Venture Creators Blog

What type of people can bloggers be, and what makes any type of person into an effective blogger?
I’ve starting thinking about posting about this through Problogger’s “Seven Habits of Effective Bloggers” project. Many bloggers have contributed to the project by posting what habits they believed made an effective blogger. Many interesting habits have surfaced.
The post I connected […]

Chuck Frey has posted his thoughts on using mindmaps for keeping “personal idea files”, based on Dorai Todla’s Using Microsoft Outlook as an idealog post.
Like many other people, I’ve been using mindmaps for ideas for a long time. Their biggest problem has always been the storing of reference information, not the linking or the visual features.Over time, […]

How do you like the design, layout and colors here at the Venture Creators Blog? Robert Scoble hits it on the nail in his The role of anti-marketing design, where he advocates that blogs that are "anti-marketing" are stickier and build better brands. What's an "anti-marketing" blog? Well… an ugly blog. Insightful post from Scoble… […]

Creating passionate users is a blog led by Kathy Sierra, with whom I've been exchanging some emails. She's got that great attitude of sharing that is re-making the web and the good karma she attracts is visible in her blog.
You gotta love this blog: very relevant topics that most of the times you don’t […]

I am not sure about the rest of you, but I am pretty new at blogging. Therefore it would be great if the more experienced bloggers could reccommend their favourite blogs and expand my horizons… 

In It just doesn't matter 37signals advocate that you should only include on a product the features that really, REALLY are important. Everything else just doesn't matter. Clear examples and a track-record of success based on products that follow this philosophy, such as Basecamp (that we use here at the VCN for managing the VCN […]

In How Users Read on the Web, world guru on web usability and readability Jacob Nielsen is clear:
They don’t.People rarely read Web pages word by word; instead, they scan the page, picking out individual words and sentences.
Therefore a good strategy is to use the Inverted Pyramids approach (a June 1996 post, also by Nielsen): start […]

According to Diego Rodriguez of metacool, the companies that really do it are the ones that manage to do routinely innovate, not create "special projects". Check Organizing for Routine Innovation for the full post on Honda's routine process.
Update: Juan Freire has an extensive comment on the article, most of it in Spanish.

A reverse approach to one of our main pillars here at the VCN - collborative business idea development through a trustable community - is introduced by Dorai’s LearnLog, in Blogs for Idea Mining.
Blogs are a great source of ideas. Some of the bloggers are the smartest people I know. They comment about products. […]

Qumana, one of the blogging tools I posted about, has a quick and decent primer on blogs and blogging.