6 Essential Blog Editors Every Blogger Needs

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Blogging is an everyday occurrence for me. However, it is only one part of the duties I juggle on a daily basis. This makes writing blog content in the fastest, most efficient way possible an absolute must. How can you accomplish this? Through six essential blog editors that will free up your time and allow you [...]

7 Essential Tools for Publishers a Guest Post From Ian Cleary On the Zemanta Blog

From the beginning of time almost, for man the creation of tools has had a life changing impact on our ability to not only survive as a race, but to thrive. Think about it, from the simple tools that were created to cut food, as in knives made of wood and sharpened stone, to weapons [...]

Cool Tool for Content Marketers: Pocket

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(This post originally appeared on the Resonance Content Marketing Blog.) As content marketers, we need to stay informed. Not your casual, glance-at-the-front-page-of-USA-Today informed. I’m talking seriously, deeply informed. Our audiences look to us for the latest happenings, trends, and game-changing advice, so we need to keep ourselves in the loop of all that is new, [...]

How To Run a Social Media Contest and the Top Tools to Use

Contests are one of the best and easiest ways to promote a business/website/product/event etc. Here a quick guide to how to hold a contest using social media! People love contests – it almost doesn’t matter what the prize is, just so long as there is one to win! However, many  businesses don’t consider this simple [...]

Top 16 tools to create amazing infographics

Infographics are all the rage at the moment, particularly with the rise in popularity of sites like Pinterest where visuals and images of statistics are being shared. What are inforgraphics? Inforgraphics are visual representation of data with small, relevant and clearly displayed nuggets of information. But infographics are not just useful to consume, they are [...]

10 advice tips for successful blogger outreach

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    Bloggers have been considered as part of the media since 2005. This means that pitching them requires professionalism and respect.   Unfortunately, (and I am also speaking from experience) many brands and small entrepreneurs are still under the impression that reaching out to bloggers is enough to have their news covered.   “If [...]

101 Tweet-Tastic tools for 2013

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As much as I love Twitter, I have to admit I haven’t seen that familiar blue Twitter home page in quite a while. Why? because although Twitter is amazing, I can only fully leverage it by using a range of Twitter tools. I’ve written several blog posts on Socialable about some of my favorite and [...]

Cool Tool: ManageFlitter for Twitter

Too late for New Year’s resolutions and too early for spring cleaning … but anytime is a good time to weed through the list of folks you follow from Twitter and tease out the unworthy. Find out how at Cool Tool: ManageFlitter for Twitter.

WordPress Security

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See on Scoop.it – Blogging with WordPress A full guide on how to protect and improve your website and wordpress blog and installation, inlcuding useful resources, plugins, videos, tools and more Debra Simpson‘s insight: Incredibly informative post on how to keep your WordPress site secure. It’s well worth the time it takes to read the [...]

20+ Tools to Create Your Own Infographics

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From the article: “A picture is worth a thousand words – based on this, infographics would carry hundreds of thousands of words, yet if you let a reader choose between a full-length 1000-word article and an infographic that needs a few scroll-downs, they’d probably prefer absorbing information straight from the infographic. What’s not to like? [...]

30+ More Content Curation Tools

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One of our most popular posts is 30+ Cool Content Curation Tools, which is a great list of over 30 different tools that will help your discover, share and curate content for your blog, website or social media presence. Our readers have left a lot of great suggestions in the comment section for additional curation [...]

Twitter Tools That Help With Efficiency

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“If you’re as busy as I am, you don’t have time to spend all day finding content, and managing your Twitter account. Steven Hughes wrote a great post a few weeks ago about how to manage Twitter efficiently, and spoke about Twitter tools. I’ll expand more on that topic in this post. There are plenty [...]

Fight content scraping with this list of resources

See on Scoop.it – Social Media Tips and News You may remember the article I wrote on content scraping earlier this year. Since then, I have had to monitor my content very carefully, as several other bloggers have tried to steal it. I even ended up filing a couple of copyright infringement notifications. These recent [...]

The top 20 data visualisation tools | Feature

From simple charts to complex maps and infographics, Brian Suda’s round-up of the best – and mostly free – tools has everything you need to bring your data to life One of the most common questions I get asked is how to get started with data visualisations. Beyond following blogs, you need to practise – [...]