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It happens so rarely that I cannot help but puff out my chest in pride and inform you that I have achieved what many have said was impossible — getting anywhere near the legendary Steve Rubel in the rankings.
Such a ranking will probably only last a day, but what a day it is.
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Tactical Transparency by Shel Holtz and John Havens.
A belter of a book and a 'must read' addition to any communicator's bedside reading table if they are serious about introducing social media into their communication plans. It includes a fabulous chapter on transparency and business (hint: you want to photocopy it and give it to your CEO!)
Qualitative Communication Research Methods by Thomas Lindlof and Bryan Taylor.
Not just a book for academics, it's chock-full of great ideas on how to effectively and efficiently research your employees, customers, the marketplace and other stakeholders
The Twitter Book by Tim O'Reilly and Sarah Milstein.
A fabulous book that gives a clear, clean overview of what Twitter is and WHY you should be engaging with it. THEN it goes into depth with so many tips and ideas that they should have sold the book for twice the price!
Practical SEO Copywriting: a ‘must get’ book. My mate Glenn Murray has written a bottler of a new book on search engines and copywriting.
In a cunning twist of bizarre nomenclature, he’s titled it Practical SEO Copywriting. The cheeky little fox! It’s a DIY guide to writing online copy for both human readers AND for that 400kg gorilla we lovingly call ‘Google’.
The danger, Glenn quite rightly …err …writes is that focusing too much attention on all of the supposed SEO ‘tricks of the trade’ will make your copy all but unreadable by the human brain. You know, all that stuff bandied about by the so-called SEO (search engine optimisation) experts: keyword frequency, exact string versus individual words scattered across the page, page length, alt tags, header tags, and so on.
Not that this stuff isn’t important – it all is, and more besides – but Glenn argues persuasively that by far more important is the ability to write copy that people will actually want to read – and link to!
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Great news! Check out the 30 day rankings to see how your blog does over time.
Steven Cohen
PubSub Concepts
scohen@pubsub.com
Hah, so I am not the only one folling his ranking in this list. Congrats. I think I cracked the top ten once. Once isn’t that hard if you do a week of heavy blogging and linking, but to continiously rank as high as Steve does is quite an accomplishment – or – a lot of work. Lol.
Lee, savor the moment to the fullest!
How did I get to #1?
Josh: Wit, charm and sophistikashun, matey! {grin}
Andrea: I know you said that getting caught up in rankings was a mug’s game and signalled the end of your blog (or at least its usefulness), but I am so stunned to be there that I figure I was duty-bound by the Law of Shameless Self-Promotion (as drawn up by Professor Heidi Miller) to blog about it. Plus, it honestly was the first time I’d looked at the rankings in months and I nearly fell out of my chair. If you follow Steven’s advice and look at my 30 day chart you’ll see that I usually languish around the bottom of the table.
WOA!!!! That’s AWESOME!!!!!!! Congratulations!!
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