Friday, Oct. 23, 2009: My most recent Blog CAT Scan [public critiques and tip-sharing about media blogs]:
Travelogged.com & Liz Borod Wright (@travelogged on Twitter)
TheSmallStory.com & Cara Solomon (@csmallstory on Twitter)
Hit play above or go to this link: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/sreetips/2009/10/23/BLOG-CAT-SCAN-Critiquing-Three-Blogs
DOWNLOAD TO iTUNES: These audio webcasts are also available as downloadable MP3 files for your personal collection and on-the-go listening. If you want to subscribe to these as podcasts on iTunes, go to “Advanced” within iTunes, then select “Subscribe to podcast” and type in http://www.blogtalkradio.com/sreetips/feed and hit OK.
==> Once in a while, I like to do what I call Blog CAT Scans, live webcasts during which I critique a blog or two and interview the blogger(s). The audience - and the bloggers - will learn how to improve the blog; raise visibility, traffic and revenue. We also share ideas about what’s working and what’s not.
I call these “CAT Scans” (borrowing a phrase from Prof. Sig Gissler, administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes) because, in the medical world, CAT scans look at healthy as well as unhealthy tissue. During these fast-paced, fun sessions, the bloggers receive plenty of constructive, actionable tips.
If any of you would like to volunteer your blog for a future session, write to sree[at]sree.net explaining why a large audience would benefit from your blog being critiqued. We do these with the bloggers on the telephone - and the audience can listen via the web or by calling into a NYC phone number. There’s a backlog of volunteers, so please be patient.
Listen to some recent Blog CAT Scans:
The Murder Book 2008 & Paul LaRosa
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/sreetips/2008/03/04/Blog-CAT-Scan-The-Murder-Book-by-Paul-LaRosa
CompletelyLegal.net & Rebecca Baker
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/sreetips/2009/01/30/BLOG-CAT-SCAN-CompletelyLegalnet
Birds, Bat and Beyond & Jim Wright
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/sreetips/2008/02/13/Blog-CAT-Scan-Birds-Bats-and-Beyond-by-Jim-Wright
Parenting Solved & Bryan Vartabedian, M.D.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/sreetips/2008/02/21/Blog-CAT-Scan-Parenting-Solved-by-Bryan-Vartabedian-M
DOWNLOAD TO iTUNES: These audio webcasts are also available as downloadable
MP3 files for your personal collection and on-the-go listening & learning. If you want
to subscribe to these as podcasts on iTunes, go to “Advanced” within iTunes,
then select “Subscribe to podcast” and type in
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/sreetips/feed and hit OK.
cheers, sree
Prof. Sree Sreenivasan | sree[at]sree.net
Dean of Student Affairs, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism
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