How to Transition from Feedburner to FeedBlitz & 3 Alternatives to Google Reader + MORE

You’ve probably heard Google is shutting down Google Reader on July 1st. What does this mean for bloggers? Should you be worried?
If you run a blog there are a lot of things to know about and consider doing with this change coming up that you’ll want to take care of in the next couple months…

One of the most cohesive elements in any WordPress blog is its pages. Many turn to WordPress for that feature which allows users to create a website look on their blog. The most common way the pages have been displayed was through its sidebar widget. For themes that have allowed it, the fairly recent Menus feature under Appearance on the Dashboard has allowed users to customize a Navigation Menu (and sometimes a sub-menu as well)…

Recently I was part of a panel to launch a new book by Trevor Young called ‘Micro Domination‘.
In the book Trevor identifies a number of what he calls ‘Micro Mavens‘ – including people like Chris Brogan, Jonathan Fields, Marie Forleo, Chris Guillebeau, Trey Ratcliff, Pamela Slim, Gary Vaynerchuk (and he generously includes me too) and goes onto describe their characteristics and how they’ve built businesses around their personal brands…

Srinivas Rao graduated from business school in 2009, straight into one of the worst U.S. job markets we’ve faced since the Great Depression.
But, instead of getting frustrated at the lack of opportunity in corporate America, Srini reinvented himself as a content marketer.
Srini’s interviews on his podcast, BlogcastFM, are legendary…

Social analytics start-up firm Blab launched in public beta today and it claims that its social analytics platform can predict the future of social conversations.
Blab works by listening to 60 million conversions that take place on 50,000 websites. The company uses both text and image matching to detect a websites pages content…