After reading one short forum thread post, a blogger was able to pick up a big story, and tell his readers about it.  By doing this, this blooger created a huge cascade effect that changed the way, not one, but TWO huge companies practiced business. So if you think blogging and participating in online communities cannot br

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IncrediMail, an Israeli based a company that develops software to customize e-mails, has provided business owners an incredible lesson as to why you should not place all your eggs in one basket. Last week, they discovered that their Google AdSense privileges had been banned. This resulted in their stock dropping over 45% to a n

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A video blog from a homeland security consultant. In this tip, he offers the tip of using Twitter in the event of a disaster, to avoid tying up the phone lines and cell phone services for emergency responders. Finally, a real use for Twitter! Now, if I can just get my non-net savvy relatives to also sign up and start following each other, we

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I have seen many blogs, some popular ones that missed some very basic functionality. In this post, I am writing about the 7 key features or plugins that any blog should have. From the usability perspective, any visitor should see and use these items. Some of them come for granted with any CMS package, but are missing in wordpress. Of course t

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I know you want to increase the number of people who subscriber to your blog. In this article I provide 35 guaranteed ways to increase your subscribers. This is the second article of my RSS Subscriber Series. The first article discussed the importan

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