The folks over at Advanced Business Blogging are doing a series called 21 Applications of Business Blogs for Small Business Growth. Over the next 21 days they will be posting a new idea about how blogging can help your business. They are going to look at 13 external applications of blogs, as well as 8... Continue Reading →
Blogging Down With OED!
A CNN report last night said that the word "blog" is now in the Oxford English Dictionary. The same report also cited that 62 percent of all Americans have never heard of a blog and wouldn't know what one was if they saw it. I wonder what percentage of that 62 percent read the OED.... Continue Reading →
Blogging and Internal Communications
Steven Cohen and Meredith Farkas have recently posted about using blogs for internal communications. At my library, we use a blog to disseminate library news, and I have a blog that I use to complement my library instruction, reference, and liaison activities. Both blogs are primarily used to communicate information to the library's public users.... Continue Reading →
Stop Following Me
The big three, Google, Yahoo!, and MSN (I bet you thought I was talking about cars) have implemented rules for NOFOLLOW. A good explanation can be found in this article from ResearchBuzz!. The article gives a pretty nice explanation of how comment spam works, as well as this current method to address the problem. Links... Continue Reading →