Web Publishing

Turn Posts and Categories into Faux eBooks

May 19, 2012
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Lorelle on WordPress has created images in her sidebar to link to favourite, popular posts and categories in her blog. But, she has made the images look like more – I thought they were going to be ebooks she has written. Did you think the same (if you have seen them) too? Could you do [...]

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The Fears and Musings of a Newsosaur

May 15, 2012
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Newsosaur on Twitter. I don’t think news media will become extinct. We have the ability to evolve rather than become extinct. The communication will always be needed and wanted, but the media and the message need to be flexible. This isn’t easy because we tend to like our standards and resist change at the same time [...]

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Will Cable TV Become Obsolete Before the Printed News?

May 6, 2012

I should start collecting information on this, but for now I’m just posting this link. (See below). I think there’s a chance cable TV service will become a dinosaur/ obsolete before the print newspapers even. People talk about the demise of publishing in print, but it costs less than a dollar to buy a whole [...]

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Ladies Learning Code

April 28, 2012
ladieslearningcode

We’re a women-run not-for-profit group working to empower everyone to feel comfortable learning beginner-friendly technical skills in a social, collaborative way. Ladies Learning Code started in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in June 2011 – with a tweet. It is through the hard work and dedication of many people (many, many more than are pictured here) that [...]

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Spread Yourself Out without Spreading Yourself Thin

April 25, 2012
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Spread yourself out without spreading yourself thin. This is my new motto. I think it can be done. Time management and planning. Thinking of ways to combine tasks like promoting on social media that does some of the work itself, but not in a way that makes it too automatic so that it lacks any [...]

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I’ll Just Be Me

April 23, 2012
annapuzzlemint

It’s been awhile since I picked a Twitter profile as a best of for the month. I just haven’t come across a profile that especially made me laugh, think, or decide to follow someone based on just what he/ she had written in their Twitter profile. Today I found AnnaPuzzlemint. I like just being me. [...]

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Add an Adult Content Warning to your Site

April 20, 2012
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I run one adult themed blog. It’s mainly for myself, a place to keep things that I wouldn’t post to other sites. Basically, it’s another niche site, but the content happens to be about sex and erotica. Today I moderated a spam comment which I feel is pretty gross. It gives a link to a [...]

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WordPress Plugins for Writers

April 17, 2012

I got the idea to make a post about WordPress plugins for writers. I use a few which help me and thought I’d share them. But, I found something interesting when I started looking around to see what other writers like to use. Almost every plugin written about as being “for writers” was for SEO [...]

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Dear Pinterest… Could you Move Your Button Out of the Way!

April 12, 2012
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Don’t forget to check your sites for stupid mistakes that will annoy people trying to use your site. You WANT people to use your site, remember… I found this while attempting to leave a comment on Pinterest. It’s annoying when a button blocks you from seeing what you are writing. I don’t think I had [...]

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I Think Jon Morrow Hasn’t Got it Right Quite Yet

April 12, 2012
asciidragon

I’m tired of blogging advice, no matter how well meant it may be. It’s an endless, bottomless pit and most people think blogging for a few months makes them an expert. If you want to learn about blogging only listen to the people who really are successful at it. (However you measure success, not everyone [...]

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How About a Free Six Month Online Writing Course?

April 11, 2012
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Sign up for HubPages, write a few posts, explore the network. Then sign up for the Apprenticeship Program, it’s free for HubPages writers who want to learn more, make more out of their online writing skills and traffic. The focus is not on the writing but the promoting of your writing. It is a long [...]

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Would You Host a Local TweetUp?

April 10, 2012

This information is from the Vancouver Tweetup site. I noticed the post on Twitter and followed it back. I was hoping it would be a lot closer than Vancouver, like maybe at least Toronto. But no… Anyway, I’m considering running one locally, of course. I always want to take on more. I’m sure there’s a [...]

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Have Earth Day on Snip.it

April 9, 2012

Have an environmental issue or topic you feel passionate about? Create a collection of articles, images and videos around it for Snip.it’s Earth Day Awareness competition, which kicked off today. The winning collection gets a new iPad, plus a $200 donation to an environmental nonprofit of choice. Users can submit collections — on anything from [...]

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De-Lurking Day/ Week

April 7, 2012
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Traditionally in January but… I’m posting about it today. BlogHer: National Delurking Day 2011: Say Hello to your Favorite Bloggers Amid Life’s Crises: Did I Miss National Delurking Week? Rude Cactus: Delurking Day 2011 The oldest post I could find about Delurking Day was from 2003 and even that post attributes the idea to another [...]

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WordPress 1 Minute Wonder

April 4, 2012
WP1MinuteWonder

This was a great idea started by Todd Halfpenny. It’s a shame he didn’t keep it going longer. I’m posting it here because I like good ideas. I might get to do something with it later myself. Right now I’m a bit on the over-booked side. This is the first in the series of my [...]

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I’ve Deleted all my Post Tags

March 31, 2012
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I’m sick of dealing with an endless, bottomless list of tags. Last month I wiped out my categories. I left a sensible, comprehensible list of six categories to act as an index. I kept the tags then. But, today I decided the tags had to go. They were a weight on my shoulders I could [...]

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What NOT to Do

March 30, 2012
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Sometimes people do things they haven’t really thought through. I’m not immune to it. But, we should learn from the mistakes of others, especially the really bad mistakes. Here are two I’ve come across recently: I get a lot of these. The irony being that my contact form states pretty clearly that I don’t want [...]

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This is What Happens When You Die

March 28, 2012
WhatHappensWhenDie

My Aunt Anita died last year. A friend died late last year too. It was kind of nice to know their accounts were still around on Facebook and other sites where they had left some presence. Today I checked on this one and found it gone. Who deactivates the account in this case? You must [...]

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Why Are you Still Using Auto Reply Emails?

March 26, 2012

I just don’t get a personal contact kind of feeling from auto reply email. Yes, it gives me instant (or near instant) feedback, but it is MEANINGLESS! I don’t get an answer to my question. Sometimes I get something based on keywords which usually misses by miles. What I do get is the feeling that [...]

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Curating by Colour

March 23, 2012
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I’ve seen a few people using this idea. I find them on Tumblr most of the time. I like it. It’s eye catching, attention getting and sensual wtih real visual appeal. Curating by Color, from the Etsy blog. I have an uncontrollable obsession with trawling Etsy. My Favorites are updated daily with stunning photography, emerging [...]

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E-Publishing

March 20, 2012

This was originally part of the Suite101 University ecourses. They are all being taken down from the site, sometime soon. I have preserved some because they are worth keeping. It seems a shame to lose something which has value and had so much effort put into it’s creation. E-Publishing By Dawn Whitmire Introduction “Catch the Wave [...]

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