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I have now passed my first year as a blogger and it has been an amazing year. This blog was born out of many requests that I got from working with various media agencies and start-ups on questions like: do you have any research on viral marketing? do you know of any company providing …? what media strategy do you suggest that we use on…? have your heard of..? We are looking to hire a talented person that..? What do you think of this business plan? Can you help us find investment for this new start-up? and many more. Instead of emailing ideas etc whenever it came up, I thought I just start a blog to share some of my experiences and know-how with my circle of contacts. However, I never dreamt of that it would turn into a business..

Here are some of the major take aways from my first year as a blogger.

1. Build a fantastic business network & made new friends
2. Helped companies in generating new business
3. Launched Samsung Mobiles “Anyfilms.Net” blog campaign through my cooperation with Hyper Happen.
4. Helped some talented people getting new jobs
5. Adviced media agencies on blog strategies, viral marketing and what makes people tick’
6. Connected people
7. Inspired others to blog too
8. Launched my company Mash Up Media – (MUM)
9. Connected start-ups with Venture Capitalists & vice versa
10. Made some money too

To sum up: I have learned a lot, got in touch with so many new and interesting people, helped other people with promoting their businesses and skills. If there is one thing I can say is that blogging is good for you and your business whatever you might be doing, just remember the famous line “Anything that you say, can and will be used against you…” so think twice before you post. BTW, stay tuned later over the next couple of days for a new blogging announcement.

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Guess the Danes never thought about word of mouth..

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Regardless of whether you attended the Huber Burda’s Digital Lifestyle Day last week (as I did) you might enjoy what Go Flock Yourself has to say after having watched the video from “Cool Tech from a Hot Country”. Hilarious! Say no more…

Paying for software is not something that comes easily unless it is so good that you are willing to cash-up (in this case $99). However, I just purchased a proffesional license for Anconia RocketPost, the best blog editor around I have have used BlogJet, Ecto, Qumana and RocketPost surpasses them all. I also find it very impressing that RocketPost is a one man show, that make me feel more motivated to pay the $99 to support the good work.

See short video to get a quick overview.

And from the same piece, I saw by chance that Steve mentioned Maxthon’s RSS reader. He says:

“I’ve been pretty content with Maxthon’s built-in RSS reader. It has a handy pop-up that notifies me when I land on a site that has RSS feeds and lets me add it to my RSS list. And it’s free, available from PC World. If you’re not familiar with Maxthon, go to the official Web site to get a look at this Internet Explorer shell. If you want to know more, read “What’s Better Than IE?” In that column I talk about MyIE2, an earlier version of Maxthon.”

Thanks’s Steve for pointing people to Maxthon!

Bloggers have repeadedly been blamed by journalist for not being credible sources – but a study from Euro RSCG Magnet and Columbia University (viaWOMMA), shows that they do read and use blogs:

* 53% use blogs on a daily basis for finding stories

* 43% use blogs to research and reference facts

* 36% use blogs to find sources

* 33% use logs to uncover breaking news or scandals