Blogging Information

Custom domains simplified | Blogger Buzz

2011-11-19T16:18:00.000-08:00

"Adding a custom domain to your blog is a great way to increase your brand identity. Setting one up, however, can sometimes be a frustrating experience, especially if you aren’t quite sure of the difference between an A-NAME and C-NAME record or where to find them.

The good news is that the folks at Go Daddy created a handy tool that simplifies the process and makes it possible to redirect your blogspot domain to a custom Go Daddy domain with the click of a button. "

The Confluent Forms blog: You can do some amazing things with Blogger

2011-07-29T18:03:00.000-07:00

"we’ve found that Blogger can be a great platform for web development when a custom CMS isn’t needed. Blogger provides a ton of functionality and design freedom for our clients, and not just for blogs!"

Go Blogger!

WordPress SEO Plugin - Yoast

2011-03-30T09:56:00.000-07:00

"WordPress SEO is the most complete SEO plugin that exists today for WordPress.org users. It incorporates everything from a snippet preview that helps you optimize your page titles, meta descriptions and keywords to XML sitemaps, and loads of optimization options in between."

This looks like a useful set of SEO tools for WordPress.

Blogger in Draft: The Blogger Template Designer

2010-03-12T14:13:00.000-08:00

"Blogger in Draft: The Blogger Template Designer"

New Blogger Template service.

Membership Software | Wordpress Membership Site Plugin | WishList Member

2010-01-12T22:09:00.000-08:00

"WishList Member is a powerful solution for creating an online membership site – all built using WordPress as the core content management system.

Now it’s easy to control access to your content, accept payments, manage your members and so much more! Read below for full feature descriptions, tutorial videos and examples of sites using WishList Member."

A most interesting concept.

WordPress Makes Blogging On The Fly Easier, Integrates With Twitter API

2009-12-13T15:16:00.000-08:00

"This morning, a blogging platform and a microblogging platform have become more symbiotic. WordPress has enabled posting and reading the blogs the platform powers via the Twitter API."

More and more products are becoming connected.

TypePad Takes on Tumblr With Free Microblogging Feature | Technologizer

2009-11-17T13:23:00.000-08:00

"Six Apart’s TypePad blogging service has long been aimed at bloggers who were serious enough about what they were doing to fork over money for a blogging platform. But today Six Apart is announcing TypePad Micro, a new level of TypePad service that’s meant for extremely casual blogging–and which is the first version of the service that’s free."

I want to take a look at this.

Blogging From Microsoft Word 2007

2009-11-10T17:36:00.000-08:00

"One of the new features in Word 2007 is the ability to publish directly to a blog. You can use Microsoft Word to publish to popular services such as Blogger and Windows Live Spaces. You can also specify other blogging services."

This option seems to work just fine.

Word to Blogger

2009-10-24T16:55:00.001-07:00

Added the Word to Blogger interface to test for a client.

Apparently it is no longer feasible to cut and paste from Word into Blogger, so this interface is now available.

This is a test post, to test the interface.

Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Verifying a Blogger blog in Webmaster Tools

2009-10-22T15:34:00.000-07:00

"Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Verifying a Blogger blog in Webmaster Tools. The steps required to verify your Blogger blog in Webmaster Tools."

Timely information.

Video: State of the Blogosphere 2009

2009-10-20T12:39:00.000-07:00

"Video: State of the Blogosphere 2009"

I enjoy the results of this survey each year. This video introduces the 2009 State of the Blogosphere.

Balancing Blogs And Twitter

2009-10-16T12:13:00.000-07:00

"290,000 words are written on Blogger per minute worldwide, which represents an increase of 10 percent versus six months ago."

Novels are various sizes, but assuming 58,000 words per novel, that is 5 novels a minute.

How to Switch from Blogger to WordPress Without Losing Google Traffic - Step by Step Guide

2009-09-19T12:03:00.000-07:00

"The Goal: Your current blog at abc.blogspot.com is hosted on the Blogger platform but you now want to move this blog from Blogger to WordPress (self-hosted) with a personal domain name (say abc.com)."

This is needed information. I might consider doing this with all my Blogger blogs.

Using a WordPress Page as your home page

2009-07-26T13:57:00.000-07:00

"It’s not only possible it’s relatively easy. The first step is to create a page to serve as your new home page. For the purpose of this example, we’ll call it “My New Home Page.”"

Using WordPress for Content Management

Think Before You Blog

2009-06-09T10:23:00.000-07:00

Why Twitter’s ‘Suggested Users’ is the Next Superbowl Ad (or “Calacanis offers $500k for three years”) « The Jason Calacanis Weblog

2009-03-20T11:49:00.000-07:00

"Last week, some of you may have read a headline that said I offered
Twitter $250,000 to make me one of the default users in their system.
The headline is almost accurate. I did offer them $250,000, but it was
for two years as a *suggested* user, not a default user."

A most interesting way to look at this microblogging system.

Google Friend Connect: Add social features to your site

2009-03-05T21:26:00.000-08:00

"With Google Friend Connect, visitors to your site or blog can:
Sign in with their Google, Yahoo, AIM or OpenID account.
Interact with other visitors by making friends, sharing media, posting comments, playing games, and more. Invite friends from other social networks and contact lists to join your site or blog."

Turn your blog into a social media site with Google Friend Connect.

The Best 10+ Sites To Look For Stunning (and Free) Twitter Backgrounds | zMogo Tech Stuff

2009-02-17T22:18:00.000-08:00

"A custom twitter background helps you stand out from the crowd. With a background different from others, your profile will carry a feeling of uniqueness. It makes a good impression and takes your brand one step forward. Why have the same background that several thousands of other people have?"

WordPress › WP-DB-Backup « WordPress Plugins

2009-01-31T19:36:00.000-08:00

"WP-DB-Backup allows you easily to backup your core WordPress database tables. You may also backup other tables in the same database."

A plugin to back up your WordPress blog.

» 10 Ways to Backup & Restore your Blogger Blog

2009-01-31T19:35:00.000-08:00

"However, there are number of tricks, online services and utilities that can help you backup your Blogger Blog. Here are few ways to backup Blogger Blog, just in case it is deleted and needs to be restored."

Blogger now has an export function, but this article has great ideas.

Thesis Theme for WordPress — Solving the fundamental problems of Website development and design

2008-11-30T23:10:00.000-08:00

"No matter which layout you select for your site, the core Thesis framework will remain the same, and that means you still get all the ultimate site-building and SEO benefits that Thesis offers. Best of all, you now have a true foundation for your Website—a core code framework that can accommodate any design or layout customization you might wish to make in the future."

I have not tried it yet, but this theme is getting lots of good press.

9 WordPress Plugins You Need

2008-11-25T10:01:00.000-08:00

"As a WordPress enthusiast, guru, and lover, I use plugins every single day and am constantly researching new plugins — even creating plugins. These are the top 9 plugins that I’m in love with. Check them out and see if they’re a great fit for you."

WordPress plugins can improve WordPress. Here is one list.

Blog clients review

2008-11-18T10:56:00.000-08:00

"Blog client lets you post to your blog via XML-RPC running on your local machine. Often, blog client can manage blog entries. Blog client allows you to write a post even if you are off-line."

A review of 10 blog clients.

How-To: Covering Brand Bases on Twitter - MarketingVOX

2008-09-17T16:08:00.000-07:00

"'Microblogging' site Twitter, which enables users to publish anything under a 140-character limit, has over a million users per month, with 200,000 users posting about 3 million messages per day, according to March figures."

Post2Blog is a handy blog editor with live spellchecking and Flickr, Word, Firefox, RSS Readers integration

2008-08-10T18:35:00.000-07:00

"Post2Blog 3 is a FREEWARE handy blog editor with live spell-checking support for pro-bloggers"

There are many general purpose blogging clients, but this one has an interface to Microsoft Word.