Blogs are becoming essential for business. Steve Rubel is one of our publishing partners who is on the cutting edge of this marketing and communications revolution. Below are comments and pointers by Steve that will help you use blogs to enhance your business success.
WebProWorld Blogging as Easy as 1, 2, 3 Thinking about blogging? Here's a new site that makes this all as easy as 1, 2, 3 - it's called Mindsay, a blogging platform. They even have a Jupitermedia CEO Alan Meckler writes that since the company's analysts started writing blogs two years ago, they have had gained several sales leads as because readers have been impressed by the analysts' comments. Bloglines' Rapid Growth Gives It Great Power Using publicly available data from analyzed the subscription trends of several major tech blogs (see chart at left). Udell says he's really not sure how to interpret this because the data suggests that while growth is constant, the rate of growth varies episodically. Despite the nuances, here's what I clearly gleaned - more folks are subscribing to blogs via RSS and they're reading them on Bloglines. As of this writing, more than one third of my 1200 FeedDemon, I too have switched exclusively to Bloglines. However, with great growth often comes great power. Could Bloglines one day exert the kind of control that Google does? I bet in the near future they might. Especially if they need start monetizing their users or they get swallowed up by a bigger fish. Frank Bajak to Big Media - Ignore Blogs at Your Peril SF Chronicle: Weblogs come of age as a news source (Steve Rubel is a PR strategist with nearly 16 years of public relations, marketing, journalism and communications experience. He currently serves as a Edelman, the largest independent global PR firm.He authors the
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