Define, Test, Measure, Repeat – Successful Blogging

The key to success in blogging, whether you want to make money, gain more subscribers, or increase visitor engagement is to constantly test new strategies. With A/B testing and using web analytics to measure its performance anyone can move closer to their ideal formula of success. Here are a few suggestions you can try testing within your blog:

Social Networking Not Close to Death

Alex Krupp, whose blog I haven’t come across before, makes a lot of sense in his latest post about social networking (which is fitting, since his blog is called Sensemaking). He notes that the term “social network” has become so over-sold that it now causes many venture capitalists to run screaming in the opposite direction, and startups are pitching their businesses in cliched Hollywood movie…

Social Media & Keeping the Conversation Going

If you followed the Stowe Boyd kerfuffle a few months ago - the one in which he says, broadly, that PR people don’t “get it” regarding social media - you’ll be interested in listening to Stowe talking to Eric Schwartzman in the latest

Extradited Software Pirate Pleads Guilty

The leader of one of the oldest and most well known Internet software piracy groups, Hew Raymond Griffiths has pleaded guilty to criminal copyright infringement charges, in one of the first extraditions for an intellectual property offense. Griffiths, a British national living in Bateau Bay, Australia was extradited in February 2007 to face charges in U.S. District Court.