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Promoting Your Blog: Adoptic

September 16, 2008

As I mentioned before, Adoptic is one of the companies that has generously offered to help defray my costs to attend Blog World and New Media Expo.
Adoptic is a free widget that allows you to promote your best posts. When you sign up for your free membership, you may choose up to four communities [...]

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How We Communicate: FAQs for Beginning Bloggers

July 23, 2008

I just returned from BlogHer 2008 in San Franciso. I appeared on a panel with four other women called FAQs for Beginning Bloggers. Our panel was flat-out amazing. We met fantastic bloggers and answered many beginner questions. Unfortunately, we didn’t have enough time to answer everyone’s questions. I hope to talk to the BlogHer Three [...]

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How do I install a ShareThis button?

June 30, 2008

The ShareThis button looks like this

When a reader clicks on the ShareThis button, they can choose the link they want to submit your article to (e.g., kirtsy, Digg, Del.icio.us, StumbleUpon, etc.). It’s an uncluttered and very useful.
ShareThis actually has it’s own web site that walks your through setting this up on your blog. [...]

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On my Blogger blog I have a links section on my blog that is growing too large. Can you recommend a good drop down menu code generator?

June 2, 2008

If you just want to make your archives into a drop-down menu, that’s pretty easy in Blogger. To make your Blogger archives into a drop-down menu, these are the basic steps:

Go to Layout.
Click Edit on the Blog Archive page element. A Configure Blog Archive window will pop up.
Beside Style choose Dropdown Menu. Then choose the [...]

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How can I remove widgets from my sidebar in WordPress?

April 3, 2008

Jordan McCollum from Momma Blogga is answering this one because she’s awesome at WP.
To get widgets out of the sidebar in WordPress:

Go to Presentation >
Widgets. 
Click the widget you don’t want anymore and drag it down to
the "Available Widgets" box before releasing it.  It must be below the
words "Available Widgets" before you release it [...]

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I’ve seen many blogs with countdown meters for blogaversaries (5 days until my blogaversary, etc). How do I go about getting one installed on my blogger account?

February 7, 2008

Countdown clocks are fun for many bloggers and they are fairly easy to install on your blog.
The Annual Occasion Countdown Clock is very easy to set up. You just type in all the pertinent information (including the size you’d like the calendar to be) and click the Get Widget button.
SpringWidgets.com’s Widget Gallery offers even more [...]

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How do I add an Amazon list to my sidebar?

October 17, 2007

Amazon.com wants to make adding their info to your blog page as easy as possible. To that end they have developed many widgets to help you. There is an entire page of Amazon.com widgets to choose from. When you choose which widget you want to use, Amazon will explain how to use it. For the [...]

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What is a widget?

October 15, 2007

The word widget is short for window gadget. A widget is simply a visual element of your page that does something (e.g., a drop-down menu, an iPod playlist, ads, or even your RSS subscription feed).

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How do I use Mr. Linky?

June 19, 2007

When you are hosting a carnival (e.g., Works-For-Me Wednesday or the Blogging Story carnival) you are inviting people to write on a specific topic. You give them the topic, which day they need to post the blog entry on that topic, then ask them to come back to your site and submit their link so [...]

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How do I add blogring code to my blog?

June 11, 2007

A blogring is a group of blogs that all have organized links to each other. These rings usually link like-minded blogs together. For instance, there are state blogrings (e.g., Blog Oklahoma) , knitting blogrings, mommy blogrings (e.g., Crazy Hip Blog Mamas), etc. For more information, see the Wiki on webrings.
Every blogring has its own code [...]

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