Tips on Blogging Frequency

Pending on your goals, a blog format may really work for a non-profit web site or your own personal home page. Yet the medium of blogs with dated content, can create pressure to keep things fresh. Many bloggers buckle under the pressure of posting daily updates, but this may no longer be necessary.
Eric Kintz says […]

Review of Google Calendar

I just began using Google Calendar this week and have pratically driven my wife crazy with my excitement. The beauty of Google calendar is two-fold, but there are many other parts that are good-looking as well.
Nevertheless, the two best parts are: it can be accessed anywhere and it can send reminders to your gmail account. […]

Blog and Web Tools

Todd Heistand, who designed this site by the way, has a great list of tools at his site: www.toddhiestand.com. What particularly caught my eye is a wordpress plug-in called “SimpleTags”. I sometimes tire of adding the Technorati Tags, so I may have to waste some time adding them here.
Todd also has the usual list of […]

w.Bloggar: My New Toy

Though I downloaded it a while ago, I finally got into “w.Bloggar,” an offline blog editor. It essentially allows you to write up your blog posts in the exact format they will appear without actually having to be online.
While there are a number of reasons why this is a good thing, the number […]

Articles on Web Applications

If you can persevere, Wired News has a series of articles on Web 2.0 and free applications that are well worth looking into. If you don’t know what Web 2.0 or 1.0 is for that matter, these articles are worth reading and applying.
Is Web 2.0 Caught Up in its Own Noise?
Web 2.0: A Pattern Library
Folksonomies, […]

Directories are out. Tags are in.

I have my web sites listed in a number of online directories either for blogs or web pages. You can find them at the bottom of the right column. One of my frustrations has been with the difficulty of categorizing my web sites. Is this a writing site? yes. Non-profit site? yes. Photography, web tips, […]

21 Publish: Too Good to be True?

In uncharacteristic fashion, I gave in and clicked on an ad this morning. The company is called 21 Publish, and they offer free, hosted blogging for communities. In other words, you have a web portal or home page where you can post links or general content, and list all of the blogs in your community […]

Collaboration & Management Tools

Since my focus is on helping non-profits on a shoe-string, I have been sampling two programs that help with project management and collaboration online. The nice part about using an online tool is that members/volunteers an organization without a central location can track with each other. Even if there is a central location for the […]

Writely: Order Yours Today

You can guess pretty safely what the next big trend will be based on what Google is up to. Google recently purchased a company called Upstartle, the makers of a popular web-based, free word processing program known as Writely.
The concept of Writely is clever. Here’s the jist of it:

Share documents instantly & collaborate real-time: Pick […]

Blog Software Review (part one)

After a year of messing around with blogs, I have had a chance to work with some of the programs out there. My inamirrordimly blog uses Nucleus, but I also have been working with Typepad and Wordpress. While a lot of people use typepad, it seems that Wordpress has been gaining some momentum. Andrew Jones […]

Non-Profits Using Blogs

“Inside Bay Area” has an article on how non-profits are using blogs: Web logs helping nonprofits spread the word.
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Coming Up

I’m very excited about a few things coming up. First of all I bought a new USB cable for my Canon Powershot A95. I lost the cable yesterday and was bummed that my pictures of Mt. Equinox (near Manchester, VT) would have to stay on the camera. I’ll have them up soon I hope.
The other […]

Make Your Own Buttons

If you’re like me and you don’t have a clue about code, there are short cuts out there. For example, Adam Kalsay’s Button Maker allows you to specify the content, lay out, and color of your buttons. I made a simple one for my web site that I will offer to users who want […]

The Future of Blogs

CNET news has put together a list of articles relating to the future of blogs. Of particular interest is an interview of Mena Trott, one of the developers of Moveable Type, which powers the popular blog building program known as Typepad.
While I will provide some excerpts from from the interview further down, it’s also worth […]

Do Unto Others . . .

A casual scan down the right columns of this web site will show that I have been quite busy adding links and signing up for affiliate programs. This was not an overnight decision. While I plan to continue adding helpful links, I have also given a lot of thought to the “monetizing” of this blog.
My […]

Vermont Non-Profit Links

I have spent the past few days accumulating links on a social bookmarking/tagging service called del.icio.us. You can access my tags here. While you can scroll down the list of my most recent tags and browse them, there is a listing of categories on the right where you can seek out what is of interest […]

Technorati

Speaking of technorati . . .

Signing up for technorati is a great way to promote your blog. Technorati is a blog search engine that allows people to find blogs related to certain key words. By signing up for an account you can register your blog and define it with a list of 25 key words. […]

State of the Blogosphere

Blog search engine technorati has published a report on the state of the blogosphere. Read it here: link.
Here are some main points from the summary:
In Summary

Blogging and Mainstream Media continue to share attention in blogger’s and reader’s minds, but bloggers are climbing higher on the “big head” of the attention curve, with some bloggers getting […]

Making a Buck … or Two

It’s unrealistic to expect your web site to make a lot of money. Nevertheless, it may be possible to have a web site that pays for itself.
Using Google ads and other advertising programs that use key words, you may be able to place ads on your organization’s web site that will provide links to sites […]