Blogging's good for your health

"Blogging can help you feel less isolated, more connected to a community and more satisfied with your friendships, both online and face-to-face, new research has found ..." according to Claudine Ryan for Discovery News. Read the rest here.

Blog of the Week: Denver Gay Examiner

BlogPro's Drew Wilson is now the Denver Gay Examiner for Examiner.com.

Examiner.com is one of the fastest growing websites for local news and information. Serving 57 local markets, Examiner.com connects consumers with a premium blend of news and information from the best local sources.

As the Denver Gay Examiner, Wilson offers news, entertainment, and many other features specifically for Denver’s gay community. Read the latest news and information for Denver’s gay community at www.examiner.com/x-391-Denver-Gay-Examiner.

In addition to his role as the Denver Gay Examiner, Wilson blogs as MileHighGayGuy at www.milehighgayguy.blogspot.com. He is also the official blogger for Denver PrideFest 2008, one of the top ten Pride celebrations in the country. That blog can be seen at www.denverpridefest2008.blogspot.com.

Business blog writing can be frustrating for professionals

One more reason to have BlogPro write your blog!

Blog of the Week: Etalkinghead's Political Blog Directory

Check out Etalkinghead's Political Blog Directory, with more political blog links than you can shake a stick at. Not that you'd want to shake a stick at a political blog.

Listed on the blog are the following:
Conservative (148 listings)
Right-leaning and conservative blogs.

Group Blog (24 listings)
Blogs with more than one author and one opinion.

Humor (23 listings)
Funny ha-ha.

Independent (59 listings)
Blogs independent of ideology.

Liberal (152 listings)
Left-leaning and liberal blogs.

Libertarian (48 listings)
Blogs with a libertarian bent.

Moderate (31 listings)
Middle-of-the-road blogs.

News Only (12 listings)
Cousins of the Drudge Report.

Religious (16 listings)
Blogs dominated by the discussion of religion and its political implications.


The Political Blog Directory has a total of 513 listings.

Examiner.com recruits local bloggers

From The Denver Business Journal:

William Randolph Hearst was a new-media pioneer before there was such a thing.

The inspiration for "Citizen Kane," Hearst began as owner of the San Francisco Examiner newspaper in 1887, the start of a nationwide empire that grew to more than two dozen dailies.

But Hearst soon branched out into what were then considered nontraditional media: magazines at first, and then radio, movie newsreels and, eventually, television.

If Hearst -- who died in 1951 -- were alive today, it would be easy to imagine him at the helm of an unconventional media venture that takes its name from his first newspaper.

After low-profile beginnings, Examiner.com -- a Denver-based national news-and-information website -- was relaunched April 14. The redesigned site now offers localized content from bloggers -- known as "examiners" -- chosen for their knowledge of various topics of interest.

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Good business blogs need voice, focus and frequency

"The best business blogs have a voice, a focus on a topic and are frequently updated, said Jamie Hammond, editor in chief of AOL Money & Finance."

If your blog is lacking these three things, you'll never be able to attract the millions of online blog-reading readers and customers you want and need. Worse, a poorly written, unfocused, rarely updated blog can give those readers and potential customers the wrong impression about who you are and what you do. But maintaining a blog takes energy, time and talent. That's why I started BlogPro and why I think it's such a valuable service to the business community. Business owners have enough responsibilities to deal with on a day-to-day basis and it can be difficult to add more to your plate, even for something as important as a blog. When you get set up with a BlogPro blog, you know your blog is in the best hands possible. Written, researched, edited and maintained by professional writers and editors with years of media experience, BlogPro lets you focus on what you do best, running your business, while we do what we do best, blog.





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Blog of the Week: Ray Hill Studios

The Ray Hill Studios blog is an online portfolio for Denver, Colorado based furniture maker and carpenter, Ray Hill. He is inspired by the works of Eames and Herman Miller but ultimately, his vision and designs are uniquely his own.