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Got a lot of blog content? Try a magazine layout!

Long gone are the times where blogs were just a mere sequential series of short posts. Some blogs have grown to thousands of content pieces. Keeping a large blog as just a serial row of posts will obscure content for your visitors, allowing only horizontal navigation: from post to post to post to post… Key [...]

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How to make search engines discover more posts on your blog

As I explained in my tutorial “How to analyse your visitors’ traffic figures”, the search engine traffic is important to have people discover your blog. So we have to do everything we can to make search engines discover our blog’s content, through SEO or Search Engine Optimization. While there is much written about SEO, any [...]

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BlogTips Tutorial:
How to select your blog platform

Alright! You recognized your organisation can benefit from a blog and you know what you will blog about. But… which “software” should you use to blog? From the many different blogplatforms on the market, which suits your needs? In this tutorial, I explain the questions you need to ask yourself, the basic choices you will [...]

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BlogTips Tutorial:
How to analyse your blog’s visitors statistics

A serious blog is geared towards its audience. As a serious blogger, it is important you understand your audience, your readers. Simple and free tools like Google Analytics, will give you heaps of figures, but how do you make sense out of all that? What do these figures mean and what can I do with [...]

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BlogTips Tutorial:
Starting a blog from scratch

As a nonprofit organisation, you want to start blogging? In this tutorial, I collected a number of posts to get you on your way:

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Blogging is dead, long live Blogging!

Many organisations struggle to get their blog onto the next level, to make proper use of social media tools, to technically manage these tools, and to make their content “travel” through the social media scene. If we concentrate only on blogging, the answer is not in a simple post “How to make your blog successful [...]

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How to organise social reporting from conferences and other events

Social media is not a goal in itself, but is a tool. An increasingly popular use of social media is to report live from conferences, workshops or any other events, a technique often labeled as “social reporting”. Traditionally, events published their information through press releases, and traditional web publication methods. Thanks to the wide spread [...]

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How I moved 350,000 blogposts from Tumblr to WordPress

I had seven blogs on Tumblr which aggregate news. Using a technique I described earlier, they take RSS feeds from over 1,000 carefully selected websites and blogs, filter them, clean them up, and feed them into the different Tumblr blogs. I used the unique feature built into Tumblr to convert RSS feeds into posts. All [...]

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How one small plug-in can slow down your site.
The Drupal version

Remember my rumbling about how one plug-in can make your WordPress blog slow? Well, here is a similar story about my Drupal news aggregation site. Before I begin, let me re-state that Drupal by itself, is fast. I mean real fast. That’s why I gave Drupal two thumbs up in my 2010 blogger’s wrapup. But [...]

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How to enable a mobile theme on your WordPress blog in one minute

Accessing a standard website from a mobile phone is a pain. If the site does not support a mobile theme, it will cramp the pages, which normally barely fit on a laptop screen, onto a teeny-weeny mobile phone screen. Microscopic fonts, impossible to navigate, or to click links, etc. Bummer! Nevertheless, the amount of visitors [...]

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How to combine RSS feeds with Yahoo Pipes

Many bloggers use RSS feeds to check on the latest posts from different websites and blogs. Bloggers often use widgets to display RSS feeds from related blogs, or their Twitter and Delicious updates. Or they might simply pull RSS feeds into an RSS reader like Google Reader. Comes a time where it might be useful [...]

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