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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...
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