Happy Friday everyone!

Welcome to another  weekly round-up post from our ever-growing community of bloggers, writers, vloggers, podcasters, and other content creators. Each and every week we hand-pick five top posts from a pool of the highest voted user-submitted/created posts in the community and include them in this weekly listicle blog post, along with the newsletter for all of our blog subscribers.

Here are this week’s (Feb 3 – Feb 9, 2018) most valuable posts from the /t/BES content creators community:

1. You Can Master Most of Any Social Media Platform in Two Hours
“If there’s one main thing I’ve learned over the past few months trying to grow this blog, it’s that to have a fighting chance and get real results you need to have a legitimate presence on all the social platforms. Not just Twitter, or just…”

2. Read This If You Feel Like Quitting
“I know what you feel like now. You feel like throwing in the towel, giving up, and falling on your face. You feel like quitting. You’ve worked at this dream for so long, and for what? You’ve published so many pieces, yet no one seems to care…”

3. Why Science Blogging Still Matters
“Science blogs have been around since the early 2000s, and in recent years the ‘microblogging’ platform Twitter and other social-media channels, which require less time to maintain than does a full blog, threatened to make them obsolete…”

4. Medium is Ruining Publications
“Earlier this week Medium made a drastic change that directly impacts publications like ours, like HackerNoon, FreeCodeCamp, and BeYourself. These publications are based on curating content from 100s if not 1000s of writers to provide…”

5. Puttin’ On The Style
“I have been reading books on writing style. My teachers at Beechwood Park Preparatory School for Boys taught me to avoid writing in the first person whenever possible, so up with that opener one shall not put, though of course, nowadays…”

That’s all folks! You can view all the rest of the community’s top submissions (14 more) here.

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