Blogging

Zemanta makes blogging and maintaining your Web site a snap — for free!

October 3, 2011

Zemanta is a great addition to your blogging arsenal.

If you blog or maintain a Web site, you’ll find that the Zemanta widget is a huge time-saver when you write your posts or articles.

Zemanta is a revolutionary new platform for accelerating on-line content production for any Web user. Any text (a blog post, article or web page) is directly “read” by Zemanta.

Zemanta combs the Web for relevant images, smart links, keywords and text, instantly serving the results to the user [...]

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How to Get Great FREE Photos, Art, Videos and Music for Your Blog and Other Uses

August 10, 2010

2,500 Creative Commons Licenses from qthomasbower

If you are blogging your great stories to your peeps — and you should be — are you using photos to liven up your posts?

A great photo, cartoon or illustration can help you make your point in with much more eye appeal. But if you’re a regular blogger — and you should be — using stock photos can get expensive. And sometimes stock photos are just so, well, stock.

There’s a terrific way to get [...]

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Blogging is an exercise in consistency and hard work

September 6, 2009

The problem with missing a few times when you would normally post on your blog is that those few times so easily turn into a few weeks. Just like exercise, you miss it at first. But then, you get used to not having it, and then it takes a lot of effort to overcome inertia.

I allowed myself a blogging break for a very good reason – I was very ill and eventually in the hospital – but then [...]

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Great Tools and Resources for Driving Traffic to Your Blog

June 12, 2009

Writing a great blog is only the beginning. You have to market it to get followers and subscribers. It’s not easy, but there are some tools that can help.

Free:

Promote it on Facebook, MySpace and Twitter sites by adding links to your posts. In some cases, you can do this automatically from your blog, but often these don’t provide the same visibility options as posting it manually, which allows you to comment.

On Facebook, add your blog to NetworkedBlogs.com and invite [...]

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Blogging for Every Communicator: Breakout Session at Virginia Press Women Conference

April 28, 2009

Blogging For Every Communicator from C. Gail Kent on Vimeo.

Emily Battle, reporter with The Free Lance-Star in Fredericksburg, and Kristen King, copywriter and consultant, speak at the 2009 Virginia Press Women Conference on April 25 at The University of Mary Washington. They share tips about their blogs and tips for creating and maintaining quality blogs.
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