Business Blogging Tips & Web 2.0 Strategies

Posted on : August 14, 2008
Benefits of Website Language Translation Buttons
	Â Â The World Wide Web was originally mostly a tool for the Western world and English speaking people. That's been rapidly changing in recent years; English will soon no longer be the predominant primary language of Internet users and web page translation is becoming a increasingly important strategy in web site marketing. While over 350 million people speak English as their first language and it's estimated somewhere around the same have English as a second language (and to varying degrees of proficiency); given that the global Internet population is now over 1 billion and rapidly climbing in Non-English speaking regions; that's a huge number of people and potential customers who may not be able to read your site. It's interesting to note that as of the end of 2006; Asia had more Internet users than the USA! A client the other day, who is a plumber in Chicago, asked me, "What do I care if someone in Asia can or can not read my blog? They're not a customer anyways?" - You have to look at the BIG PICTURE.Â ROIÂ does not always come in the form of a customer hiring you.Â Perhaps a foreign magazine see's you as an expert, and wants a quote from you.Â Â I had someone from France, who only spoke French, contact me about an image on my site. Turns out, I owned the image. And he wanted to buy the rights to use that image in a brochure he is developing.Â You never know where the ROIÂ will come from. Here's something you might not have considered and perhaps a very important motivator for having your web site translated into different languages. If you translate a page into a different language; search engines see it as a totally separate page; so it's another ticket in the search engine lottery. Your 20 page site translated into 7 languages suddenly becomes a 140 page site casting a net to a broader audience. So, a multi language site will not only bring more visitors to your sites, but the number of pages that show up in the SERPs will increase as well. Yahoo/BabelÂ andÂ GoogleÂ both haveÂ easy-to-installÂ codes to create a language button for your site. ...»

SHIFT Happens in SEO and Web 2.0, Everyday
	Being inÂ this businessÂ since 2005, we have seen a lot of growth and change! The cheese is being moved all of the time and you can't rest on your laurels for a minute! Over the years, we have prided ourselves on gettingÂ ourÂ 20 sites and our clients sites, on Page one of Google for THOUSANDS of keywords. And we teach clients how they can do they same for their business keywords they are trying to capture. Google, and the rest of them though, are always changing the rules of the game. And last fall one of my most popular sites on travel, fell off Page one for it'sÂ main keyword. We had no idea why. We had been on Page for 3 years. We tried everything. We talked to people all around the world and got 100 different answers.Â Nothing worked.Â After 7 months in limbo, thankfully,Â our site is back one Page one for it's primary keyword. But will it stay this time? Who knows. The landscape is continually changing. And when changes happen, the result shift in rankings can be huge. The new partnership between BING and YAHOO will surely impact GOOGLE and will no doubt impact search, across the board. There is a great article this month in WEBSITE Magazine . It talks about search basics, social media, feeds and local search as well.Â Â It's a great FREE Magazine everyone should be reading. Please feel free to share your thoughts and comments on SEO nightmares you have experienced. DerrickÂ Sorles *MichaelÂ Snell and Derrick SorlesÂ Â* Web 2.0 and Social Media Strategies ...»

Best Blogging Tip Ever
	People often ask me what is the ONE BEST BLOGGING TIP you can offer?Â My answer:Â PATIENCE.Â Â You keep at it and keep putting in the work, IT WILL PAY OFF in some way.Â The rewards can come in various forms.Â But it will pay off if you put in the hours and do it right. Marketing guru Seth Godin once said, "Be patient. Do good work, keep doing good work and then do more good work. That'll pay off." Â ...»

Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Social Media Have You STRESSED OUT?! Get Over It!
	We wereÂ on a press/mediaÂ trip last week to Las Vegas, and the schedule was soÂ JAM PACKED I had almost no time to check e-mails, or anything else for 5 days.Â For us, that is HUGE.Â Â We touch aboutÂ 200Â emailsÂ aÂ day.Â So imagineÂ coming homeÂ toÂ nearlyÂ 900Â emails,Â 22 phone calls,Â 98 LinkedIn requests, and 589Â FacebookÂ requests!Â YIKES! Someone said to me on the trip, "I can' barely keep up with e-mails and voice-mails at work - how do people find time for all this other crap?!" If you can't do it yourself, have someone do it for you. Unfortunately, we still do it all ourselves. But you don't have to.Â Find an intern. Hire us. Hire someone.Â It's a crucial part of new business development today.Â We have been telling people forÂ 4Â years, you better get blogging and you better understand Social Media's impact on your bottom line, fast.Â Now we tell themÂ theyÂ have to have aÂ LinkedIn accountÂ andÂ probablyÂ aÂ FaceBookÂ fan page, and possiblyÂ evenÂ Twitter. The world isÂ FLAT and the rules of the game have changed.Â You MUST takeÂ advantage of these tools. Trust me, you competition is! We have had 3 clients hire us to help manage their Social Media and WebÂ presence in the last month. Even if you can only afford a few hours a month. The investment is well worth it long term. FINDABILITY. You have be found online. Print does not work anymore. 80% of the world searches online for the information the need. If you can't be found, how are they supposed to call you? You need to be out there on the Web and finding a way to make it all Â work for you! DerrickÂ Sorles *MichaelÂ Snell and Derrick SorlesÂ Â* Web 2.0 and Social Media Strategies ...»

Adam Bouska and the NOH8 Campaign and the Power of Social Media Groups
	Photographer ADAM BOUSKA became a LGBT activist quite by accident. He calls it "accidental activism". Gosh, he has come a long way in the 6 years we have known him! We met Adam in 2003. He was living here in the suburbs of Chicago and had just graduated college where he studied Computer Science. Being a photographer myself, I was always on the lookout for fresh new young talent. I met Adam and asked him to pose for me. During the shoot, he confided that Computer Science was not really his passion. And though he was dabbling with modeling, it was the art of photography that really intrigued him. It was also at this time we were delving into computer science and blogging and social media. Shortly afterwords, Adam moved to Southern Californina. We stayed in touch now and then through MySpace and watched as his young budding career began to blossom. It didn't take long and his name was sprouting up everywhere! In November 2008, Proposition 8 in California happened. California wanted to put a stop to the idea of gay marriage. The defeat of Prop 8 provoked a groundswell of activism within the LGBTQ community and many new political and protest organizations were formed in response to the defeat. It was like Stonewall was happening again! Adam, his partner Jeff Parshley and some friends attended the Prop 8 rallies in Los Angeles. Afterwords, they got so emotionally stirred they knew they wanted to do something, to make some kind of statement. He and a dozen friends went to the store and bought some paints and duct tape, went back to his apartment and shot photos. Using photography as his voice, Adam placed tape over their mouths and painted the now famous NOH8 on their cheeks, and the next day posted their images to MySpace and Facebook, to demonstrate their silent protest. Before he knew it, a dozen more friends wanted to do the same thing . Adam shot more photos and those friends also posted them online. The next month 30 of their friends wanted the same photos! It started to grow exponentially. In the 6 months that followed it exploded and nearly 500 people had been photographed and pictures were flooding the Internet. VIRAL MARKETING IN ACTION! And it was not even planned! Soon celebrities want to join in and show their support. To date, 3,000+ faces have been shot by Adam and his team for the NOH8 Campaign. The campaign began with portraits of everyday Californians from all walks of life and soon rose to include politicians, military personnel, newlyweds, law enforcement, artists, celebrities, and many more. Cindy McCain, wife of former Presidential candidate Senator John McCain, was even photographed by Adam, speaking out on behalf of gay marriage rights as part of a popular ongoing photo campaign. "Cindy McCain wanted to participate in the campaign to show people that party doesn't matter "“ marriage equality isn't a Republican issue any more than it is a Democratic issue. It's about human rights, and everybody being treated equally in the eyes of the law that runs and protects this country." The NOH8 Campaign has received overwhelming support from around the world, appearing on various local and national news programs and publications. The images are currently being used on various social networking sites to spread the message of equality, predominantly Facebook and Twitter. Eventually the images are expected to be compiled for a large-scale media campaign. The group just shot their 3rd PSA. There has been talks of billboards, possible calendar, coffee table books and even a documentary. Just last month the team shot 500 people in 5 hours in New York City. Adam hopes to tour major cities soon, doing more open shoots and spreading the message across the country. Thanks to the power of Social Media and the interconnectedness of the Internet these days, we can make a statement about who we are and show the world our messages. Whatever those messages may be. Internet Marketing is WHERE YOU NEED YO BE. Print is so last century! THE NOH8 store online has t-shirts, bumper stickers, tattoos and my favorite, THE BRACELET! Funds raised by the NOH8 Campaign will be used to continue promoting and raising awareness for Marriage Equality and anti-discrimination on a global level through an educational and interactive media campaign. Adam Bouska Adam Bouska MySpace Adam Bouska FaceBook http://twitter.com/bouska NOH8 CAMPAIGN NOH8 NEWS BLOG Michael Snell and Derrick Sorles Web 2.0 and Social Media Strategies ...»

A Few Blog Tools For You To Try
	Pinging your site really isn't necessary these days. However, if your site is coming up poor in search engines and maybe you want to try to give it a boost, this certainly can't hurt. FEED SHARK will ping your site on command and send out pings to about 2 dozen sites. Want to make sure your RSS FEED is working properly? Use W3C Feed Validator. They also make a good LINK CHECKER which can check your links and anchors. Copyscape "“ allows you to track down other sites that are stealing your content. Only Wire "“ a bookmarklet that submits posts to multiple social bookmarking sites at once. Make sure that you join Google Webmaster Central - they have lots of tools there and some tips for quality guidelines you should be following. ...»

Blogging For Profit and Money is Being Looked at by FTC
	Many online publishers have been able to turn their hobby/passion into a small business. Once you have a following and good search engine rankings, many companies will start coming to you with press releases and offers to be featured on your site. They want to reach your readers. Some will even pay to advertise on your site. We get hundreds of press releases each month. Businesses wanting to be featured on our sites. It's just like a magazine or any other publication. Free things are given all the time, with the hopes the writer or publication will write about the product. But now the FTC wants disclaimers ran. The FTC has always looked very hard at product advertising and the claims that are made. "I lost 50 pounds using Fat - BeGone!" Now comes a big can of confusing worms! Now it is being stated that bloggers who get freebies and perks and cash incentives for reviews, are being looked at with the same scrutiny and the reviews are legally classified as advertising. The paid reviews are supposed to adhere to the same laws as other types of advertising, including the existing legislation against "false and misleading claims." - But when I read the documents from the FTC, I believe this means, if the reviewer is giving the product a personal positive endoresment and making certain claims, it must be disclosed if money and/or free goods were exchanged. But it is very confusing. So I called Betsy Lordon in Public Affairs, who asked me to submit my questions by email, which I did, twice, and no one has answered them. It's been 45 days! Bloggers and writers who do reviews should look closely at the FTC document and there are a couple phone numbers listed below as well. I think the biggest caution is for the writer to be careful not to make claims that can not be verified. Does this apply to personal opinions? The FTC document does not really say. If a restaurant gives me a free dinner to review them, and I say they have the best Tiramisu in Chicago! And I think they do! Does that require disclosure of the free meal I was given? Do movie critics who get to see movies at free press screeenings, disclose they got in for free? I don't see the NY TImes book reviewers disclosing that they got free books to review. And what if it's a bad review? Do we still have to disclose anything at all?? To stay compliant with the new FTC paid blogging regulations, bloggers are now supposed to disclose when they get paid to write and review about a specific item as well as keeping their paid post in compliance with product advertising laws. So that means we need to, allegedly, include a small disclaimer somewhere within the blog post about our relationship with the product/advertiser. Read moreabout FTC RULES Contacts - Betsy Lordon @ Public Affirs 202-326-3707 Richard Cleland @ Consumer Protection 202-326-3088 Derrick Sorles Web 2.0 and Social Media Consultant / Strategist ...»

Tonys Crispy Crust Pizza and Social Media
	This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Tony's Pizza. All opinions are 100% mine. PIZZA? On a Business Blogging Site? You are probably asking, what's this all about?! As the power of Social Media grows, everyone is trying new ways to reach their public. We have been a member of Social Spark for some time. We were contacted recently and asked if we wanted to have some new Tonys Crispy Crust in the office to try and review, and I said SURE! We love Pizza! So yesterday we picked up three (of the reasonably priced) frozen pizza's. Tony's new CRISPY CRUST Cheese, Pepperoni and Supreme, and sampled them all. The new crisp crust is baked, which I love, and has zero trans-fat. It's a new odd, smaller shape, than the traditional 12" pizza's you might be used to. Most 12" pizza's you buy in the frozen foods run about 15 ounces. This new shape is 8.5" and about 9-10 ounces. And priced right. About $2 at most stores. LOOKS - Like MOST foods, the inside product NEVER looks like the real product. Could have used more cheese. 1 out 5 TASTE - I like the crust - And we all liked the flavors. I thought it would be crispier however. I prefer thinner and crisp as opposed to heavier and thicker. Overall 2.5 out of 5 OVERALL - I would it average. But I rate almost all frozen pizzas average. For the price, a couple bucks, I think it makes a good kids pizza. For adults, I think we want more. But to get more, you have to pay more. So at the end of the day, I would give them a 3 out of 5. Tony's Pizza Derrick Sorles Business Blogging Consultants Web 2.0 and Social Media Strategies ...»

Betty White - Facebook - and The Power of Social Media
	I work in Social Media 10 hours a day, 6.5 days a week. I GET IT! But a lot of people under-estimate the power of the people. There are still many businesses that have not tapped into the power of the Web 2.0 and Social Media Networks. When a recent grassroots campaign involved both Facebook and a beloved Golden Girl, the scope of its influence cannot be underestimated. A couple months ago, someone on Facebook started a campaign to get the 88-year old Betty White a spot on SNL. People laughed. Even she laughed! "I don't even know where that came from," says White, "That just came out of left field. It's ridiculous. I don't think ['SNL' creator and producer] Lorne Michaels even knows about it, so we won't worry about it." Today, sources say Saturday Night Live is thisclose to signing TV legend Betty White to host the show for the very first time. But she would not have to host it alone. We hear SNL is putting together a "Women of Comedy" episode that would team White with several of her younger contemporaries. Ex-SNL MVP Molly Shannon is on board, we hear, and feelers have also been put out to Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. (An NBC spokesperson insists no one has been confirmed at this time.) This tag-team approach will allow Lorne Michaels to appease White-on-SNL zealots (half a million and counting!) without making the 88-year-old shoulder the burden of all 90 minutes on her own. This is the power of Social Media at work! Derrick Sorles Web 2.0 and Social Media Strategist ...»

10 Stages of Web 2.0 and Social Media Growth
	What is the secret to being found? to the Web 2.0? to Social Media? There is no ONE secret! It's many pieces of a pie. And if you only have a website for your business, you only have one tiny piece. You need many more pieces! This graphic is not a great visual but it does show a variety of pieces to be considered. There was also a great article on Mashable this week by Brian Solis. We have been preaching this for 4 years now - and Brian think's the time is right. "At last, 2010 is expected to be the year that social media goes mainstream for business. In speaking with many executives and entrepreneurs, I've noticed that the path towards new media enlightenment often hinges on corporate culture and specific marketplace conditions. Full social media integration often happens in stages "” it's an evolutionary process for companies and consumers alike." We often refer to the process of staging a big broadway show. It's done in steps and is a slow growth process, to reach the finish line. He does a great job of outling the ten most common stages that businesses experience as they travel the road to full social media integration. It's takes time. It does not happen overnight. But you simply MUST be a part of this new world or your business will be left behind the dust. There is a great distance between where you are today, and where you need to be. Read Brians full article outlining the 10 stages of growth. Derrick Sorles Blog, Web 2.0, and Social Media Consultant ...»

Trademarkia Provides Advanced Trademark Search For FREE
	This may seem a little off topic but I'm sharing this because I know many readers are small business owners and or some of you may be planning to launch a business in 2010 and I've found this an extremely useful resource in the business building BS we've been dealing with in our Gay Travel Online Publishing. It's easy to search patents on the Internet, but trademarks are still lost in government websites that are not particularly search-friendly.Trademarkia makes trademark search a breeze. Trademarkia let's you search all U.S. trademarks filed since 1870, including dead trademarks. The company has scans of all the marks and returns results in a very appealing visual grid. You can search by company, theme, product category, or even filing attorney. Companies can also file a trademark with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office through the site. Trademarkia is an excellent resource for anyone researching trademarks, companies getting ready to file a trademark, or even product and brand logo designers. It operates much like a domain registrar like GoDaddy. Instead of searching for available domain URLs, you search for trademarks, and if they are available, you can register them for a fee. On Trademarkia, for example, you can search all trademarks with a certain image you may want to use to make sure you are not duplicating someone else's trademark. You can search for dead trademarks as well, and if you like one, you can register it for $159. You can also can look at all trademarks registered to a company, or sort them to see just the trademarks the company has allowed to expire making them currently available! Derrick Sorles Web 2.0 Consultant and Social Media Marketing Strategist Derrick Sorles and Michael Snell - We Help "Pull" New Business To You! Your Business MD's - Business Blog Consultants and Internet Marketers ...»

Web Analytics Showdown: Woopra vs. Google Analytics
	We have actually used WOOPRA for the last 1 1/2 years, as part of their Beta test program. I loved it. It's a great analytics tool and gave me real time live information about my visitors and the opportunity to even start a live chat with them, while they were on my site! Woopra is the world's most comprehensive, information rich, easy to use, real-time Web tracking and analysis application. Pretty cool stuff. But now that they have come out of Beta, it comes with a price tag. Whereas Google is all free. Guest Author DANIEL FOSTER from Royal Pingdom did an article recently about the two services. "Google Analytics blows Woopra out of the water where cost is concerned. GA is free for anyone with a Google account and will track a large number of page views for up to 50 sites. When I started using Woopra six months ago, it was in beta and free for testers. Halfway through writing this review, however, the developer released it for general use and modified the price structure. A free version is still available, but with major limitations. Freebie accounts are restricted to 30,000 page views a month and data is only stored for 3 months. Small text ads appear at the bottom of the client. For $4.95 a month, the limit is upped to 100,000 page views and ads are removed. Considering that Woopra updates in real-time and offers such a great user experience, I would be willing to pay this fee if only for one thing: data is retained for only 6 months. Pricier plans store data longer, but even the $49.95 Platinum plan, which tracks 1.25 million page views a month, only keeps statistics for 24 months. Considering the low cost of storage and the importance of long-term visitor data, this is unacceptable. The limitation can be bypassed by manually exporting data, but this is tedious and forces the user to keep track of the files. While not as streamlined as Woopra, Google Analytics stores data forever at no charge." Read his full article on WOOPRA VS GOOGLE ANALYTICS Derrick Sorles Business Blog Consulting, Web 2.0 and Social Media Strategists ...»

Compressing Photos and Saving Images for the Web
	While we are all painfully aware Google will not divulge their recipe for a site's success, we do hear about bits and pieces that are leaked, and make sense to follow. People often ask us, what can I do to get my site ranked higher in search? The reality is it is 101 different little things. Hopefully you have a Google account and use their Analytics and Feedburner and countless other free tools like the WEBMASTER GUIDELINES. The Guidelines provide a lot of common sense tips that is worth reading annually, to make sure you are doing your best, so that Google gives you the proper treatment when it comes to ranking your site. Recently I realized I was not compressing my photos and images for the web. A habit I used a long time ago but go away from it, in an effort to save time. It is one extra little step, but can make a difference on how fast your page loads. And I was told Google is now factoring in LOAD TIMES to their equation of how a site is ranked. So when you use in image on your site, make sure it is compressed or saved for the web. JPG is the best choice. GIF is the second best choice, and never use BMP. If you have Windows XP there is a way to do it there - if not most photo programs like PhotoShop can do the job easily. It's one more little step. I know, but will help your site load faster and at the end of the day, it can't hurt! Derrick Sorles Web 2.0 Consultants and Strategists Derrick Sorles and Michael Snell - We Help "Pull" New Business To You! Your Business MD's - Business Blog Consultants & Internet Marketers ...»

How Important is Google Page Rank Anymore?
	Being a professional blogger for 4 years now, I have been conditioned to follow certain metrics, like Google Page Rankings. Lately however, Google is doing a lot of tweaking and revamping and peoples PR is jumping up and down like crazy. Startling news from Google Webmaster Trends Analyst Susan Moskwa now comes fourth....that Google has ditched PageRank from Webmaster Tools. "We've been telling people for a long time that they shouldn't focus on PageRank so much; many site owners seem to think it's the most important metric for them to track, which is simply not true," states Moskwa. "We removed it because we felt it was silly to tell people not to think about it, but then to show them the data, implying that they should look at it." (Source: WebProNews) SO NOW WHAT? If you work hard on your site and build it's repuation, how do you tell the real good sites from the posers? PR was a way, at a glance, to get a glimpse of a sites authority and realness. Now we just have to guess? This could be a big problem I think..... ...»

ZEMANTA - Blogging Just Got Easier and Faster
	Focus on writing the best content. Let us jazz it up for you. Simple point & click enrichment of your blog posts (and emails). In real-time, while you type. They suggest tags, links, photos, related articles, and more! How much easier can it get?! With ZEMANTA, you download a simple browser extension. When you open your blogging software, BEFORE - AFTER - it adds bars on the side and bottom to help you quickly import pre-selected images, links and tags, saving you time searching for them! Lets you quickly add Amazon links and Social Media friends as well. Of course, it does not work with EVERY blogging platform yet. But it does for most! ZEMANTA ...»

Blog Engage - Homophobic? Let the Readers Censor You!
	JUST SAY NO! To Blog Engage! We first wrote about BlogEngage in 2008. It sounded like a cool tool. But I recently found out they were censoring my gay travel submissions! My sites are not sexual in nature and quite popular with people seeking LGBT travel info. We are on page one of Google for about 3000 keyword combinations currently, have a page rank of 5, and attract over 40,000 unique readers a month from 150 countries. We also attract the attention of tourism boards worldwide as well as national advertisers. MyBlogLog, BlogCatalog, FaceBook, and many others have no problem with my sites. But apparently, some right wing homophobics keep complaining my gay travel sites are "sexual in nature" - which they are not. So as of today, I am removing all links to Blog Engage, from all of my sites that have been promoting them. You gotta love censorship, right? Michael Snell Derrick Sorles ...»

BloggerBase Can Help Find New Readers and Earn You Money
	BloggersBase provides a discovery platform for bloggers, user-generate-content and readers alike. This platform takes the form of an online magazine spanning various topics, each implemented as a multi-authored blog, moderated by algorithm-enhanced crowd wisdom. Their magazine introduces a brand new concept of citizen-journalism, using powerful analytics and unique algorithms. Bloggers - your audience is here! Get discovered & monetize on your talent on BloggersBase! Compete and become a part of an exclusive club of elite professional bloggers! Readers - Find high quality content that interests YOU to read and watch! Make a difference by ranking and controlling the content that gets exposed! Earn recognition for your expertise and gain social status! CHECK IT OUT! BLOGGER BASE ...»

Free How to Do Social Media Marketing Webinar with Chris Abraham and Sally Falkow
	Sorry for the short notice. Sally Falkow and Chris Abraham are going to co-present a free webinar tomorrow, Thursday, May 14, on the subject of digital PR, social media marketing, and blogger relations. This event is at 1PM Eastern time and 10AM Pacific time and you need to register in advance. How to Do Social Media Marketing: Bloggers, Social Networks, Metrics, and More Hear Sally Falkow of Expansion Plus and Chris Abraham of Abraham Harrison talk about the best practices in social media marketing. Not only is social media marketing the hottest thing in marketing, it may well also be the most effective marketing tool available to anyone doing any form of outreach.The meteoric rise of twitter and the slower but just as large groundswell of blogging have combined to shake communications of all kinds to the core. But social media marketing isn't monolithic and it covers a lot of ground. There is no one-size-fits-all solution. But there are best practices, there are tools and tricks and techniques to achieve greater success. Sign up for this webinar to find out how to: ~ use twitter wisely and well ~ reach out effectively to bloggers ~ drive success with social networks ~ combine fronts to multiply your success ~ get your audience to help you reach out ~ measure and understand your success (and failure) ~ Plus many more techniques to help you master social media Speakers Sally Falkow is a veteran of the PR industry. She has since translated her experience in marketing, PR and communication to the Internet. Her main interest is in the shift in media consumption and how new technology is affecting the practice of public relations. Sally is the author of the Proactive Report and co-developer of PRESSfeed, a social media tool for PR and marketing professionals. Chris Abraham, President and COO of Abraham Harrison, is a leading expert in online public relations with a focus on blogger outreach, blogger engagement, and Internet reputation management. Chris is a pioneer in online social networks and publishing, and specializes in web2.0 technologies, including content syndication, online collaboration, blogging, and consumer generated media. This webinar will take place live on Thursday May 14th at 1 PM EST and 10AM PST. It will include audience participation and will be recorded and made available on demand within two days. Register now! ...»

Business Blogging Consultants on Business Consulting Buzz!
	Last week I was approached by BUSINESS CONSULTING BUZZ to be a guest writer on their site. BCB is your one-stop resource center for everything consulting. Whether you're just starting out, been in the business for a couple of years, are a consulting veteran, or a company looking for information on how to hire good consultants, this is the website for you. Mike and Sam (or the "Zipursky cousins" as they are often called), created this website with the goal to provide an arsenal of knowledge to take your consulting business or career to the next level and beyond. Stop by and see them and read my post! Derrick Sorles Web 2.0 Consultants and Strategists Derrick Sorles and Michael Snell - We Help "Pull" New Business To You! Your Business MD's - Business Blog Consultants & Internet Marketers ...»

BuddyPress and WordPress - Social Networking 3.0?
	What if there was software with the elegance and extensibility of WordPress but all the features you've come to expect from social networks like Facebook? Now there is: check out BuddyPress. BuddyPress is an official sister project of WordPress. The idea behind it was to see what would happen to the web if it was as easy for anyone to create a social network as it is to create a blog today. There's been an explosion of social activity on the web, it's probably the most important trend of the past few years, but there's been a dearth of Open Source tools that enable the social web. In WordPress we have a robust and extensible base that can scale to many millions of users, and BuddyPress is essentially a set of plugins on top of WordPress that add private messaging, profiles, friends, groups, activity streams, and everything else you've come to expect from your favorite social network, like a Facebook-in-a-box. This is just a 1.0 release and it's not for everybody yet, for example it currently requires using MU which is a bit trickier to get set up than regular WordPress, which is tricky in itself! Yeah, call me when 3.0 is ready! I need easy! ...»

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