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How to Disagree

The web is turning writing into a conversation. Twenty years ago, writers wrote and readers read. The web lets readers respond, and increasingly they do—in comment threads, on forums, and in their own blog posts.

Many who respond to something disagree with it. That’s to be expected. Agreeing tends to motivate people less than disagreeing. And when you agree there’s less to say. You could expand on something the author said, but he has probably already explored the most interesting implications. When you disagree you’re entering territory he may not have explored.

The result is there’s a lot more disagreeing going on, especially measured by the word. That doesn’t mean people are getting angrier. The structural change in the way we communicate is enough to account for it. But though it’s not anger that’s driving the increase in disagreement, there’s a danger that the increase in disagreement will make people angrier. Particularly online, where it’s easy to say things you’d never say face to face.

Paul Ghaham wrote this excelent essay

Business Logs » Blog Archive » Top 10 Business Blogging Tips

Want to get your business blog in gear? Here are 10 (plus 1 bonus!) battle-tested tips that you can start implementing today.

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Desde ya hace un tiempo Telefónica, la compañía española líder en telecomunicaciones en el mundo, cuenta entre sus filas a unos 200.000 empleados, Si se tienen en cuenta a los ex empleados de la compañía, entre los que me incluyo, se podrían contar hasta 300.000 personas relacionadas con la compañía Azul.

Con operaciones sobre Europa y Latinoamérica principalmente, esta compañía no deja de expandir sus fronteras y tampoco de sumar profesionales a sus filas, ahora más allá del mundo de habla hispana, con la recientes adquisiciones en Europa como la de la compañía O2 en Inglaterra..

Dentro de Telefónica y fuera de ella también, empleados y ex empleados de la compañía, teniendo en cuenta estos números y el potencial de sus empleados, están dando forma a una red social y comunidad para mantener el contacto, compartir experiencias y conocimientos, con la visón de apoyar el crecimiento profesional entre pares.

Esta primera forma de red social o comunidad esta apoyada en el esfuerzo y la visión de algunos empleados y ex empleados únicamente, ya que no es una iniciativa oficial aún.

La comunidad en sus primeros estadios de desarrollo y en primera instancia esta enrolando a las personas relacionadas con Telefónica en un movimiento blogger que se autodenomina “Somos Azules”.

Entre los visionarios empleados de Telefónica que están al frente de la movida esta Rafa Montoya (http://www.rafamontoya.com), un jefe de producto en Telefónica Móviles España.

Somos Azules esta enrolando empleados y ex empleados de Telefónica para formar una comunidad blogger. Somos Azules ofrece a los que se quieran iniciar en el blogging las facilidades para que puedan experimentar sin mayores inconvenientes.

Hasta el 12 de Julio del 2006, Somos Azules con Nokia como sponsor están sorteando un fantástico Nokia N80. El teléfono mas completo que hoy podemos aspirar para usar servicios de voz y servicios de datos.

La dirección de la comunidad blogger Azul es http://www.somos-azules.com y cuenta con unos 150 enrolados en 7 diferentes paises.

Por mi parte estoy contribuyendo orgullosamente a esta comunidad con mis contenidos y con mi colaboración.

Allthatscool.com: Why you should start a internet company today.
There are so many reasons to start a company today, but the biggest one is because it’s cheap. You can now rule out having to pay Microsoft for anything because of open source software, like Linux and MYSQL, and all of the free - or almost free - productivity and communication tools like Basecamp and Skype. And, let’s not forget how inexpensive hardware and Bandwidth is. In 1999, we had to spend $500k to build a website that, today, would only cost $20k-$30k . Operational costs haven’t changed that much, but the point is it takes a lot less money than it did only 5 years ago.

Source: Allthatscool.com

View from the Isle - Professional Blogging & Blog Consulting :: Blog you must for your business!

Blogging tips from Master Yoda

• Blog you must for your business.
• Truth, passion, authenticity a blogger must have
• Comment and trackback spam paths to the Darkside are
• Prideful blogging, a dangerous thing it is. A way to the Darkside it is
• The Blog-i Masters train you in the way of the Blog, they can
• Blog-i Masters guardians of the Blogosphere they are
• May the Blog be with you

Via Blogging Pro

Be A More Productive Blogger

To be a productive content provider (blogger) you need to be organized, do your best to hold on to good ideas and know when to work and when to wait.

7 Habits of Highly Effective Blog PR

As the mass media descends into semi-irrelevance, blogging is ascending. Blogs have driven US Senator Lott from power, outed a GOP flack who was asking softball questions for Bush during press conferences and working as a gay escort at night, and caused a CNN executive to resign for remarks at an international conference. Even the journalism school at the University of California, Berkeley, now plans to offer a graduate-level course in blogs. As a result, branding executives must pay greater attention to blogs in three ways.

First, they must distribute their story to blogs, for much the same reasons that they have sought to distribute their story to print, radio and TV media for decades. Second, they must use blogs as a corporate and crisis communications tool. Finally, they must use blogs as a periscope that can provide insights into what customers, prospects and even the disenchanted are saying about offerings.

For those who seek to communicate a brand story through blogs, here are seven rules for highly effective blog PR

How To Write Killer Blog Posts And More Compelling Comments

Writing blog posts and commenting on them are actually very simple. The basic guidelines are to keep your copy lively, factual, tight, clear and short and search engine optimized. Here are basic blog style guidelines.

Strategize: Proper blog posting

Buenos consejos para un estilo de redacción apropiado para el blogging.

Looking back at 2004 : Page 2

Web application of the year

We asked forumgoers to choose the best web application or development framework of the year.

Web-based applications provide interaction for all users regardless of platform or location. If you can connect to the web, you can use it. Forums, blogs, administration tools, collaboration frameworks; there were many excellent options to choose from in 2004.

How to explode your blog’s traffic by writing Articles

How to explode your blog’s traffic by writing Articles by Christos Varsamis from ProBlogger, Tips and Advice on Blogging for Dollars

Marketing for Geeks

Eric Sink writes a series of articles entitled “Marketing for Geeks”.

The central theme is that if we demystify marketing, it can be competently done by technical people.

The series is still being written, with new articles coming soon to an RSS feed near you.

The Eric Weblog is great. Plenty of good readings for technical people who wants to understand business.

Contentious � Blogging Style: The Basic Posting Formats (Series Index)

After reading blogs for awhile, I’ve come to see some patterns in the ways postings in text-based blogs are formatted. As I see it, there are seven basic formats for blog postings. Each serves a different purpose for bloggers and their readers.

The format of a blog posting, if chosen consciously and carefully, enhance communication – particularly the delivery of certain types of content. Consequently, some formats work best for commentary or explanation, others for alerts and references, etc.

Here are the seven basic blog posting formats:

1. Link-only
2. Link blurb
3. Brief remark
4. List
5. Short article
6. Long article
7. Series postings

Keep in mind that these types represent points along a spectrum. A specific posting might blend aspects of two or more formats.

Source: Contentious

Using Blogs for Business - Blogging for Business

Tips, articles, and ideas on the use of blogs in businesses and careers

Source: About.com

Blogging for Business: A presentation by 37signals

Presentation about blogging for business. It defines what a blog is, show some business blog examples from around the web, discuss tools you can use to create a business blog, and explain some of the benefits and pitfalls of blogging.

Source: 37 Signals

Weblog as Online Community Management Tool

Recently Lee Lefever wrote about the differences between weblogs and message boards inside online communities. In the comments of that entry, a reader asked for more information about the best uses of the resources inside an online community. This entry is focused on the weblog as an online community management tool.

Un grupo de investigadores han seguido el movimiento de los ojos de personas que leen páginas web de noticias con cámaras controladas por software para determinar el patrón de atención.

El proyecto denominado Eyetrack III, ha sacado interesantes conclusiones sobre los patrones de atención que seguimos en forma inconsciente para “scanear” una pagina.

Case Study: The Transparent Job Search: Professional Blogger for Hire

Si piensa que escribe bien y que sus conocimientos pueden ser valorados por una empresa como para producir un weblog corporativo, esta guía escrita por Trudy Schuett para About.com, pueda ser de utilidad para encontrar ese trabajo de weblogger profesional.

Help the Googlebot understand your web site

Gina Trapani a escrito una serie de lineamientos muy interesantes para facilitar la indexación de las paginas de nuestros weblogs.

A Successful Blog

Yet another post on blogging and this time, by blog and blogging I mean the actual act of, not the tools used.