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Tag: blogging
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Should You Publish on a Hosted Blog Platform?
The pros and cons of publishing on hosted platforms.
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Blogging Platforms Compared: WordPress vs Tumblr vs Blogger
Starting a blog for your brand? WordPress, Tumblr, and Blogger are all popular options, but which one is best suited to your organization's needs?
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ButterCMS Review: Headless Blog Engine a Welcome Sight
Chicago-based ButterCMS is a headless content management system that comes with either a bundled or standalone headless blog engine. Originally built as an alternative to WordPress as a blogging platform, ButterCMS is now a full-fledged CMS that integrates with existing websites and apps to deliver content headlessly, decoupling content from
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Verst: A WordPress Alternative for Serious Publishers
In its 16-year history, WordPress has encountered many competitors. But the vast majority of those foes have never managed to siphon more than a few thousand users away from the digital giant, barely denting its dominance at the helm of the CMS market. After pitting WordPress against Ghost and Medium
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Ghost vs. WordPress: A Purist Blogger's Dilemma
Ghost touts itself as a “simple, modern WordPress alternative.” And that’s true, to an extent. While Ghost, which claims a "virtual" headquarters in Singapore, focuses solely on the blogging process, San Francisco-based WordPress has evolved into something far greater than just a blogging platform.
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Windows Live Writer Is Open Sourced As Open Live Writer
Remember Windows Live Writer? If you don’t, it is not surprising. Microsoft has virtually forgotten about it since its last major release in 2012 — until yesterday, that is, when an open source fork was released as Open Live Writer.
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Medium Lands $57M, Promises to 'Think Big'
San Francisco-based Medium — the poster child for User Generated Content — just got $57 million. The Series B round was led by Andreessen Horowitz with "significant participation" from Google Ventures and Greylock Partners, the company announced on its website. The funds are in addition to the $25 million
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2014 Action Item: Did Marketers Master Blogging?
We've all seen company blogs dash out of the starting gate like an Olympian sprinter. Then it's a slow jog. A walk. A crawl. And, finally, a death. It stops entirely, and your latest blog post is from the days of the Bush Administration.
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How to Blog - and Why You Should
What's the best way to reach consumers with marketing messages? An e-book from content marketer Uberflip has a one word answer: blogs. The e-book, "Blogging in the Age of Modern Marketing," states that blogs are "a proven, cost effective marketing channel for driving leads and generating customers –
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Storify Teams Up with Adobe's Typekit
Curating news and social media tidbits with Storify is a handy way to create sharable, engaging Web content, and now the company has partnered with Adobe's Typekit to give that content an added dose of style. Customization Worth the $$$ Integrating with Typekit will give Storify Business customers a way
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Confirmed: Yahoo to Acquire Tumblr for $1.1 Billion
Yahoo has announced that it will acquire Tumblr in a refreshingly honestly press release that states "Per the agreement and our promise not to screw it up, Tumblr will be independently operated as a separate business." Yahoo Gets Social, Finally After all the excitement of a possible social media buying war last week, it looks
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Can Mobile Apps Eliminate the Need for Blogging?
You may have noticed an interesting trend recently. As the popularity of visually engaging sites such as Pinterest and Instagram rise, and many mobile apps with user-generated content continue to launch, users are choosing to share on these sites rather than creating blogs.
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Tumblr Adds Adverts to Mobile Feeds, Tapping into Revenue
With just about every report showing a boom in mobile advertising revenue, that blissful serenity when viewing Tumblr blogs on iPhone or Android is now being blighted by adverts, but not too many to turn users off.
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Now Tumblr Loses Friend-Finding Feature Via Twitter
As Twitter does more to secure its APIs and market share, as well as compete with rivals, another service has lost the ability for its users to find their friends using the micro-blogger's userbase.
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