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May 20
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KillerBlog on Off the Fence

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Check out this interview, featuring us, in Marshall Finch’s blog Off the Fence.looffthefence

Check out the full article here, below is a snippet.

How has blogging impacted you professionally? What rewards have you
achieved as a result of blogging?

All team members, myself included, have noticed that since we’ve been blogging, we don’t find it that hard to stay up to date on current startup events. By doing research for our articles, we’ve stumbled across great blogs and bloggers that have taught us many things we then put to use on other tasks.

What blogging platform did you use to start with? What are you using
now and why?

We use Wordpress. It’s very flexible and it allows us to focus on the important part of blogging: the writing.

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Comments - Posted 03.13.09
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Comments - Posted 03.09.09
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Comments - Posted 03.04.09
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