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1. Joyful Jubilation
Last week I became an official contributor to Joyful Jubilant Learning, a really fun community learning blog you should check out if you’re not familiar with it. It was quite an honor and look forward to stretching my mind reading and writing. (A complete list of JJL community contributors appears at the bottom […]

Here are my pet blogging peeves. How does my list compare to yours?
CAPTCHA. It doesn’t take that much time, but knowing there are other anti-spam methods makes this extra step a deterrent to leaving a comment.
Partial RSS feeds. I scan 100-300 blog posts in my reader every day, so I’m looking for reasons not […]

When I was in sales management, I made a conscious effort to keep sales trainees away from veterans, or at least limit the interactions. The problem I kept running into - and it’s a good problem to have - was that the veterans were always giving advice to these eager new people. And though […]

A post on the Zemanta blog publishing assistant drew a comment from the folks at Kaalga. Kaalga is a Firefox extension (in Beta, I believe) that uses –
OpenCalais (Reuters) semantic API to suggest phrases in your text suitable for linking, and Google search to present relevant links for selected phrases.
Amit Aviv and Ori Mosinzon from […]

Image via WikipediaLately there’s been a whole lot of learning going on around here, and mainly from Word Sell readers, not me. Here’s what I’m talking about …
Karen Swim recommended Addictomatic as a newsgathering tool in response to a post on Google Alerts. Check it out — it collects Web pages from a wide range […]

Get Paid to Write Online has a group project underway, Getting Our Blogging Start. For me it was very much a spontaneous decision. A couple years ago I was having lunch with a savvy marketing and training professional. She mentioned that business blogs were going to be the next big thing, and all you have […]

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 […]

Over the almost 30 years I’ve been in business, the communication landscape has changed incredibly. However, if you’re an executive who is isolated, as I was for a long time, you could easily miss it. But I think all these changes explain why business blogs are becoming popular, and why they will be everywhere in […]

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 […]