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Blogging For Dummies III: Look for it in 2010!

I did something pretty exciting this week: I signed a contract to write the third edition of “Blogging For Dummies!”

“Blogging For Dummies, 2nd Edition” came out in January of 2008. Shane Birley was my co-author, and we had a lot of fun (there was also some stress) in working through the book. We really poured as much knowledge as we could into the 368 pages of the book, but you can never cover everything. Doing a third edition is going to give us a chance to respond to the feedback we have received from readers, and to get even more great information into the book. So much has happened in the blogosphere in the year and a half since the second edition was published!

The third edition will be published in January 2010, and I’ll let you know as soon as it is available to pre-order on Amazon.com. In the meantime, we’re about to embark on the writing part of the job, so if you have any suggestions for things that simply must be part of the third edition, or that we got wrong or missed the first time, leave a comment and let us know! This is a great chance to shape how the book comes together so that it is exactly the resource your need!

There was some other exciting “Blogging For Dummies” news in the last couple of weeks: I received copies of “Blogging For Dummies, 2nd Edition” that looked a little odd. Turns out the book has been translated into Italian! “Blog per negati” is what the book is titled in Italian. It’s pretty fun to see it, even though I don’t speak Italian myself. There is also a “Blogging fur Dummies” (German).

Talking Up Blogs at SXSW

Shane and I will be interviewed on BlogTalkRadio while we’re at SXSW this week, and we aren’t alone. Some of our favorite authors and blog designer friends will also spill the beans.

Check out the offerings Wiley and BlogTalkRadio have put together:

Joelle Reeder, Katherine Scoleri -The IT Girl’s Guide to Blogging with Moxie

Lisa Sabin-Wilson - WordPress For Dummies

Andy Beal - Radically Transparent

Susie Gardner/Shane Birley - Blogging For Dummies, 2nd Edition: Monday at 1 p.m. CST

Daniel Terdiman - The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Second Life

Want to listen? Shows will be streaming live at http://blogtalkradio.com/wiley/ and the call-in number is: 347-945-7081. Additionally, interviews can be accessed at the 2020 Blog (joewikert.com).

I’ll update with dates and times for all the authors.

“Blogging for Dummies, 2nd Edition” auf Deutsch!

Shane and I got some exciting news today: “Blogging for Dummies, 2nd Edition” has been picked up for translation into German.

I wonder what “dummies” is in German? Babelfish tells me it is “Attrappen,” but I’ll be curious to see what the title actually is when I get a copy of the book.

So, wilkommen, German readers!