues the easy way. There is no doubt that you can make enough money blogging to make a living if you have the time to master the skills and services that will turn your passion into cash. But for those just starting out there are only so many hours in the …

Learning Paths, Collaboration Tools, Social Software: A Video Interview With Teemu Arina (Part Two)

Written by on Thursday, April 19th, 2007 in networking, blogs, informal learning, conversations, formal learning, social software, wikis, Learning-Educational Technologies, education, Social Networking, Online Collaboration, Learning - Educational Technologies.

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Teemu Arina: "Key enemies? Well, nowadays when the world is so networked and so complex I think that those people who I might think are ideologically my enemies are really also potential people to cooperate with, so there is no meaning with having a conversation with those who agree with you. Teemu Arina So those who are enemies are actually the most important resource for you to learn and reflect on your thinking, because they bring such different points of view in a conversation, so I can\’t point to any single enemy." While informal and mobile learning were the themes of the first part of the video interview with Finnish futurist and learning scholar Teemu Arina, in this second round …

The Future Of Learning Is Informal And Mobile: A Video Interview With Teemu Arina

Written by on Thursday, April 12th, 2007 in networking, blogs, informal learning, conversations, formal learning, social software, wikis, Learning-Educational Technologies, education, Social Networking, Online Collaboration, Learning - Educational Technologies.

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What does the future of learning look like? Thanks to my good friend and senior corporate learning researcher and independent writer Jay Cross, I have had the good fortune of meeting Teemu Arina, a young Finnish educational scholar, with lots of good ideas, a fully working brain and a vision for the future as only a few are able to crystallize. Photo credit: Robin Good video interviewing Teemu Arina in the park of S.Angel Castle in Rome I found Teemu to be a true thinker, and one that does like to stretch the definitions of what is possible and what\’s not. Open-minded and capable of evaluating viewpoints different than his, he is also a pragmatical individual understanding the true limits …

How To Grow Your Own Blog: Nine Tips For Would-Be Bloggers

Written by on Friday, March 16th, 2007 in writing, blogs, Online Collaboration, Independent Publishing.

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How can you become an effective, impactful and followed blog when you are yet no-one and when it appears that all other bloggers out there are already writing about the very things you are interested into? Photo credit: Stephen Coburn How can you grow your blog to make it uniquely interesting, engaging and followed by many avid readers? How can it be true that if you were to start blogging someone would pay attention to your very own writing? The answer does not lie so much in having better or more sophisticated publishing software, or in using different fonts or bigger images, but rather in understanding deeply what are the key factors that differentiate average blogs from great ones. In …