Review and pre-review sat in a boat…

Today’s challenge from problogger is to write a ‘review’ post. He includes some great suggestions for what to review and how to make the reviews relevant to your readers. At the end of the day, the point of a review is to share something with your readers that can help them. Don’t review a product that only a limited group could ever own (like a Lamborghini), and make sure the price point is appropriate for your readers as well (again, no reviewing a Lamborghini unless you run a car site, or your readers are all celebrities).

I decided to review one product that has changed the way that I use the web and a pre-review of the newest book I am going to read. It covers both bases of my readers – creative and web savvy!

The product that changed my life? Roboform Password Manager. It saves me from having to remember a million passwords, and stores them all securely on my computer, with just a plugin that makes them accessible online. It can also store multiple users credit card, address, and personal details so you never have to fill forms in again. Obviously, the one down side is that it stores it on one computer, so if you need the same information multiple places you have to update them both separately. But honestly, for just under $30, it is a huge time and I couldn’t imagine not having it!

The pre-review of a book? Okay, first; what is a pre-review? It is a review of why you’ve chosen to read a certain book and what you hope to learn from it. Then when you finish, you can go back and review it and comment on your pre-review. The book in question is Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies. It was suggested to me by Peter Quill, the owner at Motor Creative. He and I have known each other for a few years, and have recently started working together on some social media projects. He knows how much I love to read and immediately suggested this as a must read. Hopefully, I can gain a little more insight into the world of social media marketing, as well as refresh the ideas that I already know. If any of you haven’t read it, and would like to, lets read it together! Send me updates as you get into it of your favorite parts and I will be sure to include it when I write a post reviewing it later. If you have read it, let me know what you thought too!

Oh, just in case your keeping track, yesterday’s challenge was an internal blog fixing thing, not a post. He suggests to check through all your pages and old posts for dead links. Takes a lot of time, but definitely worth it!

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