Clear Blogging: How People Blogging Are Changing the World and How You Can Join Them by Bob Walsh
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- Pub. Date: February 2007
- 351pp
- Sales Rank: 599,157
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: February 2007
- Publisher: Apress L. P.
- Format: Paperback, 351pp
- Sales Rank: 599,157
- ISBN-13: 9781590596913
- ISBN: 1590596919
Synopsis
Almost overnight, blogging has become a social, political, and business force to be reckoned with. Your fellow students, workers, and competitors are joining the blogosphereand making money, influencing elections, getting hired, growing market share, and having funto the tune of 8,000 new bloggers a day.
Clear Blogging sets out to answer in nontechnical terms what blogging has to offer and why and how you should blog. If youve never read a blog, but you keep hearing that term on the news, Clear Blogging will show you why blogging has shaken up mainstream media, and how a blogger can end up on CNN. If youre just starting to read blogs, Clear Blogging is your native guide to the blogosphere, covering how to get the best, most interesting information with the least amount of time and effort. The main course of Clear Blogging shows what you stand to gain from blogging, and how you can go from your first post to being welcomed aboard the blogospheres A-list.
Whether youre already blogging or youre considering it, youll want to get a copy of this book because it
- Covers how blogging can improve your job prospects, professional practice, business revenue, company reputation, and the world you live in
- Includes over 50 interviews with successful bloggers who are influencing products, policy makers, potential employers, and millions of the general publicall while earning an online reputation and real profits
- Shows you how to apply the best practices of news gathering to build your blogs reputation and brand
- Is heavy on the specific benefits of blogging and light on the technological aspects
Biography
Bob Walsh 47 is the founder of 47Hats, a consulting firm/blog/startup dedicated to helping startups succeed, the author of Micro-ISV: From Vision to Reality, podcaster in chief of the Startup Success Podcast, co-moderator of the Joel on Software's Business of Software forum, and creator of StartupToDo.com, a online productivity app and community for startup and microISVs.
At his company, Safari Software, Inc., Bob was a contract software developer for over 20 years before launching, selling and ultimately selling off a Windows personal task manager commercial application. Before getting into IT, Walsh was a reporter for several news organizations, most worth bragging about being United Press International (UPI).
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April 27, 2007: Want to promote your company? Improve your visibility within your profession? Have your own column in the equivalent of a newspaper or magazine? Share a hobby or passion? Make money? _Clear Blogging_ will show you the way because it's written in a clear, easy-to-understand, non-technical style by a man who wants you to succeed if this is a path you wish to travel upon. In fact, his publisher, apress.com, made Chapter 9: Successful Blogging, a free download at their site so you could see what Bob Walsh has to say, and how well he says it. Go read it, then come back and buy _Clear Blogging_ because you don't want to miss his 140 page 'Part 3: Secrets of Influential Blogging,' where he tells you about, '...the technologies, techniques, and wisdom of extremely successful bloggers...' Once you get his book, I think you'll agree with me that _Clear Blogging_ will become THE authoritative text on the subject of blogging, an automatically recommended 'must read' book. ENJOY!
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