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The Starting Line: Great Tips for Beginning a WordPress Blog

Byte Technology

And although that number includes a lot of fly-by-nights sites and those who don’t have staying power, blogging—especially via a WordPress site, an innovator and leader in the technology—is still a force to be reckoned with on the Internet. Utilizing WordPress plugins and widgets, be sure to plant social share buttons on your pages.

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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). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Lame spam of the day: Raw spam merge text

Robert Weiner

In my opinion|Personally|In my view}, if all {webmasters|site owners|website owners|web owners} and bloggers made good content as you did, the {internet|net|web} will be {much more|a lot more} useful than ever before.| Saved as a favorite|bookmarked!!} .| Saved as a favorite|bookmarked!!} .| Some {very|extremely} valid points!

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Free and open source tool #5: WordPress

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

WordPress is expandable with tons of plugins. I will add a backlink and bookmark your site. It is a great blogging tool. It is another of those open source software applications that “just works.&# Installation of WordPress is scarily easy. The best one, by the way, is Akismet , which is also made by Automattic.

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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. An Internet Lesson in Rural Cambodia.

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Learnings and Reflections from BlogHer about Mobile Phones for Video Blogging and Beyond

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of them told us that there was a special plugin for wordpress that display the blog in style sheet that is readable on cell/mobile phones. The bookmarks are here. The coffee cup photos show that it is important not only to photograph the object, but to consider the space around the object. mobile posting. Click to Play.

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