What the blogosphere has to say about blogging

Blogs are an excellent source of information. Below are some links to blog posts that you may want to check out.

How Blogs Will Merge with Other Types of Websites in 2007Chris asks Is 2007 the year for Blog Communities in the wake of a number of blogs adding forums to their blogs in recent times.I’m not sure it’s the year of ‘blog communities’ as such - but I definitely think it’s the year that we’ll increasingly see blogs merging with and becoming more integrated with […]

The Rules Behind Creating a Great BlogSo in your quest to dominate your corner of the blogosphere, you might be wonder about higher order questions. How does one blog? What are the ?rules? behind creating a great blog? Is there anything universal that connects the very stuff behind the truly great blogs irrespective of their content? What does a great science […]

WordPress Plugin: WordPress Ultimate Gamer?s PackIf you are looking to show off your WordPress blog to all the people now browsing on smaller screens, you might want to check out the compilation made by David Harper who has added three plug-ins to one zip file for us all to use called the WordPress Ultimate Gamer’s Pack.Those plug-ins include:Wordpress Wii Edition […]

How To Find News For Your BlogTony, continuing to blog for Darren Rowse on Problogger.net has put up another great common sense post. This time talking about how to find news for your blog, something that many of us struggle with, especially on slower days.He mentions feeds, services, and sites you can go to for finding the latest news, but misses […]

Tracking your blog statisticsIf you are serious about developing your blog for your business then the likelihood is that you will be keeping a keen eye on tracking visitors to your site, seeing which posts are attracting most interest and which keywords are being used to find you.There are a number of tools of the market which can […]

Better Business Blogging: Top posts in 2006As we now approach the end of 2006 and we also near the first anniversary of Better Business Blogging, I thought that it would be appropriate to look back and highlight some of the most popular posts from this year.Thanks to you, the readers of this blog, I’ve been able to look back and have […]

Getting the best out of PermalinksPermalinks are key to blogs - they let us find the posts that we are looking for and allow us to link to them. Every post and page has a permalink which is created automatically for it but we do have the option of ?improving? them to really get them working for us.Since they are […]

Blogging ScholarshipIf you are currently a student who blogs you can enter for a $5000 scholarship thanks to Scholarships Around The USA.We’re giving away $5,000 this year to a college student who blogs. Our scholarship is awarded annually.You have to write a 300 word maximum application essay about blogging to be considered. Yet another good reason […]

Have I disappeared?Well no, I’m pleased to say - though quite clearly it has been quiet here over the past few weeks.The reason for this is that I am currently redesigning the Blog Coach site ready for a proper launch which will take place in mid December just before we get into the Christmas rush. I’m continuing […]

Finding a Domain name for your BlogIf you have decided to set up a Business Blog which will be separate to your main company website, then part of your planning process will be to select and buy a domain name for it.In some cases, this is a very simple process but if you are in any way unsure, then there are […]

How to Add Screencasts to Your Blog PostsWhy would you want to do this?The traditional way to add a screencast to a webpage is to have link that opens a new window, which gets the job done, but it just isn’t a unified of an experience for the user as I would like and I don’t like endlessly spawning new windows […]