Dumping wisdom on design and the web
While it’s never good to run into problems while managing your business, if you start to have a hard time using some of the vital software to your operations, like Salesforce, you might find that almost every other aspect of your business is negatively affected. But luckily, if you do run into issues, you don’t have to fumble through everything on your own. You can get the help you need so that you can get things back on track. [Read more…]
You might remember that I bashed b5media for their general themes, and the lack of blog profiling in them, quite some time ago? If you don’t, then read up!
Anyway, they manage to lay their hands on the excellent videogame blog Siliconera, which wasn’t in the b5media template of course. It is now.
Luckily, this theme update to the gaming blog is well done, and a great example of having a general template adapted to the blog in question. Sure, there are things that could do with some polish, but I think it does Siliconera justice. [Read more…]
I’ve been thinking a lot on whether it’s a good idea as a publisher to focus on several smaller blogs, or try to build a real power house. In my opinion, it’s not an obvious choice for someone that wants in the new media publishing sphere.
On one hand, having a bunch of smaller blogs means that you can cross-link and -promote to launch new projects, as well as drive traffic from one blog to neighboring niches. That’s a good thing, and what blog networks such as b5media does.