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A Beginner's guide to LinkedIn's publishing platform: Pulse

Posted by Gerald Heneghan Feb 12, 2015 2:17:00 PM
Topics: Social Media, publishing, LinkedIn, Social media tools, Pulse,

If you're a LinkedIn user, you've undoubtedly seen people's self-published content popping up in your news feed.

But why is this happening and why are people flocking to the site's new publishing service? In this guide, we'll introduce you to Pulse – the platform driving this trend – and offer some compelling reasons as to why it could be worth posting your own stuff there.

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Media law primer for business bloggers

Posted by Gerald Heneghan Jan 13, 2014 1:40:00 PM
Topics: copywriting, blogging, law, publishing, online, web, media

Content marketing is on the up and up. With billions of people using the web on a daily basis, companies are in an understandable rush to capitalise by producing content that aims to attract relevant audiences.

What many fail to realise is that if you put content on the web, you're effectively a publisher - and are therefore bound by the same types of laws that govern regular publications and journalists.

There are more than 250 laws affecting free speech in the UK and in this guide, we'll provide a primer on the legalities you should be aware of before hitting the 'publish' button.

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