Entries tagged with bloggers - Channel 10

Get All the Microsoft Blogs at BlogMS

sarahintampa — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:42:00 GMT

At Microsoft, there are a lot of product and support teams blogging – so many, in fact, that it can be hard to keep up with them all. If you tried to subscribe to all the sites on your own, you could be overwhelmed by the sheer number of posts. Well, now there’s a better way to keep up with Microsoft news. A new resource called BlogMS makes it easy for you to follow all the Microsoft blogs by offering regular weekly and monthly updates from product, support and other specialist teams within Microsoft. The site tracks over 130 blogs in total! Every week and calendar month, BlogMS will also publish a full summary of all the latest articles in a single blog post on this site as well as offer a report which you can download. During the week, blog alerts will be issued to highlight important announcements. Here’s the list of all the blogs the site is tracking, but if you want to check out all the Microsoft produced blogs, you can go here to the Microsoft Community Blogs site. We hear that we have Brandon LeBlanc from the Windows Experience Blog to thank for getting this list started, so thank you, thank you, Brandon (and everyone else who ended up contributing to this site) for making our lives easier.

The ABC's of blogging

Laura — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 02:17:00 GMT

It seems that nowadays everybody has a blog. Some of us even have video blogs- well, I guess that's a vlog. (Bit of trivia: Blog is actually short for "web log") Anyway, for those of you out there who may be considering starting a blog, or even if you just want tips from some seasoned professionals, this video is for you. There are so many choices one needs to make when blogging- and some fatal traps you might fall in to. So I hit the pavement to find out what it takes to have a successful blog and and just how to get started.

this one time at Podcamp...

ambikas — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:25:00 GMT

Last Saturday I went down to the University for Advancing Technology in Tempe, Arizona to check out the first ever Podcamp AZ. Social media-ists from across the industry gathered together to spend the day discussing a wide range of topics spanning from video blogging and podcasting to using the internet to trade a year's worth of rent in a downtown Phoenix duplex for a recording contract - resulting in beautiful music by Jody Gnant! [Check out the back story here - this guy started one with one red paper clip and ended up owning a house! Jody's trade was somewhere along the way – its pretty crazy]. I met podcasters who were working to highlight the good works of local Arizonians in an effort to advance social causes [the Podchicks], video bloggers who hoped to find their way back to Hollywood [Clintus McGintus], and science fiction authors/readers who were using podcasts as an alternative to publishing [cant find the link - anyone??]. A wide range, to say the least.

I was surprised to find that while attendees were interested in monetizing their blogs/podcasts, the impetus and ongoing fueling for their work was often deeply personal and even cathartic. I expected more traction around ideas about ad models but was interested to find that what people really wanted to talk about was improving lighting quality, talking about stuff the public would find useful and so on.

Podcamps are constantly happening across the country. Check out their website to find the next one in your area. Anyone and everyone is welcome, they are TOTALLY FREE, and you are guaranteed to meeting interesting, driven, knowledgeable and geeky folk – I’ve got lots of interview material and video footage so if there is interest I will post it.

Let me know if anyone has or is planning to attend one of these events, and what your thoughts are on them are. Helpful? Dull? Snazzy?