CREEating Value – Periodically (in theory about once a week) I go through my feed reader and pull out a few gems that bring value to you as a business blogger.
With over 70 million blogs out there finding a few that are worthy of making it to your feed reader can be a challenge. So I’m trying to make that a little easier by pointing out some great blogs that I have in my reader that you may or may not have seen yet.
So without further ado, here are this week’s juicy finds.
Enjoy!
CrossLoop – Bringing People Closer (feed) – Here’s a company that has done a good job of leveraging their blog to get the word out about their business. CrossLoop is a service that allows for secure screen sharing between two computers in remote locations. It’s a handy application that has lots of different uses. If they didn’t have a blog, I wouldn’t have heard about it yet.
Sifry’s Alerts (feed) – David Sifry is the founder and CEO of Technorati, which if you don’t yet know has long been a great tool to track incoming links for your blog. His blog is where I pick up tid-bits like the fact that there are more than 70 million blogs out there. He also dropped a bit of a shocker last week when he announced that he’s looking for a replacement for himself in the CEO position of the company he founded.
The Weather Channel: Savannah Weather Outlook (feed) – OK so this last one is obviously not a blog. And it is a bit silly. But my point is this. There are a lot of non blogging web sites out there that are incorporating RSS into their websites. If I want to find out what to expect with my local weather, I can just go to my feed reader and click on a link. Bing. I’m there.
No going to the Weather Channel site, wading through their over the top obnoxious ads, putting in my location and all that. Makes finding out the weather much easier. (And it’s about the only thing that keeps me coming back to their site. They’ve got about the most intrusive ads of anywhere I go. The ones with sound are the worst!)
Chris-
You might want to give yourself and one of your customers a little recognition.
Coastal Uruguay was recently rated as one of the fastest growing WordPress sites (per cent increase basis) number 20 on a list of 100.
Here’s the link: http://botd.wordpress.com/2007/03/14/growing-blogs-322/
Steve
http://www.coastaluruguay.com
Whoo-Hooo! You go Steve!
Uh… does the CEO of Technorati know there are a lot more than 70 blogs out there?
Ack! Thanks for the catch, Robert. I made the change.
What’s a “million” between friends, anyway?
Chris – thanks for your nice words. It sure makes us feel good.
We are a company that believes in relationships – one user at a time – and our blog is a phenomenal way for us to be ‘real’ like you and me, interact with our users and just be ourselves instead of a faceless company!
Mrinal, I think you are doing a great job at getting the word out. Your effective use of sites like MyBlogLog has really helped make people more aware of who you are and what you do as a company.
I am a subscriber to your blog and I think these types of articles are useful. I appreciate your taking the time to write them.
We folks over at Smallbusinesshub have created http://www.dailyhub.com — I hope you’ll have a look at it. I point it out for a couple of reasons. First, you might find some fodder for this type of article. Second, if you are interested, we can set you up with your own one of these that you can put right on your blog, so you can post links for your readers, allow them to post links, and include comments. It would be a bit like creating your own version of digg for your audience right on your blog.
Ping me back if you find it interesting…
Bh.