Some Friday Links

I thought I’d try something new this week, so I’m posting links to some of the articles I read on the blogosphere that had an impact on me in the past 7 days.

I’m an avid blog reader, but luckily for you I’ve filtered out the mountain of junk to find 5 posts really worth reading. Now all I need to do is find the time to comment on them all. Busy busy…

1. Sociable plugin for WordPress has finally had an upgrade. Joost de Valk has taken over the plugin and made a few tweaks that’ll help the plugin keep up with WordPress 2.7.
2. Ever the pessimist realist, Kim Woodbridge has posted a list of things that can go wrong with a WordPress upgrade. I’ve personally had no problems upgrading WordPress 2.7 so far, touch wood, but I’m sure my time will come.
3. Entrepreneur Magazine have featured an article by Guy Kawasaki about growing a Twitter fan base. Over the past couple of weeks I’ve really started taking an interest in Twitter as a business tool, and I think that anyone serious about marketing their small business online needs to read this.
4. Anita Campbell wrote a great post about upgrading a business on Small Business Trends. There’s no excuse for you not to try at least one of these ideas. I’ve singled out 3 I’m going to try and work on when I get a moment.
5. Finally, my favourite blogger Naomi Dunford let James Chartrand loose on Ittybiz with the aptly titled “Recessions are for losers“. The post follows – or precedes (I’m not sure) Naomi and Havi Brooks’ recession call of Wednesday evening, which was a hoot. This is definitely worth a read if you’re nervous about the economy – and who isn’t?

That’s all for this week. I’ll no doubt be spending way too much time on Twitter this weekend. Why don’t you join me?