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1,000 Comments Challenge

March 2, 2010

Can you leave 1,000 com­ments this month? Though the but­ton says leave me com­ments it is actu­ally myself who will be leav­ing the com­ments, 1,000 of them over the month of March.
Sign up on the blog, Har­riet and Friends.
The only down­side is keep­ing track of how many com­ments you make. If you know of a way […]

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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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What To Do in Your First Week With a New Blog

February 17, 2010

ProBlog­ger is offer­ing a week-long work­shop for new blog­gers. What To Do in Your First Week With a New Blog. First up is cre­at­ing content.

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Should you Write for a Blog Network?

January 3, 2010

A blog net­work is a group of peo­ple writ­ing together to cover a set of top­ics all as part of the same larger group.

Some blog net­works are writ­ers with their own unique blogs, only con­nected through the net­work as a way of build­ing a com­mu­nity, such as 9Rules.
Another kind of net­work is more like an […]

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Skipping to a Quick Conclusion

December 27, 2009

Peo­ple sel­dom read old con­tent. So you need to think of each post you write as the only post in your blog. The oth­ers are back­ground to show you’ve been here awhile, more like a cre­den­tial than con­tent. With­out an archive you look like some­one who just started. Yet, those posts could all be about […]

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Will You be Blogging for Christmas?

December 5, 2009

Christ­mas is on my mind today. I’m watch­ing roman­tic hol­i­day movies. Right now The Lake House with Keanu Reeves. I admit I have a thing for Keanu. How could any Cana­dian woman not have a soft spot for a hockey player who can dance? It’s just fin­ish­ing up, the final scene, the last great kiss. […]

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AKA Happy at Last">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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Blogging with Discipline

November 22, 2009

Blog­ging with dis­ci­pline doesn’t mean you have to blog every day or that you can’t ever take a break. It means blog­ging reg­u­larly–what­ever that means for you. It means sit­ting down and try­ing to develop a blog post idea instead of wait­ing until a perfectly-written post is already float­ing around in your brain.
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Copy in Plain Text Firefox Plugin

November 20, 2009

Copy Plain Text: A plu­gin for Fire­fox that lets you copy in plain text. Very nice! It’s exper­i­men­tal so still beta and you may find it does not work for you, or does not work in every case. But the idea is great! If you have ever used con­tributed con­tent from another source and find […]

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IComWeLeave

November 12, 2009

IComWe­Leave — Novem­ber 21st to the 28th! Leave 5 com­ments in other blogs and return at least one of the com­ments given to your blog.

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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 sites. […]

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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 your blog:

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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 go live […]

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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 some­thing to make it […]

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Need Ideas for Writing about Climate Change for Blog Action Day?

October 14, 2009

Do you need ideas for writ­ing about cli­mate change for Blog Action Day tomor­row? (Blog Action Day on Twit­ter).
Every­one isn’t per­fectly polit­i­cally minded or caught up on all the envi­ron­men­tal issues. Also, you may think about the idea of cli­mate change per­son­ally ver­sus glob­ally.
That’s how I intend to write about it. So, here are some […]

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