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13 essential ingredients for your blogging setup

July 8, 2011

Just like a city needs roads and sewers, a blog needs its own infrastructure. Until you’ve got the basics in place, there’s no point in busting a gut to increase traffic: even if you succeed in bringing new readers to your blog, you won’t keep them coming back. So make sure you begin by getting [...]

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5 steps to create your social media toolkit

March 16, 2011

Building a social media presence around a specific area of expertise is your best way to connect with a network and audience that cares about your work, and gets real value from your online contributions. This blog post walks you through the 5 steps that will get you up and running with three tools that will let you build and maintain a credible online presence as an expert: a Wordpress blog, a Google Reader account and a Twitter presence managed through HootSuite.

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Create a category-specific series box with WordPress, Thesis and Organize Series

March 3, 2011

I use the terrific Organize Series Plugin for WordPress, which I highly recommend for anyone who regularly posts multi-part blog series. You can see it in action on series all over this site, such as my recent series on 7 days to inbox zero. It lets you easily add posts to a series, manages the [...]

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Fix: How to prevent Chrome from hanging or freezing with WordPress and TinyMCE

December 26, 2010

In recent weeks I’ve had trouble using Chrome to post to my WordPress blog: after typing just a few words, Chrome froze and asked me to kill the page. Today I discovered that this is the result of a known issue with TinyMCE, which WordPress uses for WYSIWYG editing. The latest developer builds of Chrome [...]

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Adding images to blog posts with Skitch, Zemanta and Flickr

November 12, 2010

Imagine I wanted to write a blog post about how to do something online. (I know it’s a stretch, but bear with me.) If I really wanted me reader to follow what I’m blogging about, I’d need to include screenshots. The typical workflow, on a mac, would look something like: Use the Mac’s built-in screen [...]

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How to use Thesis to customize your teasers by page and category

July 10, 2010

I use the Thesis theme for my WordPress blog. Thesis is much beloved in the WordPress community because it allows a high degree of customization using its two pages of configuration menus, so even if you know nothing about PHP or CSS you can do a lot to customize your blog. And once you’re ready [...]

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Choosing a widget control plugin for WordPress

June 5, 2010

For the past few months I have used the Widget Context plugin on my WordPress blog in order to control where widgets show up on my site. Everything you see in the two right-hand columns of my site is widget-based, as are the 3 columns that display teasers for featured posts. But I don’t want [...]

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Web services and software for creating family albums and scrapbooks

January 16, 2010

I’ve been writing about my wish for a family scrapbook solution that would create photobooks that use tweets as captions, and I’ve described the features I’d like. Fuelled mostly by incredulity (surely something like this must exist) I’ve worked my way through lots of options. Commercial album creation services from Shutterfly, Apple, Lulu, Qoop, Scrapblog [...]

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6 essential social media tools for your business or organization

March 30, 2009

If you’re itching to get a handle on this social media thing, and want to open your eyes and ears, there are a few tools we recommend as assets to virtually any organization. I’ve listed these in the order I’d recommend adopting each one.

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Seven people’s seven favourite things?

January 17, 2009

I’ve been memed. As commanded by Dave Eaves and the many people upstream of him in the 7 Things thing, here are my 7 things.

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New look & feel, kind of almost there

March 23, 2008

The new and much improved look of my blog is based on the blog style template at Open Designs, created by fellow-Canadian Collin Grasley. Rob hacked it into WordPress-iness for me, a process that’s still being debugged. Open Designs is a very cool site that offers more than a thousand different blog and website looks, [...]

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