The eNetSC Journal: Weblog Resources

Marketing Blogs

Fri, 01 Sep 2006 15:18:21 GMT

Learn how to increase online exposure and market your company with Marketing Blogs. Gain tips on creating relevant content for your small business weblog.

Google Blog Search

Wed, 14 Sep 2005 13:06:18 GMT

Do you need help in searching blogs?

Use Google Blog Search (Google-style interface) or Blog Search (Blogger-style interface) to quickly and easily find the latest blog entries.

The search results will include all the blogs in Google's blog index, not just Blogger blogs. Multiple languages are available.

Google's blog search can also be accessed from Blogger or from Blogger blogs. The navigation bar on Blogger blogs has been updated to enable you to search that specific Blogger blog or to search all blogs.

Weblogs

Mon, 20 Jun 2005 13:17:14 GMT

Have you considered setting up a blog to promote a business? Find many Internet resources to help you set up and promote Weblogs or blogs.

Pluck Web Edition

Fri, 18 Feb 2005 12:18:23 GMT

If you are looking for a web-based RSS reader, consider using Pluck. The Pluck Web Edition (PWE) provides an integrated RSS feed directory and search engine to help you to quickly and easily find new feeds. It also allows you to publish and share your collection of RSS feeds via publicly available folders hosted on the Internet by Pluck. Each public folder has an associated RSS feed so that other people can subscribe to it.

MSNBC - Ask Jeeves Buys Bloglines

Tue, 15 Feb 2005 16:15:39 GMT

Bloglines is a comprehensive, integrated service for searching, subscribing, publishing and sharing news feeds, blogs, and web content. Users of Bloglines will be interested in the following news story:

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MSNBC - Ask Jeeves Buys Bloglines

SAN FRANCISCO - Underdog online search engine Ask Jeeves Inc. has bought Bloglines, a Web log index and Internet news funnel popular with serious readers of online journals, in its latest bid to gain ground on heavyweight rivals Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc.

Blogger - BlogThis!

Fri, 11 Feb 2005 20:15:22 GMT

If you have a Blogger blog, consider using BlogThis! to quickly and easily post entries.

BlogThis! provides an interface for posting entries to your blog without visiting Blogger.com. After you add a BlogThis! link to your browser's toolbar, you can click on BlogThis! to add a link to the web page you are visiting and also include any text that you highlight on the page. After adding any other text you want to include, you can then publish your entry or save it as a draft.

MSNBC - Blog This

Fri, 11 Feb 2005 20:14:59 GMT

MSNBC has added a Blog This feature to the existing features, Email This and Print This, on every MSNBC.com story so that you can add a specific portion of text or the entire story to your blog on MSN Spaces. Please read the following press release (February 9, 2005) for more details:

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MSNBC - Press Release
MSNBC.com, a leader in breaking news and original journalism on the Internet, introduces Blog This, the latest communication tool designed to help online news consumers share information and ideas with friends and the public. Blog This allows users to quickly and efficiently write blogs related to specific MSNBC.com news stories and immediately communicate their opinions to others.

Managing Multiple Weblogs

Wed, 09 Feb 2005 23:23:26 GMT

Our first company blogs were set up with the Blogger tool that allows you to create multiple blogs. Three initial blogs were set up for different topics. However, the same customized template was used with each blog so the blogs were linked together with a common sidebar. Thus, a person could view one of the blogs and, if interested, click on a sidebar link to view another blog. Two more blogs were later added.

After the initial customization, management of the blogs has been rather straight forward. The purpose of the business blogs is to provide information, not editorials, so the blog entries are not lengthy. Neither is there an attempt to add many, many daily entries to each blog. Rather, the daily posting might only be a single entry to each blog - not an overwhelming task.

When MSN Spaces was announced, we had to try it! So, another blog was created.

MSN Spaces provides a category feature for blog entries to be organized in up to 25 categories. This is a very handy feature, but it does mean that all the blog entries appear together on the main (index) page. Although Blogger does not have a category option, it does allow multiple blogs. And, the use of a common template with sidebar links to the other blogs basically categorizes the blogs, and allows each blog to have its own main (index) page. So, both MSN Spaces and Blogger provide positive features for weblog management.

This blog (MSN Spaces) has become the online web diary that is updated throughout the day. It is the Work-in-Progress (WIP) blog that may or may not contain brief entries. The other blogs (Blogger) are still updated together at the same time, usually each work day. Once done, any other blog entries will be added as draft entries for the next publication date.

All in all, managing multiple blogs has not been a complex and overwhelming task. Two key factors in managing the multiple business blogs have been planning and organization. An initial plan specified the organization of the blogs, the purpose of each blog, and the specific type of entries to be added to each blog. Whenever a new blog has been added, the plan has been reviewed and revised. For example, some blog entries will now appear on this blog (WIP) instead of another blog.

It helps to be organized in managing multiple blogs but it also helps to be flexible, else you will negate one of the primary benefits of blogging - ease of use!

FeedBurner

Tue, 08 Feb 2005 20:07:09 GMT

FeedBurner is a free service that allows you to republish your RSS or Atom feed into a variety of formats. It is a very helpful tool for providing a compatible RSS version to readers that do not support Atom.

It will also format your raw feed XML into a browser-friendly, subscriber-friendly format that displays like a web page and includes information on subscribing to your feed. For example, the raw feed XML for The eNetSC Journal was republished with FeedBurner into a browser-friendly, subscriber-friendly format.

RSS2HTML

Tue, 08 Feb 2005 13:04:51 GMT

With just a few easy steps you can convert RSS feeds to HTML links for your web site! The free RSS2HTML tool allows you to select a layout and color scheme to generate a URL that can be added to a web site. Please view an example that was created from the RSS feed of The eNetSC Journal.

RSS to JavaScript Conversion Tools

Tue, 08 Feb 2005 12:18:10 GMT

Free RSS to JavaScript conversion tools are available to easily integrate an RSS feed into a web site. For example, the RSS feed for The eNetSC Journal has been converted to JavaScript code so that it can be viewed on the eNetSC.com web site as one of its web pages.

If you are interested in converting an RSS feed to JavaScript code for a web site, check out RSS-to-JavaScript and Feed2JS. Both tools are easy to use and allow you to customize the content to match your web site design. Please view our web page, The eNetSC Journal, if you would like to see an example.

MSN Spaces

Fri, 04 Feb 2005 13:39:53 GMT

The eNetSC.com web site was recently updated to include MSN Spaces in its list of resources for Weblogs.

MSN Spaces allows you to create an online space for free. You can quickly and easily build your own weblog (blog) to share your thoughts and experiences, include information, make recommendations (lists), display photos, and more!