Archive for September, 2008

Softduit Media’s Founder, Brett Bumeter, was recently featured by CBS 42 on a story, “Blogging Word Camp” covering Birmingham’s WordCamp event at the end of September.

WordCamp Birmingham was organized by Andre Natta, publisher of the hyper-local Birmingham blog, “The Terminal”.  Mr. Bumeter was a featured speaker at the event providing training at the event for the use of Microsoft’s WindowsLiveWriter.

WindowsLiveWriter is a free desktop program that can be utilized to publish to a number of blogging platforms including, WordPress, Blogger, SharePoint, WindowsLive and many more.

In this years, State of the Blogosphere 2008 Report, Brett Bumeter of Softduit Media was quoted with his vision of the future of the blogosphere, its influence, and the potential of an industry with millions of new practitioners from around the globe converging and improving their skill sets. 

He stated, 

“This is just the beginning for blogging. People are getting better and better at this skill set, quality is improving, and we will soon have millions of people generating great content around the clock.”

• Brett Bumeter

Technorati: State of the Blogosphere 2008 – Day 5: Brands Enter The Blogosphere

I wanted to mention again that this weekend, I will be speaking at the Birmingham WordCamp hosted by Andre Natta of The Terminal.

Update 9-27-08 – Here is an overview of what we covered along with some great information to get you going with WindowsLiveWriter.

WindowsLiveWriter – Blogging with any Blogging Software Has Never Been Easier

I will be covering how to use WindowsLiveWriter to manage multiple blogs and how to use it with WordPress (among other blogging tools).

Whether you write for 1 blog or 10, Whether you use WordPress, Blogger, Moveable Type or Type pad or many others, Windows LIve Writer can speed up your work, polish your presentation and much more.

Softduit Media will be attending BlogWorldExpo 2008 again this year in Las Vegas, NV.  This year the show takes place over two days on September 19th, 20th and 21st.   

Table of Contents
Sep 19, 2008 – EXECUTIVE & ENTREPRENEUR CONFERENCE
Sep 19, 2008 – CITIZEN JOURNALISM WORKSHOP
Sep 19, 2008 – BLOGWORLD CONFERENCE
Sep 19, 2008 – REAL ESTATE BLOGWORLD
Sep 19, 2008 – B5MEDIA BLOGGER SUMMIT
Sep 19, 2008 – GODBLOGCON
Sep 20, 2008 – BLOGWORLD CONFERENCE
Sep 20, 2008 – GODBLOGCON
Sep 20, 2008 – PARTNER PROGRAMS
Sep 21, 2008 – BLOGWORLD CONFERENCE
Sep 21, 2008 – GODBLOGCON
Sep 21, 2008 – PARTNER PROGRAMS

Note the actual BlogWorld Conference is on the 20th and 21st with several breakout sessions on the 19th that can be added in an ala carte fashion.