If you're a Facebook user, we'd love for you to be a fan of TypePad.
We're streaming the latest featured TypePad blogs there, too, (just like Andy showed us) so that
you can see some of the best and brightest of our TypePad blogs.
What's your favorite TypePad blog, and know that we should share it with Everything TypePad? Tell us all about it in the comments.
We're loving using Get Satisfaction as a new way to connect with our community! Get Satisfaction is a space for you to ask questions, get answers, or suggest features to us, but most of all, it's a great forum for you to talk with your fellow TypePad fans. Come say hello!
(To illustrate, here's my own head. Twice. Meta!)
Here's a link to the recording in WebEx's playback format. Still working on getting it into a more friendly format.
Heads up: We're conducting our first live TypePad class! Join veteran blogger and general TypePad smarty-pants Andy Wibbels in a 1-hour session on how to get the most out of your TypePad blog. We'll walk through the essental basics to set the stage for a superstar blog. This class is completely free and is open to anyone, anywhere.
In this workshop you'll:
Two ways to attend:
Onsite at Six Apart aka 'the TypePad mothership'
548 4th Street [map]
San Francisco, CA
94107
Virtual teleseminar
Before the call starts:
Can't make the session? No big deal. We're recording the audio and the screencast for ya and it will be posted right here on the Everything TypePad blog.
Longtime power TypePad blogger Seth Godin has this to say today about setting goals:
"It's not stupid to have a stated goal of starting several ventures that will fail, or asking three stupid questions a week, or posting a blog post that the world disagrees with. If you don't have goals like this, how exactly are you going to luck into being remarkable?"
What helps you make your blogging goals? Are you aiming to post more often, to a specific topic, or to reach a new audience?
If you’re looking for a new job, or will be soon, check out our tutorial on how to build a professional blog and resume online. Make it easy for potential employers to learn more about your knowledge and experience, and get an edge on the competition. The tutorial shows you how to put your resume online, along with some tips for setting up a fantastic professional blog.
Build your resume this weekend!
We're kicking off our video series with a quick tutorial on how to add your blog's feed to your Facebook profile. That way, every time you publish a new blog post, Facebook imports it as a Note and notifies your Facebook friends. Hosted by me (Andy) your in-residence TypePad scientist:
What else do you want to know how to do?
The best thing about TypePad? We do most of the heavy lifting, and you don't have to lift a finger. We take your questions and feature requests that you submit with our support team, feedback from our Customer Advisory Board, and features on our roadmap, and improve the product about every two weeks. All without you having to worry about software updates, compatibility issues, or anything else.
To kick off the new year, we focused a lot of energy on fixing issues that we researched (thanks to your feedback) and fixed over the holidays. Here are just a few:
We've also added in a bunch of small bug fixes to TypePad. Here's a quick list:
And a few for TypePad Connect:
Want to request a feature? Let us know through your account in a help ticket, or leave us a comment!
Speaking of Twitter, we really love using it to connect with our community. We like to keep our posts on our Twitter stream fresh, relevant, and brief to suit the medium of microblogging. We like to keep our messages to a general one-per-day at most, unless something exciting is happening. We use the @sixapart account to talk about all of our products, as well as the company at large.
For TypePad, we try to keep an eye on both the good (check out some of our favorites) and on some of the challenges our bloggers have been experiencing, and to try to get connected with the community as a whole. We want to listen.
Jaffe Juice is the blog from Joseph Jaffe: President and Chief Interruptor of crayon,
a strategic consultancy firm that encourages its clients to "join the
conversation". With two books and endless articles to his name, Joseph
says the primary objectives of Jaffe Juice are three-fold:
A few of our favorite posts are: "how many social media experts does it take to make 2009 predictions", about if the glass is half full or half empty: "who cares is it's full of 18 year old scotch", and about the communications challenge the Big 3 automakers have.
Visit Jaffe Juice.
Our friends at Twitter have obviously been working on improving security this week, and it seems they've made a tweak that's temporarily causing an annoyance for some of our bloggers. Anybody with a Twitter widget or script on a TypePad blog is being prompted for a Twitter login. We're talking to the Twitter team to get that fixed ASAP, but until then, just ignore the login prompt, or temporarily disable the widget if you don't want to annoy your readership.
Want to follow us on Twitter? We love new friends.