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Can Plato’s Forms add Wisdom to Blogging?
Blogging News While I participate in the alpha and beta testing for many web services, this is the first time I am writing about a pre-alpha product. However, I think that the concept behind Plato’s Forms could be key to the future of blogging. With so many blogs and so much misinformation in the wild, there is a need to create a venue for bloggers to communicate with the companies they are writing about. On three occasions, I have been asked by the ...
Continue readingGoogle is Feeling the Need for Speed
Search Engine Optimisation In a recent interview Matt Cutts, a Google software engineer and frequent spokesperson, revealed that Google is considering using the speed which a website loads in its search algorithms. By 2010 is seems likely that slower sites will be pushed further down the results page in favor of quicker ones. In the interview with WebPro Matt stated that “We’re starting to think more and more about should speed be a factor in ...
Continue readingBlogging Future – Down the Drain?
Around The Blogosphere Back in the 1970s when I was a teenager growing up in the New York City suburbs I used to visit the “city.” Times Square in particular was an amazing place filled with huge billboards, a place where getting your name in lights was one of the ultimate symbols of success. However, last weekend when I strolled through Times Square I realized just how much technology and blogging have changed the world. Looking up I saw one of the ...
Continue readingSocial Media Press Releases
Promote your blog The press release was once a traditional marketing tool that was used by mid to large size companies. However, with the Internet and social media this world is changing as small companies and bloggers have access to the world of press releases. The traditional press release world is not standing still, a prime example is the public relations industry’s effort to develop the social media news release (SMNR). Many journalists use the ...
Continue readingWhat does the new cnn.com mean for blog design?
Blogging Usability and design testing can make a huge impact on any web site. But, if you run a blog or a small web site, the costs of wide scale usability and design testing is expensive. One of the best affordable ways to improve design is to learn from those organizations that have invested in large scale testing. Sites like Amazon, eBay and CNN are often imitated for that very reason. With CNN making a major update to their home page, it is ...
Continue readingMake Your WordPress Blog Mobile Ready
WordPress Plugins According to WordPress, based on visits to wordpress.com where they host blogs, there are more than 60 million page views that come from mobile phones per month. With mobile traffic growing, how your site renders on mobile devices is becoming more important. Fortunately, some new WordPress plugins are making it possible to maintain your current custom theme while also serving up a mobile focused theme to your mobile visitors. Before you add ...
Continue readingWoopra – Affordable Real Time Web Analytics
Software & Programs Woopra, yet another a hosted analytics service, today announced that they are opening their doors for new signups. Until today, you needed a sought after invite code to test out this new service. Woopra is similar to Google Analytics but provides real time stats and a number of additional features such as the ability to chat real time with visitors to the site. A number of these features are ideal for small to small to medium size blogs. ...
Continue readingFastPencil Self Publishing
Blogging News, Promote your blog If you have thought about going beyond just a blog and self publishing, then you should consider the new social tools features that allow FastPencil to help make the book-writing process collaborative and affordable – with an end-to-end solution for aspiring authors, guiding them through the writing, editing, design and printing process. The space for self-publishing is getting lots of investment right now with a handful of other companies ...
Continue readingPostRank Integrates your Blog Analytics
Software & Programs Figuring out the complete picture of how your blog is doing involves analyze your visitors, your RSS readers, your email recipients, your Twitter followers and nay other social media site where your blog is discussed or linked with. Figuring out the analytics for any one of these systems can be a challenge, but getting all of this information in one place has extremely difficult. PostRank has launched PostRank Analytics as a way to help ...
Continue readingWordPress – Stay Current and Stay Safe
WordPress While it is always important to keep your WordPress software current, this past summer saw a barrage of updates and security issues. Like any Internet based application, WordPress is no stranger to security issues. In fact back in 2007 this article, WordPress Version 2.2 Hack Warning, was posted on Blogging Tips. This summer saw a barrage of updates: WordPress 2.8 was released on June 10th and by August 12th version 2.8.4 was released for a ...
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