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The Starting Line: Great Tips for Beginning a WordPress Blog

Byte Technology

This will show readers you’re serious about your material and will encourage them to bookmark your site or sign up for a subscription. Utilizing WordPress plugins and widgets, be sure to plant social share buttons on your pages. The Jetpack module is really helpful, as is the plugin MashShare. Choose a design—theme, plugin etc.—that

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Great reads from around the web on March 2nd

Amy Sample Ward

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). " Pew: Open government is tied to higher levels of community satisfaction | Gov 2.0:

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Lame spam of the day: Raw spam merge text

Robert Weiner

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Best of Beth's Blog 2008: Finding The Top Ten Posts In Less Than Five MInutes!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I use a variety of tools for this analysis, including Google Analytics, Feedburner subscriber counts, and manually tracking comment to post ratios (typepad doesn't have a nifty plugin like wordpress to automate that grunge work) A tool that use to evlauate my content is PostRank. Bloggers Who Create Community Award.

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Screencast: Using Widgets to Build Community on Blogs Featured on NTEN Blog

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My screencast on widgets is featured in this month's NTEN newsletter in a section pointing to " How To Build Online Community." They are akin to plugins or extensions in desktop applications. Here's a few examples: Delicious Badge : I use this widget to publish my social bookmarking bookmarks on my blog.