I came across this interesting concept while going through the new book by David Meerman Scott – The New Rules of Viral Marketing. While most of the job seekers are writing the resumes where they are talking about what degrees thay have, the recruiters are looking for real world experiences, domain expertise and are analysing how you can help their organisation.

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If you have been blogging with Wordpress, you might be aware that Wordpress 2.5 has been released. Seeing the large number of new features, you are drooling to get your blog upgraded to the latest version but do not want to get your hands dirty with all the FTP and other related hassles. Here's help!

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If you want to add Blogrush to your Wordpress or Semiologic blog and enjoy all the FREE traffic this will bring, please follow the simple instructions here. I am assuming the you have hosted the Wordpress or Semiologic blog on your own doman in the home directory at www.yourdomain.com or www.yourdomain.com/blog or something similar.

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Have you felt like posting a comment on someone's blog because you liked what the blogger was saying (or may be you disagreed)? Or you had a relevant point to make? Comments are what make the blogs truly interactive and much more powerful than a one-way dialog that web sites restrict you to.

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Lee Odden has released a list of things that he dislikes about blogs and you would rather check this out and make sure you are not doing these mistakes on your blog.

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The new version of Semiologic has been released and if you want to get your blog updated, we can do so for a nominal $25 per blog. If you are not aware of Semiologic, it is a powerful blogging and content management system based on the Wordpress engine that includes several SEO enhancements and other tools to really add pizzas to your blogging.

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While it is important to submit to blog directories for increasing your link popularity, another important avenue that gets missed easily is RSS directories. Here's how you can do this easily…

Almost all the blogging systems including Wordpress have an associated RSS feed that gets updated whenever you post to the blog. For Wordpress, the feed can be found at http://www.domain.com/wp-rss2.php or http://www.domain.com/blog/wp-rss2.php as the case may be. Now search for RSS directories and you will find quite a large list of good directories.

One such RSS directory is here. You should generally browse to the category that most closely matches the topic of your site and then click on 'Add your site'. Enter the required information and submit.

While some of the directories will include your site right away, most of them have human editors who review your site before inclusion. Therefore, it is a waste of time to submit junk sites because they will get rejected anyway.

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If you are a blogger and live in or around Calcutta (India),  I will be happy to meet you and exchange ideas. You can call me on 98310-27107 and we can set up a meeting place and time.

If you don't live in Calcutta but are visiting this side of the world, I will like to meet you too

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Update: This was just a April Fool joke and a few people did notice the April1specialoffer email address and the date of the post. The offer is to good to be true. However you can continue reading the blog and pick up some good tips on blogging or get your own blog setup at a nominal fee.

Breaking News: We will setup ONE blog FREE for you along with 20 PageRank 5 and 6 links and 10 posts if you are quick to act – hurry, this offer is valid only for 1 day. Send your request here. All the blogs we setup include special settings for improving the search engine rankings and user response rate.

Note: Don't forget to include your favorite domain name. We are including the domain name booking for 1 year and 50 MB hosting with every blog you order. Offer valid for only 1 day – so you better hurry!

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Marketing Pilgrim recently published a post listing several guides and resources for corporate bloggers. Once we have installed your blog, you are recommended to refer to this list and pick up tips about getting more out of your blog.

Recent research by JupiterResearch has revealed that 70% of the corporate companies will have a blog by the end of 2007. How about you? Will you get a blog and start tapping into the power of the blogosphere or dare to stay behind and regret later? It is easy to get a blog installed.

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