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Archive for August 2007

August 20th, 2007

Business Category in 2007 Black Weblog Awards

Thanks to having subscribed to the feed for Paula Neal Mooney’s always interesting blog, I caught up today with the 2007 Black Weblog Awards.
From the Awards blog site, I found that this year there is a Business Blog category.
Jim D. Walton’s Black in Business blog is “a blog for ordinary people wanting extraordinary success”. […]

By Des Walsh -- 2 comments

August 19th, 2007

Sean Kelly on The Marketing Secrets of Steve (Crikey!) Irwin

My b5media colleague and franchising expert, Sean Kelly, is a guest blogger here this week and has kindly offered the use of one of my favorites, a piece he wrote nearly a year ago on occasion of the death of the Australian crocodile guy, the improbable, one-off phenomenon, Steve Irwin.
The message is as pertinent […]

By Des Walsh -- 3 comments

August 17th, 2007

Twitter and the Disruption of Mainstream Media

Things move fast in the Web 2.0 world and those of us who want to keep up have to be open to changing our opinions quickly as the environment changes. Take Twitter, for instance.
Regarding Twitter, in April I was poised as elegantly as I could manage, on the fence.
Since then I have dallied with Twitter, […]

By Des Walsh -- 4 comments

August 16th, 2007

Excellent Introduction to RSS

Last month I posted a series on Favorite Feed Readers - including specifically NewsgatorOnline, Bloglines, BlogBridge, Google Reader and FeedDemon.
For those who haven’t even got to having a favorite feed reader or perhaps even knowing what a feed reader is, I recommend Martin Neumann’s excellent new Beginners’ Guide to RSS. He kindly references my […]

By Des Walsh -- 1 comment

August 15th, 2007

While We Were Blogging, the Game Changed

Two years ago, Shel Israel and Robert Scoble sent to their publishers the manuscript of their book, Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers.
What fascinated me at the time was that the book was written in the open, so to speak, and interactively with readers of the Naked Conversations blog, […]

By Des Walsh -- 1 comment

August 14th, 2007

Darren’s 8 Tips for When a Blogger Gets Sick

Unfortunately, I’m a week late in reading Darren Rowse’s post 8 Things to do on your blog when you’re sick.
It’s not quite a week, but several days, since a mysterious bug dropped me like a sack of spuds. In between coughing and sleeping I thought about blogging, but that was about it.
I don’t feel bad […]

By Des Walsh -- 1 comment

August 7th, 2007

Inside b5media - the President Speaks

If you read my post from yesterday, b5media Looking for a New Host for Business and Blogging and were wondering what might be involved in blogging for the b5media network, then there’s a must-read post for you on b5media President and CEO Jeremy Wright’s Ensight.org blog.
In Digging into b5media’s Secrets, Jeremy expands on […]

By Des Walsh -- 0 comments

August 7th, 2007

b5media Looking for a New Host for Business and Blogging

This time last year I contracted with the b5media network to host a site which I felt could help business people everywhere. My concept was of a blog which would be a resource for the many business people who want to know:

whether this blogging caper stacks up as a serious business activity
how to do it
what […]

By Des Walsh -- 9 comments

August 6th, 2007

Re-purposing Blog Posts as Articles

Have you been holding off from re-purposing some of your older blog posts as articles because you thought the search engines would identify that as duplicate content and deliver a penalty in the ranking department?
I have.
I understand that submitting articles to other sites is a good way to generate traffic to, and improve the ranking […]

By Des Walsh -- 0 comments

August 3rd, 2007

Would You Rather Your Company Was Revered or Profitable?

As it’s the beginning of August, here on the b5media Business Channel each of us is riffing on some or other aspect of the meaning of “small a” august.
Incidentally, this word is just one example of the challenge for people whose first language is not English, in learning how to pronounce English words: the month […]

By Des Walsh -- 2 comments

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