TylerBalliet.com » Blogging http://www.tylerballiet.com Notes from an Entrepreneur Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:38:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 en hourly 1 Backup Your Files – Especially MySQL! http://www.tylerballiet.com/2009/01/backup-your-files-especially-mysql/ http://www.tylerballiet.com/2009/01/backup-your-files-especially-mysql/#comments Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:44:41 +0000 Tyler http://www.tylerballiet.com/?p=64 Hey writers, blogger and anyone who does business. I remember when I took computer classes in 2nd grade and the teacher use to shout over and over again, “save your files!”

This is true with your online files as well. I’m using Time Machine to backup my computer files (although I’m paranoid my drive will fail after this happened to a friend) but it’s also important to backup your online files. If you have a blog, make sure the MySQL files – this is the database where all of your posts and information is stored – are backed up regularly. If the server goes down, your host may not have an extra copy.

Or in the case of JournalSpace a pissed off employee might nuke everything. Read about it on TechCrunch: JournalSpace Drama: All Data Lost Without Backup, Company Deadpooled.

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Making “friends” with similar bloggers is where I would start.

]]> http://www.tylerballiet.com/2009/01/how-to-linkbait-your-blog/feed/ 1 Blog Your Heart Out: Part I http://www.tylerballiet.com/2008/11/blog-your-heart-out-part-i/ http://www.tylerballiet.com/2008/11/blog-your-heart-out-part-i/#comments Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:35:05 +0000 Tyler http://www.tylerballiet.com/?p=48 I have been putting together a series of Blogging seminars for the Boston Young Entrepreneur group. The idea came up because, as a Board Member, we’ve been talking about launching skills workshops. I know a lot about blogging from running The Second Glass, so I volunteered to launch the program with a series of three, workshops about starting and running a blog.

Part I focused on the basics. What is blog? Why should you blog? How do you get started? What do you write about? How do you get people to come? View the PowerPoint Presentation below:

There was a good-sized crowd with at least 40 attendees. There was a large mix of skills range as most of the room currently keeps a blog, but many were just getting started.

The next seminar will focus on setting up your blog, with essential plug-ins and features. We’ll dive into them much more in-depth, talking about SEO (Search Engine Optimization) components.

The third workshop will focus on promotion.

While I only have two more workshops on the books for now, I am planning on breaking the blogging classes down, even further, with Blogging 101 – for those with little knowledge of how blogs and the Internet works, all the way up to advanced blogging and getting your stories on Digg’s homepage.

Stay tuned – I will be putting the information on my blog.

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