Top Gadgets & Tools For Blogging While Traveling

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As long as you can avoid the dreaded writer’s block, blogging while you’re at home – with a reliable internet connection and maybe even a second monitor – is the easy part. It’s blogging while traveling that can be a challenge. I’m not even talking about the difficulties of finding time to blog while you’re … [Read more]

Google Launches New ‘Realtime Search’ URL

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Google announced yesterday that they are ramping up their Realtime Search functionality. They first introduced the real-time search features last December, with a goal to provide real-time content from a comprehensive set of sources, integrated right into your usual search results. Yesterday they made significant enhancements, giving real-time information its own URL for easier viewing … [Read more]

The Calendar of the Future – A Manifesto

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BlogWorld official sponsor, Tungle.me recently released their manifesto in the form of video interviews with industry thought leaders. Contributors include Robert Scoble, Ellen Levy (LinkedIn), Don Dodge (Google), Ed Brill (IBM), Mike Brown (Facebook), Herbert Wang (Yahoo!) and others. BlogWorld attendees are known to be web-savvy early adopters, thus, Tungle.me chose to share their vision … [Read more]

Your iPhone is your Remote & Your iPad is your TV?

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With the growing popularity of the iPhone and iPad – it seems everyone is in a rush to get them interactive and working with your television. Here are just some of the latest ways to use your devices to watch movies, television, and interact with fans of the same shows: Teevox is a free iPhone … [Read more]

Blogosphere Roundup – May 14

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I pulled together some interesting blog posts and news regarding blogging and social media – all released this week. Daily Blogging Tips: Buying a Blog Guest blogger Adam Diver talks about starting his own blog and having purchased an established blog – with each option having their own advantages. The experience of both sites allowed … [Read more]

How to Back Up Your Twitter Follow List

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Yesterday Twitter hit a pretty big snafu when an innocent user found a way to make another user follow them! A Turkish man wanted to tell his followers about a band “Accept” – but when he typed “Accept pwns” into the update box on Twitter, he noticed that a user by the name of @pwns … [Read more]

Top 10 Most Popular WordPress Plugins

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Every time I create a new blog, there are several WordPress plugins I immediately download and implement. It got me thinking … what are the most popular plugins? I put together a list of the top 10 most popular WordPress plugins below. No real big surprises. Most people want good Search Engine Optimization, the ability … [Read more]

5 Essential Smart Phone Apps to Take to BlogWorld

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At the past few conferences I attended I realize that if not for catching up on some work, I could have left the laptop off completely and just lived off my smart phone. I checked in my email and even tended to some obligations. After the last conference I realized there were some apps I … [Read more]

Online Productivity: How To Work Where You Play

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They say that if you do what you like, you’ll never work a day in your life. That statement might be truer than you think – especially if the “where” is online. Online Community Managers, aside for creating excitement around their brands, spend quite a lot of their free time online, too. After a while, many of us find that our work time either eclipses our play time, or that they just bleed into each other and you end up trying to do both at once. And that’s never a good idea. So here are some simple ideas I’ve put into practice over the past few months – and they seem to be workout out pretty well! They’re all stuff I picked up from regularly-read blogs like Mashable and TechCrunch – you know, those “How to Be Productive…” type articles. Just a disclaimer: I am an unorganized mess if I don’t give myself rules. So if I can do it – anyone can!

National Delurking Day

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This is a bit of an old school blog day that we celebrate each year.  I think I first posted about this day about 4-5 years ago on my Daddy Blog.  What is Delurking Day you might ask?  In the blog world, many people read blogs and they watch and read comments all the while … [Read more]