Wow times have changed. Once the world’s third largest blog network, b5media is certainly on a deathwatch now with today’s shuttering of the entire Entertainment Channel to launch Crushable.com—B5media To Launch New Celebrity Site Wednesday, Bathed In Fired Blogger Blood, Mass Firings At b5media: Entire Entertainment Network Shut, The end of b5media—and it isn’t the concentration of bloggers into a super channel that is the problem, it’s that b5 has lost vision and credibility in social media.
I worked at b5 as a blogger, channel editor, and then the training manager. [...]
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I’m back from vacation, clearly, and funny how things can change in a short few days (or week, if you prefer). I started this post enroute to Jamaica. Leaving on my first real vacation in at least 4 years, but perhaps closer to 5.
It seems that I only post here for pretty big events. Not as many of my happy-go-lucky posts about tech or whatever as there used to be. As you might gather, this is no exception.
Before getting to the meat of the matter (that is if [...]
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One of the great things about coming back to b5 is that I am able to move this blog to their servers and get onto their ad program.
With this post, larixconsulting.com is going to be retired as my official URL. Yep, I bought this domain something like five years ago when I started as a solo consultant. I struggled with the name for a long time. I haven’t really been pushing Larix Consulting for a while, so this is a good change for me.
If you have my old larixconsulting.com email [...]
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Tris Hussey is a writer, teacher, blogger, and speaker on all facets of Internet life, WordPress, and social media. He is the author of Create Your Own Blog: 6 Easy Blogging Projects to Start Blogging Like a Pro and Using WordPress.
