Here’s my system for “keeping up” with my RSS feeds.

If you spend any time working for an agency (as I have, with LiveWorld), then you know this: We’re far better at helping our clients produce engaging content than we are at creating it on our own digital properties.
Which is why I’m so intrigued by EdelmanDigital.com, the new content-rich social website that the Edelman Digital [...]

Choosing and using good images is an often-overlooked part of blogging.
And that’s a shame, because compelling photos and other visuals can make your posts far more interesting and memorable.
If incorporating meaningful images for your posts is something you either hadn’t considered, or that you struggle with–as I sometimes do–here are three blogs and bloggers worth [...]

Loving this suggestion from Jason Falls on how to create and maintain a blog that people will want to read, interact with, and talk about: Throw out the so-called rulebook and blaze your own trail.
Jason can certainly speak with confidence on this topic, as he regularly delivers thought-provoking posts that leave plenty of people talking [...]

I had a chance to dig into the nearly week-old Google Sidewiki today, and there’s plenty to like–and not like–about the product. Here’s my take:
Instant social
* Sidewiki enables any page on the web to become social–from Chris Brogan’s tweet stream to the Walmart homepage or a Seth Godin blog post. Once users download and install [...]

A couple of entries from Dan York caught my attention this week.
The first centers on Dan’s continued thinking around the Facebook Effect: Just how do you handle those friend requests from people you barely know? And then this: “How do you create a private space in which to have deeper interaction while also simultaneously nourishing [...]

Can commenting on blogs make you sexier? A headline to a Dave Fleet blog post suggests that it just might.
OK, Dave is clearly trying to have some fun with the topic, but the real lesson from his post shouldn’t be missed: Commenting on other blogs is a good way to let the authors know you’re [...]

A good reminder this morning from Chris Brogan that “links are good manners.”
I couldn’t agree more.
Here are two slides that I often include in my blogging presentations:

Link liberally
If you’re writing about another blog post or story in the news it, link to it. If you’re blogging about a cool new website that’s caught your eye, [...]

I haven’t been shy in the past about saying that the one-size-fits-all approach to pitching bloggers is lazy — and largely ineffective. Plus, pissing off the bloggers that the firm or PR agency is hoping to target in the first place can never be a good thing.

But lest my frequent calls for personalized, relevant, no-marketing-gobbledegook [...]

Jason Falls offers a helpful post today on how to do intelligent tagging on the social-bookmarking site, Delicious, and I thought that augmenting his list with two tricks of my own might be helpful:

Create a special tag for all blog posts you leave comments to. I use Commented (simple enough, right?). This enables me to [...]