I have a confession – I love WordPress.  It’s just so cool.  Anyway, I stay up with the changes by downloading them at http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/trunk/. I don’t actually browse there and download the files with a web browser but I use Subversion which is a code control system for developers who are – developing systems and [...]

Bill on August 21, 2008 in WordPress | Continue Reading...

You may remember back in July I sent you to a video by Yaro Starak called “Conversion Blogging”, which outlined Yaro’s system of blogging and marketing with an email list to bring in over $100,000 per year. Conversion Blogging Video That video was a huge hit and many people who watched it went on to [...]

Bill on August 20, 2008 in Blogging | Continue Reading...

Google Reader – Staying Up To Date Want to stay up to date on something that is news-worthy andoly important to you?  Did you know you can use Google Reader to stay up on particular topics and not just blogs?  All you need to do is look for that RSS icon or something similar to [...]

Bill on August 19, 2008 in Productivity | Continue Reading...

Here are 25 Terrific Tweets during the past week from the folks I follow on Twitter.  There’s gold in them there tweets!!   1. – The 30 Day Challenge continues and I have to list it again amongst the terrific tweets because there’s so much great information available, from looking for a niche for a blog [...]

Bill on August 18, 2008 in Social Media | Continue Reading...

I use Google Reader as my RSS Reader to read blogs.  I’ve used it for quite some time now and was recently talking to some folks who had no idea it existed or how to use it.  These people read blogs by browsing to each one everyday to check out if there’s anything new to [...]

Bill on August 14, 2008 in Blogging | Continue Reading...

Recently I went to shut off email forwarding on my wife’s hosting account and was confused by what should be a simple task become a stressful decision. Below is a screen shot of the choices I had that would allow me to shut off email forwarding. What would be your next step to shut off [...]

Bill on August 12, 2008 in Web Design | Continue Reading...

This is a continuation of my weekly Terrific Tweets from Twitter – 22 Terrific Tweets and 23 Terrific Tweets lists.  Here are 24 Terrific Tweets from just an inkling of the Twitter community.  There’s gold in them there tweets. 1. – The first week of Ed Dale’s The 30 Day Challenge has been completed and [...]

Bill on August 11, 2008 in Social Media | Continue Reading...

A couple of months ago I was trying out the PicLens WordPress Plugin.  After installing it and trying to activate it I received a message that said, “This plugin requires PHP 5.1 and you have 4.x.  So what to do? After investigating a bit using Google and instant messaging my host provider, the solution was [...]

Bill on August 10, 2008 in WordPress | Continue Reading...

When you first start blogging in WordPress it can be a daunting task just to pick a theme.  Themes are what makes your blog look somewhat unique or completely unique.  WordPress itself started its theme directory back up with some pretty nice free themes. However, there are also free themes scattered throughout the Internet as [...]

Bill on August 9, 2008 in Microsoft Windows,WordPress | Continue Reading...

While working in the latest version of WordPress and trying out different themes I noticed they implemented a theme previewer that shows you what the theme you’re about to select will look like before applying it. This is great because in previous versions of WordPress you could only see a thumbnail view of the theme, [...]

Bill on August 8, 2008 in WordPress | Continue Reading...

Matt Mullenweg creator of WordPress released a neat little plugin called Random Redirect.  It allows your blog readers to randomly discover your blog posts. Matt says the Random Redirect plugin: Allows you to create a link to yourblog.example.com/?random which will redirect someone to a random post on your blog, in a StumbleUpon-like fashion. You can [...]

Bill on August 7, 2008 in WordPress | Continue Reading...

Although I think of Digsby as an Instant Messaging client, it does much more.  For folks who use Instant Messaging, Digsby also offers quite a few extra features.  In this day of social networking Digsby allows you to add the following social networking sites: FaceBook MySpace Twitter with more to come As well as IM [...]

Bill on August 6, 2008 in Social Media | Continue Reading...

Yaro Starak just informed me that his Blog Mastermind coaching program charges in Australian dollars. Most online coaching programs charge in American dollars, and since the US dollar is anywhere from 5% to 10% stronger than the Aussie dollar as I write this, that’s a 5% to 10% price saving for you if you join [...]

Bill on August 5, 2008 in Blogging | Continue Reading...

Below you will find the most popular articles of the past month. Check them out if you missed any. Social Networks Will Make You Cool – Another context you can benefit from using the social networking sites is building traffic to your blog, promoting your blog posts and gaining subscribers. How To Create StumbleUpon Content [...]

Bill on August 4, 2008 in Blogging | Continue Reading...

Have you used Ping.fm to promote your blog posts? Ping.fm is a service that allows you to send a message to multiple social networking sites with one click. This is an efficient way to get any kind of message out to all your online communities that you belong to. However, it is not a replacement [...]

Bill on August 3, 2008 in Blogging | Continue Reading...

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