Blog toolsToday the Lectora user Conference began in the US, and it brings with it a couple of firsts. For a start, the event (or at least parts of it) are being streamed live online. This is a trend we’re witnessing with many organisations and events, and it’s something we hope to see more of. Why limit exposure to your product to just those who can make it to the event, when you can share it live, globally? They’re also encouraging the back channel conversations on Twitter. by Lectora. Will it really prove to be a competitor? MORE >>

'Spark for this session was this blog post "is technology eating your job". Before we start the images incorporated into this blog below can be viewed much more clearly by watching this flicker slideshow in full screen or go directly too the flickr Wordpress CV slideshow. The image below gives you a snapshot view of the user view of the Wordpress CV blog that i envisage WordPress CV Blog - User View The following notes collate the main points that were addressed in our session. Blog is a Blog is a Blog - No! Purpose of this Session 1. e.g. 7.1, MORE >>

They see it as a platform, not a mere blogging tool. Tags: Blogging Community Conference hosts should take a lesson or two from Matt Mullenweg. Today’s Wordcamp San Francisco was simply great. Great line-up of speakers. Glorious weather. Some participants were so enthusiastic as to call for revolution and world domination by Wordpress. Most participants were making money from designing or installing Wordpress sites.). Admission was $50. It costs about $250/head; the difference is made up by sponsors. Ex-Google, ex-Zillow Vanessa Fox gave great SEO tips. MORE >>

This week is about blogging. just think its time to take a look at blogging again since I, and others from what I hear, seem to be neglecting blogs, feed readers, etc, in favor of microblogging. I'm actually writing this blog post from Amplify.com which is an interesting hybrid tool. As @simbeckhampson puts it, "it sits nicely in the middle of all the other social media tools". I'm hoping to crank out at least 2 or 3 blog posts before Friday because I'll be headed to the Blogworld & New Media Expo in Vegas. But that's not blogging. MORE >>

   She made the suggestion that the product managers might like to set up blogs about the new products and write regular postings to keep the sales team up to date with their development, they might describe the key functionality, show images and mockups they had built,  and of course answer any questions the sales team had about the products.  So the next step was for the Performance Consultant to show the product managers how to set up the blogs (they used freely available blogging tools for this) and how to make their postings.  MORE >>