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How to evaluate a blog – Part 2:
Check the numbers

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We can discuss blog statistics, visitor trending and referral patterns for days and on end. We don’t need too many figures for a general blog evaluation: only the basic traffic statistics will already give us a good view of: the blog and visitors’ profiles, and a trend over time. The main purpose of this exercise [...]

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How to evaluate a blog – Part 1:
Ask questions

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In evaluating a blog, try to understand “the environment” before even looking at the blog itself. Ask the most relevant questions to the blogmaster, so you can form an idea what is in their mind: what is this blog all about? What’s the purpose? How are they set up,..?

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BlogTips Tutorial:
How to evaluate a blog

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It is encouraging to see how many nonprofit organisations discover the power of social media and the added-value of blogs. Comes a time, though, where any blogmaster asks the question: “I am on the right track here?” You can look at your own blog until you are dizzy. You still won’t see what someone else [...]

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Publish a full RSS feed, or a teasers only ?

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Have you ever asked yourself the question to feature full blogposts in your RSS feed, or to only publish a teaser? Maybe you should! I used my personal blog with a humble 700-800 RSS subscribers, as a test case.

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Shared hosting: Pay Peanuts, Get Monkeys

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See the bottom of the post for updates on my adventures with GoDaddy shared hosting.. My experience in selfhosting my blogs with GoDaddy moved from a glowing enthusiasm via consternation and frustration into a deep distrust and disbelief. In this post, I want to take you through the past year, as I discovered some of [...]

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Think Like A Social Media Marketing Genius

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An interesting slide set by social media guru Beth Kanter, showing how social media can be used as a marketing tool – specifically for non-profit organisations. Some of the slides contain details you will only see when watching the slide show in full screen (click on the menu icon – Choose “Full screen”)..

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Nonprofit blogs: the common problems

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777,  Seven hundred seventy-seven. That is the amount of nonprofit blogs I have collected so far. They are all on my Delicious bookmarking list. Excerpts from their posts are republished on Humanitarian News and The NonProfit Blogs. 777, discarding blogs which have not been updated since six months.  777, including the Good, the Bad and [...]

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WordPress 3.0 is out. Should you upgrade?

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If you don’t selfhost your blog, skip this post. It talks about a common problem all of us, selfhosters have. But if you don’t selfhost, you’re immune to this disease, which has as symptoms: anxiety attacks, dizzy spells, recurring nightmares, adversity to “check for upgrades” or even “admin menus” buttons, and above all: fierce regret [...]

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Securing your WordPress blog

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Bloggers have rushed to secure their selfhosted WordPress blogs after the recent massive hacks on shared hosts. I was one of them, even though only one of my blogs was affected. I spent hours browsing, looking for good resources, common knowledge, and solid tips to form a list of quitessentials on WordPress security. I also [...]

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Automatically monitor malicious file changes on your WordPress blog

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During the the latest spree of hacks in April and May, hackers dropped a malicious .PHP script on the root directory of selfhosted blogs. The script changed all .PHP files, adding one line of code which redirected visitors to a virus-infested site, and then deleted itself. There was anything between a day and an hour [...]

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How to block users uploading malware to your blog?

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Many shared hosts don’t protect you from users uploading and executing malicious code to your website. Here is how to close that loop hole for hackers.

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