Every other person I talk to asks the million dollar question — which blog platform do you recommend, WordPress or Movable Type? First of all it’s nearly impossible to describe and list the features of both applications in a single blog post. There are many books published on Movable Type and WordPress, and in the end it all comes down to personal preference, specific needs, the server you are on, and even budget. Before I go ahead and recommend one or the other let me briefly introduce you to both of them, and tell you what I think.

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Many of you ask if I recommend getting a Twitter account for someone that has a business. Well, what is Twitter anyway? In short, Twitter is a real-time short messaging service that works over multiple networks and devices. Sounds confusing doesn’t it? Without getting too much into details I will just cover the basics, and explain what I personally think of Twitter. It is a web tool that allows you to post a sentence or two (up to 140 characters, in other words a size of a text message) describing what you are up to at the moment. And if someone is interested in knowing what’s happening in your life or business, they can “follow you” by receiving those short messages either on their own Twitter page or have the message delivered to their cell phone as soon as you update your so-called status.

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I’m even writing this post on my Asus Eee! Up until a couple of months ago I never thought of Netbooks as something useful, especially to a person like me that works with Photoshop, Audio and Video, and as you can imagine quite a bit of blog coding. You see, I have my BlackBerry Tour that allows me to send and receive email wherever I am, as well as connect with Instant Messaging and simple Web Browsing. So I always questioned, why get a Netbook? Wouldn’t my BlackBerry suffice? How, and where would I use it, especially since I switched to Apple last year and got myself a MacBook as my main office computer after being fed up with all the viruses and spyware that I get with Windows.

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Social Networks are In. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, MySpace, Delicious, Flickr. Chances are you have an account with most of them. The problem I’m seeing with many business owners is lack of time updating their statuses on all the social networks they are a part of. Imagine logging-in into one network at a time and updating it with the same message over and over again. This can take so much of your time! Not to mention you’ll need to be on a computer to do that as many social networks are not as mobile-friendly. Due to this problem you either give up posting your updates, or stick with one or two networks and completely abandon the others. I know because it happened to me.

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