Archive for the 'Blogging Bits' Category

Blog-Off II Wrap-Up

Friday, December 11th, 2009

Tomorrow is the final day of the Blog-Off II competition, and I’d like to thank those of you who have read and commented on my posts on the Community Marketing Blog. If you haven’t had a chance to do that, here are links to my three entries:

Ten Types of Tweets
Whatever [...]

Blog-Off II Begins – and I’m In!

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

I thoroughly enjoy blogging and social media, and although I don’t have special training in either one, I observe what other people do, try to emulate what I like, and avoid doing the things I find annoying. I guess I must be doing something right, because I’ve been selected as a contestant [...]

A Web Makeover

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

If you’ve had a website for several years, you know that after numerous updates, changes, and additions, inconsistencies in design, format, and even content can occasionally appear on your site. Even a carefully maintained site can begin to look tired over time. When Daisy Wright of The Wright Career Solution contacted [...]

How Secure is Your WordPress Site?

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

For several weeks, I’ve been seeing warnings about WordPress sites being hacked, but I didn’t worry about them too much, since all my sites were already at 2.7 or higher. Admittedly, I was a little reluctant to upgrade to 2.84, having run into some problems the first time I tried upgrading a [...]

WordPress Plug-Ins You Just Don’t Hear About

Monday, August 10th, 2009

One of the many things I love about WordPress is the fact that there are plug-ins for practically anything you can imagine – and then some.
Some plug-ins are so popular that nearly everyone with a WordPress site uses them, or is at least familiar with them, such as Google Analytics for [...]