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Reinvigorate – A New Way To Track Blog Analytics
Blogging It had been so long since I’d signed up for the Reinvigorate beta that I’d practically forgotten what it was. – and the name didn’t give it away. As it turned out, Reinvigorate is a web-based analytics program (it also has a desktop reporting program) so I promptly accepted my invitation to test it and downloaded and installed the WordPress plugin, entering my site ID to enable it to start tracking. (If you’re not ...
Continue readingDressing Up Google Reader With Feed Squares – Review
Reviews It’s no secret that I’m a Feedly fan and have been for a long time. All the same, when I found out that there was a new Google Reader interface called FeedSquares (available for Android and Chrome), I decided to give it a spin. I installed the Chrome version. First Impressions Once I installed the extension and clicked on the icon, I got a nice bunch of colored squares representing my feeds from Google Reader. I assumed that the ...
Continue readingTwimbow, A New Twitter Tool – Review and Interview
Blogging I’ve only been using Twimbow for a couple of days, but so far I like what I see. Twimbow is a colorful approach to viewing your Twitter stream, with a lot of nifty features thrown in. When you authorize the app, you get a window with three columns: personal buzz, home buzz and search. Search shows any of your saved searches, selected from a drop down menu – or you can enter a new search in the search bar at the top and see the ...
Continue readingIs It Time To Get Some Help On Your Blog?
Blogging If you’re starting to show the signs of blogger burnout or are working your way to exhaustion, it may be time to look after your health and get some help on your blog. There are also other good reasons why you might consider getting an extra pair of hands: your blogging work has taken off and you have less time to maintain your personal blog you’re finding it harder and harder to come up with great ideas you’re mentally ...
Continue readingProofread Your Way To Error-Free Blog Posts
Writing There’s nothing worse than hitting the ‘publish’ button on a blog post and realizing that you’ve made a glaring error. It’s much the same when you write a tweet or a status update, where your only option is to delete it and start again. With most blogs, you can go back and edit, but posts are propagated so quickly now that your error could be circulating in cyberspace before you have time to correct it. The ...
Continue readingPromote Your Blog With An Interview
Blogging When people talk about blog promotion, they often discuss tried and true ways of gaining visibility, including guest blogging, creating a social media presence and buying advertising on blogs compatible with your target audience. But there’s another way to improve your visibility for free – participating in blog interviews. I have to admit that I stumbled on this accidentally. In the past year, I’ve been interviewed a few times ...
Continue readingDo You Know These Bloggers?
Blogging, Personal Community and networking are two aspects of successful blogging, and today I’d like to get personal and introduce you to some of the bloggers I’m lucky enough to have in my network. These are all people I started blogging with five years ago on another site called WritingUp (now defunct), and we’re still in touch today. You may have heard of some of them, while others might be less well-known. All of them have something of ...
Continue readingTwylah – A New View Of Twitter
Blogging There’s a new Twitter tool around and it’s called Twylah. I’ve had the pleasure of testing it during the alpha phase (when it was called Tweetlogue) and now it’s about to be rolled out more widely. According to founder Eric Kim, Twylah aims to give you a new view of incoming and outgoing tweets with more “context, perspective, and agility”. Here’s how it works. Connect Twylah to your Twitter account in ...
Continue readingTop Resources For Bloggers
Blogging TOP stands for Travel Online Partners, a partnership of great travel bloggers founded by Andy Hayes, and including Shannon, Sara, Hannah and Rachael. I met Andy just over a year ago through my alter ego as a corporate travel blogger and have been following his sites ever since. Although he’s known as the “travel guy”, he’s got a lot of useful info to offer about the blogging side of travel blogging. The TOP site ...
Continue readingHow Much Time Do You Really Spend On Blogging? Find Out With Chrometa
Productivity A couple of weeks ago, someone introduced me to Chrometa. It’s a time tracking application that aims to let you ‘set it and forget it’ so you can see where you are spending your time. With Chrometa you can be sure that no action will go unrecorded as it tracks actions by the second. Unlike other similar apps, Chrometa includes the names of documents you have open plus the titles of your open browser tabs and, important for ...
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