Blog Your Thumbs Off – How to Blog When There’s no Internet Access

By kieshaeasley, August 20, 2010 | 35 Comments

How my cell phone helped me keep blogging when I didn’t have Internet Access

Many of you may already  know by now that I’ve recently relocated and that move has left me without internet far longer than I had anticipated.

I had planned on about a week or so, but that week turn into two…into three…into…almost losing my entire mind! Read more »

Is your Blog’s Theme Turning your Visitors off?

By kieshaeasley, July 15, 2010 | 28 Comments

I’m not very technical when it comes to the designing aspects of blogging. Yeah, I can make minor changes to the code when necessary and can follow really good step-by-step instructions, but when it comes to CSS and creating something from scratch, I’m very design-impaired. Read more »

To schedule tweets or NOT to tweet?

By kieshaeasley, March 9, 2010 | 3 Comments

I recently submitted To Schedule tweets or NOT to tweet? to FamousBloggers.net and so far I’ve been seeing such an awesome response that I wanted to share it with you.

Although, I hadn’t really intended to enter the Guest Blogging Contest that the blog is currently holding, I was only trying to promote the  Iron Blogger Contest and  Birthday Celebration Contest I’m holding on my other blog, but I’m all for taking advantage of every opportunity that I can, so if you’ll be kind enough to drop by and RT and comment on my guest post, it would warm my heart immensely – and possibly help me win :)

While you’re at it, you might as well enter, too. If so, please let me know and I’ll be more than happy to return the RT and commenting favor!

Thanks! It truly is a pleasure to write for you everyday.

Blog more efficiently with the Zemanta Google Chrome Plugin

By kieshaeasley, February 26, 2010 | 30 Comments

Ms. Ileane Speaks wrote this great informative guest post highlighting a great Google Chrome plug-in. I hope you will take a moment to watch the video as she briefly shows you how Zemanta can save you time and help you blog more efficiently.

Zemanta Extension for Google Chrome

Guest post by Ms. Ileane Speaks

Google Chrome is one of the hottest new offerings from Google. Because of its lightening fast speed and extensive library of Google Chrome plugins (also called extensions) many users are making Chrome their browser of choice.

I decided to send out a Tweet to see what some of my followers favorite extensions are. Read more »

Your Site Is Just a Launching Pad

By Brandon Cox, January 26, 2010 | 6 Comments

For the past few days, I’ve been offering some video posts here about the cloud that surrounds content consumers today…

Today, I want to get a bit more specific about how to understand the cloud and begin to infiltrate it. The secret boils down to shifting your thinking. Your site doesn’t exist to consume users, it exists to feed users where they hang out.

And here’s the Youtube link to Your Site Is Just a Launching Pad Into the Cloud.

Infiltrating the Cloud In Which People Breathe

By Brandon Cox, January 24, 2010 | 6 Comments

I wanted to clarify my thoughts from my previous post about getting your content into the cloud. I mention some technologies here that people “breathe” every day, such as their subscribed feeds, Facebook, Twitter, etc. Our goal is not only to get people to our site, but to get our content to where they are so that it can act as a magnet to draw them to an intended destination.

Here’s a Youtube.com link to the video Infiltrating the Cloud In Which People Breathe.

Thoughts? Would love to hear them. Over the next week or two, I’ll be talking about specific techniques for infiltrating the cloud.

The User Experience of the Real Time Web

By Evan Britton, January 22, 2010 | 7 Comments

This is a guest post. Interested in contributing and receiving some promotion?

The real time web can be a lot of fun for users, even if you aren’t a user of Facebook, Twitter, or other real time web service. The real time web can open up new information that users otherwise wouldn’t have known how to find before hand. In this article, we’ll review 3 of the things you can take away from the real time web – today or any day.
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Cliqset is What Twitter Could Be and What Friendfeed Almost Was

By Brandon Cox, January 6, 2010 | 9 Comments

I’m assuming you’ve heard of this new thing called Twitter. It’s okay. It has a few fans. And maybe you’ve also heard of a tool called Friendfeed.. It used to have a few fans, but they all left when Facebook bought Friendfeed. (I exaggerate.)

Well, enter Cliqset. I’m in love.

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Parse.ly Looks Like a News Feed Addict’s Worst Nightmare – I’m In!

By Brandon Cox, November 12, 2009 | 5 Comments

I’m a news feed nut, which is what led to my launching WeBlogBetter.com to begin with. I love passing along resources and wanted a good outlet for it, so a good feed reader really provides the fuel for this site. That’s why I’m really looking forward to Parse.ly. It seems… intuitive.

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Sency – The Web in Real Time

By Brandon Cox, November 8, 2009 | 3 Comments

sencyReal time web startups are all the rage as internet users are becoming aware of the fact that news can travel almost instantly across the web. We used to search based on relevancy alone, now we search for relevancy that is trending. Real-time web apps and services are aimed at meeting the demand for finding out what’s happening now.

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