There is a serious side to social media – this isn’t it.
February 18, 2009
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How To Add Twitter to your Sidebar
January 15, 2009
I encourage twittering! It's fun, and its good marketing for your blog! Sign up at Twitter.com. Fo'sure your first order of business will be to follow me! @multimom, and then ya know, if there's time, there's Heather too: @relocatedyank. :D You might even be able to ask questions there, since ya know, we do it! (unlike the posting around here!) Sorry 'bout the posting bit... I got a little carried away. But no worries. I'm carried right back. :) 1. Sign up for twitter 2. Upload this great plugin: Twitter Tools, and then you can put your tweets in the sidebar of … [Read more...]
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Everybody’s got one, do you?
November 14, 2008
It's one of the cool things about blogs. You can read them in your very own "feed reader". And for those who do this, it is quite likely the ONLY way they will read your blog. So, we need to make sure that your blog is EASY PEASY for others to subscribe to. (Subscribe = how they grab your blog and feed it to their reader.) 1. Find an image of those RSS buttons. Here's over 35 styles, each with 8 or more different colors and designs. I'll use one from my photobucket account. You may use this one too if you like. Once you have selected your image, you need to copy the location … [Read more...]
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Are you publishing a political post?
And perhaps you want the comments closed? I wouldn't blame you. If you scroll down in your write>post screen there is a section called "Advanced Options". This is for you! Let's go through them: Excerpt: This will override other excerpts of this post on the archives or category pages. Click on the arrow and insert the excerpt that you like the best into this window. Trackbacks: From what I understand, there are some sites that don't automatically catch the links in your post and notify the linkee(the one you linked to). Oh, you didn't know that was happening? Yup, be careful … [Read more...]