Monthly Archives: April 2009
What do you think about Google trying to buy Twitter?
Social Media I’ve read a lot of news reports over the last few days about Google trying to acquire Twitter. Originally it was thought that they were very close to signing a deal but Michael Arrington reported yesterday that Twitter wouldn’t even sell for $1 Billion. The deal is definately not off though and Google and Twitter remain in discussions about some kind of deal. I wouldn’t be surprised if Google paid whatever Twitter is asking for ...
Continue readingHuffington Post Announces Investigative Journalism Fund
Blogging News Seems like everyday there’s another story about a newspaper downsizing, going online only, or shutting its doors completely. It’s not particularly surprising: Online readership is growing while paper circulation continues to shrink. Despite it’s growth, though, online news does not generate near the revenue newspapers do. This makes many wonder what will happen to investigative journalism as newspapers disappear. Here’s ...
Continue readingWhy Blogging Is Better Than School
Blogging Hello Blogging Tips readers. My name is Debbie and I’ll be posting here every Friday. For this first post, I would like to share my basic philosophy about learning how to blog. Blogging is not hard. Sure, there’s a learning curve involved, especially the deeper you dive into the technological end, but in its essence, blogging is very simple. People think blogging is hard because they get stuck in schoolish thinking. See, I don’t care for ...
Continue readingCSS Image Replacement
Design & Coding The available fonts to a web designer is quite restrictive for making headings and menus look sleek and stylish whilst still maintaining usability and accessibility. We don’t all have the same fonts available, yet that shouldn’t stop us from using our favourite fonts. A lot of designers/developers will simply create the text they want and save it as an image, then place it on the page where they want it eg. a Logo, using an image ...
Continue reading5 Practical Things You Can Do with Twitter
Blogging, Making Money, Social Media Yesterday, Kevin announced the launch of Blogging Tips first WordPress plugin, Twitter User, which lets users integrate their Twitter username with their profile information in WordPress and display a link to their Twitter account in the footer of every post (or elsewhere in the template). However, many, including those who currently use Twitter, have wondered just how useful the service really is. Though there is a lot being said by ...
Continue readingTwitter Improves Replies, Saving You Time
Social Media Twitter changed its Replies section overnight, and it’s a great improvement for the microblogging site. Until now, clicking on your Replies section only gave you tweets from other users that have written @username at the very beginning of their tweet. The problem with this? You miss out on all the @reply tweets that don’t start with you. With the changes Twitter has made, you can now see all the tweets that have mentioned your ...
Continue readingGive your writing a natural flow by combining sentences
Writing Often in writing we’re told to write short sentences. The idea is good, but short, choppy sentence structure is not always the best way to convey an idea to the reader. The rhythm of short sentences can be tiresome to the reader and it can obscure the relation between ideas. We want our words to flow naturally so the reader isn’t distracted. Reading should flow with a good rhythm just like music. Varying the length and ...
Continue readingTwitter User WordPress Plugin
WordPress Plugins I am proud to announce the release of BloggingTips first WordPress Plugin. Thanks to everyone who previewed the plugin last week. Since then we have added a few more features A huge thank you to Sarah, who developed this plugin and worked hard on making sure the plugin was both practical and easy to use. Twitter User Twitter User is a simple plugin which adds an additional field to the authors profile in which they can add their twitter ...
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3 Proven Benefits Of Blog Commenting That Bloggers NEVER Told You
Blogging You will be surprised when you complete reading this blog post and start taking action. Blog commenting is something that is being talked over and over by some bloggers. But they NEVER told you the 3 benefits that I’m going to share with you in this blog post. In this post, you will see: 1. How blog commenting made one guy go from a normal blogger to freelance writer 2. The one comment that helped the same guy manage to get an interview with a ...
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