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Archive for the ‘Resources’ Category

August 21st, 2007

Practical Guide for Setting Up a WordPress Blog

On Sarah Lewis’ new WordPress QuickStart site there is a set of excellent videos to help even the most non-technical person get up and running with a WordPress site.
Sarah is a blog developer and one of my co-moderators on the LinkedIn Bloggers forum.
Note that the site is about installing a downloadable WordPress.org site, not a […]

By Des Walsh -- 4 comments

August 2nd, 2007

Marvellous Online Creativity Tools from Mashable

Ever wonder where bloggers who use lots of pictures in their posts get those pictures? And how you could get different pictures that you could use without breaching copyright and without having to spend a lot of money for the privilege?
And what about how to find tools to help you with video editing or podcasting?
Your […]

By Des Walsh -- 2 comments

July 31st, 2007

Managing Identity in a Web 2.0 World - Part 2: ZoomInfo

The first post in this two part series took a brief look at the challenge of managing our digital identities - what people see when they find us or our companies online.
Way back in 1999, Sun Microsystem’s Scott McNealy famously said “You have zero privacy…Get over it.”
But “getting over it” does not mean we have […]

By Des Walsh -- 1 comment

July 29th, 2007

Managing Identity in a Web 2.0 World - Part 1: The Challenge

This is the first of two posts on the subject of managing our identities - and the identities of our companies - in a Web 2.0 world. This post looks at the challenge.
It is said that Charlie Chaplin once entered a Charlie Chaplin Look-Alike competition in Monte Carlo, Monaco. He came third.
More recently, noted blogger […]

By Des Walsh -- 2 comments

July 24th, 2007

Mashable Shares Social Networking Goodies

You know when you start to see a whole lot of references in quick succession about one topic?
Message time.
I think I’ve been getting a message in the past 24 hours about Mashable - or, as the title actually goes, Mashable! The Social Networking Site.
Yesterday I was looking for some collaboration tools for a group I’ve […]

By Des Walsh -- 0 comments

July 20th, 2007

Quality Blogging Forum Shifts to Facebook

One of the casualties of the imminent closing of the Soflow social networking site is the excellent Blog Buzz forum there, managed by Jim Turner of One by One Media.
The membership includes a high proportion of very successful, well-known bloggers. The quality of discussion has always been high.
It would have been a pity […]

By Des Walsh -- 2 comments

July 18th, 2007

Blog Help For Small Business

Easton Ellsworth has launched a new series of posts offering blog help for small business.
Going by the first post of the series, Small Business Blog Help, Part 1: What Is A Business Blog? this will be a series not to be missed.
One of the gems in the post is an untangling of the various meanings […]

By Des Walsh -- 0 comments

July 11th, 2007

5 Favorite News Readers: 5 - FeedDemon

The fifth and final news reader to be included in this series of 5 favorite readers, FeedDemon, is no newcomer to the scene and has some great features.
Each of the other readers in the series - NewsGator Online, BlogBridge Desktop, Bloglines, Google Reader - is free. For FeedDemon there is a modest charge of […]

By Des Walsh -- 1 comment

June 30th, 2007

5 Favorite News Readers: 3 - Bloglines

The Bloglines feed reader used to be my reader of choice.
I haven’t been using Bloglines for a while now, since discovering the two readers reviewed so far in this series, NewsGator Online and BlogBridge. I don’t recall actually doing a detailed comparison, but one disincentive for not continuing to use Bloglines was that for […]

By Des Walsh -- 3 comments

June 30th, 2007

5 Favorite News Readers: 2 - BlogBridge

BlogBridge offers itself as more than a feed aggregator, styling itself as “the ultimate info-junkie system”.
BlogBridge project leader Pito Salas and his team describe themselves as “a bunch of entrepreneurs / enthusiasts who enjoy living at the edge of technology and social behavior.”
Unlike some other popular feed readers, such as NewsGator Online which was reviewed […]

By Des Walsh -- 1 comment

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