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Is Chrome soon the only browser supported by Google tools?

A few weeks ago, I complained that the new Google’s Blogger dashboard no longer supported Safari. Instead Google encouraged people to switch to Chrome, Google’s own browser. I predicted that it would not stop there, knowing Google’s tendency to monopolize the web world.

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Blogger: New user interface and mobile themes

Well, Blogger catches on! They just announced a brand new user interface. The last significant upgrade of Blogger was way back in 2007. Even though they added a new template designer and added a new preview function just one year ago, the basic user interface remained unchanged and archaic. Not so with the latest changes. [...]

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How to compress pictures with Picasa

I am often asked to review blogs and websites. One of the most common problems I find, is simply that blogs are “slow”… A slow blog is no good. Believe it or not, most of the speed problems are caused by oversized and uncompressed pictures and graphics.

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“dlvr.it”: RSS-to-Twitter tool now with statistics dashboard

If you want to tweet your latest blogposts and website updates automatically, you’ll need to use one of the “RSS to Twitter” tools I have described in an earlier post. “dlvr.it”, my favourite of the bunch continues to get better.

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“How to evaluate a blog” – The Online Manual

Several months ago, I wrote a series of blogposts, turned tutorial, about “How to evaluate a blog”. The series helps people improve blogs on key criteria such as traffic, speed, usability, use of real estate, graphic presentation and SEO. For all intents and purposes, it can also be used as a list of hints and [...]

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BlogTips Tutorial:
How to use Twitter

Twitter is, with Facebook (but better ), THE most written about and the most cheered social media tool in the past years. But it is also one of the most powerful tools for nonprofit organisations to create a community, to propagate your core messages and to kickstart fundraising and advocacy. It is a conversation tool, [...]

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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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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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