The Life Cycle of a Blog – From Your Brain to Your Keyboard to Infinity
So very cool. Want to know the journey taken by your latest and, no doubt, most brilliant blog posting? Check out The Life Cycle of a Blog Post, From Servers to Spiders to Suits — to You from Wired Magazine…
Read MoreWhat’s a Blog? Common Craft Explains Everything
Common Craft is a very cool company that uses “paperworks videos” to make complex topics easier to understand and a lot more fun to learn about. Continuing today’s theme of why blog, they’ve produced the following “Blogs in Plain English” video that will help you (or your mom –>) understand what a blog is and why you (or she) might have an interest in creating one. Enjoy… You can visit the Common Craft website for more cool vids and to find out more about the very creative pair behind all this. Oh, and thanks to Steve Clayton’s Geek in...
Read MoreGrow Your Blog Readership the Mack Collier Way
Mack Collier posted a great primer on growing your blog readership with 8 easy steps. I’ve listed his steps below as a handy reference with my comments following each step. His article goes into additional detail so don’t forget to read the whole thing. Published at MarketingProfs.com, Eight Easy Ways to Grow Your Blog, is good stuff. Mack Says… 1. Post regularly 3 times a week to start and spread them out. I’m guilty of posting multiple times on one day and none on others. I’ll spread out from now on. It’s attractive to both readers and search engines...
Read MoreGoogle Makes it Easy to Spell Check in WordPress
Do you wish that WordPress had spell check? Well it doesn’t, not built in anyway. You can add it by way of various plug ins or you can use the latest version of the Google Toolbar which allows you to spell check text entered into web forms, including WordPress. It works better in the Firefox version than the IE one and, while overall, it’s not nearly a powerful spell checker as you would find in MS Word it gets the job done (mostly), is easy to use (easier in Firefox) and makes it unnecessary to fool around with adding a plug in which might be incompatible with the next version...
Read MoreGreat Reasons to Blog
I use a couple of different Email Broadcast Services to send out ezines and other email communications on behalf of my clients. One of these is Vertical Response out of San Francisco. They have a nice tool. Fairly easy to use although don’t get me started on their 30kb message limit … uh, I digress… Anyway, I get their ezine which, this past issue, spoke of several good reasons that business should blog. According to Janine Popick, CEO/Founder, these include (with my comments added in []): 1. The Voice of the Business [A blog, particularly an executive's blog, can provide a...
Read MoreRSS Now Stands for Really SERIOUS Syndication
According to Jupiter Research (as reported by MediaPost.com) 63 percent of big companies plan to syndicate content via Really Simple Syndication by the end of 2006. The report “RSS Comes of Age: Budgeting, Deploying, and Measuring RSS,” indicates that currently only 29 percent of large companies (with more than $50 million in annual revenues) publish content via RSS technology. What is RSS – well it’s a way to publish your content on the internet to anyone who wants to subscribe. Google, Yahoo, MSN, AOL all are providing syndicated content that you can customize to...
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