Category Archives: Blogging

Can You Get Someone to do Your Job Search For You?

For anyone who has ever gotten frustrated with their job search at any point in their lives (I’m looking at all of you), I highly recommend this Wall Street Journal piece about companies that conduct aspects of the job search … Continue reading

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What Type of Content Works Well on Tumblr?

Despite its growing popularity in the journalism world and among major consumer brands, it still sort of feels like we’re finding our way in the Tumblr wilderness. It’s close to a tipping point, but hasn’t quite hit one yet. And … Continue reading

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Do You Follow Breaking Tweets?

I love the idea of BreakingTweets.com. This is exactly what journalists should be doing with Twitter. Don’t let the name fool you though, Breaking Tweets is not intended to “break the news.” But the site actually did scoop the BBC and CNN last week. Please read further to learn more about this fascinating project. Continue reading

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Interviews: Video is King

Each time I watch one of Jun Loayza’s interviews I think about how this probably wouldn’t work as well in text. The same is basically true for almost any blogger who wants to feature an interview in a blog post. Video works better than print. Here are some reasons why. Continue reading

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