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Edublogs Campus: Bringing Blogs to Schools
via The Blog Herald by Lorelle VanFossen on January 24, 2008
I worked on my school newspaper. Didn’t you? Many bloggers got their first taste of joy in writing while working on a newspaper or newsletter at school. Imagine what your education would have been like if your school newspaper was a blog?James Farmer of Edublogs is bringing blogs to the schools, and his new Edublogs Campus might be the next school newspaper and more.Edublogs, the popular free...
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Introduction to the world of Blog Consulting
via The Blog Herald by David Krug on January 25, 2008
A lot of people ask me about my history of flipping websites one of the amazing things about ‘flipping websites’ is that it’s given me amazing experience into building a successful blog, although a lot has changed in the last year or two as far as what it takes to really take things to the next level. I’m going to take you through the process of development to execution on a blog...
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Business owners give five reasons they believe their blogs fail
via The Blog Herald by Andy Merrett on February 05, 2008
The Blog Squad surveyed a number of business professionals who had abandoned or lost interest in their blogs, to find out the key reasons they felt the blog had failed.The top five reasons given were:1. Not enough comments were left by visitors2. Not enough subscribers3. No increase in traffic to their main website4. Difficult to come up with fresh new content for the blog every week5. Couldn’t...
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Science bloggers debate need for code of conduct
via The Blog Herald by Andy Merrett on January 21, 2008
Attendees at the North Carolina Science Blogging Conference have been discussing whether there is a need for a code of conduct amongst science bloggers, which may include elements such as conflicts of interest disclosures, comment moderation, and protection of anonymous colleagues.The first session of the second annual event was led by Janet Stemwedel. According to Ivan Oransky, who atte
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The Blogosphere is Defined By Technology
via The Blog Herald by Anne Helmond on January 21, 2008
Chris Garrett wrote in ‘Why Blogging is Not About Technology‘ that instead of focusing on technology we should focus on people. Kevin added in the comments that blogging is about sharing information and Lorelle VanFossen added that blogging is about (reader)
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WordPress Wednesday News: Happy Birthday WordPress, Automattic Wins and Gets Lots of Money, Security Concerns Over Plugins and Core, WordCamp Hambug and Hating the Name WordPress.com
via The Blog Herald by Lorelle VanFossen on January 24, 2008
Happy Birthday, WordPress! WordPress.com and Toni Schneider win! Venture capitalists throw money at WordPress and Automattic. WordPress Plugin concerns raise their heads. Security and WordPress - becoming an issue? WordPress.com bloggers get 3 gigs. WordCamp Hamburg is this weekend. And we don’t like the WordPress.com name.WordPress NewsWordPress.com Wins!WordPress.com and Automattic won at the...
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Skipping 2.4: How to Make Things More Complicated in the WordPress Community
via The Blog Herald by Thord Daniel Hedengren on January 24, 2008
By now I reckon everyone knows that the next version of WordPress is 2.5, right? I mean. Lorelle does a great job serving up the news here at The Blog Herald, you can’t expect a better update than that, seriously. So you all know, 2.4 is skipped, right?No?Well, maybe the people e-mailing me, asking me on various IM networks and whatnot isn’t readers of The Blog Herald, but some at least...
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Prologue Theme For WordPress is it a Twitter Killer?
via The Blog Herald by David Krug on January 29, 2008
Matt and team at Automattic have release Prologue Theme for WordPress, a WordPress theme designed to be a localized version of a simple messaging service like Twitter. Seems to be a lot of talk about it over on TechMeme. I’m thinking this could be very useful for teams and internal communications within companies where you don’t want people to publishing stuff to the general public but need...
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Former probloggers looking for work?
via The Blog Herald by David Krug on January 28, 2008
Have you ever needed to retreat back to the world of working after you’ve been a problogger? Fortunately I haven’t but I have a few friends who have lately. Luckily it’s not the end of the world. They have amazingly marketable skills and they just need a hand up. A new company called Standout Jobs is looking to help faciliate web 2.0 companies looking to fill job slots and revolutionize the...
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