This presentation covers the high level why and how of Blogging for Subject Matter Experts (SMEs). Build your own career by creating digital eminence and thought leadership around your ideas and expertise by blogging.
This guide on ‘The Basics of Blogging’ will help you discover:
What your business should write about.
Who should write your content.
How often you should publish content.
Where you should host and share your content.
How SEO works.
How to research relevant keywords for your business.
How to use social media to grow your blog following.
And, most importantly, how to know if it is working.
You can also hear the full presentation at http://www.atomicdust.com/watch-the-basics-of-blogging/
Blogging For Business With Social Networks 2010 EditionSocial Jack
This is a NEW Class for Spring 2010!
www.ForwardProgress.NET
This NEW Complimentary Webinar will provide an educational overview on the lowest most cost-effective method of lead generation on the internet today - Social Networks. This particular course will focus on how people are generating more leads by BLOGGING in conjunction with their Social Networks.
While blogging has been around for a while, there are new techniques for lead generation. We focus on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook in this series being used with WordPress.
Stop dabbling and let us show you how the pros are doing this!
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-Distinguish the types of Blogs
-How to start a Blog
-How to get started
-How to leverage your network
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Who should write your content.
How often you should publish content.
Where you should host and share your content.
How SEO works.
How to research relevant keywords for your business.
How to use social media to grow your blog following.
And, most importantly, how to know if it is working.
You can also hear the full presentation at http://www.atomicdust.com/watch-the-basics-of-blogging/
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This is a NEW Class for Spring 2010!
www.ForwardProgress.NET
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While blogging has been around for a while, there are new techniques for lead generation. We focus on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook in this series being used with WordPress.
Stop dabbling and let us show you how the pros are doing this!
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-Distinguish the types of Blogs
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-How to get started
-How to leverage your network
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Topics include:
* How to create top-notch, keyword-rich content
* How to use your blog to generate leads and sales for your business
* How to build your blog's subscription base
* How to strengthen your blog's community of readers
* What and how to measure the performance of your blog
View the video presentation at http://www.hubspot.com/marketing-webinars/b2b-business-blogging/
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Prepared by Stretch Marketing.
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This is a new Course for Fall 2009!
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While this not new - there are new techniques for lead generation. We focus on Linked In - Twitter - and Facebook in this Series being used with WordPress.
Stop dabbling and let us show you how the pros are doing this!
Learn How To:
-Understand Blogs
-Know about the different types of Blogs
-How to start a Blog
-How to jump in
-How to jump out
-How to convert to an internal lead!
Don't miss this new class where we show you all the secrets!
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While blogging has been around for a while, there are new techniques for lead generation. We focus on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook in this series being used with WordPress.
Stop dabbling and let us show you how the pros are doing this!
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-Distinguish the types of Blogs
-How to start a Blog
-How to get started
-How to leverage your network
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Topics include:
* How to create top-notch, keyword-rich content
* How to use your blog to generate leads and sales for your business
* How to build your blog's subscription base
* How to strengthen your blog's community of readers
* What and how to measure the performance of your blog
View the video presentation at http://www.hubspot.com/marketing-webinars/b2b-business-blogging/
A Presentation that helps Professionals to understand how they can use LinkedIn to maximise their visibility within their networks.
Prepared by Stretch Marketing.
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Whether building up your own blog audience or guest posting this slideshow features lots of cool take-away tips that you can easily implement today. Learn how to find blogging inspiration, promoting your posts for maximum exposure, landing the best guest blog spots and more.
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This is a new Course for Fall 2009!
This NEW Complimentary Online Workshop will provide an educational overview on the lowest cost-most effective method of lead generation on the internet today. Social Networks - this particular Course will focus on how people are generating leads by Blogging in conjuntion with their Social Networks.
While this not new - there are new techniques for lead generation. We focus on Linked In - Twitter - and Facebook in this Series being used with WordPress.
Stop dabbling and let us show you how the pros are doing this!
Learn How To:
-Understand Blogs
-Know about the different types of Blogs
-How to start a Blog
-How to jump in
-How to jump out
-How to convert to an internal lead!
Don't miss this new class where we show you all the secrets!
In less than one hour we will show you how to generate more business from Blogs and Social Networks and why they work.
Colorado State University\'s Social Media Communications Committee presented on how departments/colleges/units across campus can more effectively use Facebook.
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Stop dabbling and let us show you how the pros are doing this!
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-Distinguish the types of Blogs
-How to start a Blog
-How to get started
-How to leverage your network
In less than one hour we will show you how to generate more business from Blogs and Social Networks and why they work.
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Are you looking for practical tips for blogging success? Are you wondering what to avoid? While my position is generally that there are no “rules” in blogging, there are best practices that will help your business blog succeed. There are a lot of obvious elements you need to include to make a blog reader-friendly: quality, compelling content, good navigation, a contact page, an about page,
focus and clarity about the subject of the blog… and there’s a lot of not-so-obvious or overlooked things that can really help make a blog stand out if they’re implemented. More tips: http://masterbusinessblogging.com
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Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
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The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
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Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
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Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
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A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
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Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
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What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
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See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
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👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
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All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
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Knowledge engineering: from people to machines and back
Blogging 101 for SMEs
1. BLOGGING FOR SMES
(subject matter experts)
A collaboration by
Duffy Fron @duffy_fron
Jason O’Donnell @acdntlpoet
Kelly Smith @kellypuffs
Image credit: Flickr user cambodia4kidsorg
2. Contents
Why we blog
What we blog
Guidelines
Tips and Tricks
Call to Action
Resources
Image Credit: (cc) Some rights reserved by Maria Reyes-McDavis
3. Why We Blog
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Blogging is a long-term commitment, but the pay-off is often huge. Engaging
your target audience via a blog can be beneficial in the following ways:
Extend your Reach
• Expand your network of
professional contacts
• Manage your own
professional reputation
Engage your
Connections
• Share your personal
knowledge and ideas on
thought leadership
• Directly communicate,
share, and collaborate with
your audience
Establish a unique
identity
• Differentiate yourself and
IBM from its competitors
• Increase visibility in search
engine results
4. Is Blogging Right for me?
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Blogging is an excellent way to share your knowledge, showcase your expertise, and engage
with your audience – but it only works if you make the necessary commitment to make it
successful. Here are a few questions to help you decide if blogging is right for you:
Do you like to write? You must be naturally willing to write frequent, meaningful
posts.
Are you comfortable
presenting your opinions, and
ideas?
You must be open to handling criticism or accepting diverse
opinions.
Are you willing to learn new
technologies?
You should familiarize yourself with popular new tools and
technologies and use them to enhance your blog.
Can you commit to blogging? You must read and, when appropriate, respond to
comments and questions posted on your blog.
5. What to Share
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YOUR INTEREST AND ENTHUSIASM
Discuss trending topics frequently.
Talk about recent events, collaborations, and projects.
Share press releases, product announcements, and previews.
Your opinions and passions.
Anything that follows the Social Computing Guidelines.
Image Credit: Attribution Some rights reserved by Tall Chris
ENCOURAGE PARTICIPATION
Use an authentic, conversational tone.
Share your thoughts on other interesting blog posts.
Ask questions related to debates that your team is having
Get to know your audience, discuss things they like, and
respond to comments
6. Basic Etiquette
Image source:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/metrolibraryarchive/
• Be excellent to one another
• Respect copyright, fair use, and financial
disclosure laws
• Protect all confidential and proprietary
information
• Don’t cite or reference clients, partners, or
suppliers without their approval
• Know and understand the rules of engagement –
what is appropriate to share and what is not
• Admit and apologize for mistakes
• Be transparent about your identity
and affiliation to your company
• Don’t. Feed. The. Trolls.
REFERENCES:
IBM Social Computing Guidelines
IBM Secure Computing Guidelines
Business Conduct Guidelines
7. Anatomy of a great blog post
- Title: This is your one shot to pull readers in, give them
a reason to click through! Be descriptive & creative.
- Tags: connect similar content and series using tags. Use
words and tags that users are likely to search on.
- Content: Be provocative, add value, give your readers
something they don’t get elsewhere. This is the new
currency of social engagement. Posts don’t have to be
big. 150 words, or just 2-3 paragraphs can often be
more effective than 1k words.
- Embedded Links: Links to deeper content provide
context and create a more robust post.
- Rich visuals: Images add interest and improve clicks,
use them!
Image credit: Flickr user garryknight
8. Your First Blog Post
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Before you post your first entry, take the time to consider your approach so that your
blog best reflects who you are, what you’d like to communicate, and how your point-
of-view is unique from others blogging about similar topics.
Introduce yourself to your readers by telling them:
• Who you are and why you’re blogging
• What your expertise and affiliation is to your
company and what you plan to blog about
• How your viewpoint is unique, and how your
readers should get involved in the conversation
9. Creating Compelling Content
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Many people struggle with starting a blog because they aren’t sure what to write
about. Here are some general principles for writing compelling, relevant blog content:
Establish social intelligence
• Select topics that interest
you or in which you are an expert
• Discuss relevant, new
developments in your field
Engage your audience
• Create an intriguing blog name
and post titles
• Post and respond to questions
and comments to or from your
audience
Enhance your blog entries
• Embed your blogs with links to
rich media, like podcasts and
videos.
• Reference content and link to
posts by other bloggers
10. Listen, analyze and adjust
Respond to your commenters.
Observe the posts that resonate with your audience.
Which get the most views, comments, and/or shares?
Analyze the data and draw conclusions… then…
Do more of the same
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Image credit: (cc) Some rights reserved by dougbelshaw
11. Next Steps: YOUR action items!
Choose a blogging platform
Create an account
Find your subject focus
Start blogging
Share your posts!
Image source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/smemon/5683575389/
12. Resources
IBM Social Computing Guidelines http://www.ibm.com/blogs/zz/en/guidelines.html
Why Should You Blog? (SocialWayne) http://bit.ly/rdplSf
The invisible cost of ownership http://www.waywardcelt.com/socialbusiness/invisible-cost-of-ownership
CopyBlogger http://www.copyblogger.com/
Blogging platforms you may wish to try:
developerWorks https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/
WordPress http://wordpress.com
Blogger http://blogger.com
Tumblr http://tumblr.com
13. Photo Credits
• Thank you to the talented photographers who have
shared their photos on Flickr via Creative Commons
• Flickr’s Creative Commons pool is a great resource for
images for your social efforts: blog posts, presentations,
etc.
• Just be sure to abide by the terms of the license!
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http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/
14. Connect with us!
Duffy Fron @duffy_fron
Jason O’Donnell @acdntlpoet
Kelly Smith @kellypuffs
Editor's Notes
Hi, I'm Kelly Smith, and I'm the Social Lead for Practitioner Outreach and @developerWorks, working across all of IBM to engage with technical practitioners: students, academics, business partners, clients, and those we would like to be clients.Been with Rational since 1997, and IBM since acquired 2003.I've worked in development, test, and technical support. In each of those roles, I have been a social early adopter and evangelist. and I continue that here.I’m here to talk to you about How to Be Social at events.
Hi, I'm Kelly Smith, and I'm the Social Lead for Practitioner Outreach and @developerWorks, working across all of IBM to engage with technical practitioners: students, academics, business partners, clients, and those we would like to be clients.Been with Rational since 1997, and IBM since acquired 2003.I've worked in development, test, and technical support. In each of those roles, I have been a social early adopter and evangelist. and I continue that here.I’m here to talk to you about How to Be Social at events.