To write a great blog – read lots

Surround yourself withbooks to write better blogs Children who write well at school all share a common feature – their homes are filled with books. Ask any primary school teacher and they’ll tell you they can work out what a child’s home life is like simply from things like how …

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Biased football referees prove value of website redesign

The referee might miss a foul depending on the direction of play. Will your website miss visitors in the same way? Fact. Football referees are biased. Those players in the World Cup who cry “foul” when the referee finds against them could well be right, according to a new study …

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The Ten Best “Must Have” Plugins For WordPress

By Yip Bop WordPress is a highly extensible application – big words that mean you can easily ‘extend’ the functionality of WordPress to do whatever you want it to do. The best and most common way of extending WordPress is by adding ‘plugins’ to it. Plugins are just bits of …

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WordPress is wrong and graphic designers are right

A standard WordPress page does not help your website visitors remember what is important WordPress is one of the most popular pieces of software around. Indeed, on WordPress.com there are over 11m blogs – and as for the number of websites that are built using WordPress.org, well it’s anyone’s guess. …

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Blogging is not enough

Silence covered the room as the question was asked, but slowly one man at the back raised his hand to answer. “Ah good,” I said, “someone here has been blogging in their business. Tell us your story please.” The middle-aged, balding chap rose to his feet and stumbled out just …

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5 Things Bloggers Shouldn’t Do

By James Junior There are a lot of articles and blog posts on the web that will present a list of things you should do in order to run a successful blog, this is not one of those articles. I want to discuss some of the things you shouldn’t do, …

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Teens give up blogging? No, they don’t

Teenagers are losing interest in blogging, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Media coverage of the report – released yesterday – suggests that teens are more interested in short items, such as texting, status updates and so on. However, like much of the discussion about blogging we …

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TweetDeck is out-dated; long live HootSuite

TweetDeck is the undisputed “king” of the various Twitter client programs that are currently available. But there are several reasons why it needs replacing. The program has outlived its usefulness and when compared with HootSuite it simply does not stack up. TweetDeck is low on features Take a look at …

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Choose your online friends with care

Friends are important; they support you, listen to you, laugh at your jokes and have fun with you. Online they share information with you, point you in the right direction to useful material and support you with their feedback. There is little doubt that both online and offline friends are …

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Why we need to re-think URL shortening

Everywhere you look these days online there are “shortened URLs“. This is when a long and complicated website address such as “https://www.grahamjones.co.uk/2009/blog/useful-tools/how-to-remember-everything-you-want-to-online.html” can become . There is a real need for such shortening services on the Internet because you might need to add a web site address to a Tweet …

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Top Trends in 2010 for Strategic Social Network Use

Beyond Search, http://www.arnoldit.com/wordpress, a Web log focused on news, research and analysis about online search and content processing, has released its list of the top 10 social network trends to come in 2010. According to Patricia Roberts, an advisor to Beyond Search: “Social networks will have far reaching impacts on …

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Why you should start your blog this Christmas

What are you doing this Christmas holiday season? Stuffing the turkey and then stuffing yourself? Slumping in front of endless hours of television “specials”? Getting stuck in hours of traffic jams in the snow as you travel to relatives to have an argument? Get your blog started this Christmas Christmas …

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