Blogs

Our blog collects and disseminates information about blogging and social media. We want this to be a place where we all learn from each other. To further this aim, we established the Real World Blogging Success project. Our readers will get an inside look at our efforts to get our own blog off the ground and build our audience. We will describe our efforts, report the results, and discuss the business impact. Our readers will follow the development of a real world blog in real time. Readers can learn from and discuss our successful and unsuccessful activities.

Note: Originally posted on May 8, 2009

We have compiled the results of the Drupal vs. Joomla Survey into a number of tables. There is more information than can easily be displayed in a blog post. For this reason we have provided the Joomla vs. Drupal Survey results in a PDF File. The PDF contains cross-tabs of each survey question by CMS the respondent is most familiar with. In other words, for each question you'll see responses from Joomla Users, Drupal Users, and All Users. For those interested in looking under the hood we have also provided a CSV file of the raw survey data. All identifying information has been removed.

The raw data is intended for people who would like to do their own statistical analysis of the survey. If you use this data we request cite us as the source and link to our website.

There are several good comparative reviews of Joomla and Drupal available on the internet. However these reviews are often out of date and fail to quantify the tradeoffs involved in selecting one CMS over the other. We are asking professionals familiar with these content management systems to take a survey about the relative strengths and weaknesses of Joomla and Drupal.

This blog exists to help you leverage the power of social media to improve your website and build a loyal audience. We will discuss strategies that will help you use social networking tools to increase your website’s earnings. Many blogs cover these topics, but our approach is unique: We let our readers learn from our experiences.

Like many of our readers, we have a new website and want to make it profitable. How do we do this? What strategies should we employ, what tools should we use? We will explore these issues in this blog, discuss our decisions, and report the results. This blog will be a real-time online case-study of the success, or perhaps failure, of a new web based business.

You will be able to see for yourself what we do right and what we do wrong. While other blogs discuss new services you can try out, we show you proven strategies that work.