Monthly Archives: April 2010
Public Speaking Tips to Improve Your Blog
Writing Make your blog posts dynamic, thought provoking, and unforgettable. When it comes right down to it, there isn’t a lot of difference between speaking and writing. One uses the voice, the other uses written words. It boils down to basic communication. Whether you speak in public or not, the same strategies can be applied to the written word in your blog. One key point to blogging (and public speaking) is to maximize the audience’s ...
Continue readingEnjoy Some Lemonade While Browsing Images and Videos
Social Media Do you use Twitter, Tumblr, Flickr, FFFFound, Picasa, YouTube and/or Vimeo? Well Some Lemonade is a new service that puts all of these sites together to make a “sexy” web image and video viewer. It does this by pulling out all of the posts that contain image and video links. Best of all, there’s no signing up required because you use your Twitter account to login (via Twitter OAuth). From there you can then connect your Tumblr ...
Continue readingPost Idea+ Plugin: Simple Idea Tracking
WordPress, WordPress Plugins It’s a situation nearly every blogger has faced. You come up with a great idea for a new post, perhaps while writing a different one, and you rush to jot it down. However, inevitably, you lose the paper or toss the note in the trash on accident, only to lose the idea forever. Others, myself included, have resulted to hammering out a quick post with just the title and marking that as an idea with a promise to come back to it later. However, ...
Continue readingBlogging – Five Things I Wish I’d Known Earlier
Blogging Michael Martine has started an open discussion on his blog: what do you wish you’d known earlier? Since it’s always good to see where you are and what you’ve learned, I thought I’d respond here. Blog hosting One of the first things I wish I’d known was the value of self-hosting your blog. I think free blogs are a great way to find out if you like blogging, but then you should host your own blog as soon as you can. ...
Continue readingOvercoming Verbal Performance Anxiety
Writing Podcasts are everywhere these days. They allow people to get information while being portable. Maybe you run a website that could benefit from podcasts but you feel your voice isn’t up to the challenge or you suffer from vocal anxiety. We all talk with ease–it’s second nature. But as soon as you see the record light come on, your vocal cords tighten up and you become painfully aware that you don’t always pronounce words ...
Continue readingHostGator and Fantastico Make WordPress Easy
Domain Names & Hosting, WordPress, WordPress Coding & Design You hear all kinds of excuses to why someone wont’ get into blogging. Some people say that they have nothing interesting to say. Others say that they don’t have the time. Others still say that they are intimidated by the terminology and technology. Let’s face it. Most of us aren’t coding experts and, for some, even the “simple” installation of WordPress can be quite daunting. Thankfully, there are services out ...
Continue readingIt All Went to Hell, Now What?
Blogging, WordPress From Drop Box April 21, 2010 5:34pm my blogging world went to help. My blogs were hacked. Every single .PHP file I had was rewritten with malicious code which made my blogs dangerous places to visit. Some of my blogs have yet to be recovered because all of my focus was on my main blog BenSpark.com. I think the reason that my blog was hacked easily was for a few reasons. Why did this happen to my blogs? I was reading a post that explains a bit ...
Continue readingStarting A Business On The Internet
Blogging One of the great things about starting a business on the Internet is it doesn’t require a lot of capital. To get started all you really need is a good idea, a computer and a bit of knowledge about the kind of Internet advertising and website design that will get you going. But there’s a downside too. You need to remember that as the direct result of the economic recession there are more people than ever before trying to start a ...
Continue readingShow off Your Tweets With a Twitter Widget
Social Media It’s becoming increasingly popular to display your tweets (or some kind of Twitter widget) on your blog. When it comes to this, there are quite a few to choose from. Most of these widgets are easy to use and customizable. Of course, which one you use is entirely up to you. Let’s take a look at the options out there and see what we can find. TwitterWind Uses Twitter OAuth to access your account. Customizable size and color. Lets you ...
Continue readingMonitor Your Website and Social Media Stats in Real-Time with Worldlogger
Social Media Worldlogger is a real-time web analytics service for monitoring visitor stats, Geo locations, referrers, content and social media. Since everything is in real-time, you can stay up-to-date on what is currently going on with your website instead of only being able to see what happened in the past and having to wait to see what’s happening in the present. Their interactive dashboard with customizable modules makes it super easy to keep up, ...
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