Monthly Archives: January 2011
Bumps And Starts in The Tech World and Getting the Cart Before the Horse
Internet News Reading about the lightning speed the tech world evolves at can sometimes be deceiving. The latest trend about smartphones and tablets that are forecast to take over from PCs as the number one selling devices this year doesn’t tell the whole story. Experts who watch these things like Deloitte are telling us in their most recent technology forecasts that although the PC isn’t the only kid on the block anymore, it’s a little premature to ...
Continue readingifttt – Your Personal Assistant for Internet Tasks
Reviews, Social Media At first glance, I was a bit overwhelmed by the possibilities of ifttt (short for If This Then That). After setting up just one task though, I was really impressed with how easy it was to get ifttt working for me. Not only does it take you step by step through the process in a clean format, but it only takes a a few minutes to complete. The concept is simple: you create tasks that follow the philosophy, “if this happens then do ...
Continue readingKeep Twitter Group Discussions Private with Privately
Reviews, Social Media If you’ve ever wanted to have a private conversation on Twitter with just a group of people (instead of the whole world) then Privately is for you. Privately is a mixture of threaded group conversations and DMs. Conversations can only be seen by users who have been invited and replies are displayed chronological order. Once you sign in via your Twitter account, you’ll want to set your preferences. You can enter your email so that you ...
Continue readingA Quick Guide for Buying Advertising
Making Money If you’ve never purchased advertising before, it can be a very intimidating process. The terminology can be, at times, very confusing and many sites don’t make it easy to get the information you need. Couple that with pushy sales people and many smart people who seek to buy ads make very dumb mistakes. Many people respond to this problem by simply making “safe” ad purchases such as using Adwords or a similar program. But ...
Continue reading5 Solid Ways to Get Traffic to Your Blog
Blogging Traffic is one of the most important things you need to succeed as a blogger because traffic is what make the sale, brings about an increase in subscriber and traffic is what brings about opportunities. It doesn’t matter how great your knowledge of monetization is or what kind of influence you have; if you don’t have enough traffic to your blog your blog can’t go anywhere. This post will be giving you five solid ways to get ...
Continue readingWhen Passion and Complacency Collide: Tips to Get Out of the Funk
Blogging Have you lost the passion for writing and blogging? Maybe you’ve been doing it awhile and don’t feel the same drive as you did when you first started. Sometimes we start out passionate about a topic, but that passion can turn into complacency and later lead to lethargy. Before we get into some tips to either keep your passion alive or revive a lost passion let’s cover the definition of these terms. The dictionary defines ...
Continue readingThe Times They Are A Changin’…Again
Blogging, Search Engine Optimisation People who do business on the Internet or actually run a company in cyberspace soon get used to the idea that what’s the norm one week will crumble and blow away like dust the next. There are no other traditional values on the web except for maybe the fact that the only way to get really good leverage with any search engine optimization techniques or other kinds of advertising you use is with good content. For those of you who think I’m ...
Continue readingKnowEm – A Must Use Brand Security Tool For Bloggers
Personal, Software & Programs As bloggers, it’s important to monitor your brand and make sure that you’re covering all the bases as far as where you’re brand is established. Many bloggers and companies like to reserve their name across the Web on various social sites so that others don’t beat them to the punch. Even if you don’t plan on using the site right away, it is still a good idea to at least register your usrname in case you want to use ...
Continue readingTweetStork – The Twitter Tool For Finding Targeted Followers
Reviews, Social Media Twitter users are always looking for new ways to find targeted followers. It’s important to not just have a lot of followers on Twitter, but to have followers that are going to interact with you and add value to your timeline. With TweetStork, you can find related users, list owners and re-tweeters who are just like you. You can also use it to unfollow users who aren’t following you back. Best of all, it’s free and requires ...
Continue readingSecurity Fail: Three Ways Your Blog Can Get Hacked
Design & Coding Blog security is an often-overlooked necessity for bloggers, even though blog hacking is a surprisingly common event and it is a problem that can affect just about anyone. For example, shortly after Christmas, Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt found that his blog had been hacked, hosting unauthorized ads, including those for mail order brides. Though what caused the hack in that case is unknown, what is known is that the site was pulled ...
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