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Help A Reporter Out – Blog Publicity
Blogging Every blogger is always looking for ways to get publicity and links to their blog or website. Help a Reporter Out (HARO) is a great example of a site that might just get you on the “publicity” map. Each day, Peter Shankman the founder of HARO, sends our 2-3 emails with a list of reporters who are looking for experts and stories about specific subjects. If you fit the bill and reply quickly – you might get the publicity that ...
Continue readingReal Time Blogging with the RSS Cloud
Blogging News Most bloggers are familiar with the basics of RSS, Really Simple Syndication, as it is a way for readers to subscribe to updates to your blog. Right now most people interact with RSS feeds by checking for updates about once an hour. However, in today’s real time world of Twitter – the current RSS feed frequency seems almost old fashioned. Can you imagine waiting an hour to get your emails? Well, a new RSS element, the RSS ...
Continue readingOneWebDay
Social Media The blogosphere is an amazing collection of people around the world – a collection that is still largely untapped in it’s power. However, various efforts are underway to find ways to harness this power. An upcoming example is OneWebDay a global event that has been celebrated every September 22 since 2006. The idea behind OneWebDay is to provide an opportunity for communities to celebrate the power of the Web for positive ...
Continue readingBeta Testing Made Easy
Software & Programs Getting feedback from potential visitors to your blog or web site can be critical to the successful launch of a new site or even just a new version of an existing site. While software companies have been organizing beta test programs for years, these have been limited to larger companies with staff to manage a beta testing program. However with new web based beta testing services like Prefinery and Launchset it is now possible for a small ...
Continue readingGist – Part of the Wave of Information Managers
Software & Programs Years ago a newspaper writer knew that the readers were all reading the news the same way, by holding the newspaper in their hands and reading the article. However, a blogger has no such luxury as a blog reader might be reading the blog post via the blog’s web page, via the blog’s web page on a mobile device, via an RSS feed in one of the many RSS readers, as an RSS feed on another web site or even as part of another application. ...
Continue readingChart your way to readable blogs
Software & Programs A few weeks ago I was writing a blog that was chock full of data. I quickly realized that my blog post would be more efficient if I could display some of the data in a graph instead of text. While once upon a time I used Microsoft Excel to create charts, that was many moons ago. However, a quick search showed me that Web 2.0 has created a wide range of charting tools that allow even a charting novice to quickly create professional quality ...
Continue reading500 years of Newspapers – How many years of blogs?
Blogging News While the blogging “industry” is still in it’s infancy, I wonder if the blogosphere will have the lifespan of a giant tortoise at close to 200 years in captivity or the less than a decade lifespan of the Betamax videocassette. Will blogs continue to evolve or will they one day follow the newspapers into the world of cold and harsh oblivion>? Let’s briefly consider the life spans of the newspaper and the blog to begin ...
Continue readingBedside Blogging – CarePages
Blogging Some people blog looking for fame. Other bloggers are searching for their fortune. This week I was introduced to a new universe of bloggers – those who blog for support and help as they struggle with a more basic need – the need to be healthy. CarePages is an online community of millions of people coming together to share the challenges, hopes and triumphs of anyone facing a life changing health event. I was introduced to ...
Continue readingColor Coordinate Your Web Pages
Software & Programs The Internet has made it possible for millions of people to write articles and create websites. However, the Internet has not magically provided these millions of people with writing and graphics skills. That’s one of the key reasons I love the posts about writing here on Blogging Tips. Likewise, I am really pleased with a new family of free tools that offer color coordination to those of us who were not blessed with the color ...
Continue readingPinboard Wizard – Basic Bookmarking
Software & Programs If you’re reading Blogging Tips then odds are good you read at least one blog and more than likely you read way more than just one blog. I read a ton of blogs and I have been looking for the perfect way to bookmark and save all the websites and blog posts I want to review when “time permits.” I’ve tried a ton of approaches and right now I’m loving the pure simplicity of Pinboard. Pinboard is a basic bookmark ...
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