Monthly Archives: December 2009
Blogger-Holic; Theme Addiction
Writing Recently, Sharon Hurley Hall posted about her addiction with Confessions of a Theme-a-Holic. I commented that I have the same addiction, and I mentioned using different themes as inspiration for novels I’m working on. I recently changed webhosts and haven’t gotten everything up and ready. I threw two of these up real quick to give you a visual. I have never released my private blogs to the public. I share the links with a few writing ...
Continue readingSimler – Social Messaging Mixed with Common Interests
Social Media Simler is a social messaging platform that allows you to connect with those who have the same types of interests as you. What makes Simler so unique is the ability to link like-minded users together via their tagging system. Upon joining Simler, users are asked to add tags to their account that describe and interest them; there is an infinite amount of tags that you can add. Many tags have already been created and upon typing, suggestions will ...
Continue readingPrinciple WordPress Theme
WordPress Themes Last month I gave you all a preview our latest free wordpress theme. I am pleased to announce that the theme is now finished and all newsletter subscribers are free to download it. The theme was designed by our friends at Blog Design Studio. If you are looking for a custom design for your blog, I encourage you to get in touch with them, you won’t be disappointed The theme has a wide range of features: It has a featured post area on the ...
Continue readingThe Secret Weapon Every New Blogger Should Have
Blogging Back in the day, when I was in the ad biz as a creative director, I often marveled at the so-called “creative partnership” between writers and graphic designers. As one would marvel at, say dogs and cats sharing a dish of meat. That’s how it works at most agencies of any size, they have these little pods of creativity, pairings that at first compete with other pods for the best assignments, then become the primary creative engine for ...
Continue readingHootSuite on the iPhone
Social Media Twitter and the iPhone have always been a natural combination. Twitter’s mobile-friendly 140 character limit, robust API and mobile-centric features have, overall, meshed well Apples flagship cellphone. The presence of Twitter on the iPhone was strong enough for Time Magazine to name Tweetie 2 the number one iPhone app of 2009, ahead of both Yelp and SlingPlayer. Despite this, crossovers between desktop applications and iPhone ones have ...
Continue readingIn Search Of A Storytlr Replacement
Blogging As a professional blogger, I’m always looking for good ways to aggregate my lifestream, especially so that I can collate posts from all the different places that I blog. One tool that I really liked was Storytlr because of its ability to aggregate historical posts (in my case going back to 2006) and beautiful profile themes. But now its founders have decided to mothball the service. They say: “The reason is simple: our lives have ...
Continue readingCustom Coming Soon Page for WordPress Blogs
WordPress Plugins I recently set up a basic WordPress site for a friend. The site is for a company he is setting up so we just found a suitable corporate looking theme and got the site online. I was speaking with my friend tonight about the site. He still needs to add content to the site but he wanted to setup some email addresses. After showing him how to do that he asked if we can put up a Under Construction message until he has written all the content for the ...
Continue readingKindle for PC Review
Writing I rarely write reviews or promote products unless I find them to be top-notch. And while I am easily amused, it takes a lot to impress me to the point of making a recommendation. But today, I would like to talk about Kindle for the PC. I don’t know when it was developed, but I just discovered it*—and it’s free. Free is good. I’m not a cheapskate, but I do like value. In my opinion, the regular Kindle is too over priced. ...
Continue readingTwitter Talk: Good or Bad for Your Blog?
Blogger Twitter was the most spoken word for 2009. That’s kind of a big deal, considering everything else that has gone on in the past year, from the election of the first African American president into the white house and a struggling economy to say the least. Yet Twitter was so frequently spoken about because of its presence as a communication hub, giving us a way in which to discuss all the things that we like to talk about–like Obama ...
Continue readingTraffic Currencies – Building Your Blog Through Information Economics
Promote your blog Seven years ago I was paid to drive around and give away muffins. I learned something from that experience – and it was more than just the fact blueberry are the most popular kind. The lessons learned in those years have actually helped me build quite a profitable network – one which sends referrals on a regular basis and enabled the launch of a blog with more than 2,000 unique visitors on its very first day. By the way, a little birdie told ...
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