Gralla had this to say about BlogBackupOnline:

“If you have a blog and you aren’t sure that your blog provider will always have a backup in case of a crash, head over to BlogBackupOnline pronto. The site is straightforward: Log in, enter information about your blog, and the site diligently backs it up every day (provided that you use one of the 11 supported blogging services–Blogger, Friendster, LiveJournal, Movable Type, Multiply, Serendipity, Terapad, TypePad, Vox, Windows Live Space, or WordPress). The site is also a great tool if you ever decide to move your blog from one platform to another. After you’ve backed up your blog, BlogBackupOnline can bring all of your old entries into the new service.”

It’s great to continue to see people realizing the need to control and secure their blog’s content, and Gralla’s article is one heck of an endoresement. It’s also great to be mentioned along with some of our other favorite products such as PBwiki, Pageflakes, and Swivel.

Thanks to everyone that continues to tell their friends about BlogBackupOnline, and please, stayed tuned, as we’ll have a major announcement in the next day or two regarding a completely new service.

The error appeared as:

Error: Could not load file or assembly ‘Google.GData.Client, Version= 1.0.9.6, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null’ or one of its dependencies. The located assembly’s manifest definition does not match the assembly reference. (Exception from HRESULT: 0×80131040)

We’ve managed to locate the problem, and Steven got the fix up and running just a few moments ago. Restoring to Blogger should occur without any problems or errors. Thanks for your patience, and please contact us if you experience any additional errors.

From their feedback, we definitely received confirmation of the relevancy of what we’re doing. We heard from a number of stories from individuals about how their organizations have been battling with social media and trying to determine the best way to control it. One business has a person whose work is dedicated solely to reading blogs all day long! Many others recognized the definite need for a product like SM2 within their organizations, small and large. Many of those we spoke with left us with their names and plans to mention our company and software to their colleagues. One of the sessions even focussed directly on the need for organizations to be aware of collecting and retaining all electronic communications and information. She specifically highlighted the use of blogs and wikis and the need for organizations to be aware of including them along with all their other electronic information. It was great affirmation of what we’re doing. There is clearly a need for this type of tool in all sizes of organizations!

” ‘After he left, his replacement showed me a stock he thought was interesting. I said, ‘Wait a minute; we already researched that stock.’” The analyst who had left had researched the stock thoroughly and developed a strategy about when to buy it. “But do you think we could find that work? No way,” Herrmann says. ‘It was nowhere to be found.’

Herrmann realized that a wiki — a collaborative Web site to which everyone can contribute content — might have prevented the loss.”

We’ve seen blogging infiltrate corporate structures, and now wikis are following suit. Social media are another means for organizations to increase employee efficiency. Instead of e-mailing project documents between employees, wikis can act as a central place to deposit and edit information, technical plans, and project specifications.

” ‘We like it because it’s a peer review system, not a hierarchical system. We work in teams, each covering a sector, so this makes it easier to collaborate,’ says Herrmann. ‘We also wanted to do a better job of documenting and saving things that don’t get saved, as part of our legal obligations.’”

As Hermann mentions, there are a number of legal requirements surrounding communications that take place in corporate wikis and blogs. Record retention, e-discovery, and ensuring that sensitive information is not distributed are all issues that organizations must comply with when using wikis or blogs. Hildreth also comments:

“CIOs also have concerns about security, governance, IT support and integration of Web 2.0 applications with existing systems. And the very nature of Web 2.0 — distributed and egalitarian — makes some managers nervous. ‘Web 2.0 is decentralized,’ explains Schmelzer. ‘There’s no centralized authority to mandate or control.’”

Techrigy’s SM2 does just that. SM2 provides a central system to help enterprises discover which employees are using social media inside the organization and from home, record those communications for record retention and e-discovery, and monitor these communications to ensure that social media are complying with company policies and that liabilities and organizational risks are not being created. Hopefully, with SM2’s compliance management, organizations won’t be afraid of implementing blogs and wikis, and they’ll be able to take advantage of these fantastic technologies.

In her article, Cyndy begins by mentioning BlogBackupOnline, a product she herself uses for her own blog backups. She mentions its usefulness as many bloggers, like herself apparently, are lazy or forgetful about backing up their blogs manually themselves. She goes on to discuss how BlogBackupOnline is an important developmental step for Social Media Monitor, Techrigy’s enterprise application currently in development.

Social Media Monitor is an enterprise application geared towards compliance and risk management issues arising out of the increasing presence and use of blogs in the workplace. As internal and external communication through blogging becomes more and more significant within the workplace, the potential liability risks are increasing reciprocally.

Techrigy’s Social Media Monitor helps enterprises address potential liabilities and damages that could result from social media, as well as to help eliminate liabilities with social media and allow organizations to take full advantage of these media.

Social Media Monitor identifies social media existing internally within enterprises, and also interfaces with blog search engines to identify externally hosted social media operated by employees. Social Media Monitor then gathers the content from these blogs and runs searches against them with predefined rules to identify any liabilities. The blogs will be stored within a database, and checks against them can be run periodically depending on an organization’s needs.

During their interview, Cyndy and Aaron discussed some interesting problems the enterprise application will highlight and address. Included among those issues, are, for example, considerations regarding the unmonitored and unrecorded dissemination of possibly highly-sensitive information and, furthermore, the potentially disastrous consequences that will ensue for enterprises if these up-and-coming issues are not anticipated and addressed.

It certainly is exciting to have been so positively reviewed and spotlighted by Profy. We definitely look forward to further conversations with Cyndy in the future. Follow my lead and check more of Cyndy’s articles and reviews at Profy.com

Blogging (IMHO) is just another form of communication or expression. Shutting down bloggers seems like an impossible task. It’s like saying no one in the military can use email.

I look back to how communication has changed over the past 15 years. I personally served in the Army during Operation Desert Storm back in 1991 and communication between people in the field and the family/friends back home was vastly different. Mail call was the highlight of the day when we would get a physical letter or package of brownies – there was no email. And an occasional 5 minute phone call was a special treat. It would be a shame to shutdown down such a great communication medium.