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Twelve Tips on How to Write Blogs

March 19th, 2008
The wordpress codex has a very good article for new bloggers with advice on how to write articles. This article is titled “Writing Posts“; it explains the available options on the Write Article page and goes on giving valuable tips on How to Write or in other words how to be a good bloggers. I found the advice on how be a successful blogger invaluable and I think it deserved highlighting.
Below I have a list of the most important tips for newbie bloggers on how to become successful, seasoned bloggers could also benefit from the list, use it as a quick refresher.
 
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Blogging

My GoDaddy Cash Parking Income Update – March 08

March 16th, 2008

I am disappointed with how my parked domains are performing. I have 100+ domain names parked. In Feb they only generated $0.21

Here’s a cut ‘n paste from my monthly summary e-mail:

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Cash Parking

The Ultimate Super Web Tool, is it Drupal?

March 15th, 2008

If you’ve read my previous posts you’d know by now that I’ve been sifting through Open Source solutions for many years. In a way, I was looking for that Ultimate Super Solution to my every web need.

My Ultimate Super Solution (USS) would have been able to act as a Web Portal, a Blog, a Forum, a Knowledge Base, be Wiki-like, a Document Authoring tool, a Content Management tool, a Project Management System, and an eCommerce system. Additionally, it has to come with all the latest Social Networking tools, and be FREE.

Many stand-alone applications exist today that are excellent at what they were designed for. For instance, take Word Press, it is arguably the best Blogging solution today that is Open Source and free of charge. Additionally, phpBB and vBulletin were designed to be a discussion forums and they are arguably the best Forum solution out there today. Similarly, osCommerce and its cousin ZenCart are the best eCommerce solutions. For wiki’s I’d say that WikiMedia is the best Wiki engine.

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Twelve Reasons Why Bloggers Fail to Make Money

March 15th, 2008

Sitting in your underpants writing about something you enjoy (blogging) and making money from your website visitors is certainly an attractive thought.

Inevitably, the possibility of making money online is achievable, but it does require an ungodly amount of effort on your part, the blogger.

While anyone has the potential to make lots of money blogging, the majority of us never will. Blogging is like a business, most blogs don’t last beyond their first year.

Blogging is much more than just writing an article and waiting for people to read and click on your ads. You have to be a sales person and market your blog; you will have to publicize your blog and yourself. You also need to keep your blog Technically up to date.. There’s a lot more to having a cash-generating blog than most new bloggers know.

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Blogging, Make Money Online

WordPress as a Knowledge Base Repository or CMS

March 13th, 2008

Over the past couple years I tested more Open Source solutions than I can remember. I was looking for an Ultimate Super Open Source tool that could do everything I imagined (Blog, Forum, Page Collaboration, Content Management, Wiki, etc..) While I couldn’t find such a perfect tool, I came across wonderful Open Source solutions that I became a fan of, such as phpBB, WordPress, MediaWiki, Moodle, and Drupal.

Right now, I have a couple projects I’ve been researching, one of these is a Knowledge Base that we urgently need at my workplace, the other is a personal project that would serve as a community website where collaboration on authoring documents is crucial. In essence I am looking for something similar to: Knowledge Base, a Wiki, a Content Management tool, a Discussion platform and a Blog.

As I searched literally hundreds of wikis, content management systems (CMS) and other solutions in quest for the best, I neglected to notice how powerful WordPress was. Could WordPress be The solution I’ve been looking for that’s been staring me in the face for years?

Today, I had an idea that blossomed into an exciting question. What if I used WordPress (WP) as a Knowledge Base (KB) and as my Community Document Collaborative Authoring tool?

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