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The topic of magazine publishing and content creation is very interesting taken as a bellwether for the direction that internet development is headed. As consumer electronics in the form of an iPad become more prevalent with widespread adoption, the magazine industry and publishing in general will be looking at everything from production and distribution to revenue opportunities of the future. It is great to have an industry leader to discuss the way some publishers are dealing with the changes.

Our guest on this week's edition of The Bella Buzz podcast is Robert C. Covington, President of eNable Business Solutions and BIZTech, focused on providing outstanding technology and telecom services to small and medium sized businesses.

Our guest on this week's edition of the Bella Buzz podcast is Chad Elkins. You may remember Chad from the conversation we had about regarding the excellent social media efforts he is conducting on behalf of The Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta. We are happy to have Chad back on the podcast with us to discuss Foursquare Day in Atlanta.

This week on The Bella Buzz podcast, we discuss a publishing platform that provides site owners an easy to use tool for managing content, WordPress. The platform is expected to be releasing its version 3.0 in the very near future according to information that Desiree received at the WordCamp Atlanta that took place this past January.

Rebekah Lovell from Renown Promotions is our guest on this episode of The Bella Buzz podcast. We discuss the field of public relations and how social media has changed the game for small and medium sized business. Renown is a communications consulting company that specializes in community-minded marketing and PR for small business. From copy writing, to full campaigns, they are a source for original and creative approaches to communication challenges.

For those who are not familiar with this Atlanta landmark, Oakland Cemetery is one of the oldest cemeteries and one of the largest green spaces in the City of Atlanta, and it is on the National Register of Historic Places. Famous "residents" include Bobby Jones the golfer, Margaret Mitchell the author, Maynard Jackson the former Mayor of Atlanta, and Joseph Jacobs who was the proprietor of the soda fountain where Coca-Cola was first served in 1886.

Without a doubt, the early days of the Google algorithm required that links point to a web site so that the search spiders could discover and index the site. The higher authority of the site linking in, would pass along some of the relevance "weight" so the Google could get a signal about the importance of the site. However, as the algorithm has become more robust, should the focus be more on creating incredibly powerful content and let the links come naturally?

It is a Super Bowl commercial postmortem on this week's Bella Buzz podcast. Desiree and Joe break down the effectiveness of the advertising dollars that the big brands spent during Super Bowl XLIV, or should we say lack of effectiveness.

This Martin Luther King, Jr. day brings a special guest to the Bella Buzz podcast. Joining Desiree and Joe is Business Consultant and Author Tricia Molloy. She is here to share with us her CRAVE program and how it can be applied to social media practices.

It's all about Wordpress and the WordCamp Atlanta Conference on this week's episode of The Bella Buzz. Desiree braved the icy roads of Atlanta to attend the Conference on Saturday, for a chance to network with over 200 speakers and attendees interested in hearing about best practices and upcoming enhancements to Wordpress.

The first 2010 edition of The Bella Buzz Podcast of 2010 brings to light the computer operating system upgrades that both Desiree and Joe went through during the holiday break. Stemming from good advice accumulated over the years, reformatting the hard drive or conducting the manual process of updating the files and clearing the desk always makes for a fresh start to the new year.

During the month of December it is appropriate to take a look back and a look forward. In this first part of our series, Desiree and Joe talk about the five biggest technology news stories of 2009 that made a significant contribution to the technology map moving forward. We also discuss what they might mean as we move into 2010 in our next podcast.