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the Blog at the End of the You-

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Ramon Thomas

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Blogging for Business

What is Blogging? A Powerful Conversation – Cluetrain.com Types of Blogs...

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Types of Blogs

News Blog Writer's Blog Our Blog

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Top 10 Blogs Worldwide

Engadget Boing Boing Gizmodo Techcrunch Huffington Post

Lifehacker Ars Technica Daily Kos PostSecret TMZ.com

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Blogosphere

Rich with Links Blogrolls Trackbacks Comments

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Why Blog?

Search Engine visibility Bloggers will think of you as “one of them” Positioning Yourself as an Expert Feedback, Customer Service

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Time Person of the Year, 2006

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MySpace.com Growth

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Youtube

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Folksonomy

User Generated Content Read, Comment, Write Tagging Text, Images, Audio, Video

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Google News

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Top South African Blogs

Keo.co.za Steve Hoffmeyrs's

Afrikaans Blog So Close East Coast Radio

Newswatch Blog ECR Big Breakfast

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OFM Word of Mouth Forum

ECR Chip off the old Blog

MyADSL blogs Chumpstyle Jacaranda FM's

Breakfast Blog

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Recommended Blogs

stevepavlina.com sethgodin.typepad.com blog.guykawasaki.com michelfortin.com

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Main title

Cellphones

Internet

MXit

Some statistics

Internet: 4 million in SA, 1.1 billion worldwide

Cellphone: 32 million in SA, 2.5 billion worldwide

MXit: 4 million, 250 million active IM users worldwide

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MXit Growth

4 million users 200 million messages 600,000 greeting cards Naspers 30%

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Where Do You Begin?

Become a user & reader Install MXit: www.mxit.co.za/wap Read Blogs: technorati.com, amatomu.com,

afrigator.com, blogsearch.google.com Interact, Comment, Question Find Your Blog at the end of the You-niverse!

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Contact Details

Ramon Thomas ramon@ramonthomas.com 082 9407137 or 011 4331034 www.netucation.co.za Connect with me on Skype, MXit, MySpace,

Facebook, and LinkedIn