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Meryl K. Evans’ 5 Quick Tips to Building a Better Blog

by Debbie Weil | Jul 11, 2006 | Free Downloads, Stuff, Uncategorized

Be sure to grab a copy of Meryl’s manifesto for ChangeThis.com: 5 Quick Tips to Building a Better Blog. I really like Tip #3 on Readability. She recommends giving font size control to your readers (and advises on how to do that). Full disclosure: Meryl was the...

Still don’t believe in the power of the blogosphere? Dell starts a blog, presumably in response to J

by Debbie Weil | Jul 11, 2006 | Case Studies, Fortune 500 Blogs, In the News, Stuff, Uncategorized

Dell just started blogging at one2one. And they’re responding positively, thus far, to a snarky blog post from big name blogger Jeff Jarvis and a critical, but thoughtful, post by Steve Rubel. (And a more measured riff from Robert Scoble.) Jarvis, you may...

Even lemonade stands are blogging these days…

by Debbie Weil | Jun 29, 2006 | Stuff, Uncategorized

These days everybody’s doing it… or so it seems. Blogging for business. Meaning blogging to *get* business. Cute comic from yesterday’s Family Circus. [via Sarah Lewis] P.S. I probably shouldn’t use the image because I don’t have...

Something cool you can do with your name in a Comments link

by Debbie Weil | Jun 28, 2006 | Stuff, Uncategorized

I betcha never thought of this. Typically, when you leave a Comment on a blog post, you link your name back to your blog or Web site. When Brand Autopsy’s John Moore left a comment here recently (thanks John!), he linked his name to a PDF with information about...

Robert Scoble and Shel Israel at the podium at WOMBAT 2 in San Francisco

by Debbie Weil | Jun 21, 2006 | In the News, Stuff, Uncategorized

Live blogging this. I’ll pull out a few nuggets from their keynote at Day 2 of WOMMA’s WOMBAT 2 (Word of Mouth Basic Training). Shel’s up first. Shel admits that he started writing Naked Conversations as a reporter — as a topic to cover –...

Tip #5: How to uncover your “story” for an effective corporate blog

by Debbie Weil | Jun 12, 2006 | Marketing, Stuff, Uncategorized

See today’s issue of WordBiz Report, the first in a series of 5 Key Tips for corporate bloggers. Hint: it’s not about your widgets Unless you’re GM and sell cars, your widgets themselves are rarely a good topic for your blog.
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