web publishing

Reasons for a Writer to Keep a Blog

April 27, 2010

Jane at Writers Digest writes about the purpose in starting a blog before you have a book or your own writing of another kind, to promote. What do you put on your site or blog when you have no book? Here’s a starter list of ideas. Keep in mind you don’t have to blog. A [...]

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Using an Author Box to Reduce Sidebar Clutter

April 8, 2010

Today I came up with another idea to get rid of sidebar clutter, an author resource box. Usually, an author resource box is used in blogs written by multiple writers, or by authors who routinely write for article directories which syndicate their articles out to everyone and anyone. An author resource box is the only [...]

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What Does 9Rules Need?

March 1, 2010

What does 9Rules need? Have a look at the network and give your feedback to the blog. A few years ago 9Rules was an active, vital network of blogs. People applied to join. People made embittered posts on their blogs if they were not accepted. People put that leaf graphic on their blog in a [...]

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Picons: Your Personal Icon

February 23, 2010

Picons are an old idea that can be new again. A picon is a personal icon. Much like the favicon created for a site or blog, the picon is for yourself. Another chance to use the popular self branding plan. Have you already got a picon which you use to represent yourself, an avatar? If [...]

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Back Tweets

February 9, 2010

BackTweets – Find out who has been talking about you on Twitter. Nice! I had a few good surprises.

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Fixed my WordPress List Formatting Glitch

January 28, 2010

I’ve made a few list posts, mostly bullet style. The problem was the formatting, all my points were crammed together in a solid block of text. It made the post kind of unsightly and not very easy (or desirable) to read. If I tried to add a space it would try to make it my [...]

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Nominated for Best Twitter Bio

January 5, 2010

What do you have for your Twitter bio? It’s the space you have on your Twitter profile to say something about yourself. Not a lot of space, it is Twitter after all. I nominate @DPopTart for best Twitter bio. The wind says my name. It doesn’t put an @ in front of it, so maybe [...]

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A Comment a Day

December 3, 2009

Everyone can leave one comment in one blog each day. Pretty simple. If you were away you can catch up by doing an extra comment the next day. No stress. Just one sincere and interesting comment per day. No problem. Pick any blog you like. A blog you have been reading awhile or one you [...]

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Hyperlocal, What is It?

December 2, 2009

I’ve seen the term hyperlocal come up three times lately. I decided to spend some time to find out what it is exactly and how it is being used. Of course, Wikipedia comes up first in the results I get from Google. : Hyperlocal – refers to the emergent ecology of data (including textual content), [...]

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A Frustration of Errors AKA Happy at Last

November 23, 2009

I’ve been having trouble uploading graphics into my posts. It started awhile ago when I updated to another version of WordPress. I ignored it for awhile cause I wasn’t doing a lot of drawing at the time. Then I tried to fix it, no success. I couldn’t even figure out the problem. Each time I [...]

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Do You Shut Down Comments on Old Posts?

November 12, 2009

Do you have your comment spam filter set to automatically delete any comments on older posts? While this will get rid of a lot of spam for you it also could delete some real comments. We have posts in our archives which we leave for anyone to find, through searching or through links on other [...]

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Are Blog Archives Too Old Fashioned?

November 6, 2009

What are reasons to keep an archive on your blog? We have categories and tags. An archive may seem a bit prehistoric or overkill, especially when they aren’t search able and just sit there all static and growing old. Tony Briley started this discussion on the CMF Ads forum. Reasons for keeping an archive on [...]

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Eye of Newt, Rule of Thumb and Hands of the Clock…

November 4, 2009

It’s a bit disappointing to go to a favourite blog and find they have no new updates at the time you expect them to be there. What time do you make your blog posts? Even if you don’t choose (or have available) scheduled blog posts you can pick a good time for making a post [...]

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How To Build Your Own Web Directory

October 28, 2009

Once upon a time I was an editor in the great Dmoz (Open Directory Project) web directory. I stayed there about ten years as an active editor. Now I am editing in the BOTW directory. I still like adding sites, caring for and maintaining a list for a topic I am passionate about. However, it [...]

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7 WordPress Plugins I Don’t Really Need but Must Have Anyway

October 28, 2009

WordPress plugins that I love but don’t really need. (Why limit yourself to plugins you need?) Drop Caps Plugin – Add a drop cap to the first letter of each blog post. (Makes me think of fairy tale books of old). Personal Favicon – I had wanted an icon for awhile but could not find [...]

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