Blogging Tips

Interoperability – Can it Work for your Blog?

In my (9-5 job) industry, Medical Software, there is a huge focus on the concept of Interoperability. Interoperability is the ability to have diverse systems talk to each other and work together. The main reason why interoperability is being talked about like crazy is that the government has approved a stimulus package for the health care system. Hospitals need to get on board with an electronic health record in order to get the money that is available. The problem is that each hospital across the country has a different software system and those systems don’t talk to each other without interfaces to make the disparate systems inter operate.

Being in this industry I can see where the problems occurred. Medical software is so specialized and very competitive. For years these software companies have not

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Written by BenSpark from BenSpark.com
Posted on March 9th, 2010 and filed under Blogging, Promote your blog, Social Networking
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How To Find A Good Blogger

There are times when you’re running an Internet-based business and can’t find the time to do the kind of promotion that you’ll need so that your online business or blog ranks well with the search engines.  That’s when you’ll need to find a good blogger or even an Internet marketing company that will be able to do the job for you.

Keywords And Links

It’s important to remember here that you’ll need to find a place that is well-versed with search engine optimization and you want to find bloggers that know how to write and can put in both keywords and links seamlessly into the content they are writing. You want to find professionals because it’s important to make sure that you not only get traffic driven to your site but that you have good content waiting there.

So you need to know what to look for in a good blogger.  Because the …

Written by Rob Starr from Rob Starr
Posted on March 7th, 2010 and filed under Promote your blog
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Use LastPass for password management and peace of mind

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 compromised in any way. The internet and blogosphere is full of horror stories of accounts and blogs being hacked for carelessness on the part of account users.

LASTPASS

Put simply, you need a tool that will manage your passwords among other things. LastPass does just that. What is more, it is free (read priceless).

LastPass can do …

Written by Vikas from Vikas Gupta
Posted on March 7th, 2010 and filed under Blogging, Productivity, Software & Programs
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Open an Affiliate Store with WP Shopping Pages

WordPress can be used for so much more than “just” a simple blog. It is a full content management system, which means that it can power just about any website that you’d like. In fact, through the use of customizations, theme templates, and plug-ins, you can convert a WordPress installation into anything your heart desires.

If you’re looking to open up an affiliate store with your website but don’t know where to get started with the coding, you may want to take a look at WP Shopping Pages. This premium plug-in makes it very easy to sell products on the Internet without having the actual products in hand.

Shopping with Amazon and eBay Affiliates

Using this WordPress plug-in, you can easily populate your website with all sorts of products available for sale through Amazon and eBay….

Written by Michael Kwan from Beyond the Rhetoric
Posted on March 6th, 2010 and filed under Reviews, WordPress Plugins
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Twittaw – Social Messaging with Threaded Conversations

“Twittaw is a social messaging service focused around threaded notes. Its main focus it to enhance the exchange of better conversations.” Since it lets you use your Twitter ID to login (via Twitter OAuth), there is no registration required. I have been using Twittaw for a few months now and it has quickly become my favorite way to have easy-to-follow conversations on the Web.

Though the community there is small, it is quickly growing  and new features are being added on a regular basis. There is a complete, extensive guide at the Twittaw blog if you’re interested in a more in-depth description of what it has to offer. …

Written by Charnita Fance from mrsfance
Posted on March 6th, 2010 and filed under Social Media
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Find Out What Other Tweeters Think of You with ViewsOnYou

ViewsOnYou for Twitter is a surprisingly addicting site that lets you rate yourself, your friends and anyone else with a Twitter account. It’s also a great way to see what others think about you and compare yourself to others. The main part of the site is used for getting professional opinions that can be used as job references. The Twitter section, though, is more simple and easier to use; plus it just makes sense with the rise of Twitter spam. If you’re ever wanting to know more about someone on Twitter and see how they rate, try looking them up on ViewsOnYou.

Whether you have used the site or not, you already have a profile page. If you prefer not to appear on …

Written by Charnita Fance from mrsfance
Posted on March 5th, 2010 and filed under Social Media
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4 Tips to Keep Your Feeds Safe(r) from Copying

Earlier today, Sharon posted an article that asks a simple, but profound question, Should you really unlink your feeds?.

The idea comes from Tim Maly who makes the compelling case that combining all of your content into one feed is disruptive to yourself, your friends and your readers. One of the major reasons is that it results in your content being duplicated all over the Web as search engines pick up both your source content and the feeds that you tell to pull from the sources (IE: Friendfeed).

However, there is another kind of RSS feed copying that is getting a great deal of attention and that’s the kind of copying that happens without permission. It’s the kind of RSS use, also known as scraping, that gives rise to spam blogs and other garbage sites, as well as other, more legitimate services.

So how do you prevent your feeds from being copied while still encouraging users to subscribe to your work and allow other legitimate works? There are many different approaches but here are four that you can take advantage of today, literally in the time it takes to read this post.

Written by Jonathan Bailey from Plagiarism Today
Posted on March 4th, 2010 and filed under Blogging
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