ESL Business News http://www.eslbusinessnews.com/weblog/ International business news every week in slow, clear English. en Copyright 2008 Mon, 08 Jan 2007 10:28:26 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss New way of recording We're trying a new way of recording the podcast. We won't go into detail, but please let us know if it sounds better or worse (or the same!).

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]]> http://www.eslbusinessnews.com/weblog/2006/05/new_entry_up_rss_feed_fixed.html http://www.eslbusinessnews.com/weblog/2006/05/new_entry_up_rss_feed_fixed.html fixes Mon, 08 May 2006 12:30:07 -0500 Welcome to the ESL Business News Weblog I've been doing ESL Business News podcasts for about a month without telling anyone, and this week I put them up live on a website and sent emails to publicize them. I thought the weblog would be a good way to communicate about the site and the podcast. Please forgive my use of the default template for the look of the weblog; it's the default stylesheet for MoveableType, the weblogging software that I use. Eventually I will fix it to look more like the rest of the ESL Business News website.

My first batch of emails have already gotten some good feedback, particularly from Charles Kelly of the The Internet TESL Journal. He has some good advice for anyone creating ESL podcasts at http://www.manythings.org/pod/guidelines.html.

Please consider the comments section of this weblog as a place to add more suggestions for ESL Business News. I'll close comments for individual entries when they get comment spam, but the comments for the most recent entry will always be open.

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