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It’s been almost six years since I started blogging. Not nearly as long as some of my friends, but long enough to have a few things that I know I’d do differently. With the book out and review coming in, like this review from the Vancouver Sun, I’ve had a little time to think about how and why I started blogging.
It’s not hype or urban legend, I did start my first blog on a whim. It was actually my second blog, I deleted the first one within days of creating [...]
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It’s not hard to get blogging, regardless of what blog engine you use (though WordPress is the best IMHO), but there are tricks and tools that make life easier for you. At WordCamp Victoria I decided to distill and talk about the blogging toolkit that I’ve built up over the years. Tools like blog editors, image editors, RSS readers, note gathering tools, even Twitter clients.
Usually bloggers start out like this …
Domain: check
Web host: check
WordPress installed: check
What’s next? The tools. The goodies. The tools that make the job a little easier. [...]
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Earlier this week I gave you a look at my blogging tools—Tools that rock my blogging that you should try too | Six Easy Blogging Projects Blog—and some of you might have wondered how I actually write the posts I produce. Even though I’ve titled this my “2009 edition”, not much has changed in my whole blogging process since late 2004. Sure I’ve changed blog editors, RSS readers, even operating systems since then, but I haven’t really changed how I gather, sift through, review, and write blog posts.
It starts with [...]
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While doing my morning skim through TweetDeck (among other info sources), I saw this post that I think fits pretty well with the theme of the book—8 tools & techniques to improve your blogging « Boagworld—so I gave it a read (clearly). Paul Boag lists some great tools for kick starting/inspiring your blogging, but I being me (and having more than a few—thousand—posts under my belt) I feel compelled to put in my two cents.
Here are Paul’s 8 tools so you have those as a baseline:
Google Reader & Newsstand (RSS [...]
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Yes, my second slide really was titled “I hate blogs.” The reason is that saying that a site is a blog, or built on WordPress people get the wrong impression.
Free software can’t be all the good. Or why should I pay you do to it…
Let’s face it, you’re still building a site and once you get over the mechanics, there is some technique involved.
Regardless here are my slides from my talk. You might also like the post from WordCamp (similar topic)
Why Blogs Are Better
View more presentations from trishussey. (tags: wordpress [...]
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Tris Hussey is a writer, teacher, blogger, and speaker on all facets of Internet life, WordPress, and social media. He is the author of Create Your Own Blog: 6 Easy Blogging Projects to Start Blogging Like a Pro and Using WordPress.
If you are interested in having Tris speak, teach, lead a workshop or consult for you, feel free to email tris [at] trishussey [dot] com.
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