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What Makes a Guru? What Doesn’t?
Posted by Bob Woods in Associations, Blogging, Content, Government, Sales/Marketing, social media on July 1st, 2009
This is one of those posts that can help you no matter what you do for a living. If you’re a businessperson, work for an organization, or collect a government paycheck, this post is for you.
Many people think that being an expert in whatever it is they do will help them succeed. And they’re right. After all, who would you hire, work with, or take advice from … just someone you know. or a person who is an expert?
If you want to be considered a true “guru” in whatever your little corner is of our planet, there’s two things you should do … and two you shouldn’t … that can help you be the expert everyone will flock to when they need help. Or when they want to hire someone for whatever it is they are looking for.
Want to be the gal or the guy? Read on.
To Blog (Daily) or Not to Blog (Daily) – Part III
Posted by Bob Woods in Associations, Blogging, Content, Government, Sales/Marketing, Web, social media on June 24th, 2009
On this last day of our three-part series [Part I | Part II], the inevitable question is:
What happens when I just don’t have anything to write about?
Ahhh, the dreaded writer’s block — and if you’re a blogger, you’re a writer too. No matter what those true writing snobs say.
Writer’s block affects us all, believe me. Sometimes you feel like you’ve written so much, you can’t write another thing. Then there’s days when you feel like a deer looking into headlights when you realize you have a blog post to write. Other times, that “Add New Post” page just looks too intimidating to fill.
Then I remembered a post on the subject of being “dry” when it comes to specifically writing blog posts. It’s another one of those “wish I’d thought of that” kinds of things. This can be used when you’re in a situation like mine, or when you just have proverbial writer’s block, when it comes to subjects for your blog. Or if you are a beginning blogger and need a slight kick in the pants to get going. For any and all of those situations, help is on the way.
Leavin’ On a Jet Plane
Posted by Bob Woods in Housekeeping on June 22nd, 2009
… but I do know when I’ll be back again.
I’m leaving very early tomorrow morning, to go to a conference for a client of mine. I’ll be back very late Wednesday. With all of the follow-up I’ll have to do afterwards, I probably won’t be back at this blog until next week.
In the meantime, I’ve got some stuff autoposting tomorrow and Thursday. So check back for that. Or, you can just subscribe to the RSS feed here, and the new content will magically appear in your fave RSS feeder. You can also subscribe via e-mail.
Thanks, and see you soon.
Contact Bob Woods at Infonitum.
We’re Off … to the Twittersphere!
Posted by Bob Woods in Content, Twitter, Video, social media on June 19th, 2009
Because we have to laugh at ourselves every once in awhile …
… otherwise, we’ll go nuts. Have a Happy Friday and a great weekend, everyone.
Contact Bob Woods at Infonitum.
To Blog (Daily) or Not to Blog (Daily) – Part II
Posted by Bob Woods in Associations, Blogging, Content, Government, Sales/Marketing, Twitter, Web on June 18th, 2009
This is Part II of a three-part series.
If you’ve read Part I of this series (and gosh, I hope you have), you know that I don’t necessarily advocate that a businessperson or other working professional post an entry (or multiple entries) every day. It’s one thing if you’re trying to make a living from just blogging. When you have that kind of time, you’d better either be blogging or ordering your third latte at the Starbucks or whatever coffee shop you’re at. (And yes, I’d kill to have a life like that).
It’s another, though, if you’re the audience that this blog (and Infonitum) wants to attract: Businesspeople, association executives and government officials who want to use social media and blogging — and know they really should make the effort to blog — but don’t want to treat their blog like a second job.
Believe me, as a small business owner who has projects going at various stages, I feel the latter group’s pain. But I know that I have to make the effort to write some feature content twice a week, with “breaking news” content filling the rest, when appropriate (see Part I of this series for an explanation).
Now, I want to give you another opinion on this subject. It’s from a guy who feels kind of like me, but takes his feelings to the next degree.
To Blog (Daily) or Not to Blog (Daily) – Part I
Posted by Bob Woods in Associations, Blogging, Content, Government, Sales/Marketing, Twitter, Web on June 16th, 2009
This is Part I of a three-part series.
One of the biggest questions you see a lot when it comes to the subjet of blogging — be it for personal or professional reasons — is, “Geez, do I hafta blog every day? And if not, how often should I blog?”
Of course, the quick answer to that question is, “no.” You can blog as little or as much as you want. Of course, you may not be as successful at whatever goals you want to achieve if you don’t blog a lot. Or even too much.
So now you’re saying, “Well, Bob, now you’re acting like a politician. You haven’t really answered all of my questions. So I don’t hafta blog every day. So how often should I blog?”
At the risk of sounding like a politician, I can only answer that question with, “It depends.”
Fox News and Social Media – Not So Much
Posted by Bob Woods in Content, Video, social media on June 15th, 2009
Now here’s a company that gets it just a little bit, when it comes to social media: Fox News and its Fox Nation social-media effort. David Bullock and Jay Deragon discuss the new site, in an effort to highlight the best practices of large brands as they look to effectively engage social media as a viable channel for communication and content distribution. They’ll also illustrate how new media can be utilized by small- to mid-sized business.
If you’ve got some time (about a half hour), I’d recommend that you watch this video. It’s really informative.
http://www.vimeo.com/4062656By the way, I’m going to be doing these types of videos myself … and soon. If you didn’t watch this particular video above, I’ve listed some of my take-aways from it. If you did, see if you agree with me:
Blog Preview
Posted by Bob Woods in Associations, Blogging, Content, Government, Housekeeping, Sales/Marketing on June 12th, 2009
I’ve written a lot of blog posts over my Internet “lifetime.” Topics related to real estate, social networking, sales and marketing, and even a decent amount of fun stuff.
While I’m getting this site up to fighting strength, I’m going to re-work and publish those posts that are applicable for the site’s specific audience. I’m hoping that you’ll derive the same benefits that readers at my other blogs have received. Those postings will start next week.
In the meantime, if you want to check out those blogs:
- Sibdu Blog, covering commercial real estate topics and news. This site even has my video and audio productions.
- Portalfuze Blog, which concentrates on social media-related topics
I’m writing as myself on both of those blogs for my clients, being eCREsystems and Portalfuze — by the way, I devleoped the content for both of those sites, too. When I get the content for this site fully up and running, you’ll understand how blog postings can help you and/or your company build credibility and a “voice” for whatever community it is you serve.
Contact Bob Woods at Infonitum.
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