By Miriam Hara
Business2Community

Social media blogging has become very accessible for businesses. With the advent of easy to implement content management site systems such as WordPress, the business blog is now a staple on many business’s websites – ours included! The business blog has provided one way to make that first impression count on many levels.

By Dr. Deanne Larson
Faculty Member, Information Technology at American Public University               

The global economy has recovered slowly since the economic crisis of 2008, but this recovery has brought increasing demand for skilled and talented IT employees. In the sea of qualified individuals, how do you boost your IT profile and get noticed?

By Lavinia Tauro
Business2Community

Many people use LinkedIn’s publishing feature to promote their business and services, but there are very few people who are termed as LinkedIn influencers. There are some tips for optimizing the viewership of published work on LinkedIn.

By Adrienne Erin
Contributor, Online Career Tips

Blogging about the industry you work in can provide a lot of benefits beyond simply giving you an outlet to post your opinions. Most importantly, it can help you find a new job. Don’t believe it? Here are four ways blogging can lead you to a new place of employment.

By Adrienne Erin
Online Career Tips, Contributor

It’s 2013, and everyone and everything is now online. People socialize online, shop online, job search online, and even order food online. As a result, companies have made their way to the Internet as well, advertising on webpages and making use of social media networks and personal websites in order to make sure that their products are easily accessible to the online population.

In reality, what really happens is you write a few posts for the first month or two, maybe add in a couple shares, that dwindles to a post a month, and then after a year blogging seems like just another item on your ever-growing to-do list that is put off indefinitely. Months go by and the best you can wrangle up is a retweet of an interesting news story you saw on Yahoo.com.

By Dorie Clark, Forbes.com
Special to Online Career Tips

Being a journalist is – in my opinion – the most exciting career possible. You get paid to learn new things, go to cool events, mingle with interesting people, and ask them anything you want. For creative intellectuals, or those who’d like to consider themselves such, it’s unbeatable.

Have you recently had a mentally foggy day at work? To get through a day with that frame of mind make a short ambition list to keep yourself focused.

While the blogosphere by design encourages healthy discourse in such cases, it’s important that the author be buffered from the inevitable spammers and those whose contrarian opinion and agenda may overstep the minimum necessary bounds of decorum.