BBS05 - Blog Writing Tips

Not everyone should blog, according to Molly Holzschlag and Darren Barefoot - well, at least not in the corporate environment. The best bloggers for your organization will be those who are passionate about your business (and not necessarily part of upper management). Just as important, they need to be articulate. Some other points include -

Understanding [...]

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BBS05 - Blogging and Feeds Legitimized

To keep it simple, here is what you should take away from the Microsoft keynote this morning - blogging and feeds are officially legitimized. Microsoft is in the technology business. Sure, their approach is almost exclusively proprietary. Sure, their motive is related to their bottom line. But if they are “betting big on bloggers and [...]

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BBS05 - WordPress.com is Simply Awesome!

As a proud WordPress user, I attended the early demo presented by Matt Mullenweg (of WordPress). I thought it was going to be a basic “here is WordPress” like session. I must say, I was more than surprised by what I heard.
Matt announced WordPress.com, a new hosted version of WordPress. The feature set [...]

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BBS05 - Addressing Technology Questions

For newcomers to the world of blogging and feeds, the BBS might lead to more questions than answers when it comes to understanding these technologies. Should I offer partial or full feeds? Should I be concerned with design? What blogging platform or news reader is the right or best one for me?
Where does that leave [...]

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BBS05 - Dave Taylor and “Findability”

The BBS05 got off to a great start with Dave Taylor. He presented a most excellent session today, providing attendees with a crash course on Business Blogging - those in attendance got more than their money’s worth.
Probably the most interesting idea Dave spoke about, in relations to both blogging and RSS, is what he [...]

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Collaborative Power via Wikis

The New Internet offers a number of ways to make your work day more efficient. While blogs are all the buzz right now my bet is that wikis will have a more profound impact in the office.
The reason? Blogs do have an interactive element, where thoughts other than the author’s can be shared (typically via [...]

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RSS and Google - Jargon or Standards?

Yesterday, Richard MacManus of Read/Write Web wrote about Google’s (inevitable) entrance into the world not of “RSS” but of “Feeds”.
As evident on Google News, both RSS and Atom feeds are available (in version 2.0 and 0.3 respectively). The important point, as articulated by MacManus is that Google does not seem to be hot on [...]

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