Easton Ellsworth has launched a new series of posts offering blog help for small business.
Going by the first post of the series, Small Business Blog Help, Part 1: What Is A Business Blog? this will be a series not to be missed.
One of the gems in the post is an untangling of the various meanings attached to the phrase “small business blog” and similar phrases. Easton lists six different meanings. Each meaning is fine in context, but without this sort of clarification the average owner of small business would be justified in feeling a bit confused. The distinct meanings Easton …read more

This week I wrote on my Thinking Home Business blog, a couple of posts about Twitter.
Twitter is described on Wikipedia as:
…a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send “updates” (text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) via SMS, instant messaging, the Twitter website or an application such as Twitterrific. These updates are displayed on the user’s profile page and also instantly delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them.
In the post Twitter – Help or Hindrance to the Work from Home Brigade? I wrote:
I imagine it’s fairly obvious that Twitter could be a real …read more

It seems to me that in business, as in life generally, when we raise a subject there is often an expectation that we have a complete statement in mind, or our own answer to a problem we raise. And if that’s so, it probably inhibits a lot of thoughtful people from airing their surmises and their questions. Which for me makes conversation and human interaction the poorer.
When we were in school (at least, when I was in school, it may be better now), things were explained, we learned the answers to questions and we served up those answers and that’s how we got good …read more