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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US military hijacks social media for propaganda

The United States military is developing software that will let it secretly manipulate social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter by using fake online personas to influence Internet conversations and spread pro-American propaganda. A Californian corporation has been awarded a contract with US Central Command (CENTCOM), which oversees US armed operations in the Middle [...]

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Should you upgrade to WordPress 3.1?

Recently WordPress 3.1 came out. While the (major) upgrade from WordPress 2.9 to 3.0 was in general seen as a success, 3.1 seems to be different. There are a number of known problems with the WordPress 3.1 upgrade. Most of them have to do with incompatibilities with certain plugins and themes. There are also issues [...]

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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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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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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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