Upcoming PowerBlog Reviews

One of the trends we noticed in early 2004 was that of small businesses taking to blogs to gain Web visibility, serve customers and grow their businesses.

To understand that trend, we started a weekly feature back in February of 2004 called PowerBlog Reviews.

Each week we review notable examples of blogs that are being used for some sort of business purpose, with a concentration on "small business." We pick out a few key points about each blog that we think are powerful and serve as a "lesson" to other bloggers.

We've completed 67 PowerBlog Reviews to date, covering sites from seven countries. The businesses involved have included a 100-year-old jewelry retailer, a restaurant, a winery, a lessor of Federal campgrounds, a worker's compensation service firm, business school professors, a publishing company, three different law firms, a former homeless person turned entrepreneur, a metal job shop, two Microsoft MVP consultants, realtors, marketing professionals, business school students, several types of technology companies, authors -- well, the list goes on.

Here is the schedule of blogs we will be reviewing in upcoming weeks:

5 June 2005 - Blogging About Incredible Blogs
12 June 2005 - AllBusiness Blog Center
19 June 2005 - Small Biz Sense
26 June 2005 - New Millenium Minds
3 July 2005 - Innovation.net
10 July 2005 - Joseph's Marketing Blog
17 July 2005 - Kiger's Notebook
24 July 2005 - Landfair Furniture
31 July 2005 - AutoMuse

If you would like your business site reviewed, please email me.

Finally, I want to acknowledge and thank Lynne Meyer, who has been writing the PowerBlog Reviews recently and doing a great job at it.