October 3rd, 2009
If you have been following this series, by now you should have a pretty good grip on social life on the web. But maybe you want to step it up a notch and go for the Grand Daddy of life online and get a blog of your own. That’s great, but where do you start? There are so many options out there and so much to learn about the blogging world. Well, don’t get discouraged. Starting and maintaining a blog is not as hard as it may look. You don’t need to be a programming genius to get started. In fact, with the tools available today, starting a blog can be as easy as writing an email. In this post I will give you a few great options for starting a blog.
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Tags: Blog, Blogging, Micro-Blogging, Social Media, Tools, Tumblr, WordPress
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September 24th, 2009
So now you have your Gravatar, and you’re plugged in to a social network or two. You will notice shortly that it is easy to get overwhelmed with the amount of information that is out there. Checking a dozen blogs each day can be taxing on your time and is not very productive. It gets even worse as you begin to build your reading list to hundreds of blogs that you’d like to read. Luckily there is an easy way to keep up to date with your favorite websites without wasting your time. Wouldn’t it be great if you could be notified when a site posts a new article? Well, you’re in luck. Let me introduce you to RSS.
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Tags: Blog, Blogging, Feed, Google, Google Reader, RSS, Subscription, Tools
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September 13th, 2009
There are many people that I talk with that are a little overwhelmed at the massive social universe on the web. Many would love to start digging in, but don’t know where to start. This is part one of a five post series I entitle “Get A Life (Online)”. During the course of this series you will learn how to begin to build your social presence online.
Today’s lesson will be show you how to quickly join the online conversation, and show you how to do it with style.
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Tags: Avatars, Commenting, Comments, Gravatars, Online, Social Networking, Tutorials
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