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Signe: When Teachers Blog

Signe Wilkinson/Philadelphia Inquirer

Blogger Relations

Not only is the blogosphere changing how voters consume information, it’s also creating new jobs in politics, policy and online communications consulting. Although there is still no formal job description for “blogger relations” staffers, these part communications, part research, part online political organizing specialists are a growing industry in the political world.

“It’s becoming as common to have someone managing communications with bloggers as it was to have a press secretary 10 years ago,” said Patrick Hynes, founder and president of Hynes Communications, a social media public affairs agency. Politico.com Read more.

A berry picker sent me me this story and suggested that we open our own Blogger Relations firm, in which we will work from home in our jammies and… uh…help bloggers communicate more better :-)

Seriously. Ten years ago, few knew what a Blog was and now blogs have become a HUGE platform for news, information and marketing.

What are your “must read” blogs?



DFO’s blog instructions

Actually, he just left one instruction: “Don’t overdo it.”

Well. No need to worry about that :-) If you had a sub the next time you took a day off, what kind of instructions would you leave them?

If I Ran the Blog…

If I ran the blog there’d be fireman calendar photos every day. Alas, so far I’ve only been able to figure out how to post S-R archived photos. When I searched for fireman pics all I got were yellow-jacketed, boot clad, helmeted fellows actually doing their job. You know. Putting out fires.

Sigh.

What would you do if you ran HBO?

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D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.

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