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Blogging is a social activity where in addition to writing down our thoughts, we also need to reference others, connect people together and of course, figure out how to get in contact with other like-minded people.

Zemanta can help you with this process in different ways:

• Having a Reblog button on your blog posts allows easy sharing of snippets of your blog posts, while keeping your back link. It’s a content enabler for others while it keeps attention fixed at you!
• Related articles while writing allow you see who else is writing within your field.
• Automatic recognition of your friends on different social networks and their feeds allows you to easily connect to their stories.

Lets take a look at them in more detail:

1. Reblog

Basic idea is simple, while “ReTweeting” is just a click away, properly quoting someone’s blog is hard as you have to copy and paste a lot. By giving your readers reblog button, you’re saying: “go ahead, quote me” which in turn lead to more in-depth conversations across blogosphere and backlinks.

You can get Reblog button automatically by using Zemanta to enhance your blog posts.

2. Related articles

While our feed readers are already full of different interesting blog posts, it’s always a challenge to find that exact post on the topic you’re writing. While Google can sometimes help, there’s something better than just keyword search – full text comparison. Zemanta brings you related stories from all over the web while also notifying that the story was written by someone who you follow.

As shown on screen shot, this makes it really easy to identify posts coming from your network of friends. As with all the recommendations, these are also fully option so you get to keep full editorial control over your blog post.

3. Automatic friend recognition

It’s easier for everyone if you can show someone’s face or at least the avatar by which their online profiles are known. Zemanta makes this easier with direct integration with Twitter, Facebook and MyBlogLog:

this then allows you to quickly link to your friends or even integrate their avatars, to help others recognize and follow them:

or just link their nick name’s exactly where you want:

Why loose time with finding URL’s and copying them around?

Zemanta is a social media tool that makes it easy to share and connect with friends around you. It’s a free download and it works with all the popular blogging platforms like Wordpress.com and .org, Blogger, Typepad, Drupal as well as Windows Live Writer and ScribeFire.

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