"Эхо Петербурга", здравствуй!

Here's a warm welcome to all the bloggers of popular radio "Эхо Москвы в Петербурге" ("Echo of Moscow" in St. Petersburg), aka "Эхо Петербурга". We are honored to be distributing the Premium content written by the influential bloggers on radio's portal. Some observers describe the community as "the last bastion of free media in Russia" (via Wikipedia). Also honored to have BlogUpp widget installed on all blogs of "Echo of Moscow" in Saint Petersburg, which now makes our Russian blogger community even bigger, more engaged and informed. Special thanks to radio's administration for their collaboration to arrange this partnership.

Сообщение на Русском: Рады приветствовать всех блоггеров портала популярной радиостанции "Эхо Москвы" в Петербурге (aka "Эхо Петербурга"). Для нас является большой честью транслировать нашему Русскому сообществу публикации влиятельных блоггеров и журналистов с портала радиостанции. Рады и тому что виджет BlogUpp присутствует на всех блогах портала "Эхо Москвы" в Петербурге, и тем самым наше Русское сообщество блоггеров стало еще больше, вовлечена в активную жизнь России, и более информирована. Особые благодарности администрации радиостанции за сотрудничество.

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Can we save Reader?

Google Reader is about to be closed. That's sad news for most of us. Please sign this Change.org petition for our collective voice to be heard. We hope, and you'll know you tried at least.

In today’s world of mainly “shiny” apps the common sense and fundamental values are often overlooked, along with the user experience. Similarly, social streams limit control of what and when we get through various ranking mechanisms.

On the other hand, Google Reader has been the web-based service to consume news and meaningful updates in a simple, time-saving and reliable way. Compared to alternative apps, Google Reader has been available in every browser, on every device, without the need to install anything and it seamlessly synced activity across all platforms.

Google has been and will continue to scan / index updates and web content for its main business - search. In this context, Google Reader has been the simple and elegant interface to filter and read just the updates we subscribe to. Bringing it down seems very unpopular according to numerous sources. Google+ might be the expected winner; however, the frustration from losing Google Reader might actually lead to the opposite.

So, can we get a re-consideration via this petition or this one? We hope so, and with you joining - it could make the difference. Thank you, and please share with your fellows to amplify the awareness.

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Celebrating 5 Years of All Us Together

BlogUpp blogger community makes 5 years! It's nice getting presents, but it's a much greater feeling when you give. Cheering all bloggers and giving a 5,000 bonus to those who are 3+ years with us (active and highly rated by the community), as well as newer bloggers are getting a thumb up from BlogUpp Team for their great blogs.

Thank You for being with us and for supporting the community connect great bloggers and audiences. Happy 5 Year Anniversary!

// Image via Mom-101

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Get Your Search Marketing Expo Deal

Don't miss Search Marketing Expo - the new event and a great opportunity to network with bloggers and influencers. Get $100 off and even attend for free with Expo+ Pass pre-registration until March 10. This is made possible as a result of our media partnership with SMX event organizers. Simply use the code "smx100blogupp" to get your deal. Enjoy!

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Explore, Discover and Learn

You know we love discovering great blogs. And we are true fans of everything Discovery. In this context we are honored to add Discovery News to the default category across our content distribution channels. Being a genuine source of exciting news we believe you'll enjoy Discovery News. Explore and uncover the most fascinating science news from our everyday world.

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Improved Blog Content Distribution

We believe simple is better. While you are not being confused with new features added often - we do improve performance constantly. The recent change makes possible checking for blog updates more frequently. Which means distributing your blog content faster and thus keep your readers happy. Besides, now Premium blogs are placed in the top of the queue while being distributed.

As a result of another upgrade, we'll be checking for new blog feeds and replace the initial ones. It's important to make sure your blog has at least one blog feed that is ok, to maintain your blog content distributed.

Excited to share with you as well that we've partnered with AOL to deliver Premium sponsored campaigns (currently geo-targeted to US only).

As always, your voice is important to us. Should you want to let us know your wishes or feedback, we'd love to hear from you.

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Get your BlogWorld NMX 2013 deal

Excited to share with you that BlogUpp has partnered with BlogWorld, the organizer of New Media Expo (NMX) - world's largest conference for Bloggers and content creators. Here's the good news for our community bloggers - get event tickets with 20% discount simply by using the code "blogup20"!

Don't miss the opportunity to learn from the top bloggers how to take your blog to the next level, and get more blog readers follow you, all while networking with thousands of content creators and influencers. Note that the prestigious event will take place in Las Vegas, January 6 - 8, 2013. Click here to book your seat and get to know the speakers.

Bonus: Get 100 free MiniCards to introduce yourself while at NMX. Design and demand yours here.

We'd be glad to know you are going to this special blogger event. Apart from that - season greetings!

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Inviting Ideas to Reward Bloggers

Our blogger community deserves to be rewarded, and for this reason we'd like to start a loyalty program. You are invited to suggest criteria to reward. The ideas should be related with posting on BlogUpp community page on Facebook, since Facebook likes will help determine the winners. Idea examples would be "best motto of the week" and "blogger contest of the month" - that are to get Facebook likes.

We are anticipating to reward a publisher's blog with 10 000 bonus points on a regular basis. The participants (authors) will have to

• get most likes (5 at least) for their post related to announced blogger contest, and
• have an active blog within BlogUpp blog network.

Please feel free to send your ideas via email to us, or write in the comments below, and we'll consider them carefully on an ongoing basis.

Thank you in advance for participation. We look forward to hearing from you and starting together an exciting loyalty program.

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Facebook Apps Authorization Changes

Facebook has introduced a series of modifications to its platform starting with October 3rd, which handles apps authorization differently. This means that apps authorized earlier to cross-post to Facebook pages or profile, might need to be reauthorized from time to time.

In this context, should you not see your blog post being cross-posted to Facebook via BlogUpp, simply revisit blogupp.com, submit your blog repeatedly, and click Facebook cross-posting button. This should reauthorize BlogUpp app to publish your blog posts accordingly.

At the same time, by doing app re-authorization on a regular basis (e.g. once a month), you also ensure your blog is updated in our records with a fresh thumbnail more frequently, to promote your blog with an updated image.

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The Best Blog Titles. Best Practices

Blog titles are essential, and writing them properly is key to attract readers and support bloggers in promoting blogs. Although this fact seems obvious, and it's frequently mentioned throughout the web, this is still being overlooked.

Continuing blog best practices series, linked herein are great advices from Adam Vavrek of Skyword, in the blog post with 6 best practices for how to get the click, including title trigger words and examples. Note though that while writing engaging titles it is important to focus on the relevance of the title with the blog post, and have moderation in selecting the best words, in order not to end up with something spammy.

We hope the mentioned article will be of help to bloggers like you, for your blog's success. Please feel free to share your advices too.

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