Real Business Bloggers :: Welcome and Introductions
Time for a little Welcome and Introduction party.
Since our launch, the blog has truly grown quickly. Many thanks to all of our visitors and supporters. A special thanks to our new found contributors, too.
Our goal is to provide a blog which addresses small business blogging. We will provide real world examples of truly authentic business bloggers sharing their ideas and practices. Also, we offer you excellent coaches and practitioners that are bringing ‘conversations’ to business through blogs every day.
Allow me to introduce our blogging family.
Coach & Blogger Sally Falkow. Sally is a former PR educator and now - a consultant. From Pasedena, California, Sally brings 25 years of experience to Blogthencity. She is an active blogger, coach and writer for various blogs and clients. Sally has aided companies like Coca Cola, Southern Africa, Dow Chemicals and Dulux Paints. Please read Sally’s bio.
Business Blogger Keiko Groves. Keiko, from Orlando, Florida, is a fashion designer with a unique blog and site. She offers “the raddest reconstructed fashions (did he say “raddest?”) from modern, independent designers/seamstresses.” Postlapsaria offers the designs of Keiko and other consigned items. Keiko is currently being featured by projectdu.com, too. Please read Keiko’s bio.
Business Blogger Greg Hoffman. Greg hails from Seminole, Florida and won the 2005 Best Overall Blog award. His specialty is marketing Security Awareness and Online Learning for Interpact Inc. He manages “all marketing communications and enterprise level partnerships” and the blog is what Greg regards as the “centerpiece of his marketing strategy”. Please read Greg’s bio.
Coach & Blogger Timothy Lee. Timothy is from Little Rock, Arkansas and he is “a small business extension specialist with the University of Arkansas at Little Rock’s Arkansas Small Business Development Center.” Timothy’s experience spans the world. Literally. Retired from active duty in the United States Air Force, Timothy is “a veteran of both Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm.” He is “reknown for being the most straight forward, plain talking “expertâ€? on electronic commerce, Internet marketing and sales, website development” and more. Please read Timothy’s bio.
Business Blogger & Co-founder Paul Woodhouse. Paul is from Lancashire, UK in the North West of England. He is the author of - easily - one of the most entertaining and inventive blogs you will read. No smoke being blown there, either. “Paul Woodhouse, is the main driving force behind Planters Direct and responsible for the web presence of Butler Sheetmetal Ltd.” Winner of the 2005 Best Small Business Blog, Paul makes “metal fabrication” and “tinbashing” fun, interesting and something you actually want to read about. Go figure. Please read Paul’s bio.
On behalf of my students and all that will visit this blog, I offer my deepest thanks and appreciation to all of our contributors. You are making it all possible. We thank you.
Join with us and start your own conversations. We want to hear from you. Feedback, suggestions, ideas and critiques. They are all welcome. You are welcome.
Hey, and we even have a contest for anyone that is in business, but does not have a blog. We will get you started and you will become a contributor here. We’ll work with you and watch your blog grow. It will be fun.
Filed under: Contributors
This is typical of Robert. He mentions every contributor, but fails to mention himself. So, I’ll do it. Robert currently lectures in PR and Communications at Auburn University in Alabama and has the least sense of ego I’ve come across in any blogger, nevermind blogger/PR type. Robert is infinitely more to BLOGthenticity than merely its keeper. He’s also the glue and the real checks and balances of this whole project - not to mention a damn fine blogger in his own right. It’s extremely easy to find out all the various projects Robert is involved in. All you have to do is take a look at all the wikis and Auburn Media related sites on the BLOGthenticity homepage. But for now, start with the man himself. Take a look at Robert French’s Bio and I hope you’ll be as impressed as I am - both as a person and an expert in his field.
Thanks Paul. You are very kind.
Truth be told … I had made several updates to this, and other blogs, and actually I was just too darn tired and let it go.
I was also dealing with the upgrade/update of MarcomBlog - new skin/template and WordPress 1.5 upgrade. Now, I didn’t even do the hard part of that work, but it was already 3:00 AM … So, I just went to sleep.
Thanks.