In my book outline, I list the advantages of a small business blog. Here are two new ones.

Speed
Humans have been able to travel a thousand miles since the whenever it was that we began walking upright. But a thousand miles in two hours? Big impact culturally and economically. Web publishing has been around since [...]

A couple of weeks ago, the Northfield Enterprise Center held a Marketing for Success seminar. Elizabeth Child, marketing communications and PR consultant, encouraged everyone to use a 30 second “elevator pitch” while mingling with one another during the social hour prior to her presentation.

I’ve done this with another one of my businesses but realized that [...]

In today’s Star Tribune South section:

Northfield’s top cop, citizens meet online

I moderated the discussion via the Northfield.org ISSUES discussion list, using a software tool called Mailman which is available free to those clients who use Tiger Technologies for their website hosting. See TigerTech’s Mailman page for more info.

I’m hoping to get back on track with the book this week after a lengthy period in which I’ve just been focusing on the day-to-day work with my blogging clients. On Wednesday, I’m meeting with a friend and colleague, Randy Jennings (aka Randoph Jennings), a fellow Northfielder with book publishing experience. He and his family [...]

A Northfield, MN cancer survivors group, Northfield Survivors, has a new website with a weblog.

Look for Sue Mieska and colleagues to begin blogging Real Soon Now.

This morning I blogged an update on my book, Small Business Blogging.

I’m hoping to get back on track with it after I meet this week with Randolph Jennings (aka Randy Jennings), a friend and colleague with book publishing experience.

Once I get a draft of the book finished, my plan is to distribute it to [...]

If you want to pay us via credit card, you can now do so via PayPal, linked from the Contact Us page.

If you need a similar feature on your web site, let us know.

We launched the new Citistates Group homepage today, a three-column layout.

It features a main weblog in the middle, with “feeds” from two other associates’ weblogs automatically imported into the right-hand column.

Citistates will likely soon take the additional step of importing one or more syndicated newsfeeds into the lower left column.

This same weblog feed strategy is [...]

Google deployed (without warning) a new version of Blogger today. It has a new interface and some new features, the most important being weblog comments. See their announcement and explanations.

Six Apart is in the final stages of releasing Movable Type 3.0.

If you’re a client of Wigley and Associates and have questions about either of these [...]