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103 bloggers team up on a new book to help charity

February 6, 2023 By Leo Blanco Leave a Comment

book.jpg103 marketing professionals have joined together to write The Age of Conversation, a marketing book about the importance conversations in the period of social media. All proceeds will be donated to Variety, the international children’s charity. This is a first-of-its- kind online collaboration between people around the world who have never met each other.

This new book was inspired by Drew McLellan, who heads an advertising agency McLellan Marketing Group and blogger of Drew’s Marketing Minute. His partner is another top marketing blogger, Gavin Heaton, Interactive Director at marketing agency Creata, in Sidney, Australia and blogs at Servant of Chaos.

McLellan and Heaton, through their blogs, invited other marketing professionals to commit to writing essays about conversation. They set what they thought would be an impossible goal — 100 bloggers. Within seven days they had commitments from 103.

“We’ve been amazed at the variety of approaches that have been taken, and with hardly any duplication or overlap,” said Heaton. “This book explores the art of conversation and how it is changing the face of marketing from virtually every angle possible.”

Originally posted on July 16, 2007 @ 12:54 pm

Filed Under: Blogger, Blogging

Buy blog comments, anyone?

February 6, 2023 By Rhiza Sanchez 16 Comments

Buy Blog CommentsWhat can you say about buying and selling blog comments? Here’s a new online service to ponder upon.

BuyBlogComments.com is a startup that offers unautomated, human-made blog comments aimed for, as said on their site, “blackhatters who are looking for good quality backlinks”. (IMO, something’s seriously wrong about having the word “blackhat” and “good quality backlinks” in one sentence.)

This one-of-a-kind startup offers three packages, starting at $20 which gives you 100 blog comments, $100 for 500 comments, and $200 for 1000 comments. The company claims to have a group of trained professionals who do the commenting themselves, making sure that the comments are related to the blog post they comment on so that they “look completely like legit comments.”

While BuyBlogComments claims they’re NOT spam, Darren Rowse, the Problogger himself, thinks that the service is “sick” and “disturbing”. I think so, too. I’m very much aware that there are underground companies doing spam, but to go out in the open, offer your spamming service, and make it “look legit” is something else. I think it’s just odd to be selling a service aimed at blackhatters so that their sites would “rank better in the SERPs” when we all know well that black hat is the bane of every search engine’s existence.

Originally posted on July 10, 2007 @ 10:32 pm

Filed Under: Blogging, Opinion

SharedBook introduces Blog2Print widget

February 3, 2023 By Cristina Ledesma Leave a Comment

Blog2PrintSharedBook Inc., the reverse publishing platform provider, has launched a Blog2Print widget. Content owners on Google’s Blogger platform and their readers can now turn blog posts into a printed book with a single click. Additional compatibility will become available later this summer.

Blog2Print is a quick and easy way for blog owners to compile their favorite posts in printed book format. The widget also gives bloggers the ability to monetize their content through the sale of newly created books. Content owners can sign up to receive a 20 percent share of the retail price of all blog books made by others of their content. When users click on the Blog2Print button to print blog content, they are given several options. They can upload a cover photo, select all blog posts or the dates of the entries they would like to include in the book, and choose whether the posts should appear in reverse-chronological or chronological order. They can also select an introduction, or write their own.

“Built using our open API which is available for anyone to use, the Blog2Print widget gives individuals a simple way to capture the online content that is the most relevant to them in a structured book product,” said Caroline Vanderlip, CEO, SharedBook Inc.

Originally posted on July 9, 2007 @ 8:40 am

Filed Under: Blogger, Blogging

b5media launches music channel

February 3, 2023 By Minic Rivera 1 Comment

b5mediab5media Inc. announced the launch of its new music channel featuring a wide variety of blogs focused on bands, genres and geographical locations. This is b5media’s 14th channel, bringing number of blogs within the network to 230.

“Since b5media first launched in September of 2005, we’ve felt the music scene was being vastly underserved by professional blogs,” said Jeremy Wright, b5media’s CEO. “We believe that by bringing together thought leaders in the music space, new music bloggers and plain old music phreaks that we can provide a real place where music lovers from around the world can find bands, music, reviews and content they’ll love!”

The music channel portfolio, headed by channel editor Mike Laba, features blogs focused on genres such as the metal, jazz, blues, industrial and crooner scenes, as well as hotspots such as Nashville, the U.K. and Australia.

As part of the music channel’s launch, b5media is giving away three iPod Shuffles, three Memorex MP3 players pre-loaded with MusicIP’s kick-ass music discovery software, and three $25 iTunes certificates.

Originally posted on July 9, 2007 @ 7:36 am

Filed Under: Blog Network, Blogger, Blogging, Music

AOL relaunches sports site, focuses on blogs

February 3, 2023 By Cristina Ledesma 2 Comments

AOL SportsAOL today launched a new version of its sports site that focuses on community content and blogs, and leverages the power of its top sports blog the FanHouse. The overhauled sports and news sites build on the success of the blog-centric format first used by celebrity gossip site TMZ.com, a joint venture of AOL and Telepictures Productions.

In addition to the new web 2.0 features, the sports site features traditional sports news, exclusive columnists, up-to-the-minute scoreboards, and user-generated video. AOL also announced a new fantasy football experience that provides simple sign up, and will include free live scoring, line-up analyzer and free online draft kit.

The new AOL Sports blog format invites discussion and debate about top sports stories. Posts are tagged by topic and team so fans can easily find news on their favorite team or rivals. The site also incorporates the FanHouse on the main sports page, giving users the power to engage in a real-time dialogue with other sports fans.

Originally posted on July 2, 2007 @ 8:10 am

Filed Under: AOL, Blogging

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