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If you’re like me and writing up to eight posts per week while juggling multiple businesses, it can be seriously draining.
So out of pure necessity, I’ve experimented with a plethora of different tools to aid me in the process of generating new content ideas.
Some have been home runs and some have been strikeouts.
But there are seven in particular I really like and want to share with you....
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Super useful, several new! Neil Patel's seven content tools are essential reading for bloggers, marketers and PR pros. 9/10 
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Let’s face it: Blogging and producing content on a daily basis isn’t easy. Even if you don’t compose an actual article everyday, chances are you’re still emailing and typing endless paragraphs on sources like Reddit, Facebook, or commenting on other blogs. You may otherwise be researching and connecting with fellow writers/bloggers as part of your daily work routine.
To make these responsibilities just a bit easier, here are some of the best – and most reliable – Google Chrome extensions for writers, marketers, and general bloggers....
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Do you need to speed up your writing? here are some of the best and most reliable Google Chrome extensions for writers, marketers, and general bloggers.
InsideOut's curator insight,
November 5, 2016 12:17 PM
Unas cuantas extensiones de Google Chome que te facilitarán las cosas con la escritura.
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Our technology and method Using NLP (natural language processing) to turn text into data, we extract reported speech (the things people say) from the text of online news, along with the associated metadata (things like: the name of the speaker and where they work). We use this data in a variety of ways: for our article ranking, when we manage churnalism (lots of news sources use the same info), and when we display the quotes themselves to create an at-a-glance version of the news.
Why do we focus on quotes Because we're convinced that a valuable news experience is one that includes a variety of points of view - so more quotes means more value. At Trooclick, we understand that news is the same as anything else you might invest time or money in: it should be a good value....
Jeff Domansky's insight:
With Storyzy, find and curate brand-relevant news quotes. Promote your brand and get clicks with quotes. Thanks to Robin Good for the tip. Recommended tool in beta now.
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The Challenge is Simple. Day One: 3,000 words. And then each day after that add 1,000 words to the amount needed. Seven days, if my math is right, I will have a 42,000 word novel. 3,000… 4,000… 5,000… 6,000… 7,000… 8,000… 9,000 words. 7 Days. Day Seven (9,000 word day) Got the book done!!!! The goal today was at 9,000 words and needed to be the focus of my day because I had no idea how many words I would actually need to end this book. I had 3,000 words in the bank, so that helped the worry some....
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Can't vouch for the quality, but there are no excuses not to write your first or next novel, book, family history, or autobiography. Even easier, cut the word count in half and do it in two weeks.
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Whether you're a published author or just getting started with blogging, it's not always easy to string words together in a way that makes sense, sounds good, and makes the reader feel something.
Jeff Domansky's insight:
31 tools you can use to improve your writing. Several new to you I'm sure.
Penelope's curator insight,
February 10, 2016 12:57 PM
Thirty one different ways to improve our writing should give us at least one or two new options that we can pull out to get started, get moving, and get finished!
***This review was written by Penelope Silvers for her curated content on "Writing Rightly"***
Link to the original article: http://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/improving-writing-skills-tools 
Luke Padilla's curator insight,
April 4, 2016 1:47 PM
31 tools you can use to improve your writing. Several new to you I'm sure.
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Metaphor is not the sole preserve of Shakespearean scholarship or high literary endeavour but has governed how we think about and describe our daily lives for centuries, according to researchers at Glasgow University. Experts have now created the world’s first online Metaphor Map, which contains more than 14,000 metaphorical connections sourced from 4m pieces of lexical data, some of which date back to 700AD. While it is impossible to pinpoint the oldest use of metaphor in English, because some may have been adopted from earlier languages such as Germanic, the map reveals that the still popular link between sheep and timidity dates back to Old English. Likewise, we do not always recognise modern use of metaphor: for example, the word “comprehend” comes from Latin, where it meant to physically grasp an object. The three-year-long project to map the use of metaphor across the entire history of the English language, undertaken by researchers at the School of Critical Studies, was based on data contained in the Historical Thesaurus of English, which spans 13 centuries....
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Huge project by Glasgow University researchers plots thirteen centuries of startling cognitive connections. Purely random but fascinating. Recommended reading. 9/10
rodrick rajive lal's curator insight,
July 9, 2015 2:56 AM
We work with metaphors all the time, and for teachers of English literature, having a good grasp of metaphors is even more important. But then metaphors are symbols and like symbols, metaphors can cover a large number of ideas and concepts. No wonder therefore that using metaphors can help communicate complex ideas and concepts more effectivley than verbal descriptions or written descriptions that go on and on and yet are not able to communicate the intended information. I somehow connect metaphors with the heading in a mind map. |
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Words are hard.
Whether you're a published author or just getting started with blogging, it's not always easy to string words together in a way that makes sense, sounds good, and makes the reader feel something.
But every marketer should be able to write -- and, more importantly, every marketer can write. It's just a matter of finding the writing environment that works best for you, expanding your vocabulary, asking for feedback (and listening to it), and practicing.
Luckily, there are a slew of great tools you can use to help improve your writing. Check out the list below, and feel free to add the most helpful ones you use in the comment section....
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Check out HubSpot's list of tools to help you improve your writing, whether you're a professional author or haven't written anything longer than an email.
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Most of you work in organizations where Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel are standard.
If you’re writing anything interesting, you’re collaborating. And if you’re collaborating, Google Docs and Google Sheets are indispensable tools.
Most of you work in organizations where Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel are standard. They’re comfy and familiar. If you send a file in those formats to somebody, you know they can read it. So why bother with Google?
Here’s why: the more collaborative the task, the better Google’s tools are. They key is that you can all work on a piece of content at the same time. Here are three great examples:...
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Here's how Google docs can make you a better writer and four good examples.
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Whether you're a published author or just getting started with blogging, it's not always easy to string words together in a way that makes sense, sounds good, and makes the reader feel something. But every marketer should be able to write -- and, more importantly, every marketer can write. It's just a matter of finding the writing environment that works best for you, expanding your vocabulary, asking for feedback (and listening to it), and practicing. Luckily, there are a slew of great tools you can use to help improve your writing. Check out the list below, and feel free to add the most helpful ones you use in the comment section....
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Check out HubSpot's list of helpful tools to help you improve your writing. Recommended reading. 9/10
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Coming up with exciting content is a bit tricky though, not just because everything has already been done to death, so it’s hard to come up with anything original, but also because once you set out to create it, it seems as if everything is turning against you and wants to prevent you from creating it. You name it: procrastination (although that one is on you), writer’s block (a little bit on you), distractions, the agony of having to edit your work, the list is seemingly endless. We've mentioned tools to help with content marketing several times at Smart Insights. We thought it worth mentioning these tools because whilst you may already be using the likes of Trello and Hootsuite, these less well-known tools may also help you be that extra bit more effective when it comes to writing content....
Jeff Domansky's insight:
10 writing tools you can use.
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We’ve pulled together every single copywriting formula we’ve ever seen to create the ultimate guide – the most complete handbook – to copywriting formulas. This one post will help you write all your copy faster and with greater likelihood of success. You should be using copywriting formulas whenever you write anything. They eliminate the guesswork that makes a lot of bad copy bad copy. They will help you face the Blank White Page without cowering. They’ll help you generate A/B test ideas faster. They’ll help you pinpoint what’s going wrong in a button… in a headline… or even in a video script....
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Copywriting formulas make it dead-simple to write anything. This post features 200+ formulas for tweets, headlines, pages, posts and more. Ahem! Fun read for writers.
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What has always set Atavist apart from other online publishers, though, is the singular care with which that story was being presented, regardless of the platform on which it was being experienced. "When we started The Atavist, there was no one thinking about how to design and tell a story online," explains Ratliff. "Even if you had a great idea about how to tell a story through design, you needed a developer to execute it. So we tried to build the platform to let nondevelopers make beautiful stories without programming the software themselves." That was the magic of the Atavist platform, which made it easy for writers to not just compose their stories, but design them as a proper multimedia, multidevice experience. So when The Atavist became a hit—it has been nominated for eight National Magazine Awards, winning this year for Feature Writing, and 11 of its stories have been optioned for big-screen treatment by Hollywood—Ratliff and his colleagues decided to spin the platform out as its own product, the Creativist, which anyone could use to tell beautiful stories and then publish on the web or through the Creativist app. And now, in turn, the Creativist is rolling itself back into Atavist as a single cohesive platform....
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Launching today, the new Atavist could just be the most beautiful and powerful way to write on the web. Writers should check it out.
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