When does a Blogger becomes a Citizen Journalist

Citizen Journalism is the journalism made for members of the public engaged in telling, sharing and interacting with stories that have any interest or value for a community.

Citizen Journalism can also be considered as the journalism made for those who don’t have a formal education as a journalist.

What makes a journalist is not only the eyes and abilities to realize when information has common interest and must become news.

What makes a journalist is also the energy and the discipline to going out there, collect, compare and produce content in the form of video, text, image or audio.

Micah Baldwin talks about Lijit’s corporate blog, his personal blog and gives good tips for new bloggers

How can you divide your time to blog more professionally and more productively? We have just finished a nice interview with Micah Baldwin, from Lijit.com and this was one of the most interesting insights of our conversation.

Micah writes his personal blog Learn to Duck, and he actually got the job at Lijit after installing it to his blog. “I believe that having a personal blog is extremely important”, Micah said on his interview for Bloggers School Radio, on BlogTalkRadio Network.

He gave these really helpful tips for ADHDs bloggers just like us to divide and organize our time having time for reading and writing. Micah has three rules of blogging:

Make your business free of the Yellow Pages and advertise for free using Inbound Marketing online

You know you have a good product, but is difficult to make sales because the costumers can’t find you? Then you figure you need some marketing and advertises: flayers, Yellow Pages, announces on newspapers… Okay, might work, but this is kind of expensive. Besides that, why do you think people are going to choose your product in the middle of so much information, so many options?

Don’t get desperate. Breath and think about Inbound Marketing. Instead of getting yourself out there and trying to catch people’s attention in an ostensible way, make the costumers find you. They prefer this way.

The biggest tip on this post is:

Give up information for free
Sell your knowledge, expertise and solutions

What it means is nowadays, with so much free information, people search, compare and need to trust your product and your brand before purchasing. You educate first, and then you sell.

Blogging and Social Media have been doing an amazing job when comes to advertising your business for free online. Check out these videos from HubSpot, witch are Inbound Marketing campaigns for itself. HubSpot is authority on Inbound Marketing and their videos are fun, funny, instructive and really make you feel like “Hum, I want to learn more about this company and its products”.

The video below became and internet viral campaign and it is a parody of Alanis Morissete song “You Ought a Know”.

This second video is another fun approach from HubSpot for telemarketing sales and old school marketing techniques. Have fun!

Why Blog? What is a Blog? Kids Answer With Excitement

This video is great! It shows one more time the new old age question of Why Blog? or What is a blog? What you are about to see it from the young students whose teacher has turn them onto Blogging. I have to say that I am proud of today’s kids and the potential they have with all the latest tools. Bloggers School would like to thank the teacher for showcasing what she knows to be The future of information.

The Video Below is from YouTube’s user Stacystube and shows Science online students talking about the question Why blog?

Here is our Why Blog explanation, from our Bloggers School

Everybody says it is difficult make things happen, make the ideas you have become reality. But how many people are trying? Besides that, most of the people are not graduated or are doing what they do best.

If you are the type of person who still feel afraid of starting your own business or even showcasing your talent, you did not realize the Social Media Revolution event yet

Social networks such as Facebook, MySpace, Blog Catalog, Linked In, and sites such as YouTube and Ustream open to regular and until now unknown people the possibility of making themselves relevant, findable and even famous.

Why to start a blog for my business? Because since things that use to happen every 50 or 100 years happen nowadays in a few minutes or online, people’s needs and interests change every second too . Blogs are live and change every time they are updated, just like in the “real world”. Besides that, they are fundamentally about content, and good information makes your business get better ranks on Google.

If you don’t know how to get started or still have questions, we can help you. Bloggers School is the school and learning system of the future, including and educating people in to this Digital Era, helping them to create and customize their identities online. Bloggers School is also a Consulting and Mentoring services to everyone interested on making themselves their own brand to monetize their ideas and projects, being more happy and productive and reach their real goals in life.

Nowadays everyone will be connected and very soon very soon everybody will know each other. A fast search on Google (mention to the new comments boxes in the search result pages) can revel a lot about a person, and the whole thing is about reputation and the manners of Social Media and how to operate its tools. So, don’t loose any more time and start building your identity online.

Alan Brody talks to Bloggers School about the iBreakfast and Social Media

There are two extremes of the same pendulum who still don’t get the Social Media Revolution, the power of Blogging and using the Social Networking Tools.

You can see the spark on small business owners when they learn that they don’t need to spend money on the Yellow Pages anymore. They actually agree when we mention that everybody goes online, probably to Google or YouTube, before purchase in the store.

On the other hand, CEOs of big companies and even the Mainstream Media now can see themselves afraid of Bloggers, because know regular people can talk about their brands and there is no more control under the information.

A best place to start understanding the importance of Blogging, Podcasting and Showcasing your business or talent is the iBreakfast, a breakfast Social Networking that happens monthly in New York. If you want to understand more about the Digital World, the online advent and how the second generation got started after the break down in 1995, watch the video bellow, an interview with Alan Brody, the creator and moderator of the iBreakfast. He is talking about the use of the Internet tools for suits and giving an interesting definition for Social Media.

The next iBrekfast happens next January 22nd, and the topic discussed is going to be “Glitter in Twitter”, highly recommended for the ones who don’t get the powerful use of this miniblog updates.

coComment and Lijit on the new Eye Candy Web 2.0 – Hot Tools and Cool Sites to Power Your Blog series

The first episode of our new series Eye Candy Web 2.0 – Hot Tools and Cool Sites to Power Your Blog starts this coming Wednesday, January 7th 8pm (EST), on BlogTalkRadio. Bloggers School first guest will be coComment. They are going to be talking to us about two aspects:

1. the tool’s technology, including tips for better using;
2. the tool as a business, creating a product, founding a company and making money

Listen to part of Bloggers School interviews coComment at BlogWorld Expo, last September at BlogWorld & New Media Expo, in Las Vegas.

On the second show of this year, on January 14th,  Micah Baldwin, Chief Evangelist of Lijit will be calling in to the show. Check it out if you need a nice search box and traffic analytics for your blog.

To make 2009 you best year blogging you must improve your skills and use all the best tools you have available to make your life easier. Bloggers School have been testing Bookmarks, Search Boxes, Feeds, Widgets, Plugins, Analytics and Advertise sites, besides Tracking and Logistics tools. These are only a very few things to  blog more professionally and start monetizing your blog.Bloggers School interviews coComment at BlogWorld Expo