Blogging and Business: Spring 2007

You have each created a blog, using one of the four tools I suggested. (Most of you chose Blogger.) There are many complements to such tools, some of which we’ll discuss in class today.

Update: “today” was Feb 10, our second meeting. I’m coming back to this post a few days later to update with links and with a few more sites.

Here are some of the sites visited during the class meeting: Technorati, Feedburner, MyBlogLog, OpenID.
Something I meant to mention, but didn’t, is that you can tell Google about the URL of a new blog in order to encourage it to include the blog in search results. You shouldn’t have to do this, but it might speed things up.

A service I might have mentioned is CoComment, which enables you to keep track of the comments you’ve left on other people’s blogs.

The main “deliverable” due before the second meeting of the Business and Blogging course is… blogging. So far, five of the ~30 students have told us about their blogs.  I’ve added each of these blogs to the Blogroll in the sidebar. I’ve also changed the link to my main blog, since the host I’ve been using for the last couple of years is having persistent (un)availability problems.

It’s likely that some of you are perplexed by my statement that you can blog about whatever you want. So here are some more ideas: Boston; a firm you’re particularly interested in; your encounters with technologies (e.g., cellphones, wireless, Tivo,…). My apologies to those for whom extra suggestions make life more difficult…