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Tag Archives: blogging
How to Write Twitter Headlines People Will Click
I’ve often mentioned how twitter is a great way to introduce people to your long-form blog content. Bloggers know that tweeting is a good way to drive some attention to your posts, but with the twitter stream flowing by quickly, … Continue reading
Posted in Marketing, Networking Tagged blogging, headlines, marketing, promotion, twitter Leave a comment
Using Live Writer
I’m trying out Windows Live Writer because I am looking for a bit of a smarter client. It seems to be doing an excellent job so far, including allowing me to take a quick screenshot, paste it into writer, crop … Continue reading
Microsoft Uses Blog to Refute Rumor
It’s kinda nice to see blogs being used well by companies. It almost feels like a conversation again. Microsoft has done a good job with the Windows7 launch of blogging a lot about what they’ve done, how they’ve been trying … Continue reading
Posted in blogging tips, Social Networking, Tools Tagged apple, apple_vs_microsoft, blogging, mac, positioning, pr, public relations, rumors, twitter, windows, windows7 Leave a comment
Quick Blog Usability (and SEO) Improvements
Making your wordpress blog a little more useful to both humans and machines (and kittehs?) is important for both keeping site visitors and encouraging natural search engine traffic. Here are some improvements I recommend, that I recently added to the … Continue reading
Posted in blogging tips, Tools Tagged blogging, SEO, website_design, wordpress, wordpress_seo, wordpress_templates, wordpress_themes Leave a comment
Using Google Docs for Live Blogging
This is a test of using Google Docs to Liveblog… 7/22/08 10:07 AMOn The Google Docs Blog, I found an interesting guest blog post by Amit Agarwal, “a professional technology blogger at Digital Inspiration and an exceptionally creative Docs user” … Continue reading
Posted in mashups, root, Tools Tagged blogging, google, google_docs, hints, ideas, liveblogging, publishing, Tools, tricks 1 Comment
Disqus Mobile Apps for Moderators
Disqus (pronounced: "Discuss") launched their mobile apps for comment moderators, allowing for comments to be read/deleted/approved or "spammed" on the fly by site owners. From their blog: Features: Approving, marking spam, and deleting content Filtering by status Background notifications Search Reply … Continue reading →