On today’s show Colin Devroe, the CTO of 9rules, answers questions I received about the technical side of blogging. What blogging software should be used? Should a custom solution be made? How should security issues be addressed? Colin answers these questions, and shares how he used WordPress to create the current web site for 9rules.

Disclaimer: I am the Community Director for 9rules but I wanted companies to see that expensive solutions are not necessary to achieve a custom affect. Colin also discusses features to look for in a programmer. Colin’s three part series on how he created 9rules the backend for 9rules can be found:

Building 9rules – Part 1
Building 9rules – Part 2
Building 9rules – Part 3

On today’s show:

• Jeremy discusses his book Blog Marketing
• Why companies should implement blogs
• Why companies are afraid to implement blogs
• Jeremy’s definition of a blog (we agree to disagree)
• Internal blogging – how companies are using them
• Blogs and branding
• How to monitor the conversation
• Jeremy launched B5 Media
• Jeremy talks about his experience of being fired for blogging
• Blogging on company blogs vs. employees blogging on personal blogs
• B5 is adding new features.
• B5 wants to match one or two bloggers with readers. Interesting approach.
• Using the right tools to blog
• B5 realizes there is another audience – non-bloggers
• Conflicts of interest in the “blogging world”
• Jeremy answers the question: What’s the most important thing you apply from his book Blog Marketing to his business B5 Media
• Jeremy says “no comment” to an interesting topic

There are many reasons why a company might want to consider starting a company blog. In this podcast I discuss some of the reasons why a company should consider having a public blog. I also give a real life example on how a blog could have helped a company (Talk A Good Game) keep their customers informed and what the company could have done differently to resolve the situation.

Well, I’m back. For better or for worse, The BizBlog Show’s podcast machine is rolling again. This first of the new series of podcasts is with Steve Broback from the Blog Business Summit, amongst other things, and we talk about a fair amount of conference related things, get into his views on business blogging and all kinds of little gems.

Plus, I manage to make Steve speechless at least twice, which is well worth listening to ;-)

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00:00 Network Intro

00:06 Jeremy’s Schpiel

02:47 Interview Opener

02:53 Interview with Steve Broback

18:19 Network Wrap-up

Things have settled down again now, and I’ve already recorded 2 new shows for your listening pleasure. Expect to see shows coming soon in the next week or so, hopefully with greater frequency than the last few months has shown ;-)

If you know anyone who (or you yourself) would like to be interviewed, drop me a line and we’ll sort it out. If you have show or topic suggestions, also drop me a line. If you have extra cash which is stressing you out and you’d like a hand, drop me a line.

If you are looking for money, drop someone else a line.

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The BizBlog Show #03- 30th March 2005 (36min 32sec):
MP3 - 12.6MB

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00:00 Network Intro

00:17 Show Opener

01:04 Interview with Kevin

34:50 Jeremy wraps up the show

35:20 Network Wrap-up

We’ll be talking to him about his business, about how blogs affect the business of law and whatever else comes up. The recording is scheduled for this Saturday, so it should be up next week sometime.

We’ve also confirmed Greg Reinacker from Newsgator and Simon Phipps from Sun Microsystems for our next shows.

When he has finished moving and doing all the things he is doing, I know he has a great show lined up…

Enjoy…

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The BizBlog Show - 22nd March 2005 (39min 03sec): MP3 - 13.4MB

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00:00 Network Intro

00:23 Welcome and introduction to this episode of The BizBlog Show by Jeremy Wright

01:00 Jeremy calls Paul Chaney from Radiant Marketing and the President of the Pro-Bloggers Association (PBA)

06:00 He rings up Lee Wilkens from Dude Limited is on the line.

13:40 Next up, he Skypes Tris Hussey who runs blog consulting firm, Larix Consulting, is the Chief Blogging Officer at Qumana Software and is a member of the PBA

23:15 He has a chat with Eric Rice, founder of audioblog.com and the Podcast Producer over at WeblogsInc (he just launched the new Engadget podcast).

30:20 Last up, he calls Toby Bloomberg from Diva Marketing and the PBA

37:10 Jeremy wraps up the show

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The BizBlog Show - 10th March 2005 (28min 53sec): MP3 - 10MB

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00:00 Network Intro

00:17 Welcome and Introduction to The BizBlog Show by Jeremy Wright

02:37 Jeremy’s post and thoughts on “How things have changed”

06:55 Dealing with critisicm from your blog

07:50 Who is Jeremy…

09:05 Who is Tyme…

10:15 What to expect from The BizBlog Show’s

12:10 Gawker Media and the “video” hosting affair

17:35 Apple’s secrets and are bloggers really journalists in the eye of the courts???

21:55 Blogging Planet joins the ranks of blog consultancy companies.

For Immediate Release Podcast

25:50 Show wrap-up