What’s the State of Your Blogosphere?

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Last night, I attended the keynote address for Blogging Success Summit 2011, an online event being organized jointly by BlogWorld and Social Media Examiner founder Michael Stelzner. The speaker was Richard Jalichandra, CEO of Technorati, and his presentation was on the state of the blogosphere. He talked about how blogging has changed since 2008, the … [Read more]

Mashable Gets A Face Lift

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Today as I was going through some Twitter links that I open in tabs on Firefox, I came across a post that someone had sent me written on Mashable.  I immediately saw a difference in the way the blog looked and read and the overall scheme.  I thought I was reading it through a weird … [Read more]

TechZulu Talks BlogWorld & New Media Expo

Just wanted t get this interview on the blog as Amanda Coolong does a great job talking with Rick Calvert about the experience at BlogWorld & New Media Expo. Watch Rick Calvert – BlogWorld Expo 09 in Tech & Gaming  |  View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.com I am hoping to get some of these interviews … [Read more]

TechZulu Talks BlogWorld & New Media Expo

Just wanted t get this interview on the blog as Amanda Coolong does a great job talking with Rick Calvert about the experience at BlogWorld & New Media Expo. Watch Rick Calvert – BlogWorld Expo 09 in Tech & Gaming  |  View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.com I am hoping to get some of these interviews … [Read more]

Did Ashton Kutcher Exploit The Children Of Africa?

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While searching for other blog posts about the recent hubub over the hypothetical possibility of Oprah Keynoting BlogWorld this year, I came across another post that stunned me and brought a whole new perspective to Kutcher’s million Twitter follower quest that I hadn’t considered before. Blogger Clement Nthambazale Nyirenda has a post accusing Kutcher of … [Read more]

Social Media Shrinks the Planet and Enlarges Our Lives

Social Media has so many facets; it’s impossible to cover them all in any one blog post, or even any one BOOK.  Yes, we make friends online.  Yes, we run businesses online.  Yes, we ask and get advice online.  Yes, we make purchases online.  The list goes on and on. For me, personally, one of … [Read more]

The Parenting Blogosphere: A REAL Reality Show in Progress

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There are TONS of parents in the Blogosphere, and none of them knows everything about rearing children. (One raises alfalfa; one rears children.  Semantics, semantics, semantics. . . .) However, we all know SOMEthing about rearing children, and if you put all of the “somethings” together, we just might have everything.  Maybe. It’s not just … [Read more]

REAL Bloggers KNOW. We Just. . . KNOW.

When I first started blogging back in 2004, a lot of others started right about the same time.  A lot of those people aren’t around any more, but those who are?  Most of them are my friends.  We’re friends for many reasons, and when I say that we are “friends,” what I am actually saying … [Read more]

Blogging: Not Just For The Young!

Not only am I a blogger, I’ve BEEN a blogger since April 2004;  I’m no newcomer!  If I may say so, I know whassup with the Blogosphere.  I have several hundred blogs in my blogrolls and readers.  Not only do I blog for myself, I blog for several clients as well.  I read everything I can … [Read more]

WE Are the Village!

I think sometimes that if there had been blogs when I was raising my children, I might not have made quite as many mistakes. Often, during those years, I felt very isolated.  I was sure that nobody else was feeling the same emotions, having the same problems, trying and failing at so many things, when … [Read more]