One of the casualties of the imminent closing of the Soflow social networking site is the excellent Blog Buzz forum there, managed by Jim Turner of One by One Media.
The membership includes a high proportion of very successful, well-known bloggers. The quality of discussion has always been high.
It would have been a pity if Blog Buzz were to have disappeared with the Soflow platform. I know from my experience of the LinkedIn Bloggers group, of which I am a moderator, that new bloggers and even seasoned ones find a group like this really helpful for getting information, advice …read more

One of the key distinctions about blogging that I endeavour to communicate to business people is to see their blog not just as a kind of new style website, but as a way for them to join in new conversations, especially but not exclusively with customers and potential customers. That’s not about conversation for conversation’s sake, but about building a sense of community where the business and customers are seen, as in any community, as having shared interests.
But while we might know how to start or join a conversation in the offline world, not everyone can be expected to know how …read more