Almost Live From Blog World Expo – Tilly Mclain Community Manager MyBlogLog

October 6, 2008 :: Shashi Bellamkonda

I recently had a chance to interview Tilly McLain, the community manager with MyBlogLog. She is the first friend you have on MyBlogLog, so she is the equivalent of Tom on MySpace. MyBlogLog is a social network for bloggers that tracks who is coming to your blog and uses its popular widget to see who [...]


Almost Live from Blog World Expo : Sarah Carr of Mindtouch.com

October 3, 2008 :: Shashi Bellamkonda

MindTouch is an open source Wiki solution, but make no mistake, they are a serious company with a for-profit business model that has produced one of the top Wiki products out on the market today. I personally have done many Wiki implementations and I can tell you that MindTouch is easy to install, configure and [...]


Live From Blog World Expo : Nansen and Brett Malin mrdatacorp.com

October 2, 2008 :: Shashi Bellamkonda

Nansen and Bret are fans of Network Solutions and are great examples of small business customers that we treasure so much. MR Data Corporation is a firm specializing in the data processing of market research and public opinion survey information. They provide a full range of processing services, including coding, data entry, word processing, cross [...]


Almost Live from Blog World Expo : Katie Lewis of TechSmith : Jing and Snag-it

October 1, 2008 :: Shashi Bellamkonda

TechSmith is a software company that offers an array of products like Camtasia which is perfect for doing screencasts. They also offer Snag-It which is a way to do a screen grab and send it someone in order to communicate what you are talking about. This is incredibly valuable for IT support and for bloggers [...]


Shifting your blog from a hobby to a business

September 25, 2008 :: cbensen

Last weekend I attended a number of sessions at BlogWorld Expo. One that was particularly interesting was How to take your blog to the next level. The panel each had five minutes to share their tips:
Chris Brogan had some great ideas about using the innate abilities of the blog:
- use the comments for lead generation [...]