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Why Mommy Bloggers Have Become So Popular

When moms first began blogging, barely anyone took notice. Now, even the captains of industry are taking notice. What is it exactly that has made mommy bloggers so popular? Mom blogs have far reaching influence. Journaling was a way to relax and share stories. But, with the advent of social networking, moms began to connect [...]

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Bloggers: Link Cloaking Plugin for WordPress

I was recently searching out a plugin for WordPress plugin that just allowed me to shorten or cloak URLs. I knew I could use this to manage all of my affiliate links in one place. I found a few plugins, which worked okay – but there was one major drawback… NONE of them listed the [...]

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Bring Social Media Comments Into Your WordPress Blog

Bring Social Media Comments Into Your WordPress Blog

Backtype, a web site that allows you to find and follow comments from across the web has recently released their first crack at a WordPress plugin. Installing the plugin to your WordPress blog allows you to show conversation and comments from Twitter, FriendFeed, Digg and more related to your content. Users can then post replies [...]

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Free Webinar: Twitter for Small Business

Free Webinar: Twitter for Small Business

With all the questions around the web right now involving “how should I use Twitter for my business,” I’m glad that a panel of experts put together from different areas of business has come together to help.  Put together by Eric Glazer of The MarketingStudio, the panel members are impressive – including Aaron Strout of [...]

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Webmasters: How To Switch Your Feedburner Feed to Google

Webmasters: How To Switch Your Feedburner Feed to Google

This is something I’ve been putting off until now.  It may even be something you don’t know about yet!  Feedburner, a tool many of us use to keep track of our RSS feeds, was purchased by Google in May of 2007.  It is now being rolled-up on the Google brand, forcing all users of it’s [...]

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Free Icon Sets for Your Web Site

Free Icon Sets for Your Web Site

While designing blogs and other web sites, I’ve often had the need for free icons that I either don’t have the skill to design myself, or don’t have the time (usually both!). The free icon sets available for download out there are abundant, but good ones seem to be few and far between.  There are [...]

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Free Screen Capture Software

Free Screen Capture Software

A good (free) way to take screen shots, record on-screen video of your movements (screencasting), and get those pictures and videos to the masses has always been a pain.  There is some great paid software, but for free… a lot was left to be desired. Then a couple months ago, I found Jing. The free [...]

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Free Stock Photography and Royalty Free Images for Your Blog

Even if you don’t consider yourself a blogger, chances are no matter what home business you’re working – you should be blogging.  Using images with blog posts helps a reader cue-in to what the subject is.  If someone is just skimming along your site, the image will catch them before any text, so it’s a [...]

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Music as an Emotional Release

How come so many messed up rock stars and musicians become so successful?  The reason: They have learned to channel their emotions and suffering into their music and their art. And if there is something we as humans understand, and can relate to, it’s suffering. Plus, many of today’s artists have an unlimited supply of [...]

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7 Steps to Self-Improvement

I seem to lost count on how many times I’ve read and heard of celebrity marriages failing almost left and right. Not that I care (and personally I don’t), it seems strange that we often see movie and TV stars as flawless people, living the fairytale life of riches and glamour. I suppose we all [...]

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