Sheri Larsen’s Flying Cloud

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Blogging and other Tips

• Fotoflexer: a free, easy, and powerful Web photo editor
• 72 More Blog Tips from the Blogging Community

Northern Light Mentions – the fruit of my labors!

• Northern Light, Debuts Hosted Market Research Portal
• Northern Light Debuts Hosted Portal

Blogging and Other Tips

• Bloglines Beta To Challenge Google Reader
  Bloglines is my RSS reader of choice - I will definitely check this out.

• SKYPE TOOLBOX: 50+ Enhancements for Skype

Guerilla Marketing

• 26 Free Tools for Buzz Monitoring

• Useful PowerPoint about Web 2.0

Guerilla Marketing

• Marketers Start to Use Social Networks for CRM Instead of Ads 
• Traditional marketing failing on social networks 
• Social Media-It works! 
• Identity Through Online Lifestreams 
• Low B2B Click-Through-Rate: Inexperience Or Wisdom?

Management

• When limited budget is fantastic news! 

Blogging and Other Tips

• 15 Ways To Create Website Screenshots 
• From Del.icio.us to WordPress: How to automatically post daily links 
• Micro Persuasion: Ten Blogging Hacks 

I’ve been doing a lot of reading and experimenting on how to blog before getting started with this blog.  My first try was a blog in my Bloglines reader.  Using Blogline was easy - it’s always open to I can review the blogs I’m tracking and it has tools for easily creating a blog after reading something interesting.  It took only about three days for me to get really frustrated with the lack of editing and customization tools. 

After some research, I move to WordPress (as you can see).   I found John Battelle’s Searchblog review very helpful.  (WordPress v Movable Type: http://battellemedia.com/archives/003888.php).   Now that I have a good tool, it’s time to get started. 

Here’re some posts on blogging that I found helpful:

• How the Great Blogs Began - The First Posts
• Must Read Blogging Tips
• How to Become an Authority Blogger
• 13 Blog Cliches

I’ve been using the default Bloglines blog posting system for a few days and already hate it.  Some research indicates that Wordpress is the best blogging system so I am going to give it a try. 

This is a test to get it set up.