Category Archives: Blogs You Probably Aren't Reading But Should

Did BoingBoing Sell Out?

BoingBoing was one of the first blogs that I ever read, and it’ll always have a special place in my heart. (This post remains some of the best advice I’ve read on the internet.) I don’t subscribe via RSS or email anymore, but I still stop by once in a while just to see how [...]
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The Bottom-up Perspective and Public Relations

Over the past few months, I’ve really come to enjoy reading Timothy B. Lee’s blog. The computer programmer, writer and think-tank worker bee is now pursuing a PhD in computer science, and is blogging his thoughts about “bottom-up” thinking. What is bottom-up thinking? Its not something racy, nor is it about chugging beer. As Tim says: “I’m convinced [...]
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We’re Getting The Blog Back Together

Its been a while since we last posted on BlogCampaigning, and I know that a lot of our readers are wondering what happened: PR message boards have been flooded with rumours and speculation, and Jens and I have been getting emails and phone calls at all hours from fans. Everyone has been wondering what happened [...]
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Advice For Those Planning On Starting A Blog About PR and/or Social Media

Don’t. If you want to start a blog, start one about something you’re interested in. Not only will you learn everything about social media and blogging that you might learn with a PR blog, but you’ll also learn more about something else. While I don’t doubt that you do care about PR/Communications/Social Media, I really like [...]
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Corporate Sponsorship: Blood and Wine

A few weeks ago, I wrote a post outlining some of my thoughts about corporate sponsorship. Shortly after that, wine blogger Steve Heimoff wrote a good follow up post musing about what corporate sponsorship for a wine blog might look: “This may work in the entertainment industry, but it’s not clear to me that it can succeed [...]
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Blogs You Probably Aren’t Reading But Should: TorrentFreak

If you’re into downloading music, movies and software from the internet, chances are you’ve heard of BitTorrent technology (if you haven’t you need to get with the times – read the Wikipedia entry, then download a Torrent client and enjoy). If so, then you know that Torrents are one of the easiest and most popular ways [...]
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Blogs You Aren’t Reading But Probably Should: SEOMoz.org

I recently wrote a post on this blog introducing you to Jan Chipchase’s Future Perfect blog in an attempt to introduce people to some blogs that might be outside their usual reading scope. Continuing with this series is a post about SEOMoz and why you should be reading it. A concept that has been around for [...]
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Blogs You Probably Aren’t Reading But Should: Future Perfect

If you’re like me, chances are you’ve got a big list of blogs in your RSS reader and don’t venture out beyond that to regularly read other blogs as much as you should. You get comfortable with the same authors and the same ideas. We’ve done posts here before where the BlogCampaigning authors update their [...]
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