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Bloggers Toolkit: Passing on Help with Gratitude

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We Are Experienced

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Who knows the real figures? Not every blog is indexed. Thousands of bloggers start blogging all over the world every minute. I’m sure that many could be like I was — thinking this stuff has got to be easy and finding it wasn’t as easy as I thought.

Drew McLellan has a project to help new bloggers who are feeling like that. He’s compiling a toolkit — a list of blogs that new bloggers can turn to when they start out — a bloggy version of the SOB NEW BLOGGER PAGE. He’s asking for our help. He said.

Anyone who is interested, create a post listing a few blog sites (and maybe give a word or two as to how you’d categorize them) that:
New Bloggers Toolbox

  1. Are chock full of practical tips
  2. Act as a living lab on how to write compelling blog posts
  3. Demonstrate how to build a community
  4. Teach marketing tools
  5. Are welcome wagons - bloggers who spotlight newbies

Drew’s Bloggers Toolkit
Converstations (chock full of practical tips)
CK’s blog (compelling blog post examples)
Viral Garden  (demonstrate how to build a community)
Lonely Marketer (teach marketing tools)
Successful & Outstanding Blogs (bloggers who spotlight newbies)

Additions to The Bloggers Toolkit

    DailyBlog Tips (chock full of practical tips)
    The Copywriting Maven (compelling blog post examples)
    Come Gather Round (demonstrate how to build a community)
    Blogopreneur (teach marketing tools
    The Good Blogs (bloggers who spotlight newbies)

There are so many more blogs that could be here. I know. I know. If you can, write a post like this one and link back to Drew, so he can find it when he needs to compile them.

Drew’s doing a generous thing with this project. He’s offered us a chance to participate. We can “give back with gratitude,” through the links we choose to pass on. Let’s build a list that will help new bloggers and serve our readers at the same time.

We were all new bloggers once, and someone helped us. It’s nice to have this chance to do the same.

Thank you, Drew, for this idea and for including my blog on your list.
–ME “Lis” Strauss
If you’d like Liz to help you make a plan to meet your goals, click on the Work with Liz!! page in the sidebar.

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Great Find: 12 U. S. Laws Every Blogger Needs to Know

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Some Legal Notes

Brand New SOB Franke James sent me an email yesterday. It held a link for Aviva Directory article on U. S. Blogger law. The article a resource for bloggers that I want to share with you.

Great Find: 12 Important U.S. Laws Every Blogger Needs to Know
Permalink: http://www.avivadirectory.com/blogger-law/
Target Audience: All bloggers
Content: This article was posted May 1, 2007 and received over 1500 Diggs. It outlines 12 U.S. laws that bloggers should know. Each law is defnined and described. Then appropriate defensive actions are outlined following that text. Here is a summary of the 12 laws.

    1. Bloggers must disclose when they are being paid to review a product.

    2. Courts have declared that some deep links to posts — rather than links to the changing front page of a blog — are in violation if anchor text and the text around the link misleads the reader into thinking the information is part of the original document.

    3. Inline linking, or hot linking, which pulls an image from another site to appear on a blog is considered risky. Using thumbnails created new for the purpose of using a fresh image on your blog is considered fair use.

    4. Any original work is under copyright protection the second it’s created. No form of record or registration is necessary.

    5. The Uniform Doman Name Dispute Resolution Policy has made domain name dispute handling more efficient. It also tends to favor trademark holders.

    6. It’s best to avoid revealing private information about readers, and to avoid collecting any data that you don’t absolutely need.

    7. As stated, “By including a terms of service which spells out that you will have a license in all content posted in the site and more specifically that you will not have a duty to modify or withdraw posts but you may do so if you choose, you can ensure that you have effective control over the user-driven content on your site even if you do not have actual ownership of the content.”

    8. The law is unclear on whether and how to handle comments on your blog that might be considered offensive, libelous, or otherwise in approrpriate.

    9. If a you run a business selling goods that sells in a state or local area, then you must collect sales tax from customers in that area.

    10. Forming an Limited Liability Company (LLC) rather than a corporations is the way to go for almost every blogger. An LLC carries all the same legal protections as a Corporation.

    11. Your newsletter could be illegal spam.

    12. Whether a blogger will be legally permitted to shield his source’s information confidential if subpoenaed isn’t clear yet.

Many links follow the discussion of the laws as references and further intormation. To read the entire article, click the title below.

12 Important U.S. Laws Every Blogger Needs to Know

Thanks, Franke, for passing this on.

–ME “Liz” Strauss
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Related
Blogger’s Legal Guide
Internet Net Law and Net Neutrality 12-14-2006

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Super Bowl Trojans . . . Super Bowl Website Hacked

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This Is Serious

“Super Bowl site hacked, seeded with exploits” The link is to an article at Zdnet.

The official Web site of Dolphin Stadium, home of Sunday’s Super Bowl XLI, has been hacked and seeded with exploit code targeting two known Windows security flaws.

Full access to your computer, via keystroke logger (spyware) backdoor Trojan (you click on what you think is an interactive functionality, like a game, or external link, or forum comment posting, or advertisement), if unpatched Windows system.

Uber horrible news for ecommerce hopes.

[ZDNET — Updated #2: February 2, 2007 @ 5:13 pm] All the affected Miami Dolphins sites (see Alexa traffic data) have now been disinfected but there is evidence that hundreds of other sites have been hijacked and rigged with the malicious JavaScript code.

Thanks to Vaspers the Grate read more in his post “botnet farming at Super Bowl site.”

PLEASE BE SURE YOUR WINDOWS MACHINE IS FULLY PATCHED.

–ME ‘Liz” Strauss

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SOB Business Cafe 12-08-06

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SB Cafe

Welcome to the SOB Cafe

We offer the best in thinking–articles on the business of blogging written by the Successful and Outstanding Bloggers of Successful Blog. Click on the title shots to enjoy each selection.

The Specials this Week are



The Publishing Spot offers a way to find balance.

I dont think Id be sane if



Success Begins Today finds a way to include people in optimum performance.

Optitasking at Work



Blogopreneur asks questions worth considering.

Who Do You Define As Authority Today?



CypherHacks explains how to do tricks with Adsense.

Display adsense in certain posts in WordPress



Carpe factum suggests you don’t take the bipolar express.

The Bi-Polar Express



Creative Think offers ideas on how to loosen up.

Loosen Up

Related ala carte selections include



Orbit Now is offering a great service.

Why I want to be your mentor



Converstations asks Steve Farber to explain what OS!M means.

Without OSM You Got Nuthin

Sit back. Enjoy your read. Nachos and drinks will be right over. Stay as long as you like.
No tips required. Comments appreciated.

Have a great weekend!

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Why Am I Giving You Directions to the Bar at the Top of the Hancock at 7 a.m.?

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All You Have to Do Is Ask

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I’m a believer in Permission Marketing. I’m with Seth — it’s not hard to ask. As a customer, I find it easier on everyone when I ask my question. As a service provider, I like asking what people think and how they do things. As a teacher and a person, I get jazzed when people ask me to help.

One thing I don’t ask for is directions online — I’ve had MapQuest take me to the wrong side of too many towns too many times.

Yahoo Maps, well, Yahoo! invaded my computer by loading their toolbar on my machine without including me in that decision.Sorry, I like to think for myself. I didn’t include them in my decision to delete it.

I get my directions from websites or people who know the way.

Until today . . . when I read the TechCrunch review of AskCity, and played, yeah played, with their maps.

It’s so cool!
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