5 Factors to Help You Evaluate Blogs & Online Authorities

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Today, over at
Courage 2 Create, I'm the featured interviewee
. I discuss online authority, and
how to decide which people and organizations you should trust.



Here's a small snippet:

Authority comes in a variety of forms, and we each
have different values that can lead us to disagree on who an "authority" might be.
Given that there's nothing to stop someone from dubbing themselves an "authority,"
you have to look for other factors.

I discuss 5 factors that contribute to authority (industry relationships,
experience, commercial success, social currency, traditional media coverage), and
also identify red flags.



Click here to
read the full Q&A.





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Published on July 13, 2011 10:32
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