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Rule #2: The guide to a successful blog

10 Harsh Truths About Corporate Blogging

  I have reached the conclusion that most organizations have a blog simply because they feel they should.

50 Free Resources That Will Improve Your Writing Skills

  Effective writing skills are to a writer what petrol is to a car. Like the petrol and car relationship, without solid skills writers cannot move ahead

Should you use a Mobile WordPress Plugin?

Twitter ized answer? Abso-freakin-lutely! Take a look at the following graph

Publish Blog Posts In WordPress From Yahoo Mail

Posting content to blogs has been becoming easier and easier everyday, with apps for iPhone, Nokia S60 and the soon to be introduced Blackberry app users can quickly post content to their blogs. Yahoo Mail has introduced a new set of applications for their webmail service, and one of them is a WordPress application which will allow you to post content to either your WordPress.com or WordPress.org account from within Yahoo Mail, the interesting thing about this application is that you can drag and drop emails on the application to create new blog posts. Here is a quick walkthrough on how you can publish posts to your WordPress blog using Yahoo Mail

WordPress’ Raanan in Iraq to help country use new media

Twitter, WordPress execs in Iraq to help country use new media – CNN.com . Interesting piece on CNN today about Raanan Bar-Cohen , one of nine technology executives, who begin their third day in Iraq on Tuesday as part of a U.S.

Plugin Review: Post Templates

What is Post Templates?

How to Track RSS Subscribers in a Blog Contest

Let me start off by saying that this post will not talk about how to get sponsors, how to determine prizes, or how to determine rules for a blog contest. This post will talk about how to tweak your WordPress blog to solve the biggest problem in running a blog contest to gain RSS subscribers.

WordPress Personalities to Follow on Twitter

Are you a Twitter user and WordPress fanatic?   Theme Playground recently published a great list of 50 WordPress peronsalities to follow on Twitter .   Their list includes developers, WordPress bloggers, etc. I was excited to see our friend Jean-Baptiste Jung make the list, showing he is finally getting the recognition his hard work deserves.   There are also a number of other people included in the list that are worth following, so Twitter users will want to make sure to check Theme Playground’s post. Related posts: Follow Me on Twitter! How To: Integrate Twitter into Your WordPress Blog Improve Comment Follow-Up With The Subscribe to Comments WordPress Plugin Wanted: Your WordPress Resources

Looking for your Computer “Spring Cleaning” Tips

Some of you may have noticed a lower than normal number of posts over the past two weeks.  This is primarily because of some major server issues we’ve been having, which resulted in all of my sites experiencing quite a bit of downtime.   Fortunately, I think yesterday afternoon we got it figured out and things have been good for the last 24 hours. While working on our server issues, I had a little spare time that normally would have gone towards blogging.   Here is what I did with my time: Taxes – Having a business requires some changes to how you do your taxes, whether you are an LLC or a sole proprietorship.   As a result, I’ve had to spend some additional time working on the taxes for Apricot Media .  After going through this, I’ve found quite a few ways to improve my processes.  If anyone is interested in learning more about this, I’m planning to write a post about this over the coming weeks on my affiliate marketing blog, Slick Affiliate .