Publishzer is a tool to create magazines out of content that inspires you. Billions of content pieces are created everyday on the internet and no way can I browse through all of them. So we asked to ourselves, wouldn’t it be nice to have a tool to organize and share most of this content. A place to save all the amazing articles, photos and videos that inspires you online. Beside now you do not have to be sticked on feeds to keep up with the news.
Read their story here.
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Quipol is social polling. Create simple & elegant one-question polls, embed them into your blog posts and webpages, and find out where your audience stands on virtually any topic.
Simple, clean polls you can embed on any site. I really like that one.
Hootsuite competitor, pretty affordable.
A lot of interesting reporting and analytics features are included.
Social media measurements to understand how social media impacts your business and what you need to do to measure them.
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From sites with 10 posts to sites with 10,000 posts, our plugins will increase your traffic and make you money. We have a robust system already running on thousands of sites, and are responsible for millions of click-throughs every month.
Another "related articles" plugin Shareist site owners can use.
great presentation/layout of the items.
Engagement is becoming important in the online marketing world. It is important not only to create quality content, but find a way to distribute it, build and engage with an audience to build value and sustainable business.
This is one great post i recommend reading if you are an online marketer.
That Independent Web is where you get high engagement and a lot of passion. It is also where a lot of social action like tweets, shares and commenting takes place. Marketers are increasingly seeing those kinds of actions as indications of engagement and that’s what they’re looking for.
At this point, marketers have pivoted: they're not just putting their marketing next to content, but actually creating content themselves – or underwriting the creation of content. And then they encourage the sharing of that content and creating ecosystems where that content circulates. They're starting to see an ecosystem of paid, owned, and earned media that they're very interested in feeding through social interactions and content marketing.
We've found that you need a few things to make social interactions online meaningful and valuable to both marketers and our Federated Media Publishing community of publishers and sites. Number one, you need scale. But number two, you need a platform so that that scale can be gathered into a single place – an efficient place so a marketer doesn’t have to, for example, execute a thousand ad units on a thousand different sites.
Is your content and strategy driving any value?
Marketers have been very interested in understanding how their content is amplified in the past few years. Was it tweeted a lot? Did people comment on it a lot? Did people link to it from other blogs and so on? We started at first by counting all of that by hand and then reporting it back to the marketer. That is now becoming an industry standard earned media metric.
It's no secret that blogging is a game of page views. Without good analytics, blogging is all about watching, intuition and guesswork. After you've done some of that, you write some spaghetti posts, throw them at the wall and see what sticks. Dash gives publishers the motherlode of data about page views and how to get them. It shows them the past and the present of their site, and its ability to measure Web-wide trends offers a glimpse of the future.
Pars.ly has been impressive from the start. Google should eat them up and offer this for free, disrupt the blogging world by allowing anyone, and not only large companies with budgets who can afford this service (starts at $499/mth), access this information and put everybody in fair competition.
A tool like Dash gives a site a huge advantage in the short term. While some sites putter along without this kind of detailed feedback, the ones who have it could dominate. The ability to see exactly which topics and events need covering, and exactly how to cover them for a particular audience, is a sort of online omniscience.
ICE wraps changes and user-generated inserts and deletes inline in the DOM and stores a sufficient amount of data about each change in node attributes.
We went with the “inline” approach because other implementations, which use placeholders and store data (really metadata about a change or the content of deleted text) outside of the editor or in a reserved DOM element, had nasty bugs. With all of the data packed into each node, we used ranges, position markers in the DOM, to examine the change nodes and get an understanding of the current context — for example, are we in an insert or delete, and is it by the same user? — before adding more changes.
Where can ICE be used?
ICE can be initialized to listen for events and track changes on any HTML element that is content-editable. Since it is not a text editor itself, ICE has to be plugged into other text editors that provide the core text editing functionality. So far, we have developed plugins for TinyMCE and WordPress. Over the last several months, with great success, we have been piloting the TinyMCE plugin in our newsroom.
You can import from 18 popular sources, easily post your own updates, pick from a range of styles and create compelling stories from your content.
Easily post anything you find interesting, import your web 2.0 stuff and share your life online
This platform requires install like Wordpress.
Project Argo is collection of tools and best practices for building topic-focused sites in WordPress.
The code and tutorials that you find on this site were designed to enable a pilot group of 12 NPR member stations to curate and report on news about specific topics of local interest.
The 12 sites the Argo suite was built for encompassed a range of topics, from climate change to local music. Overall, the sites share several key characteristics: frequent publishing, often with several posts a day; robust use of images; and a mix of curatorial and original material. Any topic-focused site that matches these criteria might benefit from our methods, themes or plugins.
Even with the right tools, it's not obvious how to reach a robust audience for a topic. In this section, we share what we've learned during Project Argo, and what we recommend to anyone taking on a topical blogging project.
Apple on Thursday announced a new platform for creating and reading digital textbooks.
"In like five minutes flat, we created an e-book and deployed it to the iPad. I hope you find that as inspiring and empowering as I do," Apple's Phil Schiller said at a press conference at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, according to live blogs of the event posted online.
At the press conference, Schiller mocked paper textbooks, saying, "They're not portable, not durable, not interactive, not searchable." Books on the iPad are all of those things, he said.
Hear that, content marketers? That is the sound of inevitability ... the sound of you creating a Google+ page for your business. Here's why.
Building an audience on Google+ may be the smartest thing you do as a content marketer when it comes to improved search rankings. You still need to understand the language of your audience and reflect it back in your content, but Google will now have direct indications that you’re putting out quality stuff.
And yes, Google Plus is Google, it's that simple. So as a marketer, you have to be on Google Plus because it will affect your livelihood.
Basically, an RSSbox is an RSS reader widget - a rectangular area on your website or blog displaying text and images from RSS feeds. When creating a new RSSbox you decide on which type of layout and which RSS feeds to use. Convert RSS to HTML, convert RSS to Javascript, convert RSS to PHP and include RSS on Facebook.
- You field a weekly flood of pitches.
- People who don't know you make wildly inaccurate assumptions about things you say.
- You forget how to share with people who do know you.
- You get addicted to the approval of strangers.
- Your view of the world gets skewed.
- You're a spam magnet and a troll target.
A couple of years ago, Amanda Hocking needed to raise a few hundred dollars so, in desperation, made her unpublished novel available on the Kindle. She has since sold over 1.5m books and, in the process…
Pretty neat tool
Transform your blog into a well-formatted book.
It's easy to generate your very own BlogBook from your blog platform in just a few clicks. You can get your book as a PDF or as a properly printed book, whichever you prefer.
That’s right. We’re at the end of an important period. The tech blogosphere as we know it, is over. Four Trends Show the End of this Era: Like the film industry, the Golden Era is the emergence period, when fresh innovation in a new medium is born. New techniques, revolutionary content, and different business models emerge as innovators pioneer a new medium. I first had this discussion with Chris Saad, which triggered some thinking on my end. I asked some of the foremost tech bloggers of their opinion, and found four clear trends on why the Golden Era of Tech Blogging is over, here’s what’s shaping this change:
The audience needs have changed, they want: faster, smaller, and social
Bloggers themselves know that relying on a single tool isn’t effective, they need a series of tools to use; “blogging isn’t dead. it may have gotten a LOT more social, and it may be less frequent now for those of us who also use twitter / facebook / tumbler / youtube for other distribution efforts, but the overall impact from these platforms together is BIGGER than ever before (and i maintain, also EASIER than ever before if you build it right).” -Dave McClure
Web Design & Development, Facebook, Social Media, WordPress, SEO + More The Facebook Social Plugins (Like Button, Send Button, Comments Box) make integrating your website with Facebook, via the Open Graph, fairly easy. But how best to track users’ social actions on your website and your website links on Facebook? This article explains how these two powerful Social Analytics tools differ, the pros and cons of each, and how you can use them together to get useful insights into your analytics…
Maybe this is a new business opportunity for more than writers.
Providing a platform that can enable agencies providing writing services to post for multiple clients on different websites could be part of this new ecosystem.
It’s weak to sit down at your computer and start typing randomly. As my mentor says, “garbage in, garbage out.” If you don’t plan your writing’s format, you’ll blather. I recommend outlining using the inverted pyramid, the professional writing style of all media outlets.
We speak in subject-verb-object order. Writing should be constructed this way as well. It helps you write in the most active voice possible. Active writing is shorter and more engaging.
Associated Press style is the preferred writing style for media writers. If you don’t have an AP Stylebook, I suggest you get one and begin using it daily. It’s clear, concise and standardized professional language. Learn it. Love it. Use it. I promise it will serve you well.
Mark Twain was quoted as saying he would have written shorter, but he didn’t have the time. It’s easier to write long than it is to write short. However, concise writing is more effective. Pretend like every word you publish costs you a dollar. Be frugal.
Very is a weak substitute for a strong verb or adjective. Don’t use it. Instead of writing it was very cold, write it was frigid.
Semicolons are for complex sentences. The best writing is simple and easily understood. If you’re tempted to use a semicolon, break the sentence into two simple sentences.
If you don’t understand it, chances are someone else doesn’t either. You want to inform your reader, not confuse them. Use simple words in simple sentences.
We litter our writing with more commas than necessary. To avoid this, pretend you only have so many commas to use for the rest of your life. Use them judiciously so you don’t run out.
Spell check is a blessing. Always use it. But don’t let spell checking keep you from proofreading too. I know a guy who submitted a paper all about the importance of “pubic relations.” It was for a public relations course. Pubic and public are both words, but I assume their relations are different.
It doesn’t help your writing to pepper it with overused phrases. It just makes it longer and may insert biased or sexist language. Clichés aren’t worth it.
Reading your writing aloud helps test its clarity. Alter any sentence you have to read more than once.
Make your own blog with a simple and powerful blog design tool. Create your own website. The Ownzee WYSIWYG editor makes it easy to design your blog.
Use the power of WordPress to transform online content into an electronic book. Easily pull content from blogs. Generate your book & publish in print & digital formats.
Smart.
Clever and useful. You should always seek legal council though...
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