blogging for business

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Blogging for BusinessRamon Thomas

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Online Marketing

Website (static) Search Engine Optimisation Newsletter Web 2.0: Forums, Blogs, Podcasts, Video

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What type of Blogs?

News Blog Writer's Blog Our Blog

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Why Blog? Become the Expert Customer Relationships Media Relations Internal Collaboration Knowledge Management Recruitment Test ideas or products Rank high in Search Engines

* Become the Expert * Customer Relationships * Media Relations * Internal Collaboration * Knowledge Management * Recruitment * Test ideas or products * Rank high in Search Engines

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Blogosphere

Rich with Links Blogrolls Trackbacks Comments

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Top 10 Blogs Worldwide

Engadget Boing Boing Gizmodo Techcrunch Huffington Post

Lifehacker Ars Technica Daily Kos PostSecret TMZ.com

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Be Alert!

How many times does the number 2 appear in all numbers from 1 to 22?

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RSS Feeds

XML RSS Readers Feedburner.com

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TAGS

Tags Tag Clouds SEO

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Be Alert!

Please add up all numbers from 1 to 10...

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Social Bookmarking

Digg.com Muti.co.za Del.ic.ious Reddit.com StumbleUpon.com

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Break

Please take 10 mins

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Be Alert!

Columbo!

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Rise of Podcasting

Rise of Mp3 (1997) Napster (1999) Declining album sales (post 2000) iTunes & iPod (2001)

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MySpace.com Growth

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Youtube

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Google News

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Blogging

Read, Comment, Write Blogosphere Blog Search, Tagging Platforms Vlogging

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Top South African Blogs

Keo.co.za Steve Hoffmeyrs's

Afrikaans Blog So Close East Coast Radio

Newswatch Blog ECR Big Breakfast

Blog

OFM Word of Mouth Forum

ECR Chip off the old Blog

MyADSL blogs Chumpstyle Jacaranda FM's

Breakfast Blog

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Recommended Blogs

stevepavlina.com tubetorial.com problogger.com sethgodin.typepad.com blog.guykawasaki.com michelfortin.com

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Wordpress

Dashboard Write, Manage Comments Blogroll Presentation Plugins Users Options

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Contact Details

Ramon Thomas ramon@netucation.co.za Tel. 011 4331034 or 082 9407137 www.netucation.co.za Also find me on LinkedIn, MySpace &

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