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Your Go-To Guide of Wordpress Plugins

Oct. 10, 2009

As a follow-up to my prior list of 22 Wordpress plugins I use today, I tip my hat to Andrew Rondeau for his excellent compendium of 111 Wordpress plugins assembled across the web.
Perusing through Andrew’s summary, I quickly realized he included more generic lists and less categorical ones.
With this in mind, and considering the master [...]

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26 Blogs From A to Z

Sep. 29, 2009

Launched in March 2008 as a self-described online magazine rack of blogs, Alltop is a go-to website that nearly every blogger I know visits frequently in addition to (or in place of) RSS readers and Twitter streams to learn what people are writing in given topics and to visit blogs that are trending and hot.
Sarah [...]

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Sharing Blog Posts With You

Aug. 29, 2009

Earlier this week, I created a video for you that illustrated why I use Feedly for reading blog posts, and not Google Reader like most of my peers. If you haven’t seen it yet, do take a look.
An element of Google Reader that is not of Feedly is the ability to share with you selected [...]

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Top 3 Twitter Users to Follow Today

Aug. 9, 2009

1. @Somebody
2. @Somebody_Else
3. @Third
Apologies to those I’m missing.
What’s that? You were looking for more meaningful people, such as this random guy, this other random guy, that gal, and the other 47 folks here?
Sorry. Not in this top 3 list. There’s more meaning here than in the other list. If you don’t understand, Mark has the [...]

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11 Examples of Newburyport Users on Twitter

Jun. 16, 2009

Gillian Swart included an amusing bit on her blog today that Twitter is mindless, adding she’s unable to condense her thoughts to 140 characters.
Fair enough, I mused to myself. With 50 residents and businesses who certify their location as Newburyport, I imagine there are countless other Twitter users who don’t specify the city.
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Eyeballing the News in 140 Characters

Jun. 15, 2009

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is the talk of the town with his reelection victory on June 12. Commanding 63 percent of the electorate, many voters and political onlookers believe a scam occurred and votes were rigged, expecting former Prime Minister Mir Hossein Mousavi to take more than 34% of the total.
Protesters took to the streets [...]

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Few Hotel Chains Tell You They Use Social Media

Jun. 15, 2009

In a comparison of 15 twittering hotel chains, Guillaume Thevenot shows you screen shots and lets you decide which company has the right mixture of broadcast information and customer engagement.
But what about the corporate websites? Of seven hotel chains I picked, three make the cut for telling you they use social media. See if you [...]

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