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BloggingApril 6, 2006 7:10 pm

Microsoft Reportedly Ready To Launch Windows Live Video
TechWeb - Microsoft Corp. is reportedly a month away from launching a Windows Live Video service where content could be bought and sold much like what\’s available now through Google Inc. The new service is expected to be available publicly in April, LiveSide

Keeping Tabs On Maintenance Business
CRN - Regular readers of this semi-occasional blog as well as my formal \”columns\” (if you can tell the difference, please help me out!) know I m perpetually fascinated by ways to make things easier. Especially as it pertains to how a solution provider

Newest corner office tech exec blog: VMware prez Diane Green
ZDNet Blogs - Although there are a lot of vice presidents, CTOs, and director-level (like BEA\’s Eric Stahl ) tech execs from big IT companies blogging these days, there still aren\’t too many chief executives or presidents willing to mix it up the way Sun president

Marathon route changes
Frederick News-Post - Arrow Financial Services has opportunities available for Customer Service Account Reps, Collections Account Reps, an Account Supervisor and Training Manager. FREDERICK — Race officials for the Frederick Marathon must seek a new path for the April 30

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Free publicity is there for the grabbing. All it takes is a little creativity and a powerful ezine. Writing an ezine (commonly known as an email newsletter), will assist you in building credibility while marketing your company service or product.
Approaching the Concept
Before you jump into writing an ezine, take a few days to research what is currently circulating on the Internet. To do this, visit search engines like Google or AskJeeves and type in the keyword phrase creating ezines . On Google alone, you will receive 167,000 possibilities for resource information just for that day. Now tomorrow the number may increase.

You can use these same search engines to find an ezine directory. Don\’t be surprised if you receive a large number of ezine resource links from your search. Most sites will offer you the opportunity to join its directory for a low monthly fee. Doing so will increase your odds of making money with a monthly ezine.

Whether you\’re a business owner or a freelance writer, you should join as many ezines in your target market as possible. By doing so, you will always stay on top of what is hot and what is not . Subscribing doesn\’t always mean you\’ll need to shell out money. In fact, a smart business professional will GIVE IT AWAY free.
Ezine Success
If you\’re Internet savvy, you\’re probably familiar with a number of websites that promote ezines. From \’How to Make Money in Real Estate\’ to \’How to Do It Yourself Home Improvements\’, everyone who is anybody is promoting their service or product through ezine articles and the success rate is growing rapidly. This is due to the high demand for information on self-help topics, health and fitness, business and investments. No matter what the industry, there is a definite way to make money using ezines.

Online you\’ll find FREE and SUBSCRIPTION ezines. Most ezines that are delivered free are done so to \’perk interest\’ of perspective customers. The consumer is given a taste of what is to come and the result is the purchase of a service or product. The intent of subscription ezines is the same, but cost the consumer a small annual fee. Sometimes the consumer will receive a package for their purchase. For instance, a free e-book on marketing or selling on eBay is received by every subscriber. And tucked inside each e-book is more money making opportunities for the ezine publisher.

Many publishers will permit a copy writer to submit a small article on topics that pertain to the publisher\’s ezine. The writer gives the publisher permission to publish their article, free of charge, in exchange for the publisher including the author\’s bylines. Normally, this small 3-line blurb directs traffic to the writer\’s website, which in turn, creates more business for the writer. To me - this seams like a WINNING OPPORTUNITY.
Without a doubt - ezines pack a powerful punch! Whether you\’re a publisher or writer, you can make a monthly residual that exceeds a $1,000. It\’s begins with understanding your market and ends with giving them what they demand.

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Blog on the run
Business Standard, India - 11 hours ago Blogging in India is getting a facelift with moblogs or mobile blogging finding a place at Rediff iLand (in its final beta stages), to be launched

Blogging Becomes Major Media Force, Expert Says
Washington File, DC - Mar 29, 2006 Blogging took off first in the United States. Some professionals jumped into blogging enthusiastically. Others have dismissed the entire genre.

Washington Post: Halavais discusses blogging
UB News Center, NY - Apr 4, 2006 Alex Halavais is interviewed in a Q&A in The Washington Post on using blogs in the classroom, and said, \”I wanted students to read each other\’s work and not

Journalists Shun Blogging \’to Avoid Highlighting\’ Their
NewsBusters - Mar 30, 2006 The reticence of some traditional journalists to engage with blogging, he said, could be to avoid highlighting their own shortcomings.

Web Journals Both a Help And Hindrance
Washington Post, United States - Apr 3, 2006 at the State University of New York\’s University at Buffalo and a teaching assistant in a class called \”Cyberporn & Society.\” She said blogging in the

The insider secrets of blogging to build your personal brand and
Online Recruitment, UK - Mar 29, 2006 The insider track on blogging is uncovered in the long awaited book Blogwild! from blogging expert Andy Wibbels which is launched on the 6 April 2006.