Where to Find Lorelle on WordPress:
Blog URL: http://lorelle.wordpress.com/
Category: Internet Technology, Blogging

Lorelle On WordPress

Having a title created in your honor has to mean that you are a real authority on your subject. When that title is “blog evangelist” that must mean you attack your subject with an interest and enthusiasm that is unmatched elsewhere. So where can you find this unmatched, enthusiastic blog evangelism? At the blog of the blog evangelist herself, Lorelle on WordPress.

Lorelle on WordPress - Why You Should Go

Lorelle VanFossen has more than proven herself as an authority on blogging. She maintains three blogs of her own interest and is the author of Blogging Tips: What bloggers won’t tell you about blogging (a compilation of tips and how-to’s for maximizing your blogging efforts). Her expertise doesn’t stop there, though, Lorelle is also a much sought-after “public speaker, instructor, writer, and consultant on web writing, web design, and blogging, especially working with WordPress.”

This particular blog focuses on WordPress, blogging with WordPress, and the impact of blogging, most especially the impact of blogging with WordPress. It’s a place for general chat and several WordPress stories of interest, but primarily a place to learn how to effectively utilize the platform and benefit from it. Lorelle describes her blog’s purpose as a place to “learn more about blogging and WordPress…with help, tips, advice, and techniques for blogging and using WordPress, and Wordpress.com.” In short, “The blogging help you need. Now.”

Summing Up Lorelle on WordPress

Lorelle VanFossen has been given her due as one of the premier voices on blogging and the WordPress platform. Frequent her blog to maximize yours and see how blogging as a whole is changing lives in unconventional ways.

Go here to check out Lorelle on WordPress.

Mary Ward
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Where to Find Wordpress Lets You Do That?:
Blog URL: http://clint.uwcblog.com/
Category: Internet, Technology

Wordpress Lets You Do That?

As Clint says, when you start looking into leading blog platforms these days one name comes up above the others—Wordpress. It’s a blogging platform favored for its customizability and SEO superiority. The thing of it is, few Wordpress bloggers are getting all that they could from the platform. Clint used to be one of those bloggers as he set off into Internet Marketing, but over time came to be quite well versed on the platform and its many possibilities. And the more he learned, the more he realized that there was a blogosphere full of Wordpress bloggers out there that just might enjoy benefiting from his new-found knowledge.

Wordpress Lets You Do That? - Why You Should Go

The name of the blog is very much indicative of its content. On this blog Clint offers up all the knowledge a Wordpress blogger could want. Posts range from the basic to the back-end to show you how to get online with Wordpress, and then optimize it for the best possible traffic. Given the range of topics, content, and posts, this blog is as good for the seasoned Wordpress blogger as it is for the newbie trying to figure out how to publish that first post, and a great resource for anyone considering switching blog platforms.

Summing Up Wordpress Lets You Do That?

There are many things that Wordpress lets you do that can make all the difference in your blogging and blog’s ranking. Clint has uncovered many of them, and generously shares them with you on his blog. Find out here how to make the most of your Wordpress blogging experience.

Go here to check out Wordpress Lets You Do That?

Mary Ward
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Where to Find Entrepreneurs-Journey.com:
Blog URL: http://www.entrepreneurs-journey.com/
Category: Blogging, Internet Marketing

Entrepreneur’s-Journey.com

Entrepreneur’s-Journey.com is the place where pro-blogger Yaro Starak shares his “down-to-earth advice for bloggers and internet marketers”. His Blog Catalog page describes his blogs as a place to “Learn how you can start your own blogging business and earn a full time income working part time.” This blog is one of his free information resources that lets you take advantage of his talents and earned wisdom in the areas of “Internet business, online marketing, blogging and life” direct from either his home office in Brisbane, Australia or his laptop as he travels round the world in true, free, internet-marketer style.

Entrepreneur’s-Journey.com - Why You Should Go

Yaro Starak is ready to admit that there are a lot of people out there selling informational resources for those interested in working online. But there is a vast divide between those that are truly useful and those who are just jumping on the supply bandwagon. Yaro, however, has the credentials to back up everything he lays out on his blog and everything that goes into his courses and programs. Yaro’s advice and instruction comes from his experience and rise to internet marketing success, not from an unproven affiliate marketing report based off the claims of fame of others. The separation makes a huge impact on ultimate success, and so if you want to be on the succeeding end of the internet gold rush, you have to go with a pro like Yaro.

Summing Up Entrepreneur’s-Journey.com

Yaro Starak has some excellent and very highly recommended blogging programs and materials that he sells through his affiliate programs and directly from his websites and blogs. This blog is an extension of that. This extension is well worth your time whether or not you are taking part in any of his other programs, as the free information he offers is the real deal, and applicable to a wide variety of internet businesses. Take in Yaro’s blog to learn more about the real opportunities of the internet, and to take advantage of that most profitable of investments—free information from the pros who know.

Go here to check out Entrepreneur’s-Journey.com.

Mary Ward
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Where to Find Small Fuel Marketing:
Blog URL: http://www.smallfuel.com/blog/
Category: Marketing, Small Business

Small Fuel Marketing

Regular readers here know how much we like good, free, professional service and advice. Today we’ve found another gem for the small business owner and online dabbler in Small Marketing Fuel. This blog, an off-shoot of SmallFuel Marketing, Inc and offspring of IdentityFuel, is the work of Natalie M. Miller and Mason Hipp, a pair bonded in life and in business with the sole mission “to help small businesses everywhere get bigger.”

SmallFuel Marketing - Why You Should Go

As Mason and Natalie put it on their About Page, they don’t want to tell you what you want to hear as a small business owner or entrepreneur, they want to tell you what you need to hear. They want to provide you with real vital services and information you can use to set you up right in business. That doesn’t mean they’ll send you on either the cheapest or most expensive route, it just means they’ll send you on the most profitable.

And what could be more profitable than free advice? That’s essentially what the companion blog to the business is. There are posts from Mason and Natalie, and also well-known coaches and bloggers including James Chartrand and Dave Navarro. And the advice is real—not just sales gimmicky posts to get you buying their business, but posts important to growing a small business on topics like marketing essentials, productivity, exposure, and how to gain a competitive edge.

Summing Up SmallFuel Marketing

SmallFuel Marketing is an information-packed resource of real small business advice. It’s a great resource for online marketers and for offline small businesses, and also for people interested in capturing the power of small business marketing techniques for other interests (blogging and monetizing, perhaps?). Visit this blog and reap the knowledge of the pros, and grow your efforts above and beyond the average.

Go here to check out Small Fuel Marketing.

Mary Ward
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Where to Find In The Sphere:
Blog URL: http://blog.bluefur.com/
Category: Internet Technology, Computers

In The Sphere

One of the best things that professional and business-related blogs can do is give us access to what amounts to basically free professional services. In The Sphere, the blog of Blue Fur Canada Web Hosting, is one of those blogs. Maintained by a team of professionals from the Blue Fur Canada Web Hosting Company, the blog is a look at what’s good and useful around the blogosphere.

In The Sphere - Why You Should Go

Blue Fur is a company dedicated to client success. As an extension of that service delivery, they maintain the Canada Web Hosting Blog as a resource for their clients and readers so that they can make sense of the web and enjoy the benefits of the many great products and services out there. It includes posts that tell and teach as they instruct on things such as advertising, Wordpress plug-ins, marketing, and many other tech-related topics to increase productivity. It’s not all work and no play, though, and Friday Funnies and “News from around the blog sphere” are also mainstay topics.

Summing Up In The Sphere

In the Sphere is another place to go and learn from the pros that know. Use this blog as an internet and marketing resource, and benefit from the experience of a leading Canada web hosting provider.

Go here to check out In The Sphere.

Mary Ward
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Where to Find 16th Letter:
Blog URL: http://www.16thletter.com/
Category: Business, Internet Marketing

16th Letter

The 16th Letter is a collection of “Thoughts on how the internet intersects with work, life, & play.” It is the work of Beverly, Massachusetts (USA) internet business incubator Melissa Chang. Melissa, whose resume is packed with proven experience in web business in many different capacities, is the founder and President of Pure Incubation, Chang’s internet consulting and incubation company.

Melissa Chang’s extensive resume has built in her a wealth of valuable knowledge into the world of internet business, and also beyond it into the social side of life on the web. She combines these aspects into her blog and helps people to see the effect and effectiveness of the internet today on both work and play.

16th Letter - Why You Should Go

The 16th Letter is primarily business-focused, but not completely. There is a lot for the average person to learn from Melissa, and she presents it all in understandable terms. Her blog is a mix of tutorial and commentary on the recent happenings of business and media on the web. Her posts help readers learn to build businesses on the web from the bottom up and maintain them by remaining current on the evolution of current internet trends.

In addition The 16th Letter also highlights current internet news and events. But Melissa does more than link to the news; she also takes great care to analyze the situations as she presents them, and give her insightful take on each piece to help readers to make just a little more sense of it all.

Summing Up 16th Letter

Melissa Chang’s 16th Letter blog is information-packed to be sure, but it is also a place of friendliness and personality. She brings the right mix of personality and information and professionalism to her blog, which is a great place to learn about both the simple and complex aspects of working and playing on the web.

Go here to check out 16th Letter.

Mary Ward
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Where to Find Chris Brogan:
Blog URL: http://www.chrisbrogan.com/
Category: Social Networking, Business

ChrisBrogan.com

Chris Brogan is a very well known figure around social networking and business circles. As his bio states, his strength “is in connecting passionate people together for business, collaboration, and networking.” His blog, named simply ChrisBrogan.com, is just a part of what he does to advise businesses, organizations, and individuals in utilizing social media and social networking.

ChrisBrogan.com - Why You Should Go

This is one of those blogs that give you the opportunity to learn from the experts to succeed like the experts—at the best price to you, only the investment of your time. Chris writes about many topics related (and some less related, but equally interesting) to social networking. He helps readers learn about the basics and effectively utilize the tools available to them—both simple and complex. In short, what Chris does is make social networking and social marketing manageable for the average person or business, putting the power of the new web behind your business.

If this will be your first visit to ChrisBrogan.com, be sure to visit his post for new readers, where he points you toward the best and basics for getting started in social media.

Summing Up Chris Brogan

Chris Brogan’s approach to business in the new electronic era is similar to that of people like Chris Garrett and Liz Strauss. To Chris, business is about relationships first and business and products second. Those relationships are what he helps to build by teaching people how to build them. Chris Brogan.com is one more resource available to help you build a bigger, better blogging or business you.

Go here to check out ChrisBrogan.com.

Mary Ward
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Where to Find Be Your Own Detective:
Blog URL: http://blog.beyourowndetective.net/
Category: Investigations, Research

Be Your Own Detective

Everyone knows that most of the information you want is available online, right? So why is it so hard to find certain people, family, friends, and information you need? Maybe it’s because the average person doesn’t know where to look. Barry Dunn does know, though. With more than 20 years’ experience in police work and investigations, and a resume that includes work as an online investigator/researcher and work as an international police advisor, Barry knows more than most about how to find the people, places, and information you need.

Be Your Own Detective - Why You Should Go

The name says it all. Go to Barry’s Be Your Own Detective Blog to find the resources and tools that give you access to people and information. Barry offers regular posts with pearls of wisdom, gained from experience, to help you locate long lost friends and family, classmates, and information about criminals and offenders living and working with or near you. With his background in law enforcement, Barry can also offer some advice about the right and wrong and responsible uses of his information and resources (although, understandably, he does have to draw a line and enter a disclaimer for his own protection).

In addition to informational posts Barry also has links to his Squidoo Lens, useful sites, and his own articles and a directory of free public search resources that he compiled himself. All that, and Barry still finds time for interesting stories from the trade and for a few blonde jokes, too.

Summing Up Be Your Own Detective

We know most of the information we want is out there, but finding it is another matter entirely. We have all seen myriad “resources” which promise to perform, but it’s tough to know what to trust and what not to, what to pay for and what paid services to trust. Be Your Own Detective helps to sort all of that out. With Barry’s help, now we little people have the right tools to reconnect and protect our own personal interests, thanks to an investigator with the generosity to share his time and knowledge.

Go here to check out Be Your Own Detective.

Mary Ward
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Where to Find ProBlogger:
Blog URL: http://www.problogger.net/blog/
Category: Blogging

ProBlogger

ProBlogger is just one blog maintained by Darren Rowse, a fast-risen star of the blogworld. Darren is known to many as one of the co-founders of the popular b5Media Network, where he is also the VP of Blogger Training. But before b5 (and still today), Darren was a blogger—a professional blogger, and one who has an abundance of knowledge to share.

ProBlogger - Why You Should Go

Darren describes this particular blog as being “‚Ķdedicated to helping other bloggers learn the skills of blogging, share their own experiences and promote the blogging medium.” In a nutshell, that is what the blog is. It is an opportunity for bloggers of all shapes and sizes to learn from a professional making six figures a year as a professional blogger. From newbies to veteran bloggers, anyone can go to Darren to learn the ins and outs of successful blogging and monetizing (making money!) from your blog.

Darren’s sage professional advice deserves your attention regardless of the intentions of your blogging and your goals for it. If yours is a personal blog, interest for which you wish to gain more attention and readers, or a steady calling you’d like to make a go of as an income source, the blog tips (really, strategy and expertise) that Darren offers is what you need to meet those goals. He’s also shared his blogging wisdom in a book he co-authored with the equally upstanding Chris Garrett, ProBlogger, Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income.

Summing Up ProBlogger

Not all professionals are as quick to reveal the secrets of their success; so when you find a guy like Darren Rowse who is, you should definitely take advantage of his generosity. Darren isn’t someone talking about how it could maybe be done, he’s telling you how it is and has been done. He is a preeminent leader of the blogosphere, dedicated to watching it grow and taking a firm hand to be sure that it does.

This is a great time to visit ProBlogger, too; Darren and wife just welcomed their second son on June 15th - Father’s Day for many of us, but not for Darren in Australia (although he says he’s happy to celebrate this one, while giving all due credit to his wife for her efforts!). Darren will be taking paternity leave for the next couple of weeks, but has lined up a list of guest bloggers and revived some of his best posts to keep things interesting. This could be a great opportunity to see who the pro’s follow, rely on, and respect.

Go here to check out ProBlogger.

Mary Ward
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Where to Find Techipedia:
Blog URL: http://www.techipedia.com/
Category: Technology, Social Media

Techipedia

Techipedia is something of a Wikipedia for computers, the internet, gadgetry, and technology. Blogger Tamar Weinberg brings her love of technology to her blog creation, where she discusses and teaches about all aspects of the web, social marketing, and computer technology in general. From online business to website design and industry news, Tamar covers a little bit of everything, building a quite comprehensive resource for all of us looking for tips and tricks, and better ways to get things done.

Techipedia - Why You Should Go

The draw to Techipedia is the subject matter, but what will keep you coming back is Tamar’s enthusiasm for her field and chosen subject. Tamar describes herself as a “tech geek” and “social media enthusiast”, among other things. She has a clear love of her subject and her job as a social media consultant, and that enthusiasm rings through in all her posts.

Tamar Weinberg offers up some great information and insight into technology and its myriad possibilities and uses. Her blog is a resource for those who want to stay up on technology and the internet, or those who need someone else to do the walking for them so that they can just learn from the pros who know. More importantly, though, Techipedia offers real insight into how to utilize these tools to make more of your time online. Productivity is a top priority at Techipedia.

Summing Up Techipedia

Learn more from a tech professional with a passion for what she does. Find the tools and techniques that work online to make your life more productive, as well as the gadgets and more that simplify your life and make it more fun all around. Become energized by the spirit and enthusiasm of Tamar Weinberg at Techipedia.

Go here to check out Techipedia.

Mary Ward
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