There’s an interesting thing happening online at the minute – people are beginning to see through crap and filter out inane. Long-term fans and advocates of bloggers and social media “leaders” are looking at them and realizing that maybe they don’t have much to offer after all. What’s even more interesting is not that this is happening, but that it’s being made clear on why it’s happening by the very people who might have otherwise been quiet and submissive until…

This is a guest post by Ari Herzog. I confess guilt. When I recently shared how to write a blog post, I specified the noun, “post.” That was wrong of me. I should have echoed Phil Gerbyshak and specified the noun, “article,” as in, how to write a blog article. Are we ignoramuses for interchanging the verbs used for publishing blog articles with the nouns used for the articles themselves? I don’t think this is about semantics. The blog, according…

While you might come here to read about social media; or marketing; or strategy; or statistics;  it’s always nice to step back and read blogs from outside the business and social media circle. So, over on my Facebook page last night, I asked for recommendations of blogs that weren’t business, to see what inspired others when they read. And boy, did the recommendations fly in! So, without further ado, here are 21 non-business blogs you could add to your reader…

I had a few emails (and 14 unsubscriptions) after this blog post I wrote yesterday. The emails I received expressed the sender’s dislike of the post, saying that if I didn’t have anything nice to say, I shouldn’t say anything at all. I’m guessing the unsubscribes shared that view. That’s fair enough. Opinion pieces often do that – some will agree, some will disagree, and some won’t care either way. And that’s all good, and how it should be –…

Hey there. So I’m currently fighting a virus at the minute that’s left me pretty zonked out and listless. I’ve had signs of it all week, but this morning it hit me hard. So, while I’m “absent”, so to speak, why not check out some posts you may have missed? You can find them here. Or, introduce yourself to the bloggers that sit on my reading list. You never know what gold you might find. Cheers, and see you soon.

Two blog posts caught my eye today. The first was The Art of Blog Commenting by Arik Hanson, and the other was The Time for Location-Based Marketing is Now by Gini Dietrich. Two different blog posts – Arik’s (as the title suggests) is about blog comments, while Gini’s is about platforms like Foursquare and Gowalla and acts as a rebuttal to a recent Forrester report. Yet despite being different, they’re both very much tied together by one defining factor –…

As we approach the end of the year, I thought it might be fun to share Ten for 10 in 2010 – a list of people, blogs, apps, platforms and more that I think you might enjoy checking out in 2010. These are just personal takes, and will probably either see you agreeing or thinking I’ve lost the plot – and either one is fine by me! As with any list, this is subjective so please feel free to leave…

With almost 200 million blogs worldwide, blogging has never been more popular. From sharing what you’re up to in your personal life to professional blogging, there’s something for everyone. With this amount of blogs, sometimes good ones can get lost in the crowd, which is where recommendations and blog love come in. Who’s on your list?

Social media and blogging go hand in hand. From the early days of both mediums to their incredible growth, popularity and importance in today’s web world, it’s almost impossible to think of a time before blogging or social media. So why are some of the people “on the inside” complaining about it so much?