The News Review:
- What Is the Right Blogging Software for My Needs?
- Blogging courses gain momentum
- Why the brave new world of blogging isn’t all good news
- FreelanceBlogger.net Launched to Help Displaced Writers, Bloggers …
- Twingr.com Offers Micro Blogging Communities
- The Latest Report “Blogging and Other Social Media” Offers …
- TheMoneyBlogs.com Re-Launches with Extensive List of Expert …
What Is the Right Blogging Software for My Needs?
New York Times, United States
comPublished: November 17, 2008 These days there are two basic types of blogging packages: those that host your blog on their servers, and those that require you to host it on your own server. Services that will host your blog tend to be more user-friendly but are generally less flexible. Today’s three main hosted blogging services are.
Blogging courses gain momentum
Waterloo Record, Canada
“It’s part of our public profile: how are you represented on the net?” says Gary Shilling, who will teach a weekend course next April about blogging and social media at B. ’s Simon Fraser University. “It used to be, ‘Do you have a fax machine?’ and then it was, ‘Do you have an e-mail address?’ And now it’s, ‘Do you have a blog or do you have any videos up on YouTube?’ It’s become part of our social fabric.
Why the brave new world of blogging isn’t all good news
Sunday Herald, UK
In the US, influential bloggers such as Arianna Huffington have made the online Huffington Post a must-read for those in American political circles, while the Drudge Report has consistently broken great exclusives, including the news that Prince Harry was serving in Afghanistan. Blogging has become the new citizen journalism putting large corporations on the spot. And while YouTube and Bebo can make you an overnight celebrity, being an authoritative blogger brings intellectual kudos. This is the 21st-century digital world we live in.
FreelanceBlogger.net Launched to Help Displaced Writers, Bloggers …
PR Web (press release), WA
net launched on October 10, 2008 as a response to the growing number of displaced writers and bloggers seeking work after losing their full-time job. Founder Genia Stevens says, "Initially, I started the. But, after noticing how many other displaced writers were seeking work, I decided I wasn't the only one who needed assistance.
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Twingr.com Offers Micro Blogging Communities
MarketWatch
com, a web application
that lets people create their own micro-blogging communities. com is a very easy-to-use web application that will let anyone
create a micro blogging group, community, or network,” said Pepe Amorin, VP
Marketing of Startups. com Network, “We felt there was a ready demand for such
an application, yet no one was covering it. There was likewise a growing need
within our company. Using the most popular micro blogging networks out there,
we thought it would be great to have one of our own. Over time, the idea
developed and we thought about letting anyone create their own micro blogging
platform.
The Latest Report “Blogging and Other Social Media” Offers …
MarketWatch
researchandmarkets. Blogging and other types of social media such as wikis and social
networking sites have transformed the way we use the internet in recent
years. It is a transformation that business is eager to exploit. In
order to do so, a clear commercial strategy needs to be established;
does your organization wish to use the media actively as a business
tool, or do you need to respond to the use of social media by others?
Blogging and Other Social Media will address this question with
practical guidance on using social media as well as the risks associated
with it. A collaboration by leading thinkers and business users of social media,
the book contains detailed and practical advice on the various forms of
social media – their applications, advantages and disadvantages, how
these technologies are evolving, and whether or not their use will
benefit your business. The section covering social media and the law
explains the risks and remedies related to abuse of copyright,
defamation, privacy, data protection and user contracts as well as the
opportunities and threats for online reputation.
TheMoneyBlogs.com Re-Launches with Extensive List of Expert …
MarketWatch
The Connors Group also announced the initial lineup of bloggers amid the
first 200 being posted daily. Some of the bloggers include well
recognized names like Deron Wagner of Morpheus Trading, Mark Boucher,
The Finance Professor, Larry Nusbaum of Millionaire Now! and Neville
Medhora of Neville’s Financial Blog. More
bloggers are scheduled to roll out in the coming months as The Money
Blogs becomes a central location for financial blogging. “We want to cut through the noise of the
thousands of financial blogs online and bring the best minds together
all in one location,” said Nicholas Collard,
editor of The Money Blogs. “While we have
several homegrown bloggers that also write for sister site,
TradingMarkets, our focus on The Money Blogs ranges from stock
investing, venture capital, real estate to trading and entrepreneurship;
this is the home for top financial information on the web. ”
Some of the Money Blogs’ new features include
the Top Money Blog list, which sequentially ranks the most viewed
financial topics of the week. The new searchable ticker function offers
access to over 3,000 stock symbols.