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Bring Social Media Comments Into Your WordPress Blog

Bring Social Media Comments Into Your WordPress Blog

April 14, 2009

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 [...]

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Twitter Enlightenment for Business Owners

Twitter Enlightenment for Business Owners

February 28, 2009

You’re confused and I know it. The increase in questions I’ve been getting lately from small or home business owners confused about how to tackle the Twitter service is astounding.
I’m sensing that the crossover from Twitter being a “geek-only” tool and then partially spread into the mainstream has started to hit full-throttle [...]

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HOW TO: Survive the Twitter Effect

HOW TO: Survive the Twitter Effect

February 12, 2009

“The Twitter Effect” – also known as The Mashable Effect or The Digg Effect – as become a topic of conversation lately due to a handful of blogs being taken offline from the amount of traffic instantaneously sent to them from Twitter.
The basics of the effect are this:  a link is posted by someone on [...]

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The Moleskine Volant Mini – Should You Be a Paper Person?

The Moleskine Volant Mini – Should You Be a Paper Person?

February 1, 2009

I love paper.  There’s something about the silky-smooth pages of a Moleskine notebook and a high-quality pen that give me a warm and fuzzy feeling.  The Moleskine Volant mini is a relatively new (re)addition to the popular family of notebooks, and well-worth a look.
If you find yourself out and about and needing to make a [...]

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Webmasters: How To Switch Your Feedburner Feed to Google

Webmasters: How To Switch Your Feedburner Feed to Google

January 22, 2009

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

January 19, 2009

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 a [...]

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Free Screen Capture Software

Free Screen Capture Software

January 18, 2009

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 screen capture [...]

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Stuck with Paper in a Digital Life

Stuck with Paper in a Digital Life

January 4, 2009

Until digital products can completely recreate (and improve) the process of capturing information on paper – paper products are going to be with us.
I day-dream daily about what my future digital Moleskine notebook will look and feel like.  I kind of envision it as a Kindle, but with input/sync ability, less bulky, and a bigger [...]

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Why I Switched to GetResponse from Aweber

Why I Switched to GetResponse from Aweber

December 9, 2008

With RSS feeds, Twitter, and all sorts of other instant communication, email still tops the list of the best broad-contact method marketers use to get response from their base of customers or fans.  My journey through different autoresponders has often landed back to GetResponse vs. Aweber.
The money is in your list!  So, it’s fair to [...]

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Free Stock Photography and Royalty Free Images for Your Blog

Free Stock Photography and Royalty Free Images for Your Blog

December 7, 2008

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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