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 [...]

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, [...]

In a recent podcast episode of Conversations with Mzinga, Liz Strauss offers two recommendations for bloggers who want to generate rich(er) comment-thread discussions:

Leave your blog posts “unfinished.” Don’t complete every thought, idea, or subject that you write about in a post, lest you leave your readers with nothing of their own to add.
Ask the right [...]

Looking for a productive way to spend your Friday afternoon (or late morning, if you live on US West Coast)? Then you won’t want to miss today’s FIR Live on BlogTalkRadio, beginning at 2:00pm Eastern, as co-hosts Shel Holtz and Neville Hobson engage an erstwhile panel in a discussion of the recent Forrester Research report, [...]

Do you spend much time looking at sidebars of blogs?
I know that Jason Falls has a whole heap of tools in the right-hand columns of his Social Media Explorer site, that Mack Collier grades sidebar content in his blog checkups, and that bloggers galore incorporate widgets and badges into their sidebar designs.
I’m just wondering wondering [...]

I’ll be out in Las Vegas this week (my first visit to the City of Sin) for the Community 2.0 Conference. I’m part of the blogging and podcasting team and will be filing plenty of reports on the conference blog over the next few days.
I may cross-post some of my podcast interviews here.
You can also [...]

When weak-ass blog or event pitches find their way to my e-mail inbox, I generally delete them without much thought.
But occasionally, a combination of snarkiness and curiosity takes over, and I find the need to fire back with a message of my own to the lazy/clueless e-mailer about his or her brain-dead pitch.
Yesterday was one [...]

I’ve got nothing against blogrolls. In fact, I often tell social media newbies who are looking to find and follow influential bloggers in a particular field to start with one blogger and then follow the links from his/her blogrolls.
But blogrolls can also lead you to plenty of dead ends, too. As Neville Hobson rightly points [...]