Archive for March 3rd, 2006

What’s Your Podcasting Purpose?

Friday, March 3rd, 2006

It’s important to focus on your listeners when deciding what topics to cover in your podcast.  Some companies will put out a purely sales-y approach and their podcast will feel like a downloadable infomercial.  These podcasts are rarely successful.
For your podcast to ‘take off’, you must give value to the consumer.  Try figuring out what [...]

Support the Universal Feed Icon

Friday, March 3rd, 2006

Picture from Rogers Cadenhead:

It’s time for a universal icon to be adopted.  If Microsoft can adopt Mozilla’s feed button, the least we can do is do the same.  (via)

Find Blogs Similar To Your Blog

Friday, March 3rd, 2006

Blogcode offers you the ability to find similar blogs to your own:
Browse for your blog, code
a blog with your experience of the blog, and blogcode will find matches
and makes recommendations with new blogs that will delight you. They
have implemented a tool which allows Bloggers to display the top
BlogCode matches for their sites on their own [...]

Corporate Blogosphere

Friday, March 3rd, 2006

Of course it is!  I bring this up to help you understand the blogosphere a little better.
Look around your office… 

See that guy that’s got a crowd gathered around him?  He’s your A-list blogger.  He’s an influencer.  Use him to grow your internal blog.
Notice those people standing around the water cooler gossiping?  They’re going to [...]

Watching For Your Blog In Search Engines

Friday, March 3rd, 2006

Yet another blogger experiment attempts to discover the way we search for news online. This experiment, from Robert Scoble, should give us insight into how our blogs are ranked, dependant upon keyword usage and tagging.
"Here, let’s play a game. Everyone in the world
say "brrreeeport" on your blog and you’ll be listed on this Technorati
page [...]

Email Management Is Essential For A Growing Web 2.0 Business

Friday, March 3rd, 2006

Clear Context, like SNARF by Microsoft, and other email management tools, strives to help you manage your email overload. 

Highlight important email with automated prioritization
Easily link, categorize, & save email conversations
Automate email filing for quick & easy archiving

I’ve been using the beta for several months now and I am impressed with the ability to organize [...]