The Business category is used for posts which are about business, but generally not for those which are focused more on social media or coaching, many or all of which are also about business.
It was a surprise – a pleasant one I must add – to discover today that Business and Blogging, the site I launched for the b5media network, had celebrated its 2nd birthday this week. Liz Fuller and Laura Spencer, who took over from me and started posting in January this year, have done and are…
I was speaking the other day to a colleague about how blogging and social media generally had helped me build my business. He asked how long it had taken for me to get the results I have now. When I told him it had taken four years or a bit more, he went silent. We…
BlogWorld Expo Keynote by Richard Jalichandra Like some others, over the past year or two I’ve been less than impressed by Technorati’s performance. So I was frankly not overwhelmed with anticipation of the keynote address by Technorati CEO Richard Jalichandra, at last weekend’s BlogWorld and New Media Expo in Las Vegas. In the event, I…
I used to say to people that if they could write an email they could blog. Which is true as far as it goes. It is also true that once you start getting serious about blogging you start to think about incorporating still and moving images and audio. There are a lot of resources online,…
One of the most practical Web 2.0 tools I’ve seen, from the point of view of someone in business, or someone in the job market, is VisualCV. If you’ve ever wondered whether a better designed, better presented cv/resume may have helped you score an interview you thought you should get, or the opportunity to pitch…
In my previous post in this series on setting up a community site, I summarized the concept of the site I am working on, using the WordFrame platform, as being focused on social media in the geo-political region which includes China, South East Asia and Australasia. The name – Social Media East. This post is…