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  • You gotta do…

    You gotta do…

    There is no shame in scheduling or automating when time is at a premium, but always take time to be prepared for the unexpected.

  • WordPress & Daylight Savings Time

    WordPress & Daylight Savings Time

    It’s that most wonderful time of the year. For the folks that have are a WordPress.org site, don’t forget to go into your “General Settings” and set up your appropriate timezone, else you will be wondering why you posts are posting an hour earlier or later than scheduled.

  • Want to make TypePad blog mobile? Find out what steps you should take.

    With the summer weather kicking into high gear, more people are stepping away from the desktop and laptop and venturing outdoors with their mobile devices. The first thing to consider is if your TypePad blog should be mobile. That could be answered by looking at your analytics. However, if you want to make your blog…

  • They say its your birthday, well its my birthday too…

    Tis’ the season for birthdays. Typepad is also celebrating 10 years of blogging. Where does the time go?

  • Google Reader’s Time is Running Out

    In case you don’t know by now Google announced that they are going to put Google Reader out to pasture. If you have a Google Reader account like me, you have many subscriptions. So the best thing you can do right now is to backup your subscriptions. When you login to your Google Reader account,…

  • How to Back Up and Migrate Your Posterous Spaces to Tumblr, Blogger, or WordPress via @lifehacker

    How to Backup and Migrate your Posterous Spaces to Tumblr – lifehacker.com Did anyone else flinch when they saw the announcement the other day? Seems like the best plan of action is to plan ahead. Lifehacker has a guide as to what you can do now to prepare for the future of Posterous. Have questions…

  • When WordPress Widgets go Wonky

      It’s a typical workday. Either you suddenly decide to check on your website (which I recommend doing daily,) or the worse case scenario, someone tells you (preferably in private with a phone or email, and not on Twitter or Facebook)  that “Something’s wrong with your site.”

  • Why you should clean up inactive WordPress Plugins

    Just in case you didn’t know, Thesis (aff link), a premium WordPress theme, recently upgraded versions from 1.8 to 1.8.2. After the upgrade, I logged back in to the WordPress Dashboard and could not find the Thesis Dashboard Menu. So I went to Thesis support section to see what to do. The answer was to…

  • Paula Berg: Six Reasons Every Brand Should Blog

    Hubspot’s 2010 “The State of Inbound Marketing Survey” found that: 77% of Internet users read blogs Blogs yield an average ROI of 600% Follow Paula Berg on Twitter: www.twitter.com/paulaberg via huffingtonpost.com Still not convinced you and your brand need a blog? Read what impact a blog can have for you and your business.

  • Declare your independence from Tumblr

    After several months, I was finally able to take a weekend afternoon and do something for me. Move my blog from free-hosted Tumblr to self-hosted WordPress. I had intentions of exporting my Tumblr blog months ago since Tumblr’s outage. Little things were  starting annoying me. There were some posts that I wished weren’t auto posted…