How to Best Pitch Bloggers - a Virtual Group Interview
Most bloggers with a fair number of readers and especially a prominent ranking in Technorati or Google experience been pitched by fellow bloggers, pr firms or companies who want to gain exposure for something or someone more or less frequently. You may even pitch bloggers yourself. In fact practically everyone does when they first start out I believe. Anyone having something to sell or promote including themselves or their writing should thus be able to benefit from the answers provided by the participants in this virtual interview.
10 Great Quotes Expanding the Concept of Community
The concept of community comes from having something in common. A common place, interest, distinction or the like. Communities are thus a form of order. Without them there would perhaps not be chaos, but things would certainly be more chaotic. T.S. Eliot went so far as to state: “What life have you if you have not life together? There is no life that is not in community.” This statement is about as far as you can come from the stale formal definition of the concept which simply states the cold facts.
8 Great Quotes Illuminating the Concept of Communication
Wanting to illustrate the concept of communication in so many ways as possible and with as many voices I could find did I go hunting for quotations. What follows are some of the best and most thought provoking quotations about communication that I could find. Winston Churchill once said: “… quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.” and I couldn’t agree more.
How to Avoid Miscommunication, Embrace Differences and Handle Disagreements
After recently covering how to become a better commenter and how you deal with comments is it time to expanding the view a little and look a number of related issues. Rather than reinventing the wheel let’s look at what others have written about it as there are a number of good sources of information already out there. Expanding the view means covering more aspects of each of the following issues that are all related to the articles on how to comment and dealing with comments: Criticizing people, disagreeing and persuading someone, developing communication skills, being considerate as …
Structure How You Deal With Comments to Find the Right Response
Having previously written about how I embrace comments and why as well as how commenters should be commenting is it time to tackle what your role as blogger is when responding to comments and not least what you do if they despite all your good intentions don’t comment as they ideally should. Making clear, at least to yourself, how you will deal with comments is something you do well by doing before you get overwhelmed with them.
