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My Picks / #Google+

• Understanding Google+ Hangouts
• Hangouts For iOS Review: Google+ Messaging
• Promoting Content With Google+

Blogging / #Tips

• Why We Still Need to Write, Even When We’re Scared
• 5 Writing and Productivity Links You Can Use

Internet Marketing / #SEO #SMM

• Simple Steps To Creating An Effective Social Media Strategy
• How To Be A Badass Link Builder

Social Media / #News #Tips

• Increase Your Social Media Followers And Reach By Gating Premium Content
• Social Media News: Google+, Facebook Ratings, Pinterest

Tech / #News #Tumblr #Windows #Yahoo

• Yahoo Reportedly Wants To Buy Tumblr; Is Scared Of Facebook
• Everything You Need To Know About Windows 8.1

Web 2.0 / #Design #Gaming #How-to

• How To Turn Your Android Phone Into A Gaming Powerhouse
• Photographers: Top 10 Sites To Showcase Your Work

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13 Digital Media Resources That You Shouldn’t Miss [May 19, 2013] is a post by Minterest

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My Picks / #Content

• Your Content Marketing Sucks. Here Are 10 Resources That Don’t.
• 7 Ways To Get More Out Of Your Content Marketing Strategy
• Beginner’s Guide To Content Marketing [Infographic]

Blogging / #How-to #Tips #WordPress

• Help, I’ve Been Hacked! How To Secure Your WordPress Site Against Hackers
• 5 Ways To Bond With Your Blog’s Audience

Internet Marketing / #SEO

• How We Grew Crazy Egg To 100,000 Users With A $10,000 Marketing Budget
• How To Move Rankings Up On Older, Existing Content

Social Media / #Infographic #SMM

• 10 Ways To Promote An Infographic Via Social Media
• 10 Actionable Social Media Marketing Tips

Tech / #Apps #Mobile

• iOS Fell To 17% Of Smartphones Shipped, Windows Phone Passed BlackBerry
• 30 Must-Try Apps For Rooted Android Phones

Web 2.0 / #Internet #Tools

• iTunes Updated With A New Mini Player, Album Artwork & Multi-disc Albums
• Hands On: New Google Maps Make Maps Interesting Again

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13 Digital Media Resources That You Shouldn’t Miss [May 17, 2013] is a post by Minterest

While I agree with him that there’s no perfect answer, I also feel that it really depends upon your niche, brand and various other criteria. So there could be an answer perfect for one and not for another. You need to find that out by yourself.

When Does Daily Blogging Makes Sense

If you are a full time blogger then daily blogging makes perfect sense as I assume that you track your industry pretty closely and you have got something nice to blog daily.

What To Contribute Daily

Practice. Practice. Practice. And Just make sure that you turn writing into a habit. Then you’ll find that it’s not impossible to contribute a blog post daily to your blog.

Read: How To Create Great Content For Your Blog

Why Authority Blogs Publish Content Too Frequently

The primary reason why most bloggers blog daily is to keep their readers active and engaged so that they will comeback everyday to read a new article. Because when we visit an authority blog in an industry, let’s say a tech blog, then we expect a new article whenever we visit their homepage.

And like Darren pointed out the second reason is "more posts mean more doorways into your blog". If you write something worth reading daily then you’ll have 365 blog posts a year and hence it’s more likely that people will come across your articles via Search Engines, Social Media, RSS, etc.

Should You Blog Daily?

Like I said earlier if you’re passionate about what you’re writing and are tracking your niche pretty closely then you can post something interesting daily. It will improve your traffic, readership, branding, etc. as long as you post quality stuff.

If you’re one of those bloggers who is trying to keep their users engaged by posting stupid guest posts, promotional stuff etc. then you’re going to lose your loyal readers over time.

If you genuinely want to take advantage of daily blogging then hire high quality writers and let them contribute content to your blog apart from you alone.

For example, if you have a magazine blog that covers a variety of topics then it makes perfect sense to do daily blogging as your readers expect something new everyday. But make sure the content is rich and useful as their time is also as precious as yours.

How Daily Blogging Can Negatively Affect The Quality Of Your Content

If your blog is a single-author blog then it can affect the quality of your content as you will get obsessed with daily posting. So everyday you’ll compulsively write something and it’s possible that they can be of low quality as good content requires time, dedication, and research.

If you have already noticed I recently started mashups where I post 13 Digital Media Resources That You Shouldn’t Miss. Though it takes less than 10 minutes to write a daily mashup I find it difficult to do a regular blog post along with it. Because finding interesting content also requires time, research, and dedication as I have to make sure that I include only the stuff that you really don’t want to miss.

And don’t forget your life!

Posting something new, engaging, compelling and helpful every day over several years can, over time, begin to feel like a chore – particularly if you have competing pressures of life (family, work, social life etc). – Darren

SEO: Isn’t the content more important than the simple number of posts per day/week?

In a nutshell: If you’re thinking about for people, then frequency might be a nice thing to have. But whenever you’re thinking about search engines it’s much, much, much more important to think about the quality of your content.

Now Why I Hate Blogs That Post Too Much Content

As a blogger, it’s a really nice strategy to blog daily but as a reader I HATE it as it kills our time by reading unworthy content. You’re doing nothing good if whatever you’re writing is already there on another blog or if you haven’t added any value to your blog posts by giving some insights.

Read: Why Outsourcing Content Creation Is A Bad Idea For Your Blog

Things are even more worse when you post unworthy content written by your  paid low quality writers or guest bloggers. If you do that then you’re only trying to fool your loyal readers.

If you want to share stories that are already published elsewhere on the internet then use your Twitter account and curate stuff there.

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My Picks / #Writing

• The Most Important Factors For Ranking In Google
• Blogging: How To Build Authority From Scratch [In 5 Steps]
• 10 Lessons From A 100k Page View Blog Post

Blogging / #How-to #Tips

• 50 Blogging Tips To Help You Build Your Platform
• Make Your Blog Come Alive With The Help Of Emotions

Internet Marketing / #Content #SEO

• Content Marketing DOs And DON’Ts
• Content Marketing: Are You Sharing Your Best Stuff?

Social Media / #Facebook #Pinterest #Tips

• How to Compare Your Facebook Page With The Competition
• How Any Business Can Take Advantage Of Pinterest

Tech / #Google #Gmail

• Everything You Need to Know About Google’s Big Announcements
• Gmail Adds New "Quick Action" Buttons, Helps You Act On Your Messages

Web 2.0 / #Internet #Tools #Webmaster

• Google’s Matt Cutts : Spammers Less Likely To Show Up In SERPs After Summer
• 11 Unique Ways to Boost Your Social Sharing with Buffer

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13 Digital Media Resources That You Shouldn’t Miss [May 16, 2013] is a post by Minterest

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My Picks / #Entrepreneurship #Inspiration #Blogging

• 6 Things Exceptional Leaders Do Better
• The Two Reasons Why You Aren’t Making Over $100K a Year
• The Blogger Outreach Equation

Blogging / #How-to #Tips #WordPress

• Migrating A Website To WordPress Is Easier Than You Think [Beginner's Guide]
• How Many Posts Should A Blogger Post? [Pros and Cons of Daily Posting]

Internet Marketing / #Analytics #SEO

• How To Increase Website Conversions By Improving Visitor Engagement
• Buying Awareness To Build Links

Social Media / #Infographics #SMM

• 15 Benefits Of Having A Fan Page Over A Personal Profile Page On Facebook
• How To Get More Likes On Your Facebook Page [Infographic]

Tech / #Gadgets #Android #WindowsPhone #Mobile

• HTC’s One: At Long Last, The Best Smartphone Is An Android Phone (Review)
• Nokia Announces Lumia 925 As It Steps Up Fight Against Apple & Samsung

Web 2.0 / #Design #Development #Webmaster

• Client & Server-Side Approach: Providing The Best Mobile User Experience
• The Anatomy of a Perfect Web Page

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13 Digital Media Resources That You Shouldn’t Miss [May 15, 2013] is a post by Minterest

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My Picks / #Facebook #Marketing

• 5 Ways To Grow Your Business With Facebook
• The Ultimate Guide To Facebook Contests
• Facebook Ads vs Promoted Posts: A Side-by-Side Comparison

Blogging / #How-to #Tips #WordPress

• Three Easy, Free DIY Blog Image Makers
• How To Make Money From Your Blog: 11 Powerful Case Studies

Internet Marketing / #Affiliate #Content #Search #SEM #SEO #SMM

• How To Rank: 25 Step SEO Master Blueprint
• Increasing Organic SEO Traffic By 400,000 Unique Visitors A Month

Social Media / #Twitter #Pinterest #Tips

• How To Effectively Engage More Consumers On Pinterest
• 6 Tips to Grow Your Twitter Followers

Tech / #Apps #BlackBerry #Mobile #Windows

• BlackBerry Messenger Goes Cross-platform On iPhone, Android This Summer
• Windows 8.1 (Windows Blue) Will Be A Free Update, Preview To Launch June 26

Web 2.0 / #Design #Internet #Tumblr

• Outlook.com Users Can Now Chat With Their Google Talk Friends
• 8 Professional Tumblr Themes For Entrepreneurs

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13 Digital Media Resources That You Shouldn’t Miss [May 14, 2013] is a post by Minterest

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My Picks / #Freelance #Inspiration

• Here’s How I Write My Mashups In Less Than 10 Minutes
• 8 Curious Reasons To Start An Online Business And Work From Home
• 10 Worries That May Influence Your Positive Thinking

Blogging / #How-to #Tips

• How To Immediately Become A More Productive (And Better) Writer
• I Hate Blogging! But I Gotta Do It And It Has To Count

Internet Marketing / #Content #Email

• Content Isn’t King. Trust Is King.
• Why Email Subscribers Unsubscribe [INFOGRAPHIC]

Social Media / #Infographic #Twitter #Tips

• 26 Social Media Marketing Tips From The Pros
• The 10 Commandments Of Twitter

Tech / #Apps #Android #Windows

• 10 Killer Android Apps To Make Your Life Easier
• 10 Things Microsoft Needs To Fix With Windows Blue

Web 2.0 / #Internet #Tools #Webmaster

• How To Use The Keyword Planner From Google AdWords
• Google’s New “Save To Drive” Button Lets You Save Files To Google Drive

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13 Digital Media Resources That You Shouldn’t Miss [May 13, 2013] is a post by Minterest

I love Outlook.com because of its fresh, clean and intuitive interface but I miss several powerful features offered by Gmail. The first one being the "Search". So today I’m going to focus on Gmail search and going to tell you why I love Gmail search.

Read: Gmail vs. Hotmail vs. Yahoo! Mail: An Ultimate Comparison

Gmail search is perhaps the most amazing feature of Gmail if we keep its storage aside.

Why Gmail Search?

With Gmail and its search, you don’t have to delete even a single message (thanks to 10 GB of free storage) and you can retrieve the e-mail you want in a few seconds. No other e-mail service provider can beat this (as of now).

You can call me old school, but I STILL mail myself attachments as it’s my way of archiving files online and making it searchable via Gmail search.

The Outlook.com search is not bad but I would say the search results are not as relevant as in Gmail. So since my Outlook.com is connected to Gmail (via POP3) I’ve a copy of all my mails in it and hence I use Gmail search when Outlook can’t find a mail that I want.

Now with Gmail, you can create your own archives of your files (or call it your backup) by making use of Labels, Filters, and Plus Addressing.

Read: 10 Gmail Tips You Probably Don’t Know

For example, I regularly backup my bookmarks, application settings, etc. to my Gmail (yes, by sending those files to my own e-mail ID as an attachment). Let’s say my Gmail id is maheshone@gmail.com, but it’s difficult to manage the archive if I send the attachments to maheshone@gmail.com itself. So instead can send those attachments to one of your Gmail id’s sub-address (in my case it could be maheshone+settings@gmai.com). And then, you can create a label (call it Settings, maybe) and a filter to automatically label those archives.

You can create as many labels, filters, sub-addresses as you want this way.

By following this method of backup I can keep my cloud storage (SkyDrive) in an organized way. And since I archive all my mails in my Gmail after reading, I don’t care about these attachments as long as they are archived and are out of my sight.

Now why I don’t want to use a cloud storage for this purpose?

Why Not Cloud Storage? 5 Reasons:

I feel cloud storage is good when we want to access our files regularly, want to keep them up-to-date and at the same time access the same from our other devices.

• My files and folders on my cloud storage are perfectly organized and I don’t want to make them messy.
• Since these are just backups I rarely require those files again. Just in case if I want them back then it’s just few clicks away.
• I have tons of storage left in my Google account as I have a legacy storage plan there.
• I don’t have to care about privacy settings (as in cloud storage services) of each files as they’re all within my e-mail and no one can access them unless of course they have my password and my phone.
• I can attach almost any file (except applications) and can add keywords to my e-mail (in subject or in body) so that I can find what I want more quickly.

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My Picks / #Internet #Web

• The One Infographic About The Digital Revolution You Need To Understand
• Content Re-Use To The Rescue
• The Ultimate Beginners Guide To BuddyPress

Blogging / #Tips #WordPress

• 21 Quick Tips: How To Write A Blog For Your Business
• 34 Gorgeous WordPress Themes For Photographers

Internet Marketing / #Content #SMM

• How Guest Bloggers Are Sleepwalking Their Way Into Penalties
• 4 Ways To Improve Performance Marketing On Facebook

Social Media / #Infographic #Pinterest

• How To Use Pinterest Analytics: 6 Metrics Worth Measuring
• 21 Awesome Social Media Facts, Figures And Statistics for 2013

Tech / #Android #Gadgets #Windows

• I Went To Buy An Android Phone And Left With My First Windows Phone
• Microsoft Confirms Windows 8.1 ‘Blue’ Public Preview Due End Of June

Web 2.0 / #Design #Infographic

• New Defaults In Web Design — How Much Has The Web Really Changed?
• Infographic: A Day In The Life Of The Internet

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13 Digital Media Resources That You Shouldn’t Miss [May 8, 2013] is a post by Minterest

Last month I wrote about how to save your blogging time by at least 30% by creating a "blog post template" like we do for e-mails. Today, I would like to revisit that blog post because it appears like creating a template can certainly save significant amount of time.

As you probably know, I publish Minteresting (my mashup) posts not so often and I end up using a template for it even though its not complete. But last week I created another blog post template for daily Mashups and the results were stunning because it helped me publish daily mashups (like this and this) in less than 10 minutes. Sans the templates, it would take me at least half an hour considering the formatting, links, alignments, hashtags and much more.

My Template For Mashups

If you’re not sure about Content Curation then check out this blog post on Content Curation. In a nutshell, a content curator’s goal is to find interesting stuff and share the same to a targeted audience. And like Fast Company mentioned Content Curators are the new superheroes of the web.

So if you have a specific niche and a targeted audience then it really makes sense to publish curated stuff – daily or every 2 or 3 days or even weekly.

What Tools Do I Use To Curate Content?

Like every other blogger, my primary source of content consumption is via RSS feeds and I use Feedly for that. Thanks to Google for shutting down Google Reader! Feedly is too awesome now. I added my favorite 50 75 blogs to my Feedly and labeled them based on my primary tags Blogging, Internet Marketing, Social Media, Tech & Web 2.0.

And whenever I read some interesting stuff that I want to share with you I save the story to the Pocket app under any of the following tags – My Picks, Blogging, Internet Marketing, Social Media, Tech & Web 2.0. And once I’m done with reading, all I need to do is just copy-paste the Titles and URLs from Pocket app to my 13 Digital Media Resources Template.

How I Find Interesting Content…

Other primary news sources, apart from Feedly, that I use to find interesting content are LinkedIn Today, Social Magazine App Zite, and Inbound.org as they generate the most relevant content for me. Other tools that you can try are Pinterest, Reddit, YouTube, Twitter Lists, Facebook, Visual.ly, List.ly, Storify, Hacker News, Scoop.it, etc. depending upon your interests, as this list never ends.

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