A Blog about Blog Design.

hold it now, hit it.Mikey Mioduski is a creative designer at Compendium Blogware, designing stuff and blogging about it. He sometimes writes about stuff that others have designed, wishing he'd designed it. He sometimes writes in third person. Enjoy!
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User generated content inspiration

By: Wednesday, April 14, 2010
interactive user generated content

The Johnny Cash Project is a pretty amazing concept in interactive design and user generated content. As the site states, 

Through this interactive website, participants may draw their own portrait of Johnny Cash to be integrated into a collective whole. As people all over the world contribute, the project will continue to evolve and grow, one frame at a...
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why do blogs attract new visitors?

By: Friday, March 26, 2010
Great question.

Having worked in the blog / search marketing industry for almost two years, I am very familiar with visitor trends in terms of our website and blog traffic. Each week, our team inspects the conversion rates, bounce rates, average time on site, etc. And the one that never ceases to amaze us is the new visitor rates, which have consistently been...Continue Reading the Post »
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Perks of working at Compendium Blogware

By: Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Compendium Blogware, the leader in corporate blogging software and search marketing solutions, experienced a pretty serious "we're not a startup anymore" moment today. We got our very first company coffee machine (see figure A).

Outsiders might see our new coffee machine as an insignificant purchase. They might say, "big deal. We have a coffee machine at our...Continue Reading the Post »
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2 ways to improve your blog conversion rates

By: Tuesday, February 9, 2010
CTAs and Landing Pages.

The goal in business blogging, at least our goal and the goal we think many organizations could benefit from-- is to cast a wide net in search by blogging about keyword phrases that are directly related to your business. This content will eventually build up, and help you get found by people who are searching for you.

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Multi-user blogging is a lot like group puzzle making.

By: Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Every person who's ever started a blog has probably had a brief lapse where they neglected the crap out of their blog. If you make a living as a professional blogger of hot new gossip, being an unreliable provider of juice might dent your traffic. And in turn, your income. Your return visitor rates probably mean a lot to you.

But if you are a contributor to...Continue Reading the Post »
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Crazy Week in the world of Compendium Blogware

By: Friday, January 15, 2010
Crazy week in Suite 1400. The marketing teamdoubled this week, welcoming paid intern Ford McAlexander, design and interactive guru Isaac Pellerin, and copywriting extraordinaire Heather Benfield. With this new squad of pro marketers, we will preach the value of our easy to use blog software to the world.

I've also had a great opportunity to work with Karen...Continue Reading the Post »
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nice example of humanized marketing from Firefox

By: Thursday, December 17, 2009
My computer has been rebooting on and off this morning with new updates and installs, and I think it's out of the clear now and ready to use. After my last reboot, I opened up Firefox to a screen that I've never seen before.

I had to double take this one.

compendium blogware firefox browser humanized error


What a simple way to pump a little life into something so drab, something that might otherwise be...Continue Reading the Post »
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the best blogging software for business

By: Thursday, December 10, 2009
best blog software for business

Many companies have realized by now that corporate blogging offers many benefits, namely improved search presence. Our cofounders realized this a long time ago, and saw that through blogging, a company can create a huge net of keyword rich blog pages that serve as landing pages for a range of targeted keywords-- ones helpful to potential searchers.

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highlights from the future [of web design]

By: Thursday, November 19, 2009
Just got back from an awesome conference called The Future of Web Design 2009. So I guess you could say I've seen what the future has to offer. I gotta say, it looks promising.

If you're designing your business blog, or you're thinking about a blog redesign, I'd recommend checking out some of these names I'm about to drop. As we know, business blogging can...Continue Reading the Post »
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