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Embed Screenshots and Quotes easily with Clp.ly
Blogging, Productivity You come across a blog that you really love, say like this one or BenSpark.com (shameless plug) and you want to grab a screenshot of the blog to post in your own blog post. Or maybe you are reading a blog post and you want to snag a quote. You can certainly do it by hitting print screen and then editing the image in a graphics editor. For quotes you could copy the quote and put it in italics and be done with it. However you could do better. ...
Continue reading5 Easy but Great Post Ideas You Can Write Today
Blogging, Productivity It happens to nearly every blogger at some point. There’s not too much going on in your area of interest and you’ve run out of great ideas “in the bank”. It’s time to write a post, you’re staring at a blank screen and nothing is racing to mind. While it’s a great idea to find inspiration on the Web, for which our own Ben Spark has some great suggestions, sometimes you just need something now that will be ...
Continue reading37 Ways to Find Inspiration for Blog Posts
Blogging, Productivity, Writing It seems to me that when we talk about blogs we almost always want to talk about lists. People Like lists, they are fun and easy to make up and they are digestible in little reading chunks. So, having a hard time thinking about what would be a good topic for today’s post I figured I’d riff off the cuff and give you a list of “37 Ways to Find Inspiration for Blog Posts”. 37. Pick out an object on your desk and think of 4 ...
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 ...
Continue readingWordStream for SEO
Productivity, Search Engine Optimisation WordStream Keyword Management for SEO is a new advanced keyword research tool from WordStream. WordStream for SEO offers you the same capabilities of keyword suggestion as Wordtracker, Keyword Discovery and other similar tools. However, WordStream for SEO does not stop there. On top of keyword suggestion there is also keyword analytics and grouping and integrated content authoring tools. All this can be obtained for the price of $49/month. So, ...
Continue readingSquash the Micro-Manager
Blogging, Personal, Productivity Like many of you I have a full-time job in addition to working on my blog. In my job I’ve taken on the role of the media guy. This is not my actual job title or even in my job description. Because I am skilled with HTML, photography, and video production I get to do some extra things at work. Sometimes this can be really fun. Other times however, it is not. The times when it sucks is when I have to work with a micro-manager on my back. How ...
Continue readingAre you obsessed with watching your blog stats?
Blogging, Productivity Things Take Time (TTT) and it is one the hardest things to understand while blogging for obvious reasons. Almost all of us at some point of time have watched our blog statistics to get a minute-by-minute idea of how many visits our blog is garnering as analyzed by the various statistics plugins and Google Analytics or StatCounter. It is certainly an enjoyable exercise and one which is hard to resist given the immediate gratification it brings. ...
Continue readingToodledo: A Practical To Do List
Productivity To be clear, Toodledo is not the prettiest looking app in the world nor is it the most feature-rich. It does one thing and it does it very well, manage your todo list. You won’t be awed by the interface or even the innovative new features, but you will be impressed by how fast, powerful and useful this app is. In short, if you use todo lists to organize your life, whether you’re a follower of Getting Things Done or just simply scrawl ...
Continue readingBuild Rapport with Rapportive
Personal, Productivity, Social Networking I get a ton of e-mail from many different people. Keeping everyone straight can be difficult and those are just the people I know personally. I have a contact form on my blog and occasionally get people contacting me and asking me to try things, blog about things and for help. I don’t know these folks most of the time. However, I’ve discovered a great tool to help me identify people who are contacting me. The tool is called ...
Continue readingUse LastPass for password management and peace of mind
Blogging, Productivity, Software & Programs Bloggers are people with a rich online life. Bloggers need to have an account on many sites that they use and frequent on a daily basis. The need for strong passwords is too well-known to be elaborated here. You cannot run the risk of having the same password on more than one site and what is more you should not choose simple passwords because you can easily remember them. Your blogging can be jeopardized if your login id and passwords are ...
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