Re-Tweeting For The Golden Eggs

Posted by Alex | November 30, 2009 .

The Twitter Re-Tweet (RT) is like those magical beans that Jack got in a swap for his family's cow, only better. If cast in the right soil, the RT can be cultivated into a wondrous ladder that can lead to a parlay with the Giants and discovery of the goose that lays the Golden Eggs.
Imagine [...]

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WordPress Multi-User Guide

Posted by Alex | November 23, 2009 .

Wordpress Multi-User (WPMU) may be the hottest thing in blogging right now, and why not? After all, WPMU is powered by the industry leading CMS platform created by WordPress and offers many advantages to individual blogging.
Who uses WPMU? Some examples are:

Mary Washington College
Utah Valley University
New York Times
Edublogs

There are some real benefits to running a community [...]

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Build Your Community On WordPress

Posted by Alex | November 19, 2009 .

A word or seven hundred about WordPress blogging communities.
I've talked a lot about the misuse of community on the internet, and how we may use web 2.0 backwards by entering other communities and trying to carve out our own niche.
We should be creating our own blogging communities and drawing people to us who have like [...]

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Why Do Some Want To Close The Lid On SEO?

Posted by Alex | November 12, 2009 .

After reading this article that posed the question 'Is SEO dead?' I have to wonder why I'm not making the big bucks as an Internet guru. The article was laid out well and nicely presented, but way off in the premise that SEO is dead. In fact, the author went on to say that Social [...]

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Talk To Me When You Write

Posted by Alex | November 9, 2009 .

IF you want a successful blog, you gotta write a successful blog. No shit. You have to write it like you own it.

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Little Johnny Built His Community With Honesty, Delivery, And Relevance

Posted by Alex | November 7, 2009 .

There is more than one way to create a blogging community, but to create a thriving community around a blog, the blog's author(s) have to prove themselves with every post, every word, every keystroke.
There has to be honesty, delivery and relevance or the blogger will find himself as lonely as a gassy sweat hog in [...]

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What Do You Mean It’s A Business?

Posted by Alex | November 2, 2009 .

There are no insider secrets on how to write a successful blog. No tricks, magic potions, or archaic scrolls to read incantations from. No magic dollar amount to spend to have traffic beating down your door.

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