Blog World
I'll be attending Blog World with my husband next week. I've been working with online businesses since about 1994 when I had a Compuserve forum owner as a client. What's interesting is that with the exception of a few statutes that specifically address online businesses, a lot of the advice I give now is the same as what I was saying back in 1993.
Compuserve was a community based system. It was all about people interacting with other people. Back then we called it being part of an online community. People talked about things that interested them, and other people commented. People got to know each other, met in person, even got married. And no one had heard of a blog or FaceBook.
Then the big wide Internet came along and for a few years things became somewhat uni-directional. Now everyone's all abuzz about Social Networking - but some of us were involved with it, albeit on a more limited scale, over a decade ago. And in Internet-time and blog-time a decade is a very long time.
Blogs are not only part of the online community and its move away from uni-directional communication, but they are putting publishing and journalism into the hands of anyone with Internet access. I think this is a very good thing.
