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Blogging: Let's Get You Started

1 - Fresh topics are important to keep your blog readership interested, and now we're going to discuss just how you can do that. What are you going to write about? It should be a topic that you're passionate about or are at the very least interested in. If you've chosen blogging as your new career, then you don't want to torture yourself by writing about something that you have zero interest in, otherwise you might as well return to that mundane job you just quit! Feelings and emotions show through your writing, so your readers will notice any indifference you may have toward a certain topic that you find boring. Don't forget the advice about writing with a personality. Forced writing will not establish you in the world of blogging at all. Once you've chosen your main theme -- or if it has chosen you, then that's even better -- start posting to your blog and try to get into the habit of doing that at least once every day. It doesn't always ne...

Facebook: $750 Million in Hand Worth More than $2 Billion in Sky

It came up conversationally, but I believe Iím the only person at my company to have firsthand experience as a user of Facebook.com.  It was kind of funny to have all these online advertising professionals asking me all about the website everybody used in college.  Didnít they get the memo?  Iím new.  I should be asking the questions around here.  The subject of Facebook.com is an interesting one thatís worth a closer look. Without question, 2005 was the year of MySpace.  Before Rupert Murdochís $580 million social networking venture took the interactive world by storm, itís difficult to believe that even the most optimistic of the billionaireís lackeys would have predicted that new acquisition would more than quadruple its reach within a matter of months.  With 23.5 billion page views by February, MySpace became the second most trafficked site on the Internet. Murdochís success naturally generated buying interest in anything deemed online s...