Dec
22
2005
Best Free Downloads of 2005: blogging, RSS, email and podcasting
Posted in the Category of Blogging and Free Downloads and In the News and New New Things and Podcasting
Well it's that time of year... time for a "Best Of" list! So many free guides, so little time to cull through them. Here's my quick pick of the most informative on this year's hot topics: blogging, RSS and podcasting. Plus the most notable stat of 2005 and of course the best new blog.
AND let's not forget email. Oh, and white papers themselves. They're both still in play as powerful marketing and communications tools for companies large and small.
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Blogging
To Blog Or Not To Blog by The Content Factory [download page]
Added: my earlier pick: Seth Godin's e-book on blogging Who's There [PDF]
My riff about it here.
RSS
The Business Case for RSS by Rok Hrastnik [PDF]
Podcasting
Beginner's Guide to Podcast Creation [Article]
DoubleClick's 6th Annual Consumer Email Study [PDF - just released Dec. 2005)
EmailLabs Best Practices Quick Tips and Guide [Download page]
White Papers
2005 White Paper Writer Industry Survey [Download page - free until Dec. 31, 2005]
Most notable stat of 2005
Pew's Report on Teen-Age Content Creators [Download page]
Not sure whether your customers are hanging out in the blogosphere? They will be soon. 57% of teen-agers who use the Internet have created a blog, uploaded photos, audio or video or re-mixed online content to create new stuff.
Best new blog
This one was easy! Scott Adams' Dilbert Blog
Comments
Twist Image Multimarketing Studio - Mitch Joel Blo said on December 24, 2005 at 08:18 AM
BlogWrite For CEOs Brings Out The Best Of 2005
I made a very conscience decision this year to avoid writing a “Best of 2005” year-end, wrap-up Blog entry. I’m just not a fan. Even going back to my traditional journalist days, I always dreaded that “it’s that time of…
Kate said on December 26, 2005 at 07:38 AM
I can’t believe. It is just i’ve been looking for! Thank you very much for the links!
TomorrowConnecting.biz said on December 28, 2005 at 11:30 AM
Top free downloads of 2005
Debbie Weil of the Blog Write For CEO’s blog brings us her Best Free Downloads of 2005 for email, blogging, RSS and podcasting. She has some really cool stuff in there, and I’d agree with her selections but suggest that Seth Godin’s free blogging dowlo…
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CCUCEO said on December 23, 2005 at 02:27 PM
Best of 2005: Blogging, RSS, Email and Podcasting
Debbie Weil over at BlogWrite for CEOsposts her Best-of List for 2005. She concentrates on the above technologies and free downloads associated with them. Check ‘em out. She also posts about a guy who not only received 455 comments on