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New App For Bloggers To Write Without Complex Coding

September 13th, 2011

A highly anticipated new iPad blogger app will be released later this month. DraftCraft(TM) will change the way that bloggers compose and post their work to most any platform without complex coding issues.

Developed by the Ministry of Application(TM), a mobile app developer based in Russia, the DraftCraft blogger app works with WordPress, Blogger, LiveJournal, Chinese sina.com.cn or blog.163.com.

This is the first blogger app that is not affected by the HTML-code and the particular properties of a blogging platform, and it has its own simple-text editor.

DraftCraft’s carefully designed user interface keeps the entire writing process as simple as possible, allowing bloggers to concentrate solely on results. » Read more: New App For Bloggers To Write Without Complex Coding

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WordPress Gained Prominence Among U.S. Government Agencies

August 8th, 2011

WordPress is fast gaining prominence and we find its popularity growing exponentially.WordPress is not just limited to the personal blogs anymore. The content management platform is so powerful that it has already begun serving multiple functionalities for many of the individuals, organizations, businesses and even the governments across the globe.

WordPress is now the backbone of many popular and official blogs. Umpteen celebrities, Techies ,and other professionals prefer working and communicating with the WordPress.

It is really interesting to note that the U.S. Government Agencies are also already using the WordPress platform with trust.

Here is a small list containing U.S. Government Agencies using the WordPress platform. This list was revealed at WordCamp San Francisco, 2008.

  • Air Force
  • Army
  • Central Intelligence Agency     (CIA)
  • Coast Guard
  • Defense Intelligence Agency
  • Department of Energy
  • Department of Homeland Security
  • Department of State
  • Department of Treasury
  • Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA)
  • Marine Corps
  • Federal Bureau of Investigation     (FBI)
  • National Geospatial  Intelligence Agency
  • National Reconnaissance Agency
  • National Security Agency (NSA)
  • Navy

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Women Who Blog are the Most Actively Engaged Social Media Participants

April 16th, 2010

Women are nearly twice as likely to use blogs than social networking sites as a source of information (64%), advice and recommendations (43%) and opinion-sharing (55%), while they are 50 percent more likely to turn to social networking sites as a means of keeping in touch with friends and family (75%), BlogHer announced today.

The 2009 Women in Social Media Study by BlogHer, iVillage and Compass Partners, which will be released today, found that while women who use social media platforms share a strong desire to connect and to entertain themselves, there are also ways in which the motivations for using various social media platforms differ. » Read more: Women Who Blog are the Most Actively Engaged Social Media Participants

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How to Make Your Password Secure From Hacking

April 10th, 2010

Creating and remembering online passwords can be a nuisance. In a recent Consumer Reports survey, Americans rated passwords and PINs a 6.1 on the annoyance scale, with 10.0 being most annoying. (For some reason, women found them more annoying than men by a large margin.) Here at our Yonkers, NY headquarters, the IT department reports that eighty percent of their work involves resetting forgotten or expired passwords.

That’s no excuse, however, for creating a feeble one. Passwords are security tools after all, used to protect everything from the social data on your Facebook page to the money in your bank account. If you’re one of the many people who list “123456”, “password”, or any other cipher so simple it could probably be hacked by a chimpanzee, consider this your intervention. » Read more: How to Make Your Password Secure From Hacking

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WordPress 3.0 Beta 1 Released with Merger of WordPress Mu

April 3rd, 2010

WordPress has come up with an early Beta 1 version of WordPress 3.0

Jane Wells reveals that,” We wanted to get people testing it this weekend, so we’re releasing it now rather than waiting another week until everything is finalized and polished. There’s a ton of stuff going on in 3.0, so this time we’re giving you a list of things to check out, so that we can make sure people are testing all the things that need it”.

The big news is the merger of WordPress Mu and WordPress. This is certainly an intelligent and futuristic step.” If you’re interested in testing the Super Admin stuff associated with multiple sites, you’ll need some simple directions to get started”, says Jane Wells. » Read more: WordPress 3.0 Beta 1 Released with Merger of WordPress Mu

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Blogging For Business:Social Media Strategies Conference

March 31st, 2010

Social Media Strategies Conference, today announced the addition of a panel discussion on “Blogging for Business”. The panel will feature a panel of industry experts sharing their ideas on developing and maintaining an effective corporate blogging strategy. The panel will discuss approaches to: – Making Announcements – Crisis Management – Legal Implications – Branding Strategies – Reputation Management – Optimization Techniques – Platforms, Tools and Services

The panelists include: Reshma Kumar, Manager of Web Design , Verisign Richard Brewer-Hay, Chief Blogger, eBay Tony Welch, Lead Social Media Strategist and Community Manager, Hewlett Packard. 

The conference will also feature two workshops on: How you market your business on Facebook to increase revenue, drive website visitors and create brand awareness through customer engagement. » Read more: Blogging For Business:Social Media Strategies Conference

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Beyond Business Blogging: Free eBook Released

March 16th, 2010

“Business Blogging” is gaining exponential popularity across the globe.Blogs are fantastic inbound marketing tools to acquire new leads and prospects.

Email is just another fantastic tool to nurture and sustain these relationships.

This free complementary ebook will help you learn how marketers are combining these two tactics to not only acquire new leads but nurture them into closed business.

Statistics show that marketers using “corporate blogging” as part of their ‘social media’ mix improve search engine results and generate a higher volume of targeted leads, said Troy Burk, president of ROI(Right on Interactive). » Read more: Beyond Business Blogging: Free eBook Released

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Corporate Blogging and Social Media Trends Survey Findings

March 11th, 2010

The ‘Corporate Blogging and Social Media Trends Survey” conducted by ‘Compendium’ has recently been concluded with interesting and trend-indicating results.

In all 226 companies (B2B and B2C companies) participated in this survey and shared their data relating to ‘blogging traffic’, ’visitor-trends’, and ‘twitter-usage’.

Results of this survey are enough to shake the common belief that “business blogs thrive on a core-group of loyal readers”. On the contrary, the first –timers were found to be the ‘key factor’ in increasing the blog traffic.

“As more traffic is being driven to corporate blogs through organic searches and more first-time visitors are landing on blogs, companies need to develop blog and social media content that is appropriate for this audience in order to be effective,” said Chris Baggott, CEO and co-founder of Compendium. » Read more: Corporate Blogging and Social Media Trends Survey Findings

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PubSubHubbub (PuSH) Returns !

March 8th, 2010

The tongue-twister “PubSubHubbub” drew my attention a few days back while I was surfing news. Call it “PuSH” for convenience as the WordPress says. I never knew of it as I was not in to blogging in the 90’s when it first arrived as “updates pushing service”. “PuSH” is back now (no idea, when did this vanish!).

WordPress.Com now supports PubSubHubbub (PuSH), a dedicated service that ‘pushes’ all the updates from all the wordpress blogs to the RSS Readers automatically. » Read more: PubSubHubbub (PuSH) Returns !

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Intrinsic and Extrinsic Reasons for Blogging

February 22nd, 2010

Do people blog just to help themselves blow off steam or is it an effective medium to articulate new ideas as well?

Bloggers agree that they are driven to blog by a desire to influence mainstream media or public opinion.

In a recently concluded research study at the University of Iowa graduate students of the UW- UW-Madison’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication asked several top bloggers about their “intrinsic and extrinsic reasons for blogging”. All these bloggers happen to be the political bloggers. » Read more: Intrinsic and Extrinsic Reasons for Blogging

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