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Meet Director Tom

Director Tom is one of our long-time members and raving fan. You can find him at Director Tom Website. We met Tom at SobCon07 and have been impressed with his knowledge of new digital media especially in the field of corporate videos. He approaches his craft with so much heart and intelligence. "What is the story you want to tell?" he'll ask you.

One of TheGoodBlogs tools that Director Tom has used successfully is our conversation tags. Tom adds our conversation tag to the bottom of each of his posts. By doing that we can group his posts with other similar posts on the same topic and create a common conversation. Better still it allows us to link to him effectively which helps him build his Google ranking.

BTW: Tom is going to SobCon08

Keep up the great work, Tom!

By blogadmin at 2008-04-14 10:30 | blogadmin's blog

Happy Birthday to Successful-Blog

To say that Liz Strauss has one of the most influential blogs in town would be an understatement. Today marks the 2nd anniversary of the meteoric rise of successful-blog and Liz Strauss in the blogosphere.

To celebrate this event, TheGoodBlogs has created a special version of our widget that holds all of Liz's 600+ successful blogs.

Click here to get the SOB widget for you blog.

Go visit Liz today and wish her a happy birthday!

Happy Birthyday, Liz/Successful-Blog

The Dudes at TheGoodBlogs

By The Dudes at 2007-10-24 08:26 | The Dudes's blog

TheGoodBlogs takes member blogs mobile

We're thrilled to announce a strategic alliance with Wattpad to use their FeedM8 service to promote our member blogs on mobile devices.

FeedM8 is an exciting new service from Wattpad helping website publishers and bloggers get their content onto mobile phones. FeedM8 is already using TheGoodBlogs recommendation technology to showcase TheGoodBlog members through their Random Picks feature.

Beyond the random picks feature at FeedM8, you can do more to make your blog more accessible to mobile users.

By joining FeedM8, you give your readers the ability to get your blog on their mobile devices and earn revenue from ads that are served with your blog on your personal FeedM8 mobile site.

Click here for more details how you can turn your blog into a mobile site.

Click here to read our joint press release.

By The Dudes at 2007-09-11 10:00 | The Dudes's blog | add new comment

Blog meet Phones

Good News. You can now read our blog on your mobile phone. Try it here http://feedm8.com/web/feed_send?feedid=261

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By blogadmin at 2007-08-07 11:49 | Mobile phone blog | blogadmin's blog

Private messages at TheGoodBlogs

So we wanted to create a vibrant community of bloggers, but we didn't give anyone a way to reach each other. Duh! Unless you logged in every day, you didn't know someone wanted to join your community. Ok, so we're geeks with bad social skills, at least we're geeks with the power to change things!

We're pleased to announceTheGoodBlogs private messages.

What is it?

A private message is a message that is stored in our system
you must log in to view the message.
If you have private messages, we send you an email once a day to let you know and only if you have new messages.

WE DO NOT PUBLISH OR GIVE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS TO ANYONE WHETHER THEY ARE MEMBERS OR NOT.

This is what the private message feature does.

It allows you to send a private messages to other members. (Still a little tough to find members to send messages to, but we're working it)
It sends you a a private message if someone wants to join your community or has added you to their community.

What if I don't want to receive private messages?

Simply log on and go to 'my account' and uncheck the 'Allow private messages setting'. Note that if you elect to not receive private message, you will not receive messages letting you someone wants to join your community or has added you to theirs. The default for all members is to receive private messages.

What if I want private messages but don't want to receive an email from TheGoodBlogs when I have private messages waiting to be read?

There are settings under 'my account' to a) never receive the email, b) receive one email a day if I have private messages, or c) receive an email every time you get a private message. The default is b) we think to receive one email a day IF you have private messages is not intrusive.

What is the notification of new messages setting.

If you are logged in and on TheGoodBlogs website, there will be a message box on every page letting you know until you have read the new messages.

How do you control spam?

Members who use this for the sole purpose of selling a service or a product will risk the immediate termination of their account. Let us know if this is being abused.

By The Dudes at 2007-05-17 11:22 | The Dudes's blog