The following post has been kindly submitted by a reader of ProBlogger – Bruce Allen. I’ll let him introduce himself – but I asked him to share a little about how he brings an income to his blog Boston Sports Media – you see made a comment on my blog ...more

Blogs have been labeled next-generation marketing tools by a few because of its use as a powerful vehicle for voice and influence in delivering business level communications of a wide variety. Also, the voice of the customer has been heralding a new era of customer control and evangelism that is ...more

It looks like Google are releasing something that sounds a lot like MyYahoo! that integrates a lot of their services onto a new personalized home page. Initally planned for a June 30 launch, the new home page option, part of an internal project called “Fusion” aimed at better integrating Google’s ...more

“Two Heads are better than one”…. or so the old saying goes. I’ve been reflecting this week about the importance of relationships in blogging. I met up with an old university friend this week for the first time since we studied marketing together – catching up stimulated me to begin ...more

It seems that Google is Opening Up its Beta of AdSense for RSS Feeds for everyone to participate in: ‘After testing AdSense contextual ad distribution in a handful of RSS feeds over the past few weeks, Google is opening up the beta program to all of its publisher partners. The ...more

Blogtalk Downunder is getting close now – and some of the papers being presented are truly mouth watering stuff. Papers released so far include: Chris Chesher – Paper – Blogs and the crisis of authorship ZedTycho.com: Kevin Leversee, Barry Steele, Scott Farrell & Mark Neely – Panel – Desire Lines, ...more

Last night I was in town and treated myself to the new OSX – Tiger. This afternoon I’ve installed it and have been playing around with it – asking myself how it will improve my blogging. Here are a few initial reflections: Dashboard – one of the main things that ...more

The Blogging community is buzzing with the news yesterday of Google Adsense Ads in RSS feeds. There are a few relevant updates surfacing to this story: Robert from Longhorn Blogs (the blog that the first Adsense Ads were spotted in the RSS feed of) answers a few questions on their ...more

The challenge was to Guess the Topic of the Blog simply by viewing the last month’s statistics. The guesses began honing in on the right answer almost immediately with two bloggers actually suggesting the right topic within hours of the competition starting. Congratulations to Jamie and PFBlog who both hit ...more