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ChartBeat: Analytics Go Real-Time
Software & Programs When it comes to statistics, there are countless applicaitons that will let you know what happened last week, yesterday or even last hour, but few will give you a clear picture as to what is happening on your site right now. That is a void that ChartBeat is hoping to fill. The premise behind ChartBeat is very simple. Rather than telling you how many visitors and pageviews you had on X day and time, it is going to tell you how many people are on ...
Continue reading5 Ways Businesses Blow it on Twitter
Social Networking For businesses both large and small, Twitter is a very strange beast. Nothing in the history of advertising and public relations has been quite like Twitter and, even as social networking is becoming a better-understood field for business promotion, Twitter stands apart for many reasons. So as businesses stumble onto Twitter, many are using the new medium to find innovative ways to fall on their face. Though not every business or personal brand ...
Continue reading5 More Things Haunting Taught Me About Blogging
Blogging Around my home, it is definitely that time of year again. Halloween is just a few weeks away, the outside decorations are already up and work inside our small charity haunt is moving at a fever pitch. It was at about this time last year that I wrote a post entitled “5 Things Haunting Taught Me About Blogging“, which was a look at some of the lessons I got about life and blogging through running a haunted house. With another year down ...
Continue readingHow to Fix 5 Common Theme Problems
Design & Coding, WordPress, WordPress Themes As I mentioned last week, as a blogger, you are going to make mistakes and, fortunately, most of them are very minor ones that you can fix and recover from quickly. That being said, one of the more common and embarrassing mistakes involves screwing up your theme. This can be especially frustrating if you aren’t somewhat experienced with HTML and CSS, but can still be a headache no matter how experienced you are. Though there are literally ...
Continue reading5 Mistakes Every Blogger Will Make, Including You
Blogging, Writing There’s a simple truth to life that every human being will make mistakes. Since every blogger is human, at least the ones that aren’t spambots, then every blogger will screw up inevitably. On BloggingPro, I recently wrote an article about how to recover from the mistakes you make but the question becomes “What kind of mistakes can one expect to make?” With blogging, as with life, there are very few guarantees but there ...
Continue reading5 Ways Twitter Can Actually Be Useful… For Anyone
Social Networking Though most people who use Twitter enjoy it and think it’s a great service, it has gotten something of a bad rap for, supposedly, being useless and frivolous. When people do talk about putting Twitter to use, they’re usually discussing it solely from the standpoint of self-promotion or social news marketing. This has, unfortunately, kept many people away from Twitter who would benefit from it. Many who are otherwise very active in ...
Continue reading5 Things Magicians Can Teach You About Blogging
Blogging, Writing At some level, blogging is really just a stage show. We, as bloggers, are up on a virtual stage giving a performance that goes on for as long as we run our sites. Whether it is a stand-up comedy routine or a serious academic lecture, we’re talking to the world and hope that our audience, no matter how large or small, will listen. On that front magicians are masters of the stage show. Using nothing but a few tricks, which can range from ...
Continue readingWhy You Need to Know HTML/CSS
CSS, Design & Coding Last week I posted an article entitled “5 Skills Every Bloggers Needs to Excel” spelling out five skills that I consider essential for every blogger to either have or be willing to obtain if they want to truly excel. Overall, the article was well-received but several commenters took issue with the second item on my list: HTML/CSS Skills. Several felt that the power of WordPress/Blogger and other blogging platforms made the need to ...
Continue reading5 Skills Every Blogger Needs to Excel
Blogging On the surface, writing a blog and maintaining it may not seem like that hard of a job. You set up an account, pick a theme, write some posts and hit “publish”. Pretty much anyone can do it so long as they know how to use a computer and understand the basics of the Internet. However, there is a difference between just blogging and blogging well. If you want to do the latter, you’re going to have to learn a few additional skills ...
Continue reading8 Google Products I use Daily
Blogging As privacy is becoming an even bigger concern, the centralization of our information is an issue almost no one can afford to ignore. As such, there is a lot of talk and debate about whether we are giving up too much of our information to Google and, if so, can we trust them with that information. This spurred a conversation with a friend of mine some time ago on the topic and we both began to think about the Google services we use on a daily ...
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