How to find Bloggers who share an interest in YOUR specialist topic
I have already shown you how to find printed journals that specialize in the subjects you want to write about, using a free online service ‘similar site search’.
In this latest blog I will show you how to find individual bloggers with a special interest in your subject. You could become one of their ‘guest bloggers’ or contributors.
What’s more, in another bog I will show you how to find bloggers and journalists WHO ARE ACTIVELY LOOKING RIGHT NOW FOR SOME INPUT ON YOUR TOPIC – they are on heat for what you can give them.
Finally, a blog on how to find out what printed and online journals plan to feature in the coming months.
Find Bloggers that share an interest in your specialist topic
Of course, the web has spawned a whole new media – ‘blogging’. Most blogs are just ephemera, but some bloggers do have real clout. We need find them and we need to catch the latest threads AS THEY’RE HAPPENING, so that we can contribute. And we also want to know of bloggers who have a special interest in OUR special interest.
Again, we can do it for free, this time using ‘HACKER NEWS’. This is where you’ll find it: https://news.ycombinator.com/
Hacker News is a community that offers links to WHAT’s being said about WHAT - RIGHT NOW, on HIGH QUALITY blogs. And it’s a community that ‘polices’ links to maintain high-quality. And it costs nothing to join.
Let’s log in now, and what’s going on…
I have already shown you how to find printed journals that specialize in the subjects you want to write about, using a free online service ‘similar site search’.
In this latest blog I will show you how to find individual bloggers with a special interest in your subject. You could become one of their ‘guest bloggers’ or contributors.
What’s more, in another bog I will show you how to find bloggers and journalists WHO ARE ACTIVELY LOOKING RIGHT NOW FOR SOME INPUT ON YOUR TOPIC – they are on heat for what you can give them.
Finally, a blog on how to find out what printed and online journals plan to feature in the coming months.
Find Bloggers that share an interest in your specialist topic
Of course, the web has spawned a whole new media – ‘blogging’. Most blogs are just ephemera, but some bloggers do have real clout. We need find them and we need to catch the latest threads AS THEY’RE HAPPENING, so that we can contribute. And we also want to know of bloggers who have a special interest in OUR special interest.
Again, we can do it for free, this time using ‘HACKER NEWS’. This is where you’ll find it: https://news.ycombinator.com/
Hacker News is a community that offers links to WHAT’s being said about WHAT - RIGHT NOW, on HIGH QUALITY blogs. And it’s a community that ‘polices’ links to maintain high-quality. And it costs nothing to join.
Let’s log in now, and what’s going on…
As you would expect, a real mixed bag of topics but, if we go down to the bottom of the page…
…we find a search-box.
Let’s suppose my client provides products or services to the Clinical-Trials sector (which, in fact, they do) – a very specialized segment of the pharmaceutical industry. I type in ‘clinical trials’, and…
Let’s suppose my client provides products or services to the Clinical-Trials sector (which, in fact, they do) – a very specialized segment of the pharmaceutical industry. I type in ‘clinical trials’, and…
I find NEARLY EIGHT HUNDRED current threads, all relating to this highly specialised sector.
And I’ve done it for FREE!
And I’ve done it for FREE!
