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View Article  Podiobooks - Serialized Audiobooks for Your Podcast Listening Pleasure
Hmmmm....interesting. Found this on Robin Mayfield's blog. Certainly is a cool idea for an iPodaholic like me. You can visit links and read about Podiobooks by visiting Robin's blog. I've already download the Earth Core novel, chapters 1 through 4. Interesting indeed...Thanks Jim for the find.   more »
View Article  Podcasting Link Roundup

Podcasting Link Roundup


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View Article  Podcasting Comes To A Smartphone Near You
Via Geek News Central:


If you a have a Microsoft Smartphone and want Podcast delivered directly to your phone check out this application: Skookum


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View Article  Adsense Workshop - Making Google Make You Money With Your Blog
Looks like my friend Darren Rouse is going to walk us through a series on how to optimize Google Adsense for increased blog profits and ad revenues. Darren certainly knows how to leverage Google Adsense as he is a six figure revenue blogger. Darren publishes some 17+ blogs and uses a combination of publishing strategies and revenue generating programs to maximum effect. Google Adsense is a speciality of his although he doesn't use Google Adsense exclusively.

Over the next few days Darren is going to do an analysis of 8 high profile blogs and provide his thoughts on how Google Adsense can be used more effectively. This should be of interest to all bloggers as we seek to improve revenue streams our blogs. Google Adsense seems to be as much art as it is science sometimes as what works on ...   more »
View Article  Audio Post - Brand Building Blogging Tips
Michael Pollock of Small Business Branding blog succinctly points out that logo's aren't really whats in important.. He makes the point that your brand identity is what people think and feel about your business.

Herein lies one of the biggest bloggers advantages and this is connecting in personally powerful ways with your target audience. By establishing deeper relationships you are able to effectively influence how people think and feel about you and your business. While I submit that investing in a branded design with your blog is not a wasted investment, realize that your connection is what will create your blog's greatest success.

This is evidence by the many, many blogs that maintain simple layouts and yet connect with and communicate successfully with a core audience. Michael points out that the logo is simply the symbol of your brand. ...   more »
View Article  Blogging Primer and 6 Tips for Corporate Bloggers
You'll want to print these off for reference...


Blogging: A Primer - a guide to the blogosphere jargon.

Six Tips for Corporate Bloggers "You can't afford to miss this wave -- and even more important, you can't afford to do it wrong."


These great finds via Build A Better Blog   more »
View Article  Conversations with Experts - Using Blogs to Help Your Search Engine Rankings
I noted last week that Wayne Hurlbert is the next guest expert in the Conversation with Experts series which is being hosted by Denise Wakeman and Patsi Krakoff of Build A Better Blog System.
 
The first two Conversations with Paul Chaney and I can both be found at http://www.buildabetterblog.com. Paul Chaney delivered a value packed conversation about The Evolution of Blogs as Business and Marketing Tools and I delivered a conversation about Blogs As Social Marketing Tools. If you missed these first two conversations be sure to give them a listen. 
 
Here's your reminder that the next conversation is this Wednesday, April 27 at 8:30 p.m. ET, featuring Wayne Hurlbert of Blog Business World.  
 
 
Here are the details:
 
Conversations with Experts: How to Build Your Business On and Off-line
Using Blogs to Help Your Search Engine ...   more »
View Article  I was a Victim of Blog & Ping Today
<RANT>
Alright it's pretty early EDT at about 2am approximately.
 
I was researching a topic for another blog I'm considering publishing. I'm searching with some of my favorite social search directories like Eurekster, Technorati, Feedster and BlogDigger.
 
Apparently I hit the search results shortly after someone blogged and pinged their pages into the blogosphere. The top results of my searches were dominated by pages that were completely useless to me. What was even more irritating is that fact that at least the top 10 results in Eurekster, Technorati and Feedster were dominated by these pages. Only BlogDigger didn't show a single one of these pages.  Feedster of course gave me the option to exclude those Blogspot.com results.
 
This person took a page generator and set up about 80 blogspot.com blogs and cranked out useless pages all pointing to ...   more »
View Article  Off Topic - Oh How I Love Mozilla FireFox...Let Me Count The Ways...
Mozilla FireFox is just plain customizable...It's all about the extensions (plug-ins) folks... It's all about the extensions...!

Here are my most used and highly recommended plug-ins for Mozilla FireFox:

1. TinyURL Creator - Oh man, this has got to be one of the most useful extensions around. Get this one and most of the other extensions at Jeremy's Mozilla Extensions

2. BlogJet This 0.4 Scroll to bottom and click the Release 0.4 link. This requires Firefox 1.0 and for those using the BlogJet desktop blog editor.

3. FoxyTunes 1.1. This one is hot if you are avid audio listener while you do your PC thing! According to the FoxyTunes site: "FoxyTunes supports many popular media players on three major platforms - Windows, Linux and Mac OS and works with all the main Mozilla products - Firefox, Thunderbird ...   more »
View Article  Business Blogging on the Rise by Inc.com
According to this article by Inc.com, business blogging is on the rise.

Blogs are a low cost and highly effective tools for solo entrepreneurs and small businesses to communicate and differentiate themselves. My friends Paul Chaney and Anita Campbell were quoted by Inc.com as saying:


"Blogs are a way for you to tell your story over and over again, and do it in a personable way. If you are blogging and your competitor down the street is not, then it can be a competitive advantage." --Paul Chaney

"Blogs are tailor-made for small businesses, and they are a better tool for them, Large businesses have to worry about what they can say in their blogs. They have to worry about SEC regulations and their different constituents, so small businesses have a better chance of making blogs work for them." --...   more »
View Article  MS Security Update via RSS as Email Update Discontinued
Via Search Engine Journal ...


Microsoft security update e-mail would will be discontinued in July. However, you can subscribe to their RSS feed. This feed delivers the headlines on major security update releases, which are usually released on the second Tuesday of each month. To subscribe, add this URL to ... Read More...


Very important for those of us who are blogging on a Windows platform. Make sure you get you get these updates to stay on top of things and keep your PC protected.   more »
View Article  Create Podcast Success - Podscope.com and other Podcast finds for Today
Okay, so I'm checking my FeedDemon RSS updates (the best RSS Reader on planet earth...actually I do have a few secondary favorites but FeedDemon is my favorite) and I happen upon a find from Scripting News about a new and innovative search engine for Podcasts called Podscope.

New Podcast Search Engine
Podscope is very unique and bleeding edge in that they are the first search engine that actually allows you to search for spoken words within any audio or video file. Er...that would mean that you would want to mention your keywords specifically within your audio and video stream for search optimization? Hmmmm...

You can read more about Podscope on their blog and FAQ pages. But make sure you go to Podscope and give it a try. You can submit your audio and video URLs here. Podscope just ...   more »
View Article  Conversation with Experts Audio Available - Social Marketing with Blogs
The call with Denise Wakeman of Build A Better Blog System was great fun. Denise was a wonderful hostess and I'm glad I got to meet her and got the opportunity to become a part of the excellent work she and Patsi are doing. The audio from the call is now available. Here are is a list of the content we covered on the call:


What social marketing is fundamentally all about.

Why a social marketing emphasis is even necessary.

How to best position your blog for social marketing success and why blogging has changed the way marketing is being conducted online.

How to establish a successful community around your products, services and brand.

Why voice and value are the key to creating successfull community and how to actually fine tune your voice your blog to effectively communicate with your ...   more »
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