Over the last few months blogs and blogging have received a lot of media attention.
In some cases the media provides useful incites via the "new" medium, such as the Guardian's news blogs.
In some circles you will find advocates of blogging for all businesses.
What I was surprised to find was a company that specialised in providing blogs for business on an open source platform.
In reality I'm not that surprised, as it is an inevitable progression.
So what exactly do "The Blog Studio" offer:
The Blog Studio is a service company. We enable and assist companies to engage in meaningful conversations with their customers to enhance bottom line profitability. We do this by removing barriers, strengthening your brand, and promoting your message.Their site seems to be quite new, but they've already got a couple of sites in their portfolio and the overall impression is quite slick. However, this is not just a design service. They are also offering coaching, where they can help you outline your "blogging goals" and implement an "action plan" If nothing else it is interesting What is also interesting from a more technical point of view is their choice of software platform to achieve these goals. Unlike so many blogs they are not opting for a "mainstream" blogging platform, but have chosen instead Text Pattern. From what I've seen of this platform it seems to be a hybrid between CMS and blogging application. (more on that once I've had the time to experiment)
That's more or less what I am specialising in now as well Michele - I am meeting with clients, developing blog strategy documents for them, implementing the strategy strategy documents and providing ongoing monitoring of the blog for them.
Possibly I need to reflect this on my site!
... another good communication idea, if less interactive, is writing a sponsored column for a paper or magazine eg like the security column in e-Thursday (Indo Thursdays) or the Blacknight column in PCLive ;-)
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Hi there,
I'm so glad you found my site! This whole blog thing continues to flatten me.
I've been using textpattern for a while, and develop client sites for it because of its amazing flexibility. After a short but steep learning curve, it's incredibly easy to customize for any scenario.
For example, The Blog Studio site itself is powered by textpattern, as is a site I built recently for a computer retailer, http://www.pcmdoncall.com
I've used MT, WP and TXP, and prefer txp by leaps and bounds.