The Hello Bar is a simple notification bar that engages users and communicates a call to action.

Use Flavors.me as Your Online Presence Hub

If you’ve embraced social media at all, you likely have accounts at Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Vimeo, Digg, Delicious, Tumblr, Posterous, FourSquare, Picasa, and Flickr. Those are in addition to your blog(s), podcasts, vlogs, and e-mail. That’s a lot of online networking. The question is, how are you telling people where they can find you [...]

Blogging Basics 101 on Tumblr

In addition to the weekly Helpful Blogging Links feature, Blogging Basics 101 now has a Tumblr account (http://bloggingbasics101.tumblr.com) where Melanie shares links to the articles she’s reading each day. Many links include Melanie’s thoughts on the issue and invite discussion.

Microblogging Tool: TypePad Micro

BlogHer.com did a short series on mini-blogging and some of the popular tools for joining in the party. This article is part of that series. So far in our overview of microblogging tools I’ve introduced you to Tumblr and Denise admitted her addiction to Posterous. Those two tools are the most popular options going, but [...]

Microblogging Tool: Tumblr

Somewhere between traditional blogging and Twitter there lies a sort of half-blog option. If your primary blog is your heavyweight and Twitter is your featherweight, then sites like Tumblr, Posterous, and TypePad Micro would have to be your lightweights. Those sites aren’t quite as much as a full-fledged blog, but they are more than a [...]