Archive for the ‘Blogging Software’ Category
Saturday, June 5th, 2010 | No Comments »
Last month, I put out a call for business submissions asking people who use WordPress or another blogging application for their company websites (not just business blogs) to submit their URLs for a new series here on BusinessLogs that showcases businesses using blogging applications in cool ways.
It’s time to highlight another [...]
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 | No Comments »
I’ve written before about pre-writing your posts on weekends, which works well for many professional bloggers. But the fact is that whether you blog for business or personal reasons, pre-writing and scheduling your blog posts is always a good idea.
Scheduling your blog posts is different from simply writing post drafts. The latter requires you to [...]
Monday, September 21st, 2009 | 1 Comment »
If you’re in charge of running your Wordpress-powered business blog, you’ll love these five plug-ins. I like them because they make life easier for Wordpress administrators, especially if you’re managing a blog with multiple users.
Dashboard Custom Menu
This plug-in makes it easy to add a custom menu to your blog dashboard. As you can see from [...]
Monday, August 31st, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Ah, free Wordpress themes. I’m convinced they’re one of the biggest reasons Wordpress is the most popular blogging platform today. From one-column minimalism to grid-based magazine layouts, photoblogging styles to made-for-Adsense themes, there are free Wordpress themes for every taste- just download, install and activate!
But to set your blog apart, you’ll want to tweak that [...]
Thursday, October 26th, 2006 | 4 Comments »
Odeo’s Buyback RodeoYesterday the news came down that Odeo (the fun little podcast startup) is shifting gears bigtime and transitioning to greener pastures and bigger/better things. In what’s got to be the most interesting “Web 2.0″ industry story of the past few weeks, Ev Williams used (I estimate) a few million dollars of his [...]
Thursday, July 13th, 2006 | 15 Comments »
Yesterday Six Apart announced Movable Type Enterprise and v3.3 of their web publishing software, and what’s funny is that I didn’t find out until today that any announcement was made. Normally their software launches have been a big deal in the blogosphere, but for the past 6+ months the MT buzz factor has been [...]
Wednesday, May 31st, 2006 | 7 Comments »
Six Apart’s focus over the past few years has switched from catering to the professional web development and enterprise audience, to the tweens/teens MySpace crowd. After their acquisition of Live Journal in early 2005, you could tell that their focus was shifting. The world of LJ is entirely different than the blogosphere that [...]
Tuesday, May 9th, 2006 | 45 Comments »
Yesterday Sherwin and Geof responded in the comments on the Socialite Life launch entry asking what I thought about WordPress vs. Movable Type. My response would have been too long for a comment so I thought I’d turn it into an entry
Thursday, February 16th, 2006 | 16 Comments »
Many people use Alexa as a generic “site comparison” service, but is it accurate? Here are some oddities I found:
Monday, February 13th, 2006 | No Comments »
I’m not sure if this is big news to all of you, but for designers/developers who work on sites run with Movable Type, it’ll probably be useful. Up till now, if you used custom submit images at the bottom of a comment form the entire comment-posting process wouldn’t work the way you expected. [...]