Blog Training with Posterous is a great way to get used to blogging on a regular basis. Posterous is a quick and easy way to create short posts via email. No sign up, no profile to create, just an email account where you send your posts.
Here’s the home screen…you will notice at the top [...]
If Barry Bonds were a blogger, he would use the Flock browser. It’s like juicing for bloggers, with so many tools built in to make it easier. Want to stream multiple feeds - no problem. Leverage social sites for blog promotion - easy, they are built right in. Like the cool [...]
I expect to read that headline tomorrow, but in the meantime Google did recently buy DoubleClick, emboldening their advertising empire further. To add to Google’s dominance in online advertising, Yahoo! has agreed to try serving Google ads next to Yahoo! search results. I never thought I’d say this, but thank goodness for Microsoft. [...]
Wired editor Chris Anderson coined the term “the long tail” in his 2004 book of the same name. Anderson hit upon one of the best reasons you should be publishing a business blog: the long tail. In the book, Anderson talks about the way information is sought on the Internet. The “long tail” refers to [...]
Corporate blogging is quickly coming into its own. The Internet is an awesome medium because it’s so good at putting people directly in touch with one another. Solid corporate blogging strategy takes advantage of this ability, but if not executed well, the results can be disappointing at best, and disastrous at worst.
Corporate blogging is just [...]
I’ve written about the importance of comments when it comes to blogging. As a blogger, you’ll be known by the comments you leave and receive. Comments, after all, are a great way to get important user feedback from your readership. Unfortunately, rogue blog comments on a blog can also be a source of frustration for [...]
Although many people are now turning to blogs for information and opinions, blogging has been around for about ten years. If you blog, you know that one of the benefits of blogging is the RSS feed that alerts your readers to a new post. Depending upon your niche, you and your readers may benefit from [...]
Adweek covered a recent study conducted by Universal McCann that shows some interesting things about US consumers and social media. The survey was a repeat of one done in September 2006 by the research firm. The second survey showed that the number of survey respondents who regularly read blogs jumped from just over 50 percent [...]
Blogging has been around for a decade or more and businesses are beginning to see the value of blogging as a marketing technique. In the Internet age, businesses are now beginning to see the value in blogging and working with bloggers to promote products. Many consumers turn to blogs when seeking out information and product [...]