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Martha Stewart Dedicates an Episode of TV Show to Blogging

18 Sep 08
Heather Rasley

New WordPress user Martha Stewart dedicated the September 17 episode of The Martha Stewart Show to blogging!

On the show, Martha explains how she and her staff utilize The Martha Blog and chats with some of her favorite bloggers, including WordPress users Margaret Roach, Perez Hilton, and Smitten Kitchen’s Deb Perelman.

Martha loves the exposure and ease of use of her blog:

I’ve been writing this blog for almost a year now and I have to say that I love being able to communicate so easily on a daily basis. Being in the public eye, I have a devoted following that wants to know more about my personal life and activities. Prior to blogging, we sent out a newsletter dealing with such issues. Although the printed newsletter was charming and informative, it was also a rather slow process and didn’t reach nearly as many readers as this blog does.

I really love the spontaneity of blogging and being able to post whatever, whenever.

Here’s a clip from the show:

Check out her post for tips on blogging and details about her blogging contest.

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9 Responses to “Martha Stewart Dedicates an Episode of TV Show to Blogging”

  1. JoLynn Braley September 18th, 2008 at 12:01 pm Reply

    How cool, I didn’t know that Martha even had a blog, and it shows how smart she is since she’s using WP!

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  3. Margaret September 18th, 2008 at 2:50 pm Reply

    So glad you posted about this, Heather. In my segment with Martha yesterday, for whom I worked for 15 years until starting my own company in January, we talked about WordPress…so once the clips are live on http://marthastewart.com in the next day or two from yesterday’s ‘Martha’ show, you can have a listen.

  4. Stijn September 18th, 2008 at 5:08 pm Reply

    Did I just see Martha using IE5 (1:58)?

  5. David Gruttadaurio September 21st, 2008 at 11:06 am Reply

    No arguments from me Heather! Blogging is absolutely the fastest way to get your message out there. I’ve been mailing printed newsletters to my clients for years very successfully – but as a client retention and referral building marketing tool. That’s really the only (and best) way you would want to use printed newsletters.

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  7. Trevor D October 7th, 2008 at 2:27 am Reply

    Sweet……Never knew she had a blog :P

  8. pam October 20th, 2008 at 8:01 pm Reply

    ummm according to typepad she also has one there.

  9. Raanan Bar-Cohen October 20th, 2008 at 10:26 pm Reply

    @ pam -

    The Martha Blog switched from Typepad to WordPress a few weeks ago: http://publisherblog.automattic.com/2008/09/08/martha-stewart-wordpress/

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