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My Top Five Chrome Extensions
Software & Programs As Charnita covered a few days ago, Google Chrome (for Windows) has extension support and the floodgates have opened to new, interesting ways to extend the functionality of Google’s browser. As a long-time Chrome user, this has been a very exciting time for me and I, as well as many others, have gone a bit crazy installing new extensions. Part of this is the excitement and part of this is because it is so easy to do, not even requiring a ...
Continue readingWoopra – Affordable Real Time Web Analytics
Software & Programs Woopra, yet another a hosted analytics service, today announced that they are opening their doors for new signups. Until today, you needed a sought after invite code to test out this new service. Woopra is similar to Google Analytics but provides real time stats and a number of additional features such as the ability to chat real time with visitors to the site. A number of these features are ideal for small to small to medium size blogs. ...
Continue readingPostRank Integrates your Blog Analytics
Software & Programs Figuring out the complete picture of how your blog is doing involves analyze your visitors, your RSS readers, your email recipients, your Twitter followers and nay other social media site where your blog is discussed or linked with. Figuring out the analytics for any one of these systems can be a challenge, but getting all of this information in one place has extremely difficult. PostRank has launched PostRank Analytics as a way to help ...
Continue readingThe easy way to design an eBook cover
Software & Programs Daniel John contacted me a few days ago to ask how I designed the stack of eBooks which you see on the right column of Blogging Tips. I thought that this was something that you would all want to know so I thought I would answer the question in a blog post It was only a few months ago that I launched my first eBook. I was kind of late to the party in many respects so before I could even start to write the first book, I had to do a lot of ...
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 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 ...
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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