- 6 years ago Sticky: Welcome to the /t/BES tribe! What exactly is this place?
- 6 years ago Sticky: Run a blog, vlog, or podcast? Start your own community like this one (but based on your topic of expertise/choice) and utilize the concept of “strength in numbers” to help you in awesome ways never before available.
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The Inspiring Way This 22-Year-Old Dealt With A Scary Diagnosis
It was August — that heady back-to-school feeling in the air — and Katie DeMasi had it all planned: She'd just finished her nursing degree and already had a job lined up at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City. DeMasi had her scrubs picked out, and she spent a long and exciting day apartment hunting. Then, the next day, she was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma, a rare cancer of the lymphatic system. "I was ready to start my life and then this kind of put everything on hold," DeMasi says.
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Why Hyperlinks Are Blue (and Other Quirky Web Origin Stories)
The road to post-Owl Google from the World Wide Web project isn’t straight. But it does have some fascinating insights into how our online world took on its present shape.
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This Is How Much Money Food Bloggers Can Actually Make
It's a lucrative business.
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That Solo Travel Blogger? She Just Wants a Vacation
Bloggers are finding that their depiction of a carefree life driven by wanderlust takes a lot of work to keep up.
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Why Bother To Blog When Nobody Is Reading?
There are just too many of us out there. Most of us reside at the bottom of the blogging barrel, trying to scrape a recommend or two, from…
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Travel blogger on the 'dirty little secrets' of Instagram users
Sara Melotti, a photographer based in Indonesia, recently shed light on the competitive environment and revealed the eye-opening tactics being used by some in the community.
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4 Golden Rules to Boost Blog-Post Engagement
The single most important thing to measure for every blog post you publish? How engaging it is to your audience.
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Millennial ‘influencers’ who are the new stars of web advertising
Beauty vloggers and cult celebrities are being courted by luxury brands.
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Blog Post Ideas: Maximize Your Reach with the Right Topics
A blog is only as effective as its posts. Rand offers six paths you can take to make sure your posts resonate with your audiences.
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Hackers Hide Cyberattacks in Social Media Posts
It took only one attempt for Russian hackers to make their way into the computer of a Pentagon official. But the attack didn’t come through an email or a file buried within a seemingly innocuous document. A link, attached to a Twitter post put out by a robot account, promised a family-friendly vacation package for the summer. It was the kind of thing anyone might click on, according to the official hit by the attack, who was not authorized to speak publicly about it.
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F@%k Facebook
Dave Winer won’t link to Facebook posts from his blog. I don’t either.
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Blogging: The Easiest Way to Get More Search Traffic
Learn how you can increase your search traffic by increasing how frequently you blog. Read about the ROI regular blogging can achieve for your business.
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Denver Fashion Blogger, Mallory Sauer Has Passed Away
Mallory Sauer, a 27-year-old Denver Fashion blogger, passed away earlier this week. Sauer was most known for her style blog Sweet and Sauer and used the platform to share daily fashion tips...
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5 Ways To Stop Consuming And Start Producing
Click, click, click.
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The Maldives Government Issued Arrest Warrants for Bloggers on Twitter
Long before Cameroon or Ethiopia cut off their citizens from the internet, a small south Asian country was pioneering the practice. Back in 2004, then-President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom shut down internet access in the wake of protests against his government. The incident was a mere blip in the news, occurring just a few years after the country gained access to begin with. Since then, the island country, which has fewer than 400,000 residents, has had a contentious relationship with the online world.
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Why I illustrate all our blog posts
Lately, I’ve been getting asked more frequently: “Claire, do you illustrate your own blog posts?”
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Why Pinterest's Growth Has Stalled
To satisfy Silicon Valley, 175 million monthly active users just doesn't cut it.
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Weekly Roundup | Technology and Web: Top 20 stories of the week of May 31st - June 7th, 2017
"Since our technology is really just an extension of ourselves, we don’t have to have contempt for its manipulability in the way we might with actual people. It’s all one big endless loop. We like the mirror and the mirror likes us. To friend a person is merely to include the person in our private hall of flattering mirrors." - Jonathan Franzen
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How Blogging Changed My Life
Life begins at 40, or so the saying goes. I really wasn’t feeling it - single parenting whilst holding down a totally unfulfilling, stressful job, trying to write a fan blog - if this was life then it was passing me by. Something had to give and after what seemed like the last straw, I left work on a Friday and never went back.
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How to Create an Exceptional Blog for Your Business
Does your business have a blog? If not, now is the time to start building one. It can provide a ton of benefits for your business. Here’s why you should create a blog for your business...