Saturday, January 05, 2008
Another Incentive to Blog More Often
So far so good for the year; I’ve posted one blog per week. Okay, it’s only the first week and time will tell if I live up to my commitment but I have received more incentive to blog more frequently. I received an invitation to join the Forbes Business and Financial Blog Network from the membership manager herself.
I must admit, I was highly skeptical and replied to the invitations twice to make sure it was for real. I also searched her name and phone number just to get a “warm fuzzy.” Forbes was patient and replied to me both times assuring me that it was on the up and up. So here I am! I filled out the paperwork and am waiting for marching orders.
So what’s next? This new membership plus my own commitment to the small business community puts my plan to upgrade this blog in overdrive. I will be importing the old blogs and categorizing them in a new custom solution. This may take some time and I will do my best not to break the existing pages, but it will allow me to read each post, choose to revise it, remove it or include it with some categorization and keyword tagging.
I’m shooting for a minimum of one blog per week to be published on Mondays though I’ve had several ideas for blogs since I posted this week. The third week of the month will be the most difficult because that is when I go to press with my print magazine.
The plan: Move this domain to a new server and change the blog engine I use to post. I will put all current pages on the new server and redirect as each is moved to the ASP.NET system. What’s most difficult about this process is the changed page names (from .asp to .aspx). This is all very technical but it underscores my opinion that when moving an existing website to a different system, every effort should be made to keep from breaking links. It’s very similar to filing an address change form when moving to another office. This is not the technology blog so I won’t bore you with the details.
