Blog Business Summit
December 28, 2004 | 
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I’m going to be speaking, along side DL Byron, at the Blog Business Summit, January 24-25 up here in Seattle. It should be a great event and our session covers an exciting topic—good blog design.
The full description:
Good Blog Design: Speed, Accessibility, Transparency, and Clarity
Good content is a requirement, but there’s a lot more to a good blog than just the posts. Standard templates are fine, but there are a myriad of reasons why you’ll want to customize and enhance with a unique layout. Proper blog design can insure your branding, position, and message are optimally projected. Beautiful, cross-device, navigable, and fast loading sites that search engines love are a must. This session will cover what top bloggers do to get the best of all possible worlds.
In addition to the Summit, Nick is organizing a “Face to Face” for anyone who might be interested. Hope to see some of you there.
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Comments
1. Christian said:
Your apostrophes in “there’s” and “you’ll” in the post are being interpreted as a Euro symbol followed by a Trademark symbol in Safari.
Posted on December 28, 2004 04:48 PM | #
2. Turnip said:
Same here with Firefox/Linux. Probably a server side issue. And there’s a comma before the euro and trademark symbols.
Posted on December 28, 2004 05:58 PM | #
3. Chris Vincent said:
Actually, it’s a text encoding issue. There must have been a shift in encoding somewhere, and then the incorrect characters were converted into HTML entities (which is why you can’t correct the problem by manually changing the text encoding in the browser).
Posted on December 28, 2004 06:39 PM | #
4. -b- said:
Text encoding aside, it’s going to be cool to be at the podium with Keith. I think the event is going great event.
Posted on December 28, 2004 07:40 PM | #
5. Mike D. said:
Yep, it’s definitely server-side. Keith, are you using Smarty Pants to handle your smart punctuation? It usually encodes things pretty well but I wonder if there’s some sort of MT conflict.
As an aside, I will be doing a mini session on text-encoding from a pup-tent outside the Blog Business Summit. Admission is free… just drop some change in the guitar case.
Posted on December 28, 2004 07:55 PM | #
6. -b- said:
I’ll see if I can get a spot for that pup-tent inside the reception.
Posted on December 28, 2004 09:05 PM | #
7. Keith said:
It’s my text educator vs. MT vs. pro-validation crap. This happens when I (or more often people commenting) cut and paste into MT without fixing things – at least that’s the simple version. I normally catch these things, but I’ve been a bit out of sorts and lacking for time lately. It’s a wonder I even remembered to get this announcement up.
Thanks for letting me know…good to note that people care about such things.
Posted on December 28, 2004 10:39 PM | #
8. Jacob Bøtter said:
Because of the fact that I live in Denmark, I do not think I’ll be able to be there and witnes your speak. I’d although love to see your slides afterwards? Be sure to post them online, and incourage the others to do so too! We are many abroad who are very interested in corporate blogging and the like.
Posted on December 29, 2004 07:44 AM | #
9. Seth Thomas Rasmussen said:
That was really hard to read.
Posted on December 30, 2004 10:48 AM | #
10. Keith said:
Seth – What was hard to read?
Posted on December 30, 2004 11:25 AM | #
11. -b- said:
Jacob,
We’ll post al the sessions and more online, during and after the event.
Posted on January 9, 2005 05:00 PM | #
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