Mashable serves up Blogger facelifts!

Here are 10 classy Blogger template designs that can brighten up your blog!

Wrapping it all up...

What? An opportunity!

Why? No choice!

How? Plan and try...

When? As soon as...

Watch! and learn...

Don't let it rule you! Great Blog from Tim Ferriss, author of 4 hour workweek, on 'How to use Twitter without Twitter owning you'

Don't let these guys put you off:

• Mr Fearful
• Miss Trust
• Mr Unwilling
• Miss Salesalot

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When? Advanced concepts...

Promoting without Prosletyising

Guidelines: Where you are

1. Non-anonymous
2. Originality
3. Respect privacy
4. Keep your job!
5. Care
6. Keep Blogging
7. Money
8. Networking
9. Support
10. Honesty

Toolbars: http://wibiya.com/

Monitor using: Google Analytics / Klout.com

Facebook: Etiquette

See how you measure up: Twitter Grader

Real Time viewer Feedjit

When? Having a plan...

Created by Oatmeal

Starting simply... or Simply

Have a plan... do it, do it, fail, get better, do it!

Blossoming where you are... How to Market Your Business With Facebook

Tips for Non-Profit organisations... 5 tips for Creating Non-Profit Online Communities

Short and Sweet - MicroBlogging

Oh Behave! Twitter's guide to Best Practices

TED talk by Twitter Co-Founder: youtube video

Ten Things you Need to stop Tweeting about!

Follow up... and monitor

How to Twitter Search works

How - Creating a Blogger post

How does Blogger work?

• Create a Google account (use your e-mail address)
• Click on My account
• Click on Blogger
• Make tea - follow nose...

How? Play and Plan

Create temporary account with Blogger - Free

Try other systems: Typead = simplicity, Wordpress = comprehensive

If you are low-key: posterous.com (my example)

Follow a page on Twitter of someone you know:
http://twitter.com/memorybanks

Essentially stick to three components as advised by Chris Brogan:

Listen
Create
Communicate

Why? Signs of Change...

www.insidework.net

1. Trust is in and Paranoia and Arrogance out
2. Embedded Generosity in and Embedded Hoarding out
3. Online Community Building in and Online Personal Brand Building out
4. Collaborative in and Competitive out
5. Gen Y leaders in Boomer Leaders out (generational shift)
6. Being in and Doing out...

h/t Jonny Baker

Useful stuff: http://uksnow.benmarsh.co.uk/ #uksnow

Communication speed: Haiti earthquake pictures

Raising aid funding: Haiti Redcross Donations

Why care...?

... about the things you are passionate about?

18 million people in the UK read blogs, estimation world has 130 million.... your blog? (Source BBC2 'The Virtual Revolution' transmitted 30/01/2010)

Upward Trends:

• Environment
• Economy
• Prudence
• Generosity
• Downloads

Downward Trends:

• Financial Services
• Banking
• Members of Parliament
• Physical product

From Business Link 'Loop'

• Strengthening communication with customers
• Reaching new customers
• Improving your reputation
• Generate third party references
• See what your customers are interested in
• Don’t sell persistently or aggressively
• Conversation and connection
• Be patient!

Why bother...?

Social Media is replacing what was telephone chit-chat with an online equivalent. If you resisted using a telephone in the old days it is the same as technofear nowadays.
I doubt any business person trolls down to the library to conduct research.

Questiontime...

The picture that reached the World

Topics to be covered via an agenda with four key questions:

1. What?
2. Why?
3. How?
4. When?

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