10 Tips For Making Your Big Game Coverage Stand Out From the Crowd
A reporter has one job when covering a sporting event – to paint a picture. But what do you do when your entire audience has already seen that picture? In many respects, covering...
Category: Bloggers and Blogging
Writers From Beyond Bylines & Beyond PR Share Blogging Resolutions For 2016
2015 carried us through and introduced us to many new ways of processes. Many a newsroom climbed aboard the Slack train to better open lines of communication between teams. Publishing grew aplenty (Think: LinkedIn’s...
5 Online Video Editing Tools To Check Out
A website that allows users to create explainer videos and animated presentation decks tops my list of online video editing tools for which I’m thankful. Without it, ProfNet would likewise be without the video below (which...
Live Tweeting The State Of The Union: 12 Tips To Win On Twitter
It was a case of “come for the speech, stay for the spectacle,” at last year’s State of the Union address. From President Barack Obama’s #YesWeTan suit controversy to the “time traveling” energy secretary,...
5 Video Trends To Watch in 2016
If the year-end #YouTubeRewind video proves anything, 2015 was “the year of social video.” Nothing indicates that trend will slow down in the New Year. In fact, experts predict video will play a more...
“Let Go of the Results” and Other Tips for Embracing Change and Failure in the New Year
Hemal Jhaveri is no stranger to the unconventional. As senior social media editor for USA Today Sports, she tweets and writes stories about the sports world – and namely her love of hockey. But, while Jhaveri’s...
New Year’s Resolutions Revisited: Looking Back at Our Top 5 Goals From 2015
Keeping New Year’s resolutions can be difficult. Despite the high hopes and good intentions, there’s almost always an underlying sense of dread when it comes to setting long-term goals. Ideas can change or slip away. You might get sidetracked...
Holiday Round Up: 10 Most Viewed Beyond Bylines Blog Posts in 2015
We’ve been kind of busy over here. In 2015, the Beyond Bylines team coverage has run the gamut, from every corner of writing, publishing and blogging to social and digital media. So in the...
The Ultimate Gift Guide for Tech-Loving Journalists, Bloggers and Storytellers
What do journalists, bloggers and other storytellers really want for the holidays? Aside from some much-needed downtime – and a magically clear email inbox – they may be dreaming of some of the latest gadgets to hit the scene to...
Building Relationships Through Storytelling: Q&A With Contently
When audiences find information helpful or inspiring, they share those messages through social media, emails, instant messages and more. There are many ways to be heard, yet it’s just as easy to be forgotten...
How to Become an Infopreneur
“How to Become an Infopreneur” – that’s the topic we tackled during a recent #ConnectChat featuring Andreea Ayers, CEO and founder of Launch Grow Joy. Writers are constantly looking to earn extra money on the side, or...
How to Be an Organized Blogger
In the midst of organizing your life, let alone your bedroom or kitchen, being an organized blogger is probably the last thing on your mind. However, a few tweaks in your blogging routine may...
Washington Post Talent Network Offers New Opportunities to Freelancers
The freelance life can be awfully funny. For more than a dozen years, I’ve traversed this land of pitching, writing, copyediting, blogging, and ghost writing. I’ve verbally agreed to take on freelance work, shaken...
6 Cool Blog Tools Every Blogger Must Try
In case you felt it was time to spruce up your blog, I stumbled upon a few cool tools that are worth a try. 1. Tweak Your Biz – Title Generator “An outstanding title...
Blog Profiles: Vintage Blogs
Welcome to Blog Profiles! Each week, PR Newswire selects an industry or subject and a handful of sites that do a good job promoting, contributing, and blogging about it. Do you have a blog...
Bloggers: Why #Periscope Is a Game Changer for Your Blog and Your Brand
With the launch of any new social media platform comes great hesitation – especially from bloggers. The thought of learning “one more” new thing for your blog can be harrowing. There’s already so much...
Blog Profiles: Hispanic Local Blogs
Welcome to Blog Profiles! Each week, PR Newswire selects an industry or subject and a handful of sites that do a good job promoting, contributing, and blogging about it. Do you have a blog...
How to Build Your Own Blogger Brain Trust
In the first of this two-part series, we talked about The Power of the Blogger Friend Network. There, eight bloggers shared with us the most crucial reasons for finding a community of like-minded creatives for the...
Blogger Networks: 10 Reasons to Find Your Inner Circle
No man is an island, as the idiom goes. That’s especially true for bloggers. Once you embark on a creative venture, like building your brand as a blogger, it’s crucial to find like-minded people...
Career Crossroads: One Blogger’s Entrepreneurial Journey to E-Commerce
Five years ago, Shibani Faehnle launched a creative project that would allow her to publish about life and fashion. She started a blog, CLEShopaholic (Things I Luuuuurve). You could say Faehnle’s blogging has since...
