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Blogging effectiveness is an ongoing multi-step process that must be tailored to your blog’s specific audience. Check out the fourth in a series of steps learned through the creation of FT ComMetrics Blog Index, which ranks only the best in corporate blogging.

Facebook and Twitter can be a terrible distraction during the workday – both may fail to create results for a small business’ bottom line but potential solutions are offered in this post.

Blogging effectiveness is an ongoing multi-step process that must be tailored to your blog’s specific audience. Check out these second in a series of lessons learned through the creation of FT ComMetrics Blog Index, which ranks only the best in corporate blogging.

The beauty of WordPress is the endless available plugins. The challenge for bloggers is to chose the best: the ones that save you time, while making you more effective and increasing your blog’s attractiveness to readers.

Newspapers are struggling to cope with shrinking advertising revenue and subscriber numbers. Increasingly, consumers are unwilling to pay for access to e-news, while for every legal media download, there are 20 more illegal ones. Is this the death of media as we have known it?

The good, the bad and the ugly about corporate blogs. A URL that is hard to remember is never a good strategy, but changing your URL is not helpful if you want to climb the rankings of the FT ComMetrics Blog Index, to be published May 14 in the Financial Times.

4 lessons or ropes to skip.

We provide the intelligence and benchmark data about Fortune 500 or FT Global 500 corporate blogs. Here we explain how the list of blogs were compiled – make sure your firm’s blogs are included in the list by adding a URL in a comment. The index will be published May 13 in the FT.

Do you want to know what happened at the World Economic Forum? Get a FREE pdf SEARCHABLE file containing almost 600 Twitter tweets documenting what happened during WEF, which finished Sunday, February 1 in Davos, Switzerland.

Launching a corporate blog is only the start. Making it happen – with students – is what counts for the Royal Bank of Canada. This post addresses the Royal Bank of Canada’s approach to blogging that uses content tailored to the needs of a particular group of customers. The post addresses the issue of brand building and getting the cash register to ring with this social media project.