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Using Icons to Brand
Promote your blog, WordPress Plugins One very useful plug in for branding is called Blog Icons. I have had this installed on all of my blogs as well as client blogs every time I set up a new wordpress blog. There are many useful features in this plug in that I think you will benefit from. From RoyalTutorial Images Take a look at the left hand side of this open tab. Do you see that little red box that shows “BT” for Blogging Tips? That is a favicon and if you don’t ...
Continue readingSquash the Micro-Manager
Blogging, Personal, Productivity Like many of you I have a full-time job in addition to working on my blog. In my job I’ve taken on the role of the media guy. This is not my actual job title or even in my job description. Because I am skilled with HTML, photography, and video production I get to do some extra things at work. Sometimes this can be really fun. Other times however, it is not. The times when it sucks is when I have to work with a micro-manager on my back. How ...
Continue readingCaution: Too Much Can Stunt You.
Blogging Is it possible to read too many blogs? When thinking of what to talk about for this blogging tips.com post I began to panic because I was not coming up with any ideas. I thought that I’d go and read a few blogs from my feed reader including my list of virtual mentors. Virtual Mentors (list is on my right sidebar on my blog) are those people who are attaining a level of recognition and success online or in their personal lives that I wish ...
Continue readingBuild Rapport with Rapportive
Personal, Productivity, Social Networking I get a ton of e-mail from many different people. Keeping everyone straight can be difficult and those are just the people I know personally. I have a contact form on my blog and occasionally get people contacting me and asking me to try things, blog about things and for help. I don’t know these folks most of the time. However, I’ve discovered a great tool to help me identify people who are contacting me. The tool is called ...
Continue readingInteroperability – Can it Work for your Blog?
Blogging, Promote your blog, Social Networking In my (9-5 job) industry, Medical Software, there is a huge focus on the concept of Interoperability. Interoperability is the ability to have diverse systems talk to each other and work together. The main reason why interoperability is being talked about like crazy is that the government has approved a stimulus package for the health care system. Hospitals need to get on board with an electronic health record in order to get the money that is ...
Continue readingGood Blogging is like Good Standup
Blogging, Social Media This post was inspired by Revision3′s ROFL podcast. I’ve been on the road all day and I had a ton of episodes of ROFL, which is a standup comedy show. I’ve always been a fan of standup and other forms of comedy but standup is my favorite form. So, I got to thinking of how blogging can be compared to standup comedy. Good Standup Requires Exceptional Timing Timing is one of the things that is so crucial to good comedy. When a ...
Continue readingTake a Minute to Fix your TweetMeme, Now.
Blogger, WordPress Plugins TweetMeme is a hugely popular plug-in because it is so easy to use. It is easy for you to install and easy for your readers to use to retweet your posts. It may be too easy because so many people just install it and never look at the options available to them. Here is the Issue When you simply install TweetMeme and you don’t get into the settings then every RT will show up as “RT @tweetmeme… your blog post and link“. So, ...
Continue readingGet Backlinks from Every Tweet
Social Media I was looking at where my blog traffic comes from and I’ve noticed something interesting. Google is not the top referrer to my blog. My top referrer is actually Flickr which would make sense because, with my Photo-A-Day project, I post to Flickr every single day. With each uploaded photo I add a link from Flickr to my blog. That is something I do manually and it can take some time on my part, not a lot of time but some time. What if you ...
Continue readingThink You have Nothing to Say, Think Again.
Blogging I’ve been blogging for seven years. Over that time I have talked with many people about blogging. When I talk to people who are even slightly interested in blogging for themselves I inevitably run into the same argument. “But, I have nothing to write about.” I personally think that is a terrible argument. Everyone has something that they are truly passionate about and could talk for days about that subject. To prove that you ...
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