Stuff you should know, stuff I should remember.

Andrea sends in this bit: [S]tart your own blog and attract top talent to your blog site. This is not an overnight marketing cure-all, and it will require some patience. But cultivating a readership of professionals in your niche field is a highly effective means of reaching candidates who would have never otherwise learned about […]

Executive summary: It is awesome. I loved it. You have to do it. Do it! If you travel the coaching circles, I bet you are worn out hearing about the 90 Day Product Factory. Too bad. I’ve gotta recommend it. There’s some folks that I automatically jump into their programs, just because it is them. […]

This from Elizabeth who saw Nightline‘s piece on blogs: Knowing that a vibrant electronic community can galvanize at the drop of a dangling modifier forces all of us to be more careful, accurate, and thorough. It’s also true that the collective effort—and expertise—of the blogging community is invaluable for bringing new information to light on […]

Thanks to everbody that has sent this in! Blog Tool Writing Its Own Story of Success

Just a quick reminder for our blogging expert call with Susannah Gardner. Full details…

(via MarketingVox) Everybody’s favorite dark-halls, dirty-sex, and club music hotel has started adverts in a blog: Their campaign can be seen until the end of February on HotelChatter.com, sending clickers over to a promotional page for spring break packages.

Mr. Graff, 23, may be the first blogger in the short history of the medium to be granted a daily White House pass for the specific purpose of writing a blog, or Web log. A White House spokesman said yesterday that he believed Mr. Graff was the first blogger to be given credentials. He is […]

While any size company can use such a strategy, small businesses may benefit most: Blogs offer little-known small businesses name Recognition, and the chance to boost traffic well beyond what they’d get if they were simply offering goods and services for sale. “It’s a new way of communicating, rather than marketing,” says Charlene Lee, an […]

Just saw this on CNN: More than three-quarters of Americans – 76 percent – said they use the Internet, but only 26 percent said they were “very familiar” or “somewhat familiar” with blogs. Just 7 percent of adults said they read blogs at least a few times per week, according to the CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll. […]

Now this is stupid: [B]loggers and news organizations could risk the wrath of the federal government if they improperly link to a campaign’s Web site. Even forwarding a political candidate’s press release to a mailing list, depending on the details, could be punished by fines. The real question is: Would a link to a candidate’s […]