How to Win Awards and Influence Readers in 439 Days and 668 Posts

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How TO Win Awards AND Influence Readers IN 439 Days AND 668 Posts Wade Kwon © 2012 Birmingham Blogging Academy @WadeOnTweets Photo: terren (CC)

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Advanced content management. Presented at WordCamp Atlanta 2013, March 15, 2013, in Atlanta, Georgia. For more, visit http://birminghamblogging.com/2013/03/15/wordcamp-atlanta-2013-presentation-how-to-win-awards-influence-readers/. VIDEO: to be added Also given at WordCamp Birmingham 2012, #wpyall, #wordcampbham, Podcamp Nashville 2012, #pcn12.

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How TO Win Awards AND

Influence Readers IN 439 Days AND 668 Posts

Wade Kwon © 2012 Birmingham Blogging Academy

@WadeOnTweets

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Want a super high skyscraper? Call an architect.

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Want a super high website? 3 B’s: Blog, baby, blog.

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Overview 1.  Don’t have a plan.

2.  Cover everything.

3.  Measure, measure, measure.

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1. Don’t have a plan.

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Just an objective.

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“Unrelentingly positive about Birmingham”

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2. Cover everything.

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You can never predict what will work.

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More diversity = more chances to succeed.

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3. Measure measure measure

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Simplest: page views, comments, Likes

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Complex: year-to-year

changes

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3 B’s. Because you never know …

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Contact me. •  [email protected] •  BirminghamBlogging.com •  @WadeOnTweets •  http://itswa.de/wcatl2013

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Thank you.

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