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Press This or Blog This

December 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Blog This Sharing a Story

The other day while I was giving a presentation on WordPress and its many uses as an educational tool to a group of faculty members at a local university interested in incorporating blogging in their teaching approach, one professor expressed a great deal of displeasure with WordPress and its apparent lack of functionality. One of the most interesting involved his pointing out that Blogger offered BlogThis and WordPress did not.  Blog This enables bloggers to cite either other blogs or websites and create a blog entry from that.  In its simplest … [Read more...]

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The Uncategorized Category in WordPress

November 3, 2011 By 1 Comment
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An uncategorized category in WordPress?  It's true, in a default installation, uncategorized  is provided to the unknowing blogger or site owner because Wordpress has to have at least one to complete an install.  Traditionally, when WordPress was thought of solely as a blogging platform, the uncategorized category was included to give users an example of how a blog post is created and organized.  And, as an example, it serves its purpose well.  Keyword here is "example".  When configuring a WordPress-based blog or website for a client, this is … [Read more...]

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Favicon: What Are They And Why You Need One

November 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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Favicons are one of those finishing touches on you're website or blog that lets visitors know you've made the extra effort to really make it look sharp.  Favicons are considered essential to have since it bolsters your online presence and brand with very little effort.  So, if you market, a product, service, or yourself, don't skip this important marketing aspect. But What are Favicons? Favicons are quite simply a shortcut or bookmark icon that is typically a 16x16 pixel representative of your brand that is displayed in a browser's address bar next … [Read more...]

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SEO Doctor Review

October 31, 2011 By Leave a Comment
SEO Doctor Review

SEO Doctor Review - Whether you blog, maintain site content or both, SEO Doctor developed by Vladmir Prelovac, is a great tool to help you get every last bit of search engine optimization from your content.  This Firefox add-on is marketed as "a modern SEO tool with one simple goal - make your website better optimized for search engines through an easy to understand, step by step, scoring and recommendation system."  Results provided by SEO Doctor are based, in part, upon Google Webmaster and Image guidelines as well as the Google SEO starter … [Read more...]

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