Bob Walsh is the founder of 47Hats, a consulting firm/blog/startup dedicated to helping startups succeed, the author of Micro-ISV: From Vision to Reality, podcaster-in-chief of the Startup Success Podcast, co-moderator of the Joel on Software's Business of Software forum, and creator of StartupToDo.com, a online productivity app and community for startup and microISVs. At his company, Safari Software, Inc., Bob was a contract software developer for more than 20 years before launching, selling and ultimately selling off a Windows personal task manager commercial application. Before getting into information technology, Walsh was a reporter for several news organizations, the most worth bragging about being United Press International (UPI).

• Revolution in Progress: Please Make Noise!.- Why Blog?.- Hooking into the Blogosphere.- Getting Started.- Building Your Blog.- What Do Good Blogs Share?.- Building Your Personal Blog.- Professionally Blogging, Blogging Professionally.- Building Your Company Blog.- Secrets of Influential Bloggers.- Power Tools for Bloggers.- Successful Blogging.- The New Fourth Estate.- Adding Podcasting to Your Blog.- Monetizing Your Blog for Fun and Profit.- Building Readership.- Blogging Toward the Future.- Blogging from the New Front Lines.- Welcome to Your Future.

Bob Walsh is the founder of 47Hats, a consulting firm/blog/startup dedicated to helping startups succeed, the author of Micro-ISV: From Vision to Reality, podcaster-in-chief of the Startup Success Podcast, co-moderator of the Joel on Software's Business of Software forum, and creator of StartupToDo.com, a online productivity app and community for startup and microISVs. At his company, Safari Software, Inc., Bob was a contract software developer for more than 20 years before launching, selling and ultimately selling off a Windows personal task manager commercial application. Before getting into information technology, Walsh was a reporter for several news organizations, the most worth bragging about being United Press International (UPI).

• Revolution in Progress: Please Make Noise!.- Why Blog?.- Hooking into the Blogosphere.- Getting Started.- Building Your Blog.- What Do Good Blogs Share?.- Building Your Personal Blog.- Professionally Blogging, Blogging Professionally.- Building Your Company Blog.- Secrets of Influential Bloggers.- Power Tools for Bloggers.- Successful Blogging.- The New Fourth Estate.- Adding Podcasting to Your Blog.- Monetizing Your Blog for Fun and Profit.- Building Readership.- Blogging Toward the Future.- Blogging from the New Front Lines.- Welcome to Your Future.

Bob Walsh is the founder of 47Hats, a consulting firm/blog/startup dedicated to helping startups succeed, the author of Micro-ISV: From Vision to Reality, podcaster-in-chief of the Startup Success Podcast, co-moderator of the Joel on Software's Business of Software forum, and creator of StartupToDo.com, a online productivity app and community for startup and microISVs. At his company, Safari Software, Inc., Bob was a contract software developer for more than 20 years before launching, selling and ultimately selling off a Windows personal task manager commercial application. Before getting into information technology, Walsh was a reporter for several news organizations, the most worth bragging about being United Press International (UPI).

• Revolution in Progress: Please Make Noise!.- Why Blog?.- Hooking into the Blogosphere.- Getting Started.- Building Your Blog.- What Do Good Blogs Share?.- Building Your Personal Blog.- Professionally Blogging, Blogging Professionally.- Building Your Company Blog.- Secrets of Influential Bloggers.- Power Tools for Bloggers.- Successful Blogging.- The New Fourth Estate.- Adding Podcasting to Your Blog.- Monetizing Your Blog for Fun and Profit.- Building Readership.- Blogging Toward the Future.- Blogging from the New Front Lines.- Welcome to Your Future.