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Handling your blog's common mistake.

Blogging quality ranges from outstanding to something that "I've skip grammar and spelling in my schooldays" type of bloggers. No matter how much work you put into blogging, you're going to make a mistake somewhere. This is how you should handle a mistake you made in blogging in my point of view.
1. Spell check your blog post before posting them. Spell check often fixes a lot of error.
2. Have a trusted person look at your post to find the stuff spell check missed. This will grab most, if not all, of the rest of your errors.
3. Acknowledge your mistake and fix it. People seem to want contrition as much as they want to believe in something.
4. Don't be annoyed about any negative comments as you can gain from them positively. The most annoying person in the world may have a valid argument about something that might be beneficial to you someday.

In blogging I think this is how you should handle the common mistakes you made. Don't let a mistake simmer to boiling over the proverbial pot and regret later. But surely these is not all there is to it, if you have other point in mind share it here in your comments. Blogging is sharing and learning at the same time for both readers and bloggers.


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U.C. Berkeley student's uses Twitter to escape jail

When Egyptian police scooped up UC Berkeley graduate journalism student James Karl Buck, who was photographing a noisy demonstration, and dumped him in a jail cell last week, they didn't count on Twitter.Twitter, the micro-blogging service for cell phone users, allows messages up to 140 characters long. Twitter users can allow anyone they wish to join their network and receive all their messages. Buck has a large network, so Twitter gave him an instant link to the outside world.With this in mind I wonder what Twitter can do for bloggers in blog traffic and readership? If Twitter can save and free someone because of Mr. Buck large following on Twitter then I could say bloggers like me can tap this micro media to drive traffic and readership to my blog, but I need to start gaining some friends by using Twitter often.

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Blog promotion through Social Network media.

Social network community can be used to bolster your blogs presence. The potential of this type of media is that it allows you to interact with other members in a lot of ways. Music sharing, photos, chats and of course blogging are the few features this media can offer members. The positive impact of social networking sites has now attracts even marketers and advertisers to enlist brand advocates for their cause. Just like marketers and advertisers, bloggers who are monetizing their blogs can use social networking sites to drive traffic and manage the flow after leaving the site. The point is that frequent social networkers trust their peers' opinions about something that has been shared to them by fellow peer. Widgets, skins and forward-to-friends functionality are just some of the useful tools to tap to spark engagement with fellow peers in the social network, thus creating a following from them. Here are some of the most popular social networking sites that I found useful in promoting your blog.
Facebook
Friendster
Bebo
Yahoo360
Tagged.com
Orkut
Myspace.com
This is not a complete list of the social networking sites for there are lots around the web that is gaining popularity and I don't suggest that you should join them all but choose from among the popular list I posted that you think might help you promote your blog. This is just another tool for blog promotion to get more traffic and readers to your blog.

What Does Success Mean?

Success means a lot of things to a lot of people, but the bottom line, for most of us, is that success doesn't come easy. Most people who see someone else's "overnight success" cannot fathom the months or years of hard work, lost sleep and sacrifices made to achieve that success.

In my opinion success means having dream nobody else believes in and holding it through hardest times. Success is achieved by first having dreams and then doing what most are unwilling to do to achieve them. I think every person have dreams. The only problem is that for most dreams are just that; something unreal and unobtainable. I know some of my dreams may never be reached like my dream of becoming an A-blogger, but that's only because I am working on other dreams at the moment, for now I am satisfied with the status of my blog, at least I got some interested person that read my post and thanks to you guys! I still trying to work things out on this blog and how to make it better, and any suggestion is most welcome. The point is you have to have goals, and then you have to go after them. There will be setbacks, hard times and people along the way that do nothing but try to hold you back, but if you give up, then you've lost your dream and your path to success. As the saying goes "Never give up. Never surrender". In your opinion what does success mean to you?

Marketing Strategy: Perception is Everything

The mind is a deeply complex organ, at times influenced by small, seemingly trivial things, and at others closed off to any external stimuli. Think of it as an onion, with belief at the center and perception at the outermost layer. Subtle stimuli can alter perception not just more easily than they can on belief,but also can alter perception in nearly imperceptible ways, as air overtime hardens and dries the top layer, not affecting the layer beneath.

The point is: Associations with brand logos are more easily influenced as there is no core belief needed to deal with this logos. People were more creative with their task when subliminally exposed to Apple's logo than with IBM's logo as recent study shows. The reason behind is perhaps the attractiveness and design of the Apple logo than with the simpler plainer letter logo design of IBM.

In short, perception is easily manipulated because people are less likely to guard their perceptions than their beliefs. Understanding this relationship is important when considering the implications of other studies and how those implications apply to marketing efforts. More than one piece of research has found, for example, that people are more likely to be influenced by friends and families than by an A-list blogger. Part of that rests with the belief that someone is trustworthy versus the perception that someone is trustworthy. Some, though, take that information
and jump to the conclusion that blogger endorsements and celebrity endorsements are over-credited for effectiveness.

The underlying assumption is that it all comes down to how much trust people put into a recommendation. People these days are much less likely to put trust in a celebrity they know is paid to say something. That distrust could extend to bloggers as well, either for that reason, or lack of certainty of the person's identity (especially in light of recent hoaxes), or a myriad other reasons not to trust a stranger.

So, one may always think that influence and trust is the most important metrics in marketing, but it is not so. The importance of building awareness or as some call it the "power of suggestion" is more likely what is needed as a marketing strategy. While bloggers-the so-called "A-listers" may not have influence, they do have eyeballs. They are A-listers, after all, because people read them. I may have greater trust in my friend in the next cube, but where did he hear about it? and if he heard about it from a trusted friend or family member, they read about it from a source that gets a broad distribution. The information has to start somewhere.

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Adsense Ad placement and the Google watch.

While opening my yahoomail I have this e-mail newsletter that I find interesting to share to you my fellow blogger, especially for those bloggers who have Google Adsense Account and monetizes their blog and also uses Blogger service.
Google may be taking a closer look at AdSense placements dropped onto blogs created through its Blogger service.Some people will do anything to make a buck. There are publishers who work hard on content, link structures, sitemaps, and ad unit placements on their sites.
Then you have the people who open a blog, plug in an AdSense unit as content, and walk away, possibly after buying some ads to point people to the blog and hope they click on an ad or two as they try and find the content.
On the Google Adsense blog, they discussed ad placement and what publishers should avoid. they humorously called this post "Another look at optimizations", but it could have been titled, "You really aren't this stupid, are you?"
So in a nutshell, a simple advice for those who uses adsense, don't have ads as the only content on your site, and don't make them look like they are content when they really are ads. Google wants to see AdSense partners optimize sites properly. A little content added to the mix would be helpful, and they may be checking up on that more frequently. So watch out as the big "G" is making a probe on everything that has to do with its services.



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