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In a recent post, Joanna Young, who is in the midst of a blog migration to WordPress, lamented the fact she has more than 70 categories. Now, given the fact blogs are rather experimental and evolutionary by nature, it’s easy to see how that could happen. A couple mistakes I made were –

Adding subcategories
Using long […]

Image via WikipediaA couple months ago I downloaded Zemanta, a free blog publishing tool that’s coming in really handy. Once you’ve installed Zemanta on your hard drive, which takes only a few minutes, it will appear automatically in your post writing screen in WordPress, Movable Type, Drupal, Blogger, Tumblr, Live Journal, or Ning.
As you write […]

Jacob Share is running a BIG group project, Breeding Blog Subscribers. I’m looking forward to seeing the results - there should be hundreds of great tips.
It’s been said over and over that outstanding content attracts blog subscribers. I’ve always thought that makes sense. An attractive blog design and clever online promotion attract first-time visitors, but […]

Headlines may just be the most important part of a blog post. These days, it takes a pretty good one to capture the attention of readers who are scanning scores if not hundreds of Web pages every day.
Here’s my compilation of headline styles, each a proven winner for blog posts. What may be different about […]

Let’s talk about the future of blogging in the context of science fiction.
Of Blogs and the Borg I Sing
Star Trek: The Next Generation was a mind bending television series, way ahead of its time. The most terrifying and prophetic creation in all of Next Generation-dom is the Borg.
The Borg is an alien race characterized […]

Been trying to get caught up on my blogroll, along with trying to digest scores of outstanding new blogs I discovered via SOBCon08.
New additions to my updated blogroll —
Erik Potter I’ve been reading Erik for a while; since he started blogging, actually. He writes from the heart.
Kristen King A SOBCon connection. She writes with […]

A good deal of my time is devoted to singing the praises of online marketing — especially social network marketing — to small and medium size companies in traditional industries. Adaptation is slow, although moving at a much faster pace than two years ago.
Why do you think adaptation is slow? Why aren’t all companies […]

Liz Strauss posted this list of SobCon bloggers … time to spread some linkage! Can’t wait to meet you on Friday.

Cliff Atkinson
Shashi Bellamkonda
Chris Brogan
Harry Brooks
Anita Bruzzese
Dave Bullock
Mark Carter
Brian Clark
Tom Clifford
Valerie Combs
Chris Cree
Lisa Cree
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Note to reader: You may wonder what this post has to do with business blogs. I haven’t got a clue. Next week I’ll try to explain, but in the meantime, what are your thoughts? Do you see a connection?
In 480 B.C., King Xerxes of Persia crossed the Hellespont and invaded Greece with an overwhelming land […]