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Blogging Lesson 1 – Blogs Are Here To Stay

5 Lessons From the Blogosphere – Lesson 1

When I started blogging in 2005, I thought that it might just be a fad. Boy, was I wrong.

Nielsen says that blogs and social networks now claim the lion’s share of the consumer’s time online.

9 Compelling Content Resources You May Have Missed

THINKing has been focusing recently on developing compelling content for your blog.  Below is a simple-to-navigate digest of our posts.

Top 7 Rules For Creating Compelling Headlines

You can write the best email, ad, article or blog post ever and no one will read it if you have a horrid headline. Your headline is the first impression, which must entice the reader to take the next step. (By the way, did you enter our headline writing contest?)

Top 17 Tips For Developing Compelling Blog Ideas

Sometimes I have to really put on the thinking cap to come up with a blog idea.  Are you struggling with this, too? I’ve put together this post with the tips that have most helped me come up with solid ideas, as well as provided a few related articles you may want to peruse.

Top 11 Free Resources To Improve Your Blog’s Content

As part of our continuing series to help you in developing compelling content, today we provide you a list of the top 11 online resources to help you improve your writing skills.

The Elements of Style – there is no better resource for writers than William Strunk’s classic. I have a well-thumbed hard copy, but this online version covers the writing bases.

Compelling Content

Recently, THINKing has been looking at ways to develop more compelling content. Below we’ve compiled our posts into an easy to navigate form.

WIIFM?

The young lady pictured above is skeptical, and rightly so. So many blogs are posting content that doesn’t really relate to her. Will your blog be any different? She thinks not.

Sharing

It’s funny how when you start thinking about a certain topic – like content development or web design – that you start seeing more and more references to it. I guess it is because you are attuned to it. Anyway, I’ve been running across some excellent articles on content development, as well as web design and thought I’d share with the class.