CategoryBlogging Tools and Services

One of the most common questions that I get asked around blogging platforms is whether people should go for a hosted blog platform like Blogger, TypePad or WordPress.com or whether they should go for a stand alone platform that you host on your own domain and server like WordPress.org, Drupal ...more

This post was written by Glen Stansberry of LifeDev (feed). Check out LifeDev for more tips on using tools to make your life more productive. Creating posts for the future is an extremely valuable and overlooked feature in most blogging platforms. Interestingly, the majority of people don’t even know that ...more

Edward asks – ‘How can I know where the readers of my blog mostly come from? Search Engines? MyBlogLog? Other Blog’s Links?’ Finding where the readers to your blog mainly come from is something that is well worth doing as it can help you grow and improve your blog. There ...more

By Lorelle VanFossen Weblog Tools Collection is doing it. So is the Blog Herald. Are you doing it? These and other blogs are hiring translators to translate their blog into different languages. Blog Herald began with Japanese, based upon a study released by Technorati stating that Japanese is the most ...more

WordPress have added a Plugins Directory which will be a welcome relief to many WP users. This is a great development from WP – one of the reasons it is so powerful as a blog platform is the large number of developers adding features to it via plugins – now ...more

If you had to choose 5 blogging tools that were the only ones you could use for the next 12 months what would they be and why? I’m asking this because I want to put together a short list of recommendations on blog tools for a presentation I’m doing in ...more

Skype today announced a new beta version of their Windows offering (v3.1.0.134 beta). It’s main new feature is Skype Prime (beta) – something that will appeal to many entrepreneurial bloggers. “In short, it enables paid Skype-to-Skype voice and video calls. You can charge other people for calling you either a ...more

If you’re a WordPress user and are using version 2.1.1 it is crucial that you upgrade to the latest version (2.1.2) – particularly if you upgraded in the last 3-4 days. The reason is that there has been a hacker compromise that version and add/change code. For further details see ...more

If you’re a WordPress bloggers and you want to monetize it Lorelle has put together an essential read for you in her post which outlines Monetizing WordPress Plugins. Lorelle’s put together a whole list of WP plugins which can be used in making money from your blog under the following ...more