Best WordPress plug ins for writers
The following is a list of the best WordPress plug ins for writers mentioned during our recent WordCount Last Wednesday live chat. See more at #wclw.
Matt Mullenweg loves WordPress
(Updated with additional info @ 2:11 p.m. 9/23/09) To say Matt Mullenweg loves WordPress is to state the obvious. Mullenweg created the widely used blogging software and runs Automattic, the San Francisco company that offers it as a free platform or a software app you can use to run a self-hosted blog. (Disclaimer: I use [...]
Digital media industry week in review, for May 8
The week’s highlights from the digital media business: Imprisioned U.S. freelancer ends hunger strike – Roxana Saberi, the freelance broadcast convicted of spying in Iran ended a two-week hunger strike after Iranian authorities agreed to hold an appeal hearing for her next week. The Iranian-American freelance broadcast reporter was arrested in January and convicted of [...]
Link your WordPress, Six Apart blog to your LinkedIn profile
Ever since LinkedIn added a status update feature, the online business network’s members who blog – including lots of writers – have used it to let people know when they put new material online. Now LinkedIn’s made it even easier for bloggers to flag friends and acquaintances about new posts. The networking company has partnered [...]
New WordPress features for writers
If you’re a freelancer or other writer who uses WordPress.com or WordPress.org for your work or personal blogs, there are a couple new features you might want to know about. Sticky Posts – The first new feature is Sticky Posts, a feature you can use to make one post stay at the top of a [...]
Use WordPress enhanced stats to improve your writing blog
The business reporter in me loves numbers, so I was pretty jazzed a couple weeks ago when I was deciding how to pre-write a bunch of blog posts to cover my vacation and noticed some statistics on WordPress.com I hadn’t seen before. It wasn’t just me. Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com and WordPress.org, the hosted [...]
Expert blogger tips: revisiting old posts, previewing new ones
File this under blog maintenance – great blogging advice from two experts. Reading old blog posts – The first comes from a social media expert I check in with often, Tac Anderson, a Web 2.0 manager at HP who I interviewed for a story awhile back and then got to know a little better. Anderson’s [...]
10 Reasons Every Freelance Writer Should Have a Blog
I took to blogging fairly quickly and I finally figured out why. I wrote a weekly newspaper column for more than five years. After that, I wrote a weekly column for Reuters, the financial wire service, for seven years. After a dozen years, writing something once a week – or more – was so second [...]
Go Web, Young Man
Newspapers see the future, and it’s digital. The latest evidence: earlier this week the New York Times Co. and three other investors sank $29.5 million into Automattic, the company that makes WordPress blogging software runs the WordPress.com free blogging Website. (Disclaimer: I use WordPress.com to create and host this blog.) According to a news report, [...]
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WordPress bloggers can add ratings to posts, comments
By Michelle V. Rafter on August 12, 2009 | 1 Response
How do you rate? You can find out with a Ratings service WordPress.com recently rolled out for users of its free blogging platform. Why bloggers will like this: it’s a quick and easy way for readers to provide feedback on your posts – and what other people are saying about them – even if they [...]
Posted in Blogs, Polls, Technology, Web 2.0 | Tagged PollDaddy, rating blog posts, reader comments, WordPress | 1 Response