Its very hard to believe, but “Soon to Be a Major Trend” hasn’t fed any new ideas to the blogosphere in the past ten months.

First off, its good to see the Web in general and the blogosophere in particular has survived without my contributions. Whew.

Second, there are so many other distractions in this world. Family is a great one. Twitter and Facebook are effective distractions but less great. I do admit to dabble with each on a professional and social level.

Third, I still have ideas–lots of them–worth blogging about. Marketing automation is a recent fascination for me. I have a lot of great stories (fact-based, of course) as a result of the success of Appcelerator’s use of compelling content, one to many communications, and measurement of web behavior. Enterprise software moving to the cloud and business models moving to subscriptions are other important topics. And, content, as always, is key. During the year I have toyed with video, audio and javascript to augment the written word.

One final thought for all of you: the fuel for blogs are comments. Think about it. If you have a nice meal with good service in America, you leave a tip. Now extend this metaphor to blogs.  If you read a blog that informs, inspires or amuses, please leave a comment.

So, kind readers, join the conversation. What do you want to hear about?  Comments welcome.

I’m a little late to the Wordle party, but happy to find this gem of a toy.  Wordle generates a stylized “word cloud” from provided text. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text.

Above is a Wordle rendering of Bill Freedman’s Soon To Be A Major Trend.  It takes text, RSS or a URL as input and provides countless variations of fonts, colors and alignments for hours of family fun.

Enjoy.

Hello 2009. I’m welcoming in the new year by restarting my blogging here at Bill Freedman’s Soon To Be A Major Trend.

My heavy writing, mentoring and community building activities in other venues resulted in a bit of silence here. That’s changed now. You can once again look forward to reading about novel ideas on persuasion, business-to-business marketing, bootstrapping, and growing sustainable businesses right here.

I invite you to take a moment right now to add my RSS feed (https://www.showcasemarketing.com/ideablog/?feed=rss2) to your favorite personal start page, portal or news reader.