Archive for March, 2008

Madness Is Good for BlogBurst Bloggers

We are just approaching the second round of March Madness and publishers have created a big dance of their own with posts from the BlogBurst network. Both IBS and Cox Ohio have picked up posts for placement in the sports sections of multiple television websites.

I’m Writing Sports’ post, “Bracketology 101: Back to the Basics,” has been featured in the March Mania sections of television sites such as Whio.tv, Kansas City TV 5, The Pittsburgh Channel, Click on Detroit, and NBC 5 Chicago, as well as on Cox Ohio’s Dayton Daily News. Other blogs posting on the hoopla include Hoopraker, Conquest Chronicles, Bruins Nation, A Sea of Blue, and The Big Dance Blog.

Have you got some spring love from publishers that are placing your March Madness posts? Let us know in the comment section below.

Aside from March Madness posts, other bloggers are experience some Spring love from publisher placement opportunities.From Newslite.tv:

My blog has been on BlogBurst for just over one week now and in the past seven days I have had over 73,000 headline impressions and my posts have been used on Reuters, USAToday.com and Chicago Sun Times - wow…

I only have good things to say about BlogBurst and the visibility it have a given my blog. In terms of headline impressions, post placement and click through rate it has exceeded all of my expectations.

 

Guide to Blogging From BlogBurst Bloggers

Editors at BlogBurst always try to offer as much advice as possible surrounding the art of blogging. But who better to offer blogging advice than your fellow BlogBurst members? Check out these informative posts from BlogBurst network bloggers for some great tips and tricks for starting, maintaining, and attracting visitors to your blog.

Ecommerce Sites are Boring! Add Personality and Passion with a Blog!
From Better Blogging with Michael Martine

Blogging is Easy? Um, No. Here’s the Cold Hard Truth…
From Better Blogging with Michael Martine

Journalists who learn to blog help their online sites grow beyond shovelware
From howardowens.com

How to install WordPress on your computer?
From Createlf

Plugins By The Bucketload
From My Radical Blogs

5 Easy Wordpress Tweaks For SEO and VEO
From Social marketing, Web 2.0 News, & Blog Promotion

Top Bloggers Essential Research Tools - How Amy Gahran Maintains Info-Provocateur Status
From B.L. Oschman’s weblog

The A-List, Part 2: Be The Source
From Everybody Go To

Is embedding better than quoting?
From Matthew Ingram

7 Tools For Blogging On Your Phone
From Mashable!

How to fight trackback spam in your WordPress blog?
From Jammed: Full into Capacity

How to Unlame Your Business Blog: 10 New Tricks for Old Dogs
From Business BlogWire

Ten Tactics That Could Save Your Online Reputation
From Mashable!

Blogging Ethics 101b - Commenting
From Better Blogging with Michael Martine

Blogging and the Box Office

Nielsen is introducing  some new reports aimed at online community interaction.  Nielsen PreView will incorporate the company’s many research divisions and tie the data to the entrainment  industry.

The initial report  analyzed the box office performance of 400 recent films, finding that titles grossing at least $100 million in sales are likely to have received elevated levels of attention on blogs.  More details, here.

Some of my favorite film bloggers are:

/Film - Blogging the Reel World

The IFC Blog

Film School Rejects

All the news that’s fit to post, NOT print

Reuters-BlogBurst/SpitzerOne of our newest blogs, Blogflict, has an interesting angle on “Eliot Mess,” praising the New York Times online.

It was major news across all mediums, with BlogBurst publishing partners USA Today and Reuters both incorporating bloggers’ perspectives into the story.

Here’s but a few of the BlogBurst bloggers who weighed-in:

Hypocrisy- They name is Spitzer (jobsanger)

Political Perceptions: The Spitzer Effect (WSJ.com: Washington Wire)

Eliot’s Mess: Spitzer scandal details emerge (The Carpetbagger Report)

Wall Street Journal Taps BlogBurst to Fuel the Retirement Debate

WSJ Retirement Debate Screenshot

The BlogBurst editorial team is excited to announce that BlogBurst blogs have been selected by The Wall Street Journal to fuel a new site featuring content surrounding the retirement debate.

Retirementdebate.com, which launched on Monday, March 3rd, features news, business, finance, and political posts with a narrowed focus on retirement, social security, Medicare, baby boomer, and senior living issues.

Here are just a few examples of posts by BlogBurst network members that were placed on new WSJ Retirement Debate site:

Still Clickin: You Bet Your Life…Insurance

The New Business World: Declining Dollar, Pension Funds and Downward Business

Senior Housing Daily: Housing Market Decline Affecting Senior Housing?

Net News Publisher: Social Security Union Endorses Obama