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Google Chrome Extensions: Part Two – Blogging

Firefox is without doubt the most popular browser amongst bloggers because of the huge range of add-ons that provide useful blogging and design tools. Until recently, no other browser came close to offering the same degree of customisation, but bloggers now have another choice in the shape of Google’s Chrome. The choice of Chrome extensions [...]

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Windows Live Writer

Whether you are an MS fan-boy (or girl!) or not you have to admit that they do come up with some cracking good programs. Here I am typing on one, I love MS OneNote (and I haven’t found an open source alternative for that yet) but one good program I discovered recently was Windows Live [...]

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Using Direct Messages On Twitter

Over recent months I have started using Twitter more and more. This has been for two main reasons – firstly to find other writers to connect with, and secondly to make myself more visible as a writer. I think the brevity of Twitter appeals to writers as a challenge too; it makes you work harder [...]

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Is Twitter Packed With Active Users?

“According to the latest news reports, it would appear that the answer is no.” With any social media site, there will always be a percentage of people who sign up to use it and then do not, for whatever reason. They might give it a try and not like it, or decide it just is [...]

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5 Lesser Known WordPress Plug-ins

One of the wonderful things about the WordPress blogging platform is the wide range of plug-ins available which can be used to give it extra functionality – in other words, make it do more things. Some plug-ins are very well known and widely talked about, for example: Akismet or the All In One SEO Pack. [...]

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Does Blogging Count As Social Media?

It shouldn’t come as any surprise that the phrase ‘social media’ can confuse a lot of people. We know sites like MySpace and Facebook comply, as do others like Twitter, but they are a very specific type of website. But does blogging qualify as well? A lot of people have at least one blog nowadays [...]