http://www.mzoj.com Just another Blog By Arash Kardan Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:48:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en ProBlogger reader - I’d like to introduce you to some new friends - around 700 of them (and counting). Over the weekend, on a whim, I started the ProBlogger Social Media Love-In as a way of linking you as readers of this blog together via social media. In that post I ... http://www.mzoj.com/2008/07/23/follow-these-twitter-users-they%e2%80%99re-just-like-you/ I think we need to see a consolidation of content and advertising. Everyone’s competing with each other because they don’t know how to give up their individual voice. What happens is we get a clamor for top Techmeme billing. Instead, I’d like to see more federations of blogs, where content producers work ... http://www.mzoj.com/2008/07/23/consolidation-in-the-blogosphere/ Today I want to talk about an issue may seem more suited to a ’self help’ blog than a blog about blogging - but it’s something that I think is pretty important you want to be a successful blogger. It’s something that is so important that it can make or ... http://www.mzoj.com/2008/07/23/a-secret-to-sustain-yourself-as-a-blogger/ Back in December, the blogging world was struck dumb when Marc Orchant passed away suddenly due to a heart attack. I don’t want to rehash all the details as you can find them elsewhere. Sufficed to say, many tears were shed over his passing. Time heals all wounds, right? No, ... http://www.mzoj.com/2008/07/23/what%e2%80%99s-your-legacy/ Yaro Starak from the popular Blog Mastermind mentoring program has today released a video that looks at a processing of making money from blogs that he calls Conversion Blogging. Yaro’s been using it to make over $10,000 a month from his blog. Yaro is an expert at building an audience and ... http://www.mzoj.com/2008/07/23/conversion-blogging-video/ Brian Layman and Mark Jaquith are currently up in the Toronto office. Mark got here on time. Brian, well, not so much. They are both still the same as they were when we all saw them at SXSW in March. Brian hasn’t shaved yet. Mark is still uber-cool. If I had to describe ... http://www.mzoj.com/2008/07/23/brian-and-mark-in-toronto/ Sometimes I think I might be the only one who retains commons sense. Really. At least in the area of I.T. Management. Though we had our share of growing pains at b5media, the knowledge gained from working in an enterprise environment at Northrop Grumman was only accentuated by my tenure ... http://www.mzoj.com/2008/07/22/cloud-computing-does-not-spell-the-end-for-common-sense-it-management/ The last 24 hours on ProBlogger have seen a lot of action around our social media love-in project that is currently running. Not only has there been a lot of action in the comments on that post but it’s driven up traffic and increased the numbers of emails that readers ... http://www.mzoj.com/2008/07/22/the-power-of-making-readers-famous/ So, if you’ve noticed, I’m kind of a perfectionist about podcasts I do. It was one of my downfalls when I did the Suicide Fan sports show awhile ago. I wasted so much time getting details right that I finally gave up as it wasn’t my full time job and ... http://www.mzoj.com/2008/07/22/slipstream-intros-outros-and-other-multimedia-into-talkshoe-calls/ Wow - when I posted an invitation this morning for ProBlogger readers to promote their social media profiles on this post I didn’t know what would happen - but I suspected it would be fun. It’s been almost 9 hours since the post went live and over 280 readers have participated ... http://www.mzoj.com/2008/07/22/social-media-love-in-phase-2-coming-soon/