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There are lots of ways to ruin your company blog, but these six are among the most egregious. Want people to read your business blog

There is a better way to focus your time on what you value the most - and say no to the rest. It begins with a mere 18 Minutes. Do you ever get to the end of a busy day only to realize that next to nothing has been taken off of your “to do” list

For an industry that is based on diving into the unknown, the news business has been notoriously adverse to exploring real innovation in its own industry—despite the fact that it has been floating in a sea of disruption for at least a decade. That’s why the work of The Washington Post Company and its two-year-old WaPo Labs is notable. The principles under which the Labs were founded serve as a roadmap for reinvention—not just for the news business but for any company whose once-firmly entrenched industry is now being shaken up

CNN paid $20 million for personalized iPad magazine Zite this week.

I remember when SEO first "hit." I had been at an online publishing company for about a year, and while there was always some attention paid to on-page optimization, I'd hardly call what we were doing a strategy. It soon became clear, however, that this new focus on SEO would end up changing the way we did pretty much everything. The first shoe to drop?

Millions in new grants will help journalist hackers create visually striking graphics that will both inform the public and help reporters find patterns they didn't know were there. In the 21st century, a crack reporter's best source for juicy leads might not be pounding the pavement and hounding sources.

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A few weeks ago, Satoshi Kanazawa, a blogger at Psychology Today who was already notorious for his dubious claims about racial differences, especially with respect to intelligence, proclaimed on the basis of a bizarre data analysis that Black women are “objectively” the least attractive females of all the races. Objectively , mind you, which implies that it’s a matter of fact rather than his personal taste

Plastic doesn't have to end up in landfills or the ocean.

Will cash and credit survive the Digital Age? According to a new survey conducted by Mobio Identity Systems, 94 percent of North Americans would be happy to complete payments through their phone if they knew the system were secure. Most merchants and small businesses choose to only accept cash or check to avoid paying the extra fee attached to processing a credit card

Blogging for your business is important, but doing it wrong can cost you customers and your reputation. As more and more small businesses enter the world of content development, the scrutiny continues to increase. Consumers can be retained or lost simply from your blogging efforts, so its imperative this public-facing activity is done correctly.