July 2nd, 2008
(www.businessandblogging.com) Choosing a business blogging platform may seem complicated for the beginning business blogger.
However, with a little research it is possible to select the blogging platform that is best for your business’s needs.
Here is some information to get your research started.
WordPress and Blogger are free. There is a commercial license fee associated with using Movable […]
By Laura Spencer -- 5 comments
June 14th, 2008
(www.businessandblogging.com) Probably not yet. . .
Neither do mine.
As a business blogger, it’s important to match your use of social media to your target audience. If your marketing plan includes microblogging, then you should be interested in who is using those tools.
With that in mind, I set out to find some statistics on who, exactly, is […]
By Laura Spencer -- 9 comments
June 10th, 2008
(www.businessandblogging.com) Last month the microblogging tool, Twitter, was the latest and greatest new social media toy tool. But lately Twitter has been plagued with error messages like the following one that I encountered recently:
“Twitter is currently down for We are quickly fixing some discrepancies across our webserves. Coming right back!.”
Frustrated Twitter users have been searching […]
By Laura Spencer -- 9 comments
August 21st, 2007
On Sarah Lewis’ new WordPress QuickStart site there is a set of excellent videos to help even the most non-technical person get up and running with a WordPress site.
Sarah is a blog developer and one of my co-moderators on the LinkedIn Bloggers forum.
Note that the site is about installing a downloadable WordPress.org site, not a […]
By Des Walsh -- 4 comments
July 21st, 2007
For anyone who wants an up-to-the-minute briefing on blogging as seen in a WordPress world, the WordCamp 2007 event in San Francisco is being live-blogged by several bloggers.
Among others, there are posts by Tris Hussey on the BlogWorld & New Media Expo blog and his own A View From the Isle site.
Stephanie Booth has extensive […]
By Des Walsh -- 2 comments
June 21st, 2007
One of the challenges with a lot of the WordPress themes I check out is that while they look very nice from a “pure design” (if there is such a thing) viewpoint, they are often not going to be easily adaptable to how a range of small businesses may want to present themselves online.
Sure, there […]
By Des Walsh -- 4 comments
June 21st, 2007
There’s a silly song some of us used to sing in years gone by:
There was an old man named Michael Finnegan
He had whiskers on his chinnegan
They fell out and then grew in again
Poor old Michael Finnegan
Begin again.
And I suspect my quoting just that first verse will for some readers today mean the rest of […]
By Des Walsh -- 3 comments
June 20th, 2007
When I first started to learn about the WordPress blogging platform, it took me a while to work out that what most people would call elsewhere a template for a website or blog is known in WordPress Land as a theme.
WordPress explain the theme terminology this way:
Fundamentally, the WordPress Theme system is a way to […]
By Des Walsh -- 1 comment
June 6th, 2007
While the focus of this blog is on how businesses can use blogging - and other social media - as part of their general business operation, rather than primarily as a direct income source, it is important for business bloggers to know what tools are available to assist in generating income via a blog.
For WordPress […]
By Des Walsh -- 0 comments
April 19th, 2007
As more and more businesses establish blogs and as the mainstream media carry articles about business blogs, it is becoming much less of a challenge for me to help business owners understand why a blog might be good for their business.
But one issue that I find comes up a lot is that of finding the […]
By Des Walsh -- 3 comments
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