Awakened Voice

Earlier this week I opened my trusty Wordpress blog creation software and saw news that a new sidebar plugin had been released that makes it easier to arrange items in the sidebar of my blog page. Then yesterday I came across the news that TypePad has introduced their own set of Widgets for their blogging [...]

One great use of Wiki technology is for product support documentation. Instead of a collection of word documents or .pdf files you can create a searchable online support base that can grow and change as your products do. The LibSyn Support Wiki is a great repository of information for users of their service. It’s searchable [...]

Josh Hallett is reporting that a commercial blog hosting company called BlogZerk is offering a free business blog to one company located in the Orlando, Florida area.
Josh’s post is a little misleading (unintentionally I’m sure) as it fails to state that only one company will actually be picked to get a free blog. The rest [...]

CT Biz Blogs has posted a great series of blog posts on RSS. The series includes a very good explanation of RSS and why you should use it. There are helpful links to other sources of information on RSS as well as tutorials on how to find RSS feeds. Definitely recommended for anyone getting started [...]

It’s a fact that over the last few years spammers have gotten smarter. They’ve moved from email to blogs at a very rapid pace. In fact, I’ve gotten comment spam on every blog style site that I run which accepts user comments. The spam comes in the form of comments that point to random links [...]

The first episode of A Billion Voices is posted. I started off simple and I look forward to bringing more robust information on all aspects of social media. I also welcome and and all comments and contributions related to the show.
[tags]A Billion Voices, Social Media, Podcast, Podcasting[/tags]

A community Wiki site has relaunched and announced a round of venture capital funding. As reported on TechCrunch, Wikicities has relaunched as Wikia.
Wikia is a collection of Wiki based web communities that anyone can contribute to. If you don’t find a community to suit your needs there then you can start your own.
The funding is [...]

As reported in this comment on the blog, the folks from Eastwikkers are looking for a few good Wikis. Their “33 Wikis” series is featuring a new Wiki each day for 33 days.
According to the Eastwikker site, “we will focus on one wiki, and we will briefly describe what the wiki is for, why we [...]

If you’re looking to jump into the world of blogging without having to spend a ton of time coming up with a concept and actually launching a blog, there is another way. In fact, it would behoove your business to do some detailed research on blogging anyway prior to starting your own blog.
One way that [...]

The word is out on a new podcasting service called evoca. TechCrunch has a mini review of the service, as does the Social Software Weblog.
I checked out their website and I must say that I really like the color scheme! Aesthetics aside, this offering reminds me (and many others) of Odeo. You can do a [...]