Few people write as optimistically about the future of blogging as my friend Trudy Schuett of WOLves.Her prediction of a bright future for blogs isn't just some dream world type thinking either.In her brilliant blogging future essay, entitled "The World...
Carnival of the Capitalists Is Up
Fans of the weekly business and economic postings series, found at Carnival of the Capitalists, will find this week's stop at Admiral Quixote's Roundtable.This week's array of capitalist knights comment on political economy, business, marketing, and...
From Bloggers to Magazine Columnists
British Blogger Lawn Greengrass of Straford Upon Avon-The Truth, writing in The Blog Herald suggests that some enterprising publisher start a blog magazine.In Lawn's business model, the publisher would pay a selected group of bloggers as freelancers,...
One year of blogging
My daily roller derby blog called Wayne's Derby World turned one year old today.Over the course of that one year of blogging, that blog has gained a steady and loyal repeat readership traffic. That is despite being a limited niche blog. The sport of...
Viral Marketing: Add more readers
Viral marketing is a great way to add visitor traffic to your blog.What? You have never heard of viral marketing? And no, it's not a sick marketing plan. Of course, it could be, but that's a story for another day.What viral marketing does is to get other...
New internet directory for adding your blog
Internet directories are a great. I always advise you to add your blog to as many as possible.They provide instant backlinks, get your blog indexed in the search engines, add a few new blog readers, and help boost your Google PageRank.A new human edited...
Bloggers Helping Bloggers
Are you a blogger who needs a job?Is your current job not using your skills to their utmost, or just simply not paying enough wages for the cost of living?Are you facing some severe money crisis in your life, for whatever reason?Do you know any other...
Bloggers Helping Bloggers
The main purpose of the Bloggers Helping Bloggers initiative is to have other bloggers assist unemployed bloggers in finding gainful employment.A secondary, and we hoped would never be needed element, was to help bloggers facing injury or illness.That...
Using your visitor logs
I have written a few columns on making use of your visitor traffic logs, from your link counters, for finding topics for blog posts. I have an article published on the prestigious search engine optimization site SEO Chat entitled "Using Your Visitor...
Blog fatigue: Is it fatal to your blog?
Is it just me, or are some of you noticing some signs of blog fatigue among their fellow bloggers?The term "blog fatigue" came from an article in the British newspaper The Scotsman (via The Blog Herald) about that very phenomenon. The The Scotsman article...
Want to be a mentor?
Have you ever wanted to be a mentor to some up and coming young person? Do you wish to share your wisdom with the next generation of business and community leaders?Julie Hubert at Working Virtually is providing you with that wonderful opportunity.Julie...
Carnival of the Canucks mention
Thanks to Catherine Jamieson at The Story Project for including a mention of Blog Business World and Carnival of the Capitalists as she hosts this week's edition of Carnival of the Canucks. The Blog Business World mention appears on the page devotes...
Technorati up with a new look
For finding other blogs that link to yours, there are few places better to search than Technorati.Resplendent with a brand new look, the Technorati beta provides tracking of "1,941,975 weblogs watched and 257,138,195 links tracked", according to the...
Carnival of the Capitalists: Don't miss it
Once again, the always popular business and economics extravaganza, better known as Carnival of the Capitalists is up and ready for your reading enjoyment at Jeffrey Cornwall's tremendously informative The Entrepreneurial Mind blog.As usual, the Carnival...
Blogs as a virtual pub?
Blogs are often thought as a way of building community. People of similar, and often divergent, interests and points of view are brought together under the umbrella of various blogs. It's highly likely that many people are drawn to blogs coveing entirely...
Bloggers Helping Bloggers Continues
Bloggers Helping Bloggers continues to be worked on for ideas.The need to keep assisting other bloggers in their job searches and with their financial needs never stops.Since I don't believe for one second that governments are of much help in job creation,...
Blog comments : Keep or cancel
Comments are one of the most popular features of many blogs.If you check out some of the more popular blogs, you will see comments regularly move into the twenty to thirty range. For an example of a heavily commented blog, check out the numbers of reader...
Blog advertising: Is it for you?
Blog advertising is always a delicate and controversial subject.Many bloggers, including myself, suppor the idea of selling advertising space on blogs. Many other blog owners strongly oppose the idea.Thee support or opposition for advertising, usually...
Mega Blogging: Combining the names
Take ten well known names in their blogging area of expertise - in this case baseball blogs - put them in a brand new website and stir.The result is a collaborative effort called The Hardball Times.As seems to be the case with many baseball ventures,...
Blogging survey: Make your views known
The University of California at Irvine has set up a fairly comprehensive Blog Survey.It's a quick examination of your opinions on blogging in general, your ideas about the basic reasons for your own personal blog in particular.The survey is fast, easy...
Thanks to Small Business Trends
I want to extend a sincere thank you, to Anita Campbell at the superb Small Business Trends blog, for providing a flattering and completely unexpected review of Blog Business World.Anita maintains one of the best, yet undeservedly underrated (in my opinion)...
Carnival of the Capitalists Up
The always interesting and informative Carnival of the Capitalists is up at Torsten Jacobi's great technology, entrepreneurship, and technology blog TJ's Weblog.This week's Carnival of the Capitalists features tremendous posts on the global economy,...
Blogs get another hatchet job
Writing in Web Pro News, Sharon Drew Morgan believes that blogs are are being exploited.Her opinion of blogs and their writers is not a charitble one:"Blogs are our current flavor of the month. Since everyone has opinions, and we all now get a chance...
RSS Feeds: Some great information
RSS feeds.You have heard about them. You might even use one of them daily to send and receive blog posts.For those who aren't entirely certain what the initials RSS stand for, don't feel badly. There is no real consensus. The more formal prefer Rich...
Blogging: Not tonight dear...
Have you ever had one of those days where you simply just didn't feel like blogging?You stare at the little posting box, but you have blogger block. Nothing seems to want to flow from your keyboard to the screen.You search through your favourite blog...
Blog visitors: How do they find you?
I like to read my visitor traffic logs. I confess. I read them several times a day, in fact.Since I know, within a narrow range how many daily visitors I will get, I spend my time reading other parts of the report.One of the interesting areas to ponder,...
Blogs: Changing the look
Blogs often change their look.There are many reasons for giving your blog a facelift. A virtual tummy tuck of posts or lyposuction of bloated coding is often a good thing.Blogging newspaper The Blog Herald has a brand new look. My friend Carrie at Life...
Blogs: Present and future
For those of you wanting to catch up on your reading, I would suggest you read my friend Trudy Schuett's Blogs: The Next Generation Internet. As always, Trudy provides a solid analysis of the future of blogging as a medium. Of interest as well, is Trudy's...
Are you a short story writer?
If you have visions of being the next great writer of short stories, author and blogger David Kilpatrick has an offer for you.David Kilpatrick will post your stories on his website.David's e-mail address is: davidlouiskilpatrick@hotmail.comHe promises,...
Blog linking: Choose your own path
My friend David St. Lawrence at Ripples was writing about the phenomenon, of the all but coronated Democratic Presidential nominee, John Kerry.In his post, David makes the case, that Democratic primary voters were following patterns, of decisions made...
Bloggers as freelancers
Many bloggers earn either their main living, or a handy supplemental income, from freelance work.That freelancing may take the form, of writing and publishing articles, on and off of the internet. Many people who blog, are also skilled computer programmers,...
Bloggers helping bloggers III
Many highly skilled and talented members of the blogging community are out of work.In today's economy (like all economic periods, really) good paying jobs are difficult to find. When a person is unemployed, often feelings of guilt and low self esteem...
Become a beta tester
Have you ever dreamed of being part of the testing group for a brand new software program?Well, now the chance awaits you.Startup Skills is offering beta testing opportunities for about 20 testers.The testing if for new online advertising campaign management...
Bloggers helping bloggers II
About a week ago, I was calling attention to some fellow bloggers who had fallen upon a bit of a rough patch. Faced with the usual financial obligations, they were needing some immediate employment assistance.That assistance needs to be extended to Jennifer...
Blog posting: A sense of responsibility
Bloggers post to their collective blogs on a regular basis.That regular posting may be daily, weekly, or even several times in a single day. In every case, there is an individual reason for writing a blog entry. Some bloggers write for themselves, others...
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