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As of today, Business and Blogging is officially launched as part of the rapidly growing b5media blogging network and ‘categorically’ speaking as part of b5media’s new Business Channel.
b5media (www.b5media.com) is a global new media network featuring more than 150 blogs on a wide variety of subjects ranging from entertainment and news to technology and sports. With content written by passionate people from all over the world and visited by more than two million unique visitors a month, b5media is among the world’s largest online new media networks.
What can I say? This is a privilege and I acknowledge the visionary founders of b5media, Jeremy, Darren, Shai and Duncan for their creation of the network and I thank them for the invitation to participate.
Thinking Home Business, the blog I have put most of my blogging energies into over the past couple of years, will continue, probably with a bit of a shift of emphasis. To be frank, I haven’t quite figured out the details of that shift yet, but it will undoubtedly have less emphasis on business blogging, which I will be covering here.
Business and Blogging is about empowering business people to use blogging to advance their business. As a business coach, my aim is always to empower others by helping them to discover their own resources and create their own future. Translating that to blogging, my aim is for this blog to support business owners in finding their own voice and building trust with their customers, in and through blogging.
This blog is intended to be international in scope, inviting and seeking information around the globe, and seeking examples of where companies have been able to use blogs to extend their global reach.
I’ll be looking here at blogging from a determinedly business perspective, inevitably with a big measure of positivity, because that’s the way I am and the way I see business blogging, but also with a healthy measure of basic business savvy.
In other words, I intend to be realistic about return on investment or, to use Debbie Weil’s great term, “return on blogging”. I intend to address management and human resources issues, marketing, business development strategy, risk management and legal liability issues (I am not a lawyer but I know how to link).
And how encompassing is the word “business” for me in respect of this blog? Basically as broad as possible across the spectrum, from Fortune 500 global behemoths to the solopreneurs working from their own homes.
That’s the beauty of blogs – there is technological, financial and cultural scope for all who wish to join in.
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[...] My previous post, on the launch of this Business and Blogging site, mentioned that it is part of the Business Channel within the b5media blog network. [...]
Welcome to b5media,Des. It’s great to have you on board. And thanks for the input you’ve given in comments on my blog.
Robyn and Darren
Thanks for the encouragement – and the challenge :)
welcome to b5!
Looking forward to what comes out of this blog Des – great stuff.
I’m subscribed and am anticipating great things!
Thanks Kathie, Paul and Liz
So good to have all the greetings. I’m honoured!
Hey Des,
Welcome to b5. Gosh it’s great to have you! It’s hard not to like it here. It will be even more fun with you around. :)
Des, let me join the parade! Congrats on starting this blog. You are the person for the job to be sure.
Great looking blog template Des, and as usual, another great blog!
Wow! What an encouraging start to my day and the future of this blog – such great comments from people for whom I have loads of respect. You’ve all put me on my mettle to live up to your confidence. And yes, Aaron, it is a very cool template – wish I’d designed it myself :)
Congrats on the gig, Des – b5 is a classy outfit.
This one’s going straight to my rss reader.
Glad to have you, Des. Nice template too. :)
Des, congratulations on your alliance with b5 Media. The blog looks great and I’ll be subscribing to keep up with your ideas and thoughts about business and blogging, something that’s near and dear to my heart, as you know.
Congratulations on launching this slick new blog, Des. To all readers, I add my recommendation that you know what you’re talking about here. Subscribed!
Glad that you’re going to take a step back and look at this topic broadly – there is so much to say about it and the scope of it grows daily.
By the way, a bunch of us biz blogger types are working on a investigating those Fortune 500 behemoths you mentioned. You and all others here are invited to lend a hand.
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