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October 1, 2008
- The Amazon Kindle, Sony Reader and iRex Iliad on Twin Cities Live - Aggregate vs. Detailed Data - Zillow.com - DexKnows.com, Minneapolis Pizza, & Blog Payola - A Message to Newly Hired PR Professionals - Are You Noticing a...
August 26, 2008
John Battelle is a busy man, and he makes sure to get that across with occasional posts on why he hasn't been posting regularly on his blog. Here are my top-5 funniest posts from John from the past two months:...
August 17, 2008
The roundup. On the web, this takes the form of a blog post where the author links out to a batch of stories - generally on other sites - with quick summaries of why they're worth reading. They're powerful posts...
August 7, 2008
As of today, this is my best advice on how to get started with a business blog where the focus will be on a local audience. First, what so I mean by a business blog with a local focus? I'm...
August 1, 2008
- WiFi Policies by Hotel - Gmail Archive - The Least Understood Button - Limitations of Google Spreadsheets - Google Indexing Audio Files? - Ecological Decline of Newspapers...
June 24, 2008
I've found explaining blogging to non-bloggers to be a difficult task from time to time and have been trying to figure out why. My reasoning at this point is that people confuse the various ways the term "blog" is used....
May 12, 2008
Should you host your own blog? If so (or not) what are your options and why should you choose one over another? These are common questions from people who are considering getting into blogging for business or something beyond blogging...
May 2, 2008
Edelman has published an interesting study measuring consumers trust of various sources ranging from "People like myself" to "bloggers" that aims to explain the credibility people give to different relationships: I wonder how different the results would be if -...
May 1, 2008
I've found myself answering this question a lot lately, so I figure I should just turn it into a blog post so I can point people to it. So, you've decided that you want to host your own blog with...
April 21, 2008
One problem I've been noticing more and more as of late is that certain archived posts on blogs tend to become magnets for comment spam. One way to deal with this is to automatically close comments on posts after a...
April 4, 2008
A report came out yesterday suggesting that no one trusts bloggers. Frankly, that's one of the most refreshing things I've read in a while. If people trusted someone just because they rambled on about something on the web using a...
March 17, 2008
Seth Godin posted an argument on why resumes are becoming a worthless way creative & professional people market themselves compared to other available options. How would you rather be judged: Based on what you can cram into bulleted lists on...
March 12, 2008
This is a quick list of things to avoid blogging about as a business blogger. 1. Self Promotional Posts - Nobody is interested in hearing you talk about how much experience you have in business or how incredible your customer...
March 8, 2008
I've been on a speaking tour this week discussing the value of business blogging to non-bloggers. One issue that seems to stump newbies is figuring out what's worth blogging about. The first place I'd look for inspiration is your sent...
November 19, 2007
Technology Evangelist turns 2 today!This site started as an experiment and teaching tool. We hoped to teach ourselves about blogging through blogging, and have learned a lot through this process over the past two years. On the experiment side, I...
November 11, 2007
. . . I'd . . . 1. Use Wordpress.org as the platform. 2. Host it with a reliable host like MediaTemple. 3. Burn the site's feed with FeedBurner. 4. Install a comments subscription plugin. 5. Install a "recent comments"...
October 25, 2007
Google has finally gotten around to adding a comments subscription option to Blogger powered blogs. It has a few limitations, but is a welcome improvement over nothing at all. The limitations: 1. It looks like you have to have a...
October 9, 2007
Scott Allen, the co-author of The Virtual Handshake: Opening Doors and Closing Deals Online, took 30 minutes to speak with us about blogging, online marketing and where the industry is at as a whole. The information in this interview was so...
September 10, 2007
While taking the time to research and write posts is probably the biggest time sucker for most bloggers, moderating comments can be a close competitor. One of the real keys to running a professional and respectable blog is to find...
September 8, 2007
Once you're up and rolling with a few blog posts, you may wonder if anyone's reading your. For page views and visitors, there are plenty of stats programs to choose from from those provided by your web host to 3rd...
September 7, 2007
Once you've chosen a blogging platform, one of the first steps to take in setting up the blog is to designating permalinks. Permalinks is short for "permanent links" as in, "this is the permanent location where this blog post will...
September 6, 2007
One thing that causes some frustration for new Wordpress blog users is figuring out how to include videos in their blog posts. There are two popular ways to do this: upload a file to the server for direct download and...
September 5, 2007
I've decided to put together a series of posts on how to blog. As of now, I plan on kicking this off with posts looking at the technical decisions one has to make in order to be a successful blogger....
August 13, 2007
In recent months, I've switched over to using Flickr for image hosting for Technology Evangelist rather than hosting the images on the TE server. This has some advantages which I'l outline below, but also may have a disadvantage worth considering....
July 24, 2007
Building online communities is no easy task. The first big challenge is actually getting people to care enough to register and contribute to the community. This then leads to a second problem: community moderation. This has been a hot topic...
July 12, 2007
If you're a blogger running a blog on the Blogger platform (a domain that's something like yaddayadda.blogspot.com) you should take advantage of the update to Blogger's FeedBurner integration ASAP. FeedBurner reports how many people have subscribed to your blog along...
July 1, 2007
I managed to reduce the bounce rate of a blog I manage by 16.5% by adding one simple plug-in: Related Posts. For those of you not familiar with the "Bounce Rate" metric, it's a measure of single page visits. People...
June 21, 2007
When people first start blogging, they often choose to go with one of the popular and free blogging platforms, such as Blogger, LiveJournal, or even a MySpace blog. However, there is one very important thing to consider when choosing a...
June 20, 2007
Fake Steve Jobs is one of the funniest blogs in the Interwebs. The writer behind it consistently comes up with hilarious behind the scenes peaks at what the real Steve Jobs may or may not be thinking throughout the day,...
June 18, 2007
While analyzing the stats for Technology Evangelist the other day, I came across this interesting graph reporting the average number of page views per visitor by month: It very common for a blog's page views per visitor to hover somewhere...
June 13, 2007
Earlier this week, I wrote a post discussing the importance of authenticity on the web. Posing as someone you're not, or pretending you don't have a bias will only get you in trouble. Look no further than the comment we...
June 7, 2007
Here is a quick look at which posts written in May 2007 had the most page views on Technology Evangelist: Killer App Expo - Ray Kurzweil MySpace.com and The Apple Store Experience - The other side of the coin Why...
May 16, 2007
A few weeks ago, I posted about why teachers should have blogs. But I didn't really get into what they should blog about. I'm out of school and don't have kids, so take my opinion for what it's worth. Contribute...
May 10, 2007
April Fool's played a roll in April's top posts. It's worth nothing that the posts below weren't necessarily the top posts by page views for the month of April. This is just a look at which posts written in April...
April 27, 2007
Whenever I'm at a real estate conference, I suggest to agents that they should consider starting a blog as a marketing tool. And there are usually a handful of businesses on hand who specialize in managing blogs for real estate...
April 16, 2007
Jon Gordon found last week's story and resulting controversy about Don Imus' supposed replacement interesting from an Internet journalism standpoint and ran a story about it today. If you're a National Public Radio listener, you may have heard it earlier...
April 2, 2007
NeoKast Will Web Developers Start to Develop for Safari First? Mac vs. Vista: Who Treats Novices AND Techies with Respect? Bye-bye Vonage Microsoft Exchange Daylight Savings Nightmare...
March 16, 2007
The following outline is from a seminar I conducted yesterday on Blogging for Real Estate to a group in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Blogging is a great marketing strategy for real estate since it allows agents to prove their expertise through market...
March 2, 2007
The first sentence of Jeff Jarvis' post about the BBC's deal with YouTube reminded me of something: The embargo just came off a BBC announcement that they’re putting video on YouTube to reach more audience, worldwide. It reminded me that...
March 1, 2007
Entrepreneurs seem to be catching on to the fact that many bloggers are creating compelling local content that deserves a larger audience. And with a larger audience, they could generate some significant local ad revenue. Here is a quick look...
February 16, 2007
I subscribed to around 60 new blogs earlier today after discovering an OPML file (feed or blog's feeds) that looked interesting to me. The blogs happen to have a local tech focus, so they're not necessarily high traffic or great...
January 30, 2007
How many times have you talked to a soon to graduate student who possessed absolutely no idea how to find a job? They have often never held an internship, worked in the field they now hope to jump into upon...
When I started writing for the Internet back in 1997, the general thinking among what few net journalists there were back then was that shorter was better. Stories were supposed to be at most a few paragraphs long. Everyone seemed...
When I started writing for the Internet back in 1997, the general thinking among what few net journalists there were back then was that shorter was better. Stories were supposed to be at most a few paragraphs long. Everyone seemed...
January 20, 2007
I noticed in our web stats that visitors are asking whether pinging a blog will increase inbound links. Here's the short answer: Pinging your blog does not increase the number of inbound links your site receives. And here's the long-winded...
January 18, 2007
When we first started Technology Evangelist a little over a year ago we knew we wanted to get into video blogging so we chose a platform that had a pretty good architecture for it: Movable Type. Through plugins we have...
January 8, 2007
Two days ago, Ben posted an article to Technology Evangelist asking our audience of techies to send in questions they'd like to hear asked of companies presenting at the Consumer Electronics Show via video voicemail. Yesterday, Andy Abramson picked up...
January 5, 2007
Want to read about EVERYTHING that's happening at CES this year? Technology Evangelist has created an OMPL file with 40 top blogger's RSS feeds brought together for easy import into the RSS reader of your choice. Simply save THIS LINK...
January 3, 2007
The technical talent behind left-wing political blog, Daily Kos, are looking for feedback on what platform they should use for the next revision of the site: Daily Kos: DK4: Technology Cagematch Edition Language: Perl, Ruby, or Python? Java is right...
January 1, 2007
Dueling Network Neutrality Videos Microsoft's Zune the salvation of VC1? What Type of Page Views are Most Valuable? MySpace.com's Spam Problem Amazon.com is Running SLOOOOW Today...
My final new years resolution is to post text to our blog at least once per day (starting to see a pattern?) I'm hoping that in 2007 TechnologyEvangelist.com will be able to better engage our readers and we'll get a...
December 31, 2006
Was 2006 the year of the Treo? Looking back at the top blog posts from 2006 on Technology Evangelist, it looks like the latest versions of the popular SmartPhone drew plenty of buzz. With CES just around the corner, we...
December 18, 2006
A blog comments feed is a great way to allow your readers to keep up on the conversations taking place on your blog. Let's face it: the comments left by your visitors are often more insightful than the original post,...
December 1, 2006
How iTunes Hurts Podcasting Product Spotlight: LogMeIn Suite We're Making Wireless Internet Progress in Minnesota How to get a techie's money: GO MOBILE! The Slingbox challenge: Place-shift my media but with a better CODEC...
November 16, 2006
Terry Ng of Kineda.com decided to have a little fun with a stat from David Sifry's October 2006 State of the Blogosphere report where Sifry explained Technorati's standards for authority rankings. Technorati bases their authority rankings on how many unique...
November 1, 2006
Top Blog Posts for October How Blogs Hurt Google News Google Rebrands Writely to Launch Docs & Spreadsheets How .Mac saved my computer Why Would WalMart Need a Fake Blog to Communicate with RV Travelers? A Few Perspectives on Internet...
October 27, 2006
Text-Link-Ads has created a new metric for blog geeks called Blog Juice that measures the popularity of blogs on a 1-10 scale based on a combination of Alexa, Bloglines, and Technorati stats. As of this writing Technology Evangelist scores a...
October 23, 2006
Steve Rubel notes that Google has added a blog search to their Google News tab. "Google has made a small, but important change to Google News. On the top right hand part of the page next to the Archive Search...
October 17, 2006
Is the quality of search results on Google News dropping? A few recent comments from A-list political bloggers and certifiable news junkies seems to point in that direction. First, we have John Aravosis from AmericaBlog raising the subject: "Is it...
October 15, 2006
Shel Holtz reports on the revelation that WalMart, through their PR team at Edelman, has been publishing a fake blog about a couple traveling the country in an RV using WalMart parking lots: "In case you missed the story, a...
October 2, 2006
I'm looking for a little help with this annoyance. One of the trickiest forms of comment spam to deal with as of late is what I refer to as "Tramadol Spam." This generally consists of message from an author such...
September 26, 2006
Paul Scrivens beats down ten Web 2.0ish companies he feels have either failed to grow, failed to catch on at all, or have simply fallen on their face in his Top 10 Web 2.0 Losers list: Now many of these...
September 21, 2006
The author of the popular devil's advocate Web 2.0 blog, Dead 2.0, has been outed. Well, not completely outed, but a blogger named Nik Cubrilovic figured out who "Skeptic" is and blogged about it at the link below. Cubrilovic wrapped...
September 20, 2006
Back in March, I published a list of spam keywords we use to moderate or auto-junk comments on this blog. The list is designed to automatically trash comments using words that have nothing to do with the topic of this...
September 18, 2006
Jennifer Eubanks of Capture the Conversation posted earlier today about a NY Times article on the influence of blogs on businesses serving business travelers. The Times reports that business travelers are using blogs to share their experiences about businesses they...
September 17, 2006
Don Dodge has an interesting post about what it means to be a one in a million blogger today. According to Dodge, with approximately 50 million blogs on the web today, some simple division tells us that there are fifty...
September 1, 2006
Jeneane Sessum offers a likely commonly shared perspective on the ethics of splogs:You don't have to be A list to be splogged. "I've said about other sites that incorporate my RSS feed, as long as they aren't making money off...
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