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Are you interested in starting or growing your existing blog? Renegade University through iContact is offering classes to help you with just that.
Starting October 7th, you can begin this class on blogging that will teach you the basics on starting, managing and growing a blog successfully for your business. If you’ve ever been interested in doing this, now is the time to get started.
Best to all!

(www.bizchicksrule.com) — I don’t know about you, but I have always thought of blogs as the great equalizer. Anyone can publish a blog — for free. But then I read this article in Sunday’s New York Times, and I started wondering if maybe there’s more to it than that…

There is a measure of parity on the Web. According to the Pew Internet and American Life Project, among Internet users, 14 percent of men and 11 percent of women blog.
A study conducted by BlogHer and Compass Partners last year found that 36 million women participate in the blogosphere each week, and …read more

The blogosphere has been all a-buzz today with the news and developments of Know More Media going out of business. There are mixed feelings and thoughts about how things should have been handled, what could have been done differently, who should do what, so on and so forth. No doubt that there will be lots of mixed emotions for some time to come, both for the executives at Know More Media and the bloggers.

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Recently, some peers of mine and I learned that another blog network that I (we)write for, Know More Media, will be ceasing operations effective August 1, 2008. While I can’t say that I am too terribly surprised at the turn of events, I am saddened by it as I have made blogging friends at that network, I have enjoyed writing on the topic that I had and the editorial team there was/is super professional, top-notch people! I realize that in business these things happen, but these realities just don’t make it easier when it happens.
A few other blogger friends …read more

Blogging a new idea? Course not. But, my friends Yvonne and Mary Emma over at Home Biz Notes are offering this series on starting your own blogging business.
If you’re interested, you can pick the series up here and follow them, or start at the beginning and come forward to see where they are in the series. Either way, you will gain a ton of information and insight into the wonderful world of blogging.
I’ve been blogging now for about two years and have found it to be quite addicting. I love the interaction (especially the interaction) with the readers and the …read more

(www.bizchicksrule.com) — The comments exploded on my mean girls post when I wasn’t looking! I tried to respond in the comments box, but it got so ridiculously long that it made more sense as its own post. So, here goes.
I’m going to steal from a comment I just left on Ry’s post "Why I Fear Women and Love Mythical Hobbits":

Whether Heather [Armstrong] is in actuality a mean girl is in my opinion immaterial to this discussion because she’s not the one talking smack on the blogs and making herself look like a vitriolic shrew — and THAT is what I …read more

(www.bizchicksrule.com) — The thing about mean girls is that, unless someone smacks them down — hard — along the way, they grow from being mean girls to being mean women. And sometimes, girls who started out nice are so tormented by mean girls that they turn mean as they get older. And then, we all get to work with them. Good times.
This weekend at BlogHer, there was some drama during the closing keynote. I don’t know any of the people involved personally and I couldn’t tell you anyone’s intentions and I’m not going to try. But here’s what happened in …read more

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Watch what you say (or do) as it could come back at ‘cha.

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Ellen Simonetti’s blog and her life received LOTS of attention when Delta Airlines fired her for “inappropriate photos” that were posted on her blog back in 2004. Since that time, Simonetti has written a book, escalated (somewhat) to celebrity status and is still blogging about her life…as a fired flight attendant.

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The world’s oldest blogger, Olive Riley, has passed away at age 108. Her blog, The Life of Riley, has amused and entertained people from all over. She and her daily blogging will be missed.

Copyright – © Bridget Wright 2008

This video is a portion of session at the 2007 495 Business Expo by Louise Rijk, VP of Marketing & Sales at Advanced Media Productions, all about how businesses can benefit from blogging and podcasting and other kinds of interactive Internet marketing. Some great ideas!

And for those of us who are ready to roll, here’s a presentation on how to get started blogging for business in 4 easy steps. The first 17 seconds are a promo for the company that created it. A woman with a lovely grade-school librarian speaking voice reads an article about blogging. Visually boring, but a …read more