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Why Consultants Should Blog
Blogging For consultants, and others who make their living selling their time and expertise (lawyers, accountants, etc.), knowledge is their most precious resource. It’s why people pay them high hourly rates and why others need them in the first place. Without this specialized knowledge, they have no job, no money and no career. This causes many to protect their information resources closely. Many consultant sites are standoffish, static ads that ...
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Blogging It’s getting toward the end of summer (at least in the northern hemisphere) and many people are either just coming back from their vacation or are looking to take one before the weather starts to cool off. However, time away from work also means time away from blogging, at least ideally, and that can mean an idle blog for a few days, a few weeks or even longer. Once we get into a blogging routine, it’s hard for most to break it. But ...
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Blogging Let’s say that you have a few hours free and you want to dedicate it to your blog. It’s not enough time to take on a major project such as building a new theme or completely redoing your categories/tags (at least not if you have a large site), but you want to do something to make your blog better. If you find yourself with that blessing, here are five things that you can do right now to improve your blog, all of which take less than ...
Continue reading3 Ways to Write Your Blog Post
Blogging When you sit down at your computer to craft a new blog post, you probably do it one of three different ways. Though some services such as Tumblr have added new ways to add new entries, most bloggers that write posts of any length do so via one of a few means. In some cases, choosing the way you write your post can be just as important as what you write about or the style with which you cover it. Inevitably, the tools one uses to create their ...
Continue readingWhy You Should Track Your Content
Blogging On my main site, Plagiarism Today, I talk a great deal about finding people who are misusing your content and how to stop them. However, not everyone is interested in stopping plagiarists or scrapers, many don’t care if their content is used, no matter the capacity. Other still take a more centrist approach and use Creative Commons Licenses to encourage at least some forms of distribution. However, Even if you never intend to stop a single ...
Continue readingTroubleshooting WordPress Problems
Blogging It’s what every blogger fears. Something has gone wrong with their blog. It could be something minor, such as, as with my case, excerpts not working, or it could be something major, such as the site’s home page being nothing more than an error. This is not the time to panic. Most problems with WordPress are easily corrected but there is a very real risk that, by attempting to fix the problem through the wrong methods, you may do more ...
Continue readingNew Twitter Spam Scam Uses Fake Celebrity RTs
Social Networking Earlier today CrunchGear reported on a new form of Twitter spam that was taking the service by storm. What was happening was that a spam bot appears to be putting out thousands of tweets for a service that allows people to watch movies free, including Harry Potter, Ice Age 3 and the new Transformers movie. The problem being that, not only would such a service almost certainly be illegal, it doesn’t actually exist and the URLs just ...
Continue reading5 Basic HTML Tasks Every Blogger Should Know
Design & Coding WYSIWYG HTML editors are great. They let bloggers, or other webmasters, build sites or create posts without requiring them to take a look at any of the code that makes it up. Best of all, they are becoming increasingly powerful, able to do more and more while creating better and better code. However, they are far from perfect. Whether they don’t align an image perfectly, can’t make a table just right or cause some other problem, at ...
Continue reading5 Gmail Tricks Everyone Should Know
Software & Programs Back in March, I posted an article entitled 5 GMail Labs Features for Bloggers. It focused on five of the “beta” features of Gmail that can be very helpful to those of us who run their own sites. However, today Google announced that they were pulling the “beta” label off of Gmail and, honor of that occasion, I’m going to take another look at how Gmail can help bloggers and other power users, this time by listing 5 ...
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4 Kinds of Comments You Don’t Want
Blogging Yesterday, Ryan posted a an article entitled “Show You Moderate Your Comments?” in which he concludes that one should not moderate comments, if avoidable, or delete negative ones. Though I agree with Ryan’s take about commenting, it is worth noting that there are some dangers that come with allowing comments on your site. Though often discussed are annoyances that come with opening up comments, flame wars, spam, etc., there are ...
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