When someone says "you should blog in your business", what does that really mean? Most people know that blogging is like a personal diary; the domain of young people; perhaps politically motivated; or someone who is fascinated with cats. However, if someone is telling you to blog for your business, they’re probably right; they realize that you could achieve greater organic search visibility; or they might understand that you could connect with your target audience at a deeper level; or they instinctively know that you could sell your products or service your customers with less effort and better results. The next question is how?

Deltina Hay recently wrote about social media newsrooms citing (among many things)... the quote at right.

While Google is big, their notions and philosophies about doing business online are relatively simple and straightforward. Recently, the Google User Experience Team (UX) convened to publish the principles that ought to guide Google design teams worldwide. There are only ten guidelines, and they are indeed simple.

Do you wonder how often visitors abandon your Web page before it has finished loading? In his book, Designing Web Usability, Jakob Nielsen states that a fast load time should be your most important design consideration. This comes from the Internet's leading usability guru.

Widgets and gadgets are becoming more popular with the recent introduction of application frameworks such as iGoogle and OpenSocial, and these tools represent new ways to spread your message. Google Gadgets and WidgetBox are two of the most popular frameworks for creating gadget applications.

Cenzic, the innovative leader in application security risk management, vulnerable assessment, and compliance solutions launched their MyST Blogsite yesterday (blog.cenzic.com).

One might morph the popular real estate adage for applicability to marketing websites:  Security, security, security.