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  • How to lose commenters on your blog in just three seconds

    12 July 2010 How to lose commenters on your blog in just three seconds

    Whether you're a veteran blogger or a new blogger, every blog has the capacity to turn commenters off in less than three seconds. Various practices are encouraged by coaches to capture leads, but in your effort to capture users or to maintain security, you could be losing business. Take for example a highly respected industry blog out of London. After lurking for many months in my feed reader, I finally was drawn to an article of theirs that I wanted to engage in comments, but then the frustration began. After my comment went to moderation, I was prompted to go to my email, open a message to verify my email address, and finally, copy and paste a url into ...

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  • Find free pictures for your blog and avoid letters from lawyers

    30 June 2010 Find free pictures for your blog and avoid letters from lawyers

    Avoiding stealing content Have you ever gone to a real estate blog or website and seen the same old tired picture of a Realtor and a buyer in front of a house? You know, that picture of the lady in red giving a young couple the keys to their new house where everyone looks happy? Yeah, us too. There's a way to avoid being part of the trap of using repetitive images AND avoid using Google to search for images that lead you to the red shirt lady. An added benefit to not stealing pictures from Google is that lawyers won't send you letters for your content theft. Yay! Enough jibber jabber, here's how: 1. Go to

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  • This Week’s Austin Social Calendar is FULL

    27 July 2009

    As full as a clown car For some reason, this week in Austin has an event every night that relates to social media, technology and/or networking, so we'll probably be late to work every day this week.  Let us know in comments which events YOU will be attending: Wednesday: Austin Bleet Up (blogger meetup, RSVP right now) Thursday: Austin Tweetup (discussion on homelessness) Thursday: Austin Tech Happy Hour Friday: Social Club Free Concert (at Bob Bullock Museum) Saturday: Geeks Who Drink (trivia night) Sunday: Beer and Blog Meetup

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  • Fighting Libel in Blogs

    27 March 2009

    Blogging Libel Blogging is an amazing, inexpensive tool allowing people to connect directly with their consumers but occasionally, another individual may choose to write something libelous about you. This is a very rare event, but just know that with the right preparation, you don't have to be a victim. You have two choices depending on who is writing the material against you- ignore it or fight. What is Libel? First and foremost, this is not legal advice, I'm not a lawyer nor do I play one on tv, nor does anyone at New Media Lab. There are thousands of places ...

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