Start Blogging! But, what will you blog about?

OK, the decision is made in your non-profit organisation: the powers-to-be have given you the green light to start a blog. Or you made up your mind and you will start blogging no matter what anyone says. 1. Either think about it or just do it. There are two schools of thought: “Jump” or “Think [...]

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Does your organisation need a blog?

I assume your organisation already has a web-presence with a corporate website, so why would you want to start a blog? 1. A blog as an addition to your existing web presence Have you ever defined the goals for your organisation’s web presence? What do you want to achieve? How do you measure that? For [...]

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Will blogging get you fired?

Possible subtitles for this rumble: “What have Jan Pronk, the UN Secretary General’s Special Representative to Sudan and Ellen Simonetti, an attractive young flight attendant have in common?“ “The conscience struggles while standing on the soapbox” “The Day I met the Terrorist Organisation, to Publish or not to Publish?” My fifteen minutes of fame.

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RSS reversed: From Feed to Blog

We all use RSS mostly to read updates from different sites. What if we could reverse this, and use RSS to actually populate a site? Here is a story of RSS, in reverse. Maybe we should call it SSR instead of RSS… Both for work, and in my spare time, I scan the news (and [...]

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10 Free blogging tools I use daily

There is a mass of interesting tools available for the serious and less serious blogger. Here are 10 free tools I use almost daily for my blog. 1. Picasa

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How to check the colours on your blog: Colorpic

I had a lot of trouble matching colours of frames, backgrounds, fonts, widgets,… with each other. I could only find matching colours after hours of trying the different colour hex codes… Until I found this free tool: Colorpic.

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How to measure widths and heights your blog: Pixel Ruler

On a blog, like on any web page, everything is measured in ‘pixels’, the smallest unit of measure on a screen. So if you are the geek tweaking the layout of your blog or just a beginner playing with the size of images, you need to have a precise idea of the pixel height and [...]

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How to change the Favicon on your blog

A favicon is the web nerd’s name for the small icon shown next to URL in your browser’s address bar, tabs or bookmarks. Favicons are a way to customize your blog, and make it stand out from ‘the next one’, called it “branding of your blog”. Interested? There are three steps to take to change [...]

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How to display special characters on your blog

You probably had instances where you need to display a piece of HTML code ‘as is’ on your blog, or where you need to use special characters like ‘< ' or '>‘ etc.. Internet browsers easily get confused and often interpret these special characters as HTML code, resulting in goobledegoock displayed on the screen.

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Browser Compatibility: What you see is not what you might get

When I started my first blog, I was naive. I thought I knew. I believed in technology. I thought the way I saw my blog was how everyone saw it. A bit like when I was a kid. Then I thought when I would keep my hands over my eyes, nobody else in the world [...]

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The Diagram of a Social Media Network

click for a high res view. In a previous post I explained in laymen’s terms what RSS feeds are, and what they can do for you as a reader, and as a blogger. A more technical post, described some of the technical tools I use to “transform” RSS feeds to different platforms. As my “network” grew [...]

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