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Last Update: Sat Jun 7 22:17:21 2008

+ Plurk: Is This for Business? + With all the recent outages and downtime over at Twitter (no doubt stirred up because of my recent article on How to Use Twitter for [...] approach with the same 140 character message limit. Plurk has some nice add-ons that separates from Twitter. There’s an [...]

+ Sun CEO on Communication through Blogging + Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz gave a great keynote interview at the Web 2.0 Expo last month. He was interviewed by Tim [...] topics, not the least of which was business blogging. The first five minutes after the introduction concentrate specifically on [...]

+ Brand Yourself on Your Blog, in Your Feed, with a Photo and Sig Line + In my blog post about the importance of your avatar in social media marketing, I included my headshot photo to show folks what I use ...

+ Secrets to Success - What Are Yours? + Everyone has secrets to their success. It’s what makes them tick and it’s what makes them get things done. I’d love [...] would love to hear about yours. I think that regardless of what we do in business, be it blogging, administration, bookkeeping, [...]

+ Five More Reasons You Need to Start Blogging Today + Back in December of 2007, I decided that I wanted to try something new and fresh with my website. I was also getting tired of the ...

+ Using Your Feed Reader to Generate More Traffic and New Business + Feed readers are tools that keep track of the blogs you have interest in. You may use your feed reader to keep track of competitor’s ...

+ Secrets to a Faux Blogger’s Success: Fake Steve Jobs + Usually faux blogs get lambasted on the blogosphere for violating the unwritten business blogging rules of transparency, openness, and [...] gave a hilarious speech at the Web 2.0 Expo last Friday. The 25-minute video is embedded below: Lyons’ main points about [...]

+ How To Name Your Business Blog + One of the questions I often get asked is how to name your business blog or name your business. Many people call their business blog [...] if you are in the area of professional services and want to be known online by your name, therefore building your personal brand [...]

+ Business Blog Interview + The other day Mike Sigers of Simplenomics interviewed me for his Hot Seat radio show about the benefits of a blog for businesses. The ...

+ Passion’s the key ingredient in successful blogging + Not getting as much marketing power out of your blog as you’d hoped? The rules for successful blogging are the same whether [...] to write about what you love or what you’re passionate about. When you write about what you are passionate about, readers [...]

+ Need More Time to Blog? Here’s Your Answer! + Do you ever feel like no matter how well you plan your day, you never seem to finish all of your scheduled tasks, including all the [...] “GTD” (Getting Things Done), a time management, or more appropriately, life management methodology developed by [...]

+ The Dangers of Anonymous Blogging + BusinessWeek reports on anonymous blogging gone bad in a recent article Busting a Rogue Blogger. Yes, there’s controversy in the [...] who writes on patent trolling, was outed as a Cisco employee. Why is this relevant? Because Frenkel was blogging about the [...]

+ Business Blogs Can Bring You Killer PR + When talking to people about the benefits of business blogs I often mention “establishing your credibility.” This goes [...] more and more likely to turn to Google and other search engines to track down “experts” in a given field. As [...]

+ Upcoming Blogger Conferences + WordCamp Dallas is later this month — March 29-30. Netconcepts’ own Chris Smith will be speaking on SEO for blogs. [...] is only $20. There’s no reason not to attend! Even if you blog on a different blog platform, you should still attend. The [...]

+ Is Your Monitor Size Holding You Back? + Bloggers are information workers. And information workers need a big screen monitor — and/or multiple monitors — to be [...] of Utah that found that folks using a 24-inch screen completed tasks 52% faster than those with an 18-inch screen. And [...]

+ Bloggers, What’s Your Hook? + Whether you’re just starting out in the blogosphere or you write for an established blog, you’ll need an angle to set your [...] injecting the blog with a unique style and personality (e.g. snarky, witty, professorial, egotistical to the point of humorous, [...]

+ Do You Need a Blogging Regimen? + As a certified Business Blog Consultant–I’m still awaiting the paperwork, but I’ve been assured it’s on [...] Being a blog consultant is tricky; much of our work is up front. We often design a blog, set it up on either WordPress [...]

+ Is Blogging Recession Proof? + There are two groups of people who apparently make hay during  a recession: journalists and Web marketers. I’m not sure if this [...] around, but it seems to me that every business magazine and marketer is talking up the recession. Business magazines run cover [...]

+ Blog carnivals - a link building secret weapon + One thing which has been alluded to briefly here on BusinessBlogConsulting.com in a couple previous posts is blog carnivals — a [...] Blog Consulting contributor Toby Bloomberg who first turned me on to blog carnivals. For those who aren’t aware of what a [...]

+ Do we have to join every social network? + This might be a question just for us social media consultants, but I think it is more generally applicable: do we need to sign up for [...] that we can reserve our names thereon? This came up because I just signed up and joined friendfeed.com (and yes, the obligatory [...]