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Tumblr and WordPress: a crawler’s difference

Mid January, I moved Aid News, one of my news aggregator sites from Tumblr to WordPress. After the move I activated the Google XML sitemap plugin which submits the blog’s sitemap automatically to different search engines.

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The difference between shared hosting and dedicated hosting

After a year running on Godaddy’s shared hosting, I moved BlogTips to its new HostGator VPS hosting end of October. Look at the Google crawler statistics showing the average download speed for a page. See the difference? While on shared hosting, it took up to 25 seconds to load a page, the performance on the [...]

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Google did a PageRank update.
Well… kinda.

Well, whatdoyaknow… Google hardly waited after I gave them bad rating for postponing their pagerank updates , and here we go: On January 20 Google started a new pagerank update. It is hard to find exact information on the pagerank update, but there is a lot of buzz in the SEO world going on at [...]

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A blogger’s 2010 wrapup of cool and failing services

During 2010 my blogging activity increased, up to the point where I went on a sabbatical to concentrate full-time on my social media exploits. In the past year, I used many services available to the blogging community, both paid and free, much more extensively than ever before. I thought of wrapping up my findings of [...]

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Tumblr problems

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Tumblr, one of the blogplatforms filling a niche between the big ones like Blogger or WordPress, and microblogs a la Twitter, suffers from serious hiccups.

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Social media in rural Africa

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We are never too old to learn. This morning, I was participating in a session at the AgKnowledge Africa share fair in Addis, on “How to report on agriculture issues”. One presenter introduced his experiences as a radio reporter, where he travels around interviewing farmers on the diverse aspects of their daily life, their problems [...]

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How to explain “social media” in 60 minutes

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Remember the shout-out post I wrote a couple of months ago, asking for social media volunteers at the AgKnowledge Africa Share Fair in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia? Well, over forty volunteers raised their hand, and invested a fair share of their time and expertise in putting the social media strategy together to cover the four days [...]

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What’s the ROI of social media?

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An excellent slideshow on the Return On Investment of social media Olivier Blanchard Basics Of Social Media Roi View more presentations from Olivier Blanchard. Slideshow discovered via Jeff Bullas

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Wanna walk the talk? Join our social media team

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I have been preaching good social media practices for nonprofit organisations for quite a while. Now I was offered the chance to “walk my talk”, a chance to I also want to extend to you “out there”. Lemme explain. In October this year, there will be an event, dubbed “AgKnowledge Africa”. It is participatory conference, [...]

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Paper.li turns your Twitter stream into a web magazine

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My post about “Flipboard”, an iPad application which turns several social media streams into a slick magazine, stirred up some discussions at a local Tweetup. In the article, I complained about the boring feat of browsing through your Twitter stream, which is nothing more than a mere list of links and comments. While Flipboard turns [...]

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Flipboard turns Twitter and Facebook into an iPad magazine

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For someone who only upgraded from a 1997 Palm III PDA and a 2003 Nokia to an iPhone last year, I am now proud to be part of the in-crowd: I have an iPad. The only reason why I have an iPad, is that I dreamt of having an iPad. I believe in my dreams. [...]

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