Category: Blogging

  • 3 things I learned when my WordPress blog crashed.

    This week my blog crashed. It could have been a mess, but due to foresight, para­noia, and a lot of good advice from oth­er blog­gers, it was actu­ally a pretty simple recov­ery process. But, without some essen­tial plu­gins and basic know­ledge, it all would have been lost. So here’s the what and why of what…

  • Sorry for the mess…

    *** Update *** Things seem to be back to normal…though this post will prove that, or not. Things went wonky after my last post so I won­der if there’s an issue with posting…we’ll see. This is being pub­lished as an Edit. My blog is ill. I’m clean­ing it up. Posts have been recovered but I need…

  • Blog update woes

    Between one of my Word­Press updates, and a K2 (this blo­g’s theme) update, I’ve man­aged to fubar the look and feel. Oh well, time to remem­ber what wid­gets and things I had, I liked, and which worked. And which sup­port the goal of the blog. Also been a bit absent from post­ing. Yep, life gets in…

  • Billions and billions.…

    Blog Action Day pro­poses to bring all the power and energy of the blo­go­sphere togeth­er on one day, to focus on one top­ic; the environment. On Octo­ber 15th, blog­gers around the web will unite to put a single import­ant issue on everyone’s mind — the envir­on­ment. Every blog­ger will post about the envir­on­ment in their…

  • Listen to me. How to convert your blog post into a podcast.

    Lately I’ve been explor­ing a few pod­cast and text-to-speech ser­vices. I’ve found an inter­est­ing com­bin­a­tion of ser­vices that let me make my posts listen-able and down­load­able — even set them up to be part of your reg­u­lar pod­cast scrape. This is a great way to review your favor­ite blog­ger, when you’re not able to have…

  • Keep your RSS feeds under control with Google Reader

    With all the dif­fer­ent types of media com­ing at me elec­tron­ic­ally these days, I’m always look­ing for ways to bet­ter man­age the flow through the firehose. One fea­ture that I’ve just dis­covered, though it’s been in the applic­a­tion for a while, is the Trends view of your Google Read­er habits. Yes, we all know that…

  • Avoiding social media burnout by getting organized

    If you work and live in the social media uni­verse, as I do, then you’ll appre­ci­ate these five tips to integ­rate social media into your lives — by Shel Holtz (author, social media and pod­cast­ing guru). It’s very easy to stay dis­trac­ted with all the social media options these days, but by get­ting organ­ized and…

  • Free blogging statistics even free-er

    Feed­burn­er has giv­en the blog­ging com­munity a great present today; Feed­burn­er Pro is now free. One of the many bene­fits that Feed­Burn­er pub­lish­ers will enjoy now that Feed­Burn­er is part of the Google fam­ily is a little some­thing we like to call, “more for free!” Begin­ning today, two of Feed­Burn­er­’s pre­vi­ously for-pay ser­vices, Total­Stats and MyBrand,…

  • Kinda offline. ‘Vacation’ and kitchen demolition

    I was hop­ing I’d have more time to post reg­u­larly dur­ing my vaca­tion, but sadly, that’s not prov­ing to be the case. We’re in the midst of kit­chen demoli­tion for this and next week, in pre­par­a­tion for a new one to be installed in July. It is inter­est­ing, as we are kinda camp­ing. All our food is…

  • Another free tool to make bloggers more productive

    I’m test­ing out the new build of Win­dows Live Writer, and am actu­ally lik­ing the res­ults — so far. This is the first post I’ve cre­ated using the new build. I had less suc­cess with the pre­vi­ous ver­sion, and dropped it like a hot potato: my post­ing tool of choice has been Per­form­an­cing Scri­be­Fire, but hey,…

  • Corporate Blogging Policies List

    I’ve just dis­covered this extens­ive list of cor­por­ate blog­ging policies — great fod­der for those of us who work in that space. Tech­nor­ati Tags: blog, blog­ging, cor­por­ate blog­ging policy, policies, cor­por­a­tion, rules

  • One new WordPress plugin adds tons of new blogging goodness.

    At the bot­tom of this, and every oth­er post on this site, you’ll now find a ‘Sphere: Related Con­tent’ link. Click it, and a friendly little popup will ping the Sphere serv­ers, and dis­play head­lines from the most rel­ev­ant con­tent that Sphere knows about…cool ‘eh? So give it a try, and let me know what you think! …