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Part of my day job is working as a community manager consultant, and part of any community manager’s job is content creation, as Dawn Foster points out. Over on a Dev2Dev we have a burgeoning number of bloggers, and we want them to become better at it. So I wrote Practical Advice on Becoming a Better Blogger to guide bloggers in improving the way that they blog (and to solicit some feedback from the community).To summarize the advice:

• Write what you know and Be yourself
• Link Love: Read blogs, Point to relevant, related blogs, Write something that continues the conversation
• Participate, leave comments
• Promote your blog: Put your blog address in your email footer, blog interesting material instead of emailing it
• Play Tag (technorati etc.)
• Add yourself to relevant aggregators
• Don’t worry too much about comments: Maintain a blogging frequency
• Add images when appropriate
• Preview your posts, check your links
• Don’t fundamentally change the post

There’s more in the article.

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