http://www.ctbizblogs.com Bringing blogging to your business! Thu, 27 Sep 2007 09:35:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Short notice alert: this conference is tomorrow! One of the best times I had last year was at the 2006 Business Smart tools conference. I work with Valorie on a number of blogs, and helped her out a little bit at last year's conference, by attempting some live blogging: Business Smart Tools ... http://www.ctbizblogs.com/2007/05/14/business-smart-tools-conference-tuesday-may-15th-2007/ On my to-do list since March has been to write about the upcoming SOBCon , put on by Liz Strauss and Phil Gerbyshak It's going to be in Chicago, on May 11 - 12. I just realized that the block of rooms reserved for this will be released today, so you ... http://www.ctbizblogs.com/2007/04/13/learn-to-be-a-successful-and-outstanding-blogger-at-sobcon-07/ I went down to Podcamp NYC 2007 yesterday, April 7, and had a great time. Valorie Luther, from Creative Concepts, gave a talk on Corporate Blogging, and I helped out by creating the presentation slides, and offering some tech support. Follow the link to the post on her blog, if you ... http://www.ctbizblogs.com/2007/04/08/podcamp-nyc-2007/ Yippee, I'm back. Gotta work on that whole work-life balance thing. http://www.ctbizblogs.com/2007/04/08/yes-ctbizblogs-is-alive/ In Connecticut (the CT in CTBizBlogs), and in other parts of the world, I gather, we have this habit of taking stock at year end, and making resolutions for the new year. It's been a crazy time for me the past few months. I started this blog when I was not ... http://www.ctbizblogs.com/2007/01/02/happy-new-year/ Read the Time articleGet your own seal Well, it's about time! Every person who's ever had a blog or uploaded a video or left a comment can proudly claim this honor. Now that Time recognizes us, will it be the "tipping point" that brings blogging and social media to the awareness of the ... http://www.ctbizblogs.com/2006/12/22/social-media-gets-recognized-in-time/ The Bigelow Tea company has entered the blogosphere. I'm very excited about this. I've been working behind the scenes for Valorie Luther at Creative Concepts, doing the technical stuff and housekeeping duties that come with getting a blog up and running. So naturally we're using WordPress. Two of the folks at R.C. ... http://www.ctbizblogs.com/2006/12/20/bigelow-tea-is-blogging/ I hope. It's been a hectic few weeks. Victim of too much of a good thing (work, in this case). But I haven't abandoned this blog, just neglected it. But I'll be back! http://www.ctbizblogs.com/2006/12/18/we-will-now-return-to-our-irregularly-scheduled-program/ If you're looking for more information on why your business should have a blog, if you want to understand how to do it better, or if you just want to learn how other companies are blogging, this online study is for you. The Blogging Success Study was conducted by Northwestern University ... http://www.ctbizblogs.com/2006/11/21/resource-blogging-success-study/ While attendng a women's lecture luncheon yesterday, I mentioned "weblogs" to a few people in the pre-lecture chatting time. At functions where I think there are less internet-savvy folks, I use "blogs" and "weblogs" interchangeably. I usually get "What are weblogs/blogs?" and I go into my elevator speech about ... http://www.ctbizblogs.com/2006/11/10/are-blogs-entering-the-mainstream/