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Win "Secrets of Successful Blogging"
Submit an appropriate post (email or leave as a comment) for my "Blogging for Business" blog, or maybe even an inappropriate post if I'm feeling particularly gregarious, and you'll win a copy of the Secrets of Successful Blogging booklet if I post it (with a link/credit of course), or maybe even if I don't. You can also buy a copy directly for a few bucks.
This contest, like all freebies, was first open to subscribers of my BizBlog+ newsletter (upper right hand corner to subscribe), but now is open to everyone.
If I get a hundred great posts, I'll give away a hundred copies (I'm dreaming, I know you're all busy).
You can certainly submit something you've already posted too, although please no pictures of cats or posts on petunias for example, just blogging and Web 2.0 business related stuff.
This is to celebrate the second printing -- a few thousand copies showed up on my doorstep recently.
The contest committee (me) reserves the right to do whatever they please, as long as some free copies get sent out. All decisions are final unless I change my mind.
Ted
You have a bountiful way of partnering with other bloggers (and the inherent generosity of spirit) that brings more value to us readers whilst building your audience.
Just the inter-weaving of your business model's parts is instructive to observe. On par with Anita Cambell and The Blog Squad women.
Kudos
- Kare
Posted by: Kare Anderson | 27 April 2007 at 05:25 PM
I found your site through a link. I have a family blog that we use to keep family updated about my daughter. I also teacher bossing tooth 6th Graders.
Posted by: Eric Verno | 29 April 2007 at 11:02 PM
Sorry, my Tablet PC was acting up.
I teach blogging to my students and I use blogging to keep family updated with our daughter's progress, she has Brittle Bone Disease.
Thank you for the information that you provide on your site!
Posted by: Eric Verno | 29 April 2007 at 11:04 PM
Thanks Kare! Of course I know the Blog Squad well, and going to go check out Anita Cambell's now.
Hi Eric,
I'd love to hear more about your teaching blogging to your students. Blogging has a lot of potential uses in education.
Posted by: Ted Demopoulos, Blogging for Business | 30 April 2007 at 09:30 AM
Hello Ted,
I came to you thru a link on the Manifesto "It's a Big, Blog World Out There", looking for good layout models for a planned blog (I've never done such a thing!).
It is my habit when on the web to record sites of particular interest, or portions thereof, in PDF (e.g. using PDF Factory or Broadgun). What amazes me with other "expert" blogs, and with yours, is that the page layouts are almost always too wide to be thus recorded, due to all the archiving and monetizing in the left and right columns.
If I want to print the whole thing, I can defeat this with Epson "Web to Page", but normally I don't want to do this. And others who don't have an Epson printer don't even have this option.
Actually, the situation is even worse, because the full page can't even be displayed unless at full screen without any history or bookmarks showing.
Other than that, Mrs Brown ...
Do you think this problem is worth some discussion, and do I win a book?Cheers,
Mike Cromie
Posted by: Michael Cromie | 16 May 2007 at 07:37 PM
Mike,
Send me your address if you'd like a book :)
Most blogs are optimized for visual display on a computer screen, with little thought to printing. For archiving on paper, I'm not sure, but the posts themselves can easily be printed out with http://rss2pdf.com/
Posted by: Ted Demopoulos, Blogging for Business | 18 May 2007 at 07:58 PM
Ted,
How'd you get this post to stay at the top of the page?
Posted by: Reg | 24 May 2007 at 04:51 PM
Reg,
It's functionality built into TypePad
Posted by: Ted Demopoulos, Blogging for Business | 24 May 2007 at 11:02 PM
Ted,
Mike Cromie wrote about having trouble making .PDFs of some blog pages. This may be a simple solution that he already has tried, but maybe not: Be sure to check the properties of the .pdf writer (the "printer") to be sure that you have told it to make the .PDF in landscape mode. The default is portrait, which would cut off the right and left sides. When I've selected landscape, I usually capture all, or at least most, of the page. Another option is to use a program like Snagit (http://www.techsmith.com/) that will capture the entire screen.
If this tip qualifies me for a copy of your booklet, Ted, let me know and I'll send you my address. Thanks!
Posted by: Tom Keefe | 30 May 2007 at 03:26 PM