Author: Sharon Sarmiento

Debbie has a quick riff on what it is going to take for more companies to start blogging. Fear is the single most important thing holding corporate America back from embracing blogging. Fear of being open, fear of a two-way conversation, fear of controlling the message, fear of the time commitment. Just makes sense. If […]

BlogSafety helps parents understand blogs and kids and the conundrums that arise.

Nielsen Buys Intelliseek.

Business Blog Consulting recently moved from TypePad to a WordPress installation. Here’s a few tweaks added to improve the blogs Googlejuice.

List of Fortune 500 companies using blogs as marketing and business practices.

I hope they get this for TypePad soon since this is a common complaint among clients I train on TypePad. NaughtyWordChars a Movable Type plugin that strips out the malodorous markup from MS Word.

Six Apart has launched their affiliate program through Commission Junction. Sadly, it isn’t recurring. 😉

Six Apart points to the scoop on South African wine brand Stormhoek using blogs to promote their wines: Around 100 bottles of the Stormhoek Shiraz 2004 and Sauvignon Blanc 2005 – which both retail at the £5-£6 mark – were sent out via blogger Hugh Macleod ….. in May 2005, in Europe only. The result, […]

Glad I found this since I’m trying to get rid of the ‘pagination’ of the category archives. Recommended solutions to this are the Perpage and Custom Query String plugins. Haven’t taken them for a spin yet in WordPress 2.0. Referenced at WordPress Support Forum.

I’m a little nuts about some TV shows. X-Files, Twin Peaks, Star Trek, The Twilight Zone, Seinfeld, The Simpsons, Lost… and of course, 24. So it with huge anticipation that Ron and I sat down to enjoy the two-night, four-hour premiere of season five of 24. I admire the writers and producers of 24 because […]