Paul Chaney

Paul Chaney Serves as Featured Guest Advisor

We are pleased to introduce Paul Chaney as ideablob.com’s guest advisor for the week of October 6, 2008.

Paul is the Internet marketing director for Bizzuka.com, a Web content management software company that targets the SMB market. He also serves as president of the International Blogging and New Media Association (IBNMA), a one year-old nonprofit trade association focused on helping blogging, podcasting and social media grow as an industry.

Prior to joining Bizzuka, Paul was co-founder of Blogging Systems, a blog software company that significantly impacted the real estate industry by encouraging realtors to adopt blogging as a marketing strategy. Along with former business partner Richard Nacht, he is the co-author of Realty Blogging: Build your Brand and Outsmart Your Competition, which similarly impacted the industry and was the first blogging book to target a specific industry vertical.

Paul is a feature writer for Practical Ecommerce magazine on the use of social media for marketing purposes. He has led numerous blog workshops and seminars, including the first ever such seminar in Asia. He also blogged professionally with Weblogs, Inc., as well as with Allbusiness.com.

Paul has served as Technical Editor on a number of For Dummies series books related to blogs and Internet marketing, and was contributing writer on Buzz Marketing with Blogs For Dummies, published by Wiley.

 Paul has been quoted in leading mainstream media publications including the San Francisco Chronicle, Best's Review, and the Philadelphia Inquirer, as well as a number of leading trade magazines. His dedication to and belief in the blogosphere has made him a widely recognized thought-leader and respected industry expert in the field of business blogging.