Archive for the ‘Blogging’ category

The Power of Blogging for Business

April 7th, 2010

New Perspectives on Blogging

April 7th, 2010

Understanding WordPress

April 6th, 2010

I was almost getting zeroed in on the topic and was just finding the right time slot to write down a detailed post about wordpress blogging. It may be a chance but a good one certainly that this lovely post flashed in today.  Chuck Tomasi and Kreg Steppe have written this detailed lesson with wonderful style of illustrations and examples that I simply could not resist myself but to share the same with you all.

This long post is in fact just a lesson of their co-authored book.

In this lesson, you learn the basics of WordPress, different ways you can run WordPress, and ways to create your account on WordPress.com. » Read more: Understanding WordPress

9 Business Blogging Techniques and Skills to Boost Your Online Business

April 4th, 2010

Blogging, business blogging, social networking, search engine optimization (SEO), twitter, facebook, and social media, and social bookmarking are some of the most popular buzzwords and key phrases we often come across with. Do you really know how to use all these concepts along with other web based media tools that can boost your business? Do you understand that specifically identified skills with these concepts will augment to your online presence and will act as a driving marketing vehicle helping your business grow faster?

It is important to acquire some of the necessary internet marketing insider techniques and skills. You must know about automation software for specific purposes and how these could help in your business. You would be at the edge of advantage if you know how to analyze the search engine rankings of your competitor’s and arch rivals. » Read more: 9 Business Blogging Techniques and Skills to Boost Your Online Business

WordPress 3.0 Beta 1 Released with Merger of WordPress Mu

April 3rd, 2010

WordPress has come up with an early Beta 1 version of WordPress 3.0

Jane Wells reveals that,” We wanted to get people testing it this weekend, so we’re releasing it now rather than waiting another week until everything is finalized and polished. There’s a ton of stuff going on in 3.0, so this time we’re giving you a list of things to check out, so that we can make sure people are testing all the things that need it”.

The big news is the merger of WordPress Mu and WordPress. This is certainly an intelligent and futuristic step.” If you’re interested in testing the Super Admin stuff associated with multiple sites, you’ll need some simple directions to get started”, says Jane Wells. » Read more: WordPress 3.0 Beta 1 Released with Merger of WordPress Mu

Blogging For Business:Social Media Strategies Conference

March 31st, 2010

Social Media Strategies Conference, today announced the addition of a panel discussion on “Blogging for Business”. The panel will feature a panel of industry experts sharing their ideas on developing and maintaining an effective corporate blogging strategy. The panel will discuss approaches to: – Making Announcements – Crisis Management – Legal Implications – Branding Strategies – Reputation Management – Optimization Techniques – Platforms, Tools and Services

The panelists include: Reshma Kumar, Manager of Web Design , Verisign Richard Brewer-Hay, Chief Blogger, eBay Tony Welch, Lead Social Media Strategist and Community Manager, Hewlett Packard. 

The conference will also feature two workshops on: How you market your business on Facebook to increase revenue, drive website visitors and create brand awareness through customer engagement. » Read more: Blogging For Business:Social Media Strategies Conference

It’s Time for Creating a Profile with Gravatar and Building Brand

March 29th, 2010

“Avatar” is nothing new to people who surf online quite often and if you are a bit more familiar with blogging then it is far less likely that you are not aware of “Gravatar”. Proficient bloggers however, better understand the value of globally recognizable avatars.

March 26, 2010 was a day of new happenings with continually evolving “Gravatar”. More useful features have been added and these include a ‘profile page’, a dedicated ‘photo gallery’, and facility to have ‘linkage with various other accounts’.

We are living in an age of branding and this has been taken well care of as well. You can now verify your ownership of all other online profiles and services of yours. Isn’t it a good way of brand building? » Read more: It’s Time for Creating a Profile with Gravatar and Building Brand

Revisiting Blogging Strategy Helps in Improving Quality

March 27th, 2010

Revisiting and examining pre-staged blogging strategy over past few days kept me a little more occupied. Simultaneously, I have been investing several hours in searching various write-ups on numerous websites and blogs. ”Blogging” is a well taken ‘niche’ and plethora of information is available online. For any keyword or a keyword phrase I found thousands of competing pages on all of the popular search engines. I generally prefer Google for my searches but ‘Bing’ is also coming up very fast and especially when it is corroborated with the ‘Yahoo Search’.

My search and looking for new ideas got me a little more puzzled. I initially thought and planned for writing blogging lessons and tutorials in a very different style so that newbies would be deriving more benefits. I have had my own experiences of learning by doing. This little break with searches have enabled me with even more interesting ideas and now I am planning to introduce them one by one .It may take a week or two to device a whole new blogging strategy for this site but in the end I am sure it will make everything more productive and advantageous for all my readers. » Read more: Revisiting Blogging Strategy Helps in Improving Quality

How to Set Up A Free WordPress Blog

March 22nd, 2010

How to Create a Blog With “Blogger”

March 21st, 2010

Creating A WordPress Blog

March 21st, 2010

Proficient Blogging Strategies

March 20th, 2010

A blog is a true reflection of its creator. It reflects the creator’s thoughts, vision, and communications, exposed to the entire world. Blog tells the whole story in itself. It really does not matter whether the blog is a ‘well organized blog’ or it is just a jumble of images and text imposed as mementos. It may be a well-designed, well conceptualized and well managed blog on one hand and on the other hand it may also be just a collection of links, advertisements, banners, and even some irrelevant text posts. 

Proficient blogging strategies help in making a blog successful and ensure its readers and visitors coming back regularly. There are umpteen of such strategies and have been proved extremely useful over a period. I am outlining some of these popular blogging strategies.

Keep the Blog Concurrent

A blog must be kept up-to-date and concurrent. All links should be properly placed and comfortably opening for the visitors otherwise the visitor will just move on. A neglected blog can never be a profitable or popular concept. Some of the best blogs are what Buzz Bruggeman describes as ‘intelligence agents’. These blogs have posts that would be of interest to their target audience. » Read more: Proficient Blogging Strategies