Blogwild!: A Guide for Small Business Blogging

by Andy Wibbels

Book Overview

Blogs are cheap to set up & operate, & they can humanise a company's image, start the buzz on a new product & get instant customer feedback. Andy Wibbels walks would-be business bloggers through the entire process & shows just how easy it is to get a weblog up and running.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1591841178
• ISBN13: 9781591841173
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Portfolio
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.8" x 7.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

GREAT BLOG BOOK FOR BEGINNERS!

This is the first book I read about blogging to really educate me about the blogosphere! Andy is a great reader that speaks with a humorous style. Very educating for the beginner blogger. Andy lives here in Chicago, but I have yet to meet him! I read his blog regularly also.

Just what I needed

When I first heard of this book and the ability to create not just blogs but professional websites, it caught my attention. I had been struggling with putting together websites for various business and community endeavours. Also, traditional websites, could be boring and static. At least, mine were. Enter dynamic websites! Now, after reading Blogwild, I went blogwild just for the fun of it. I quickly revamped old sites, and trusting that this would work for me based on sample sites that I saw, I began. A month and a half later, I am very pleased with the sites that I created without technical support. I am also finding that it is fun to be able to go from thought to concept to implementation in a short time. Great business book! Rocky Romero [...]

Great introduction to Blogging. Not just for business people.

Taking the plunge into the blogosphere meant gaining some basic knowledge of this medium so I chose a current book with an obvious title and good reviews. In Blogwild!: A Guide for Small Business Blogging, Andy Wibbels provides a fun, quick and well written introduction to the world of blogging. Wibbles is a self-proclaimed blogging evangelist. Blogwild! doesn't just inform the reader about the mechanics and history of blogging, the book actually takes the reader all the way through the process of creating a blog using TypePad. Along the way, Wibbels builds a strong case for the benefits of blogging. I found his history of blogging a bit thin, but I really enjoyed his exhaustive introduction to the various resources on the web and the case studies he selected to inspire the reader. I would recommend this book wholeheartedly to anyone interested in blogging. BTW, it is not limited to business people (as the title suggests). Wibbels has his own blog of course, which incidentally, I find highly provocative. His professional site and the book's official site have additional tools and resources that complement his book nicely. For example, you can get instant access to an excerpt of Blogwild! and subscribe to a weekly e-mail of blogging tips.

Excellent how to manual

Thanks for putting this book together Andy, it has everything that is needed to get a blog startd and answers a lot of the initial questions. I look forward to the advanced version. Gavin