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Title:

Why Community Blogging Is Better Than Going Solo

Your vote:
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Organizer:
Lynn Truong, Wise Bread
Description:
Take the next step in your problogging career by transforming your fairly successful solo blog into a niche dominating multi-author blog. Learn about hiring and managing bloggers, compensation, legal, marketing and other issues from experienced multi-author blog editors and managers.
Questions
Answered:
  1. Why is a multi-author blog better than a solo blog?
  2. Where do I find top-shelf bloggers?
  3. How much do bloggers get paid? For how much content/work?
  4. How do I evaluate a blogger I'm thinking about hiring?
  5. How to create an editorial workflow that facilitates multi-author blogging?
  6. What are the legal concerns of hiring bloggers?
  7. How many bloggers is too many?
  8. How do I pay bloggers? What/how do I track stats in order to have a performance-based compensation system?
  9. What paperwork do I need to fill out to hire bloggers? (e.g. 1099)
  10. Freelancers vs. employees: what are the legal and business differences?
Level:
Intermediate
Category:
Blogging, Business / Entrepreneurial / Monetization, Community / Online Community, Content, Journalism 2.0
Type:
Panel
Event:
Interactive 2010
Jonathan Fields
on 20/8/09
I think we're going to see a strong shift to community blogs, can't wait to hear how Lynn and her team handle the details
Linsey Knerl
on 4/9/09
As one of Lynn's blogging team, I can attest to her points on why community blogging rocks. I hope she can share what makes writing for her multi-author blogs an amazing experience (hint: there's a lot of behind-the-scenes stuff that helps to keep everyone happy.) Good stuff!
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on 7/11/09
Love it! Look forward to seeing this in the mix of options when I arrive in Austin!
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