My blog guru, the great Andy Wibbels, author of Blog Wild, had some tweaks and suggestions to a recent post I did on preferred plug ins on Word Press.

Here’s what he likes for analytics.
Here’s a ping generator for future posts.
Spam-prevention software he uses.
Software that removes curly quotes which can break feeds etc
All [...]

OK, blog wonks and others. It’s time to dig into the vast possibilities of the Word Press platform for blogs. This (potentially) free interface comes with many reasons to love it – enough that we’re actually turning this blog from Typepad over to Wordpress this week. So my blogmaster, Peggy, asked me to identify which [...]

I’m inspired! My good buddy, marketing to women expert Yvonne Divita, has turned me on to Blogher – a conference all about blogging, social networking and the latest in marketing to women on this front. It’s in NYC from March 22-23 and I’m going! As these things go, it’s affordable (around $600 if your register [...]

Reader Celesta Krantz recommends the following comic book creation software for bloggers on Windows: My Comic Book Creator
She writes: “ I found it to be very user friendly, plus you can make your own templates (the free application can be found in the forums).”
Cool! Thanks, Celesta

In a few short years, WordPress has become the world’s most popular blogging software. But how does it work? How do you get started using this totally free blogging platform?
Join blogging expert Andy Wibbels and me for a meaty, fun 1-hour demo and Q & A (‘WordPress 101‘)  on how to take advantage of [...]

OK, who’s annoyed by the ever-present ‘Ping!’ from your Bloglines reader on your desktop. (This is a blog reader that collects notices of recent posts for you to review from your favorite blogs.)
More than once I’ve woken up in the middle of the night to that chirpy little ping from my home office next [...]

Got a speaking schedule to promote? Want to let folks know when you’re doing various promotions? The lovely people at Trumba, a web-based calendar service, have teamed up with the blog mavens at Typepad to make a blog-based calendar possible. And it rocks!
See an example of a post that uses this here.
My Mistress of [...]

Here’s another cool site that will help you analyze your search engine traffic more easily. You’ll remember I talked about HitTail, an SE tool, here recently.
Take a look at 103B’s which is a similar service that has gotted lots of attention from some Web VIPs .
By the way … interesting side note. I learned [...]

Well … I’ve failed miserably at trying to keep my blog posts up to date on a ‘fresh post’ basis. You may remember I undertook this experiment on August 22 - a full three weeks ago.
Since then I’ve posted exactly seven times. Which is only about 30% as I should have posted. So I’ve [...]

Last spring at a conference, I attended a talk by uber-blogger Debbie Weil. Debbie was speaking to the assembled group of publishing marketing professionals about blogging in general, and I was interested to hear her comments. During the talk, she responded to an audience comment about what I call ‘fresh versus canned’ posting.

And she clearly [...]