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Building your online marketing muscles

by Beth Dunn on October 21, 2009

If you know you might benefit from working a little internet marketing magic, building relationships on the web and translating them into a stronger business, but you don’t know how to justify the time involved, this post is for you.

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How to Overcome Writer’s Block

by Beth Dunn on August 31, 2009

I’ve got three methods that help bloggers overcome the curse of writer’s block: Create an editorial calendar, Create a topic bank, and Create a style bank.

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How to Start Blogging

by Beth Dunn on August 20, 2009

When starting your first blog, be clear about your goals, and look closely at your fears. Your goals will guide your writing, and they will usually shut down your fears, too.

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and here's the play at the plate…

by BethDunn on July 7, 2008

I’ve got very little time to spare these days and for the next little while, as we are fast approaching the date of my organization’s major event on Sunday, August 3, at the same time as we are getting ready to launch our new website (about to launch in beta in about ten days – [...]

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more blogs about buildings and food

by BethDunn on April 19, 2008

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I gave a presentation on blogging — should you blog? why and how? — at Geek Girl Camp Cape Cod Thursday night. It was a first-time event, this Geek Girl Camp thing, and so it was hard to know quite what to expect.
I knew that it was sold out. There were [...]

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the organizational social media policy

by BethDunn on April 11, 2008

More organizations are making the move into social media, either by starting a CEO blog, a customer Facebook group, or just by allowing employees to blog openly about their work lives.
As a result, more organizations are finding it necessary to draft a social media policy, or at least a set of principles, meant to guide [...]

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hiatus

by BethDunn on March 22, 2008

I took a week off from writing, for several very good reasons, and now I’m back.
Miss me?
Of course you didn’t.
One of the reasons I took a brief sabbatical was my reaction to this post by Chris Brogan on what it felt like to not have a blog for eight days.
In it, he talks about how [...]

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social media adoption and its discontents

by BethDunn on February 16, 2008

Check this out from Marshall Kirkpatrick over at ReadWriteWeb: “Ten Common Objections to Social Media Adoption and How You Can Respond”
1. I suffer from information overload already.
2. So much of what’s discussed online is meaningless. These forms of communication are shallow and make us dumber. We have real work to do!
3. I don’t have the [...]

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expert witness

by BethDunn on February 8, 2008

I’ve been hearing a lot from artists and cultural organizations that they’d like to start a blog, but they’re unsure what they should write about. They seem convinced that since a blog is a good marketing tool, it’s really just another place to put press releases and event announcements.
Not so.
Blogs are a particular type [...]

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Reflections on America's Giving Challenge

by BethDunn on February 2, 2008

I was glad to see that the New York Times picked up on the final stages of the America’s Giving Challenge. The contest is over, and the cause I’ve been flogging/blogging appears to have (unofficially) emerged victorious. It’s pretty exciting, no doubt, that the Sharing Foundation is likely to receive a decent sum [...]

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