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Microsoft Word and WordPress: A Tense Friendship

July 13, 2010
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I have been contacted by people numerous times when their blogs were “broken” and they needed it fixed.  There have been a variety of reasons behind the damage, but one common cause I’ve seen is through the misuse of Microsoft Word. Like many other people, I do a lot of my writing in MS Word.  [...]

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Random Thoughts On Blogging

July 12, 2010
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Even though every item here could be a blog post on their own, for now I’ve decided to just list some random thoughts I have in regards to blogging. The quickest way to royally screw up a blog is to copy and paste a post directly from Microsoft Word Having a unique “voice” is important, [...]

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Should You Use HTML5 Video On Your Site?

July 7, 2010
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How are you including videos on your website?  Are you still using flash to embed them or have you switched to html5? With the state of the internet today it makes sense to use the video playback features already included in modern web browsers and revert to flash playback only when necessary.  This is true [...]

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Advice To New Bloggers

June 21, 2010
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Earlier tonight I had the pleasure of sitting in on Emily Grosvenor’s class on Beginning Blogging.  Emily is a talented writer who runs a great blog at Desperately Seeking Salem, so I knew she would do a bang up job guiding others into the rewarding and frustrating world of blogging. A point that often comes [...]

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Dwight Schrute’s Secret To Better Blogging

June 7, 2010
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Dwight Schrute knows a thing or two about beets and how to sell them. Dwight’s statement about placing the most attractive beets on top as a way of enticing people to pull in to his beet stand is a principle that can be applied to blogging as well.

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What Ken Griffey Jr. Can Teach You About Blogging

June 3, 2010
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Ken Griffey Jr. is without a doubt, one of the greatest players to ever play the game. His recently announced retirement from baseball instantly transported many people into the land of remeniscence, myself included.  Being from the Northwest, I have been a Mariners fan for nearly all my life.  I remember when Griffey joined the [...]

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Comment Your Way To A Bigger Blog

May 24, 2010
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Do you want to know a really low key way to boost traffic to your blog while also increasing your overall visibility to others?  The answer isn’t something magical or complex; it is something you can easily accomplish with just 10 minutes of effort every day. Just like how linking out to other blogs is [...]

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My Short Experience With Text-Link-Ads

May 20, 2010
paid links

Last month I decided to try something new, and I signed up at Text-Link-Ads in order to get paid for publishing links to other websites from my site.  At first it looked like an easy way to do a little monetization of this blog, but in retrospect I would have to say it wasn’t worth [...]

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Comments Are Not Your Marketing Tool

May 16, 2010
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I get my share of ridiculous spammers commenters on this blog as well as on other blogs that I own or manage.   After bottling my thoughts on this for so long, I’ve decided to say a thing or two about this. I love flattery as much as the next person, but when you leave a [...]

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It Is Better To Have Your Own Blog

December 21, 2009
free blogs

I ran into a friend I hadn’t seen in a while this weekend and he expressed to me his plan to start a blog and jump into this “new blogging thing”.  He sounded pretty enthusiastic about it and we talked a little about how he was going to go about getting into blogging.  He had [...]

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