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Entries Tagged as 'Blogging Tips'

Are Your Comment Settings Making It Harder For Readers To Comment?

May 11th, 2008 · 14 Comments

Leaving a comment on a blog post should be simple process. Trouble is that’s often not the case!
As a blogger you need to make it really easy for your readers to leave comments. Unfortunately many bloggers don’t realise their blog’s settings hamper the commenting process. So let me share my comment pet […]

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Tags: Blogging Tips · Comment Challenge

Why Does Technorati Still Mock Me?

May 4th, 2008 · 25 Comments

Why me? I’ve been good (mostly). And yet Technorati doesn’t like me and has been mocking (driven me crazy) all weekend! Friends are meant to play nicely aren’t they?
Admittedly people might question why care if Technorati likes you. To be honest, I don’t, except:

There are bloggers who prefer to read posts by subscribing […]

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Tags: Blogging How To · Blogging Tips · Cool Web 2.0 & Desktop Tools

Commenting, Learning Together & The Comment Challenge!

April 30th, 2008 · 24 Comments

Always a tricky one when you’ve been busy “doing stuff”. Do you confess? Or hide the evidence? Mmmm probably should be responsible and come clean .
I’ve been thinking a lot about the importance of commenting on blogs because it’s a crucial aspect of blogging conversations for achieving the greatest learning. Trouble is factors […]

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Tags: Blogging Tips · Edublogs News

Here’s My First Five Tips For Writing Better Blog Posts — What Are Yours?

April 27th, 2008 · 50 Comments

Ever had one of those days where the words just refuse to behave? Where it feels like every word you use is the wrong word? And you continuously rewrite the same sentences.
Worse Still! You finally finish the post believing it’s your best ever only to find no-one comments.
The unfortunate fact of blogging […]

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Tags: Blogging Tips

Blogging Tools To Help You Blog

April 24th, 2008 · 15 Comments

This best of Web 2.0 series evolved from demonstrating the value and benefits of using twitter for your personal learning. So far we talked about Are You Getting The Most Out Of Your Web Browser? and Getting More Out Of Blogging And Edublogs.So it must be time to talk about blogging tools my twitter […]

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Tags: Blogging How To · Blogging Students · Blogging Tips · Cool Web 2.0 & Desktop Tools

Help! Missing Flash and Embed Media Buttons

April 24th, 2008 · 9 Comments

Some of you have realised today that your Embed Flash swf Button and Media button in your Write Post Visual Editor are missing from your Edublogs dashboard.
Worse still you’re wondering what’s happen and how will you embed flash files and videos.
Why The Flash and Embed Media Button Are Missing
Since we can now directly […]

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Tags: Blogging How To · Blogging Tips · Cool Web 2.0 & Desktop Tools · Edublogs News

Embedding Flash Into Posts

March 17th, 2008 · 8 Comments

Now that Edublogs have given us new freedom and allows us to embed javascript, iframes and object code directly into our blogs we have to realise that “Freedom is a package deal - with it comes responsibilities and consequences.”
Just because we can copy and paste pretty much most ‘embedding’ code we pick up around the […]

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Tags: Blogging How To · Blogging Tips · Cool Web 2.0 & Desktop Tools

Edublogs Gives Us New Freedom; Most ‘Embedding’ Code Can Now Be Pasted Directly into Our Blogs

March 17th, 2008 · 15 Comments

It’s official! Edublogs has decided to allow javascript, iframes and object code.
So what does this mean? Besides the fact that I now have to make changes to several previous Edublogger posts, our life has just become considerably easier because we can just copy and paste pretty much most ‘embedding’ code we pick up […]

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Tags: Blogging How To · Blogging Tips · Cool Web 2.0 & Desktop Tools

Redirecting Your Blog Feed To Feedburner

March 12th, 2008 · 7 Comments

Besides making it easier for readers to subscribe to your blog using RSS or email, using a Feedburner feed means you can analyse your subscribers e.g. number of subscribers, and which feed reader they use.
Trouble is unless you redirect all your blog feed to Feedburner you won’t get an accurate picture of the number of […]

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Tags: Blogging How To · Blogging Tips · Cool Web 2.0 & Desktop Tools

What’s The Difference Between Tags and Categories, You Ask?

March 2nd, 2008 · 9 Comments

When I first started blogging with Edublogs we only had categories; which most of us used like tags. But then came Christmas — and Edublogs gave us tags for every post and a tag clouds for our sidebars. Now all we had to work out was “What’s the difference between tags and categories, […]

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Tags: Blogging How To · Blogging Tips