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Lee Bryant of Headshift, a Six Apart partner headquartered in the UK, shares his thoughts on the use of social tools in the workplace at the Unicom 2008 Social Tools Conference. His full presentation can be viewed here (audio improves significantly after slide #4). Headshift has consulted on many Movable Type projects for clients such as law firm Allen & Overy, Do The Green Thing and Metro....

Mein.salzburg.com, a community site dedicated to life and leisure in the Salzburg area, has more than doubled its readership since creating their Movable Type blog. The service is managed by Salzburger Nachrichten, a respected daily newspaper read throughout Austria and is working toward being the premier address for all kinds of essential information for locals.Find out how Salzburger Nachrichten used Movable Type to increase their audience and create a dedicated new community here....

Movable Type now offers a Seesmic plugin, which allows for video commenting on your Movable Type blog. The plugin can be downloaded from the Movable Type Plugin Directory, which features hundreds of plugins including the recently-released and acclaimed TypePad AntiSpam.For a rare behind-the-scenes look at the making of a startup, look no further than Loic.tv, where Seesmic founder, serial entrepreneur, celebrity blogger and ex-director of Six Apart Europe, Loïc Le Meur, publishes videos daily....

Olivier is featured in TCN (p.4, Issue #391, week of 11 June 2008), one of Spain's biggest channel weeklies, talking about the Six Apart EMEA Partner Program.The Partner Program is open to companies across the EMEA region that are interested in working with Six Apart to market, resell and inform customers about Movable Type....

Our thanks go out to Robert Andrews of PaidContent:UK for his incisive interview of Six Apart EMEA VP and General Manager, Olivier Creiche. In the videotaped Q&A at the World Editors' Forum in Goteborg, Olivier talks openly about why Six Apart sold hot property LiveJournal to Russian online media company SUP, as well as on the death of blogging (!).See the full interview here....

Six Apart EMEA is sending its very own Dhana Silva, Sales Manager of Spain and Latin America, on a 3 week-long  blog evangelism tour that will cover her trek (in stilettos, of course) through Venezuela, Columbia, Brazil, Argentina and Chile.With existing Spanish and South American clients like Hola, El Tiempo, El Pais, Banco Sabadell, El Clarin, Mobuzz TV, Mercurio and Microsiervos, Six Apart hopes to help spread blogging throughout this exciting region of the world. Among other things, Dhana will be sharing her insights on the growth of Web2.0 in...

Today we were notified of a great review of Movable Type 4.1 on Linux.com. The thorough write-up outlines the strengths of Movable Type, as well as some helpful hints. Recommended reading for anyone looking for a bias-free view of professional blogging options....

The Guardian's 50 Most Powerful Blogs In The World is back, featuring still more TypePad and Movable Type blogs than last time. According to the new shortlist, over 35% of the World's Most Powerful Blogs are powered by Movable Type or TypePad.Blogs powered by Movable Type:Huffington Post (#1)Boing Boing (#2)Kottke (#4)Talking Points Memo (#7)Beppe Grillo (#9)Gawker (#10)Treehugger (#13)Microsiervos (#14)Jezebel (#22)Gaping Void (#31)Chocolate & Zucchini (#38)Samizdata (#39)Blogs hosted by TypePad:Marbury (#17)Chez Pim (#18)Greek Tragedy (#26)Go Fug Yourself (#30)The Daily Dish (#40)Stylebubble (#48)...

When the Word of Mouth Marketing Association (WOMMA) was just starting out, they needed to create a website to build credibility -- on a limited budget."Organizations customarily spend over $40,000 for a website, plus more for a CMS. With Movable Type, our initial web development costs were close to zero."-Andy Sernovitz, Founding CEO, Word of Mouth Marketing AssociationTo find out more about how Movable Type was an effective tool in WOMMA's success, see the full case study....

UNIQLO, a Japanese apparel retailer that is now a global brand with more than 700 stores across the globe, needed a foolproof method to collect feedback from its employees. Enter Movable Type:"Because Movable Type blogs are easy to grasp and allow posting via mobile phones, we are able, for the first time, to collect timely and critical feedback from our in-store employees, including part-time workers."- Kiyoshi Mori, Fast Retailing (parent company of UNIQLO)Click here to read the full UNIQLO case study....